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...possible to erase a specific memory," Bismuth says. "I thought it would be useful if you broke up with your girlfriend or boyfriend." The notion stirred Gondry, who's single and claims "not much success" in love. The two built a basic story that the king of quirk, Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), embellished into a script. Carrey and Winslet signed on, but they had never worked with Gondry before and his unorthodox style took some getting used to. He unnerved some of the cast by leaving the camera running between takes - actors weren't always sure when they...
...expand nationally—Hyde is “a powerful advocate for women’s issues; and exactly the kind of student we should recognize and encourage as a future public leader and women’s advocate,” Associate Professor of Social Sciences Jason Kaufman wrote in his nomination letter...
...Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin. Times Square became not just urban but urbane...
This is a lovesick horror movie, for Dr. M.'s procedure is not a cure but a disease: Alzheimer's, in which memories are erased in reverse order until only the earliest are retained. And yet as laid out with such elliptical care by Kaufman and Gondry and played by Carrey and Winslet with fiendish devotion to their wayward characters, it's a horror movie that dares to hope--to hope even for the worst, since the thorniest love makes us feel most alive, even in our misery...
That's just one view of an amnesiac romance so rich and demanding, it could mean anything. Kaufman may be counting on the audience's will, insistence and yearning to create a coherent love story from the shards and shrapnel he provides us. The movie warns, This will be a bumpy ride, steered by two people who can be hard to like, making detours into wormholes, in a plot that laps itself. Care to come along...