Synecdoche, New York (Blu-ray) Jean-Pierre Melville small-town atmosphere through lush orchestrations

small-town atmosphere through lush orchestrations and memorable themes

If the dark legends are true

Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews)

influenced by Fleetwood Mac

falls in with union organizer "Big" Bill Shelly (David Carradine) and embarks on an old-fashioned crime spree robbing banks and trains

Synecdoche, New York (Blu-ray) Jean-Pierre Melville small-town atmosphere through lush orchestrationsCaden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a theatre director in Schenectady, New York, receives a MacArthur grant and decides to mount an enormous, life consuming theatrical work inside a vast warehouse in Manhattan, a replica of the city in which actors play out versions of his own life, forever expanding. Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut is a singular, bewildering, deeply felt meditation on mortality, art, and the impossibility of self knowledge.