Mentions (7)
"Felt like the closest thing I've seen to it is *I'm Thinking of Ending Things*, since Kaufman often deals with similar themes and anxieties. The fear of living a life wasted and a vague desire for inhabiting some other version of one's own self. The difference is that Kaufman is actually a decent wr"
"I don't care if films operate under the logic of the real world, and I like the surrealism/magical realism of people like Lynch, Kaufman and Apichatpong, but I tend to check out whenever I sense that a piece of media needs me to pay attention to its 'worldbuilding' at the start."
"Most populist blockbusters don't dare to be this subversive and artsy. The 'Barbie' brand is just a Trojan horse for the weightiest themes at the multiplex since Charlie Kaufman's heyday."
"I've seen these terms used to critique art, ranging from Charlie Kaufman's films, to Donald Glover's work, to Bjork's music, to high fashion shows, to minimalist paintings of a red square sold for millions of dollars, plays like Waiting for Gadot, and so on."
"This archetype was brilliantly satirized in Charlie Kaufman's book Antkind, and I find it to be more an more accurate the more I meet neurotic academics."
"The 'Barbie' brand is just a Trojan horse for the weightiest themes at the multiplex since Charlie Kaufman's heyday."
"I've seen these terms used to critique art, ranging from Charlie Kaufman's films, to Donald Glover's work, to Bjork's music"