Sad, beautiful, the wittiest film of the year, “Anomalisa” takes place largely in a hotel room in Cincinnati, where a customer service expert (his well-regarded book: “How May I Help You Help Them?”) ...
"We didn’t want the characters to look cartoony," says Charlie Kaufman of his dark comedy that put a twist on stop-motion animation. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor This story first appeared in a ...
"Anomalisa," one of the great films of 2015, is an R-rated animated feature about adults, made for adults. It represents a breakthrough, not in terms of technology, though it's technically expert, but ...
Charlie Kaufman tells the newest, oldest stories. New because they begin at the oddest points. Like a secret passage into John Malkovich's brain. Or a memory-erasing machine that can leave you with a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Anomalisa,” an inspirational speaker in crisis checks into Cincinnati’s (fictional) Al Fregoli hotel, named for a delusional ...
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s stop-motion drama was the big critics’ choice this weekend – here’s your chance to talk about the film in full In the US, Anomalisa ended up taking $3m off a budget ...
Three weeks ago, Charlie Kaufman was pacing anxiously around a green room at the Palm Theater in Telluride. Just a few feet away, “Anomalisa,” his first directing effort in seven years, screened for ...
There’s something strange and dreamlike and delicate and beautiful about “Anomalisa,” an animated film for grown-ups that takes a long while to make its point, but does so with a dark brilliance. It’s ...
“Anomalisa” is a stop-motion animated drama that’s based on the play of the same name. It’s about Michael Stone, a man with extreme prosopagnosia (also known as face blindness, the inability to ...
It’s not immediately clear why Anomalisa, Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s sophomore directorial outing, is animated. In fact, about an hour in — after becoming acclimated to the ...