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...Lowdown Pitchfork 500's reviews have been pleasantly stripped of their supercilious phrases (well, for the most part - one critic sounds like a high school student thumbing through a thesaurus when he deems the 1983 hit "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Fellini-esque") and its tributes to popular songs are exquisite. The review of Brian Eno's "1/1," tells how the bedridden singer's inability to reach the volume knob on his stereo led to the creation of an entire genre of "ambient music," and provides eager but inexpert music fans with a greater understanding of pop music...
...obvious inspiration is Federico Fellini's 8-1/2, in which Guido, a moviemaker with director's block, is beset by memories and fantasies as he dodges all the women in his life, from mother to wife to whore to mistress to muse. Caden has women problems (wife, daughter, mistress, actress); but Synecdoche, bless it, doesn't demean or dismiss any of them - except maybe the family shrink (Hope Davis), who tells Caden her new best-selling book can help him, then charges him $45 for a copy. And this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea...
...York A theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a Really Big Idea for a play, an obsession that upends his life and leads to madness. Charlie Kaufman's comedy about artistic ambition is challenging, invigorating and, if you go with it, brilliant fun. It's like a suicidal Fellini film--a downer...
...Federico Fellini's 8-1/2 is an obvious inspiration, and Kaufman comes close to the Italian master in finding the wild wit in artistic misery. This vast, tragicomic mural spans 30-plus years and two continents, and slips so deviously from toothache reality into nightmare fantasy that you have to work to keep up with it. But Kaufman, Hoffman and a large, sympathetic cast make the ride exhilarating. It's surely the all-time funniest movie about depression, despair and death...
...agree with Picasso's quote: "Good artists copy; great artists steal"? -Debbie Johnson, Rochester, Mich.Oh, I've stolen from the best. I've stolen from Bergman. I've stolen from Groucho, from Chaplin, from Keaton, from Martha Graham, from Fellini. I mean I'm a shameless thief...