Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman Holds Hollywood Responsible for Today’s ‘Terrible’ World

The writer of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'Being John Malkovich' thinks we need to learn to be human again.

Charlie Kaufman Returns to Genre Filmmaking With Ghostly New Short

'How to Shoot a Ghost' is set to premiere in Venice, Italy next month.

Kirsten Dunst Wonders if Spider-Man 4 Would Be Worth It

Marvel's heeded the nostalgia call time and again, but does that mean they always have to?

Oscar Nominee and Noted Star Wars Fan Lily Gladstone Just Joined a Very Cool Sci-Fi Movie

Gladstone will star in The Memory Police , directed by Reed Morano (I Think We're Alone Now) from a script adapted by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine) .

Sony’s Legend of Zelda Movie Has Found Its Writer, Too

Plus, Netflix teases what to expect from its take on Chronicles of Narnia .

The Best Valentine’s Day Movies for Nerds

Our list of the best geeky love stories, and where you can watch them streaming online.

The Nerd’s Watch: Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Streaming in June

Though movie theaters are starting to allow patrons these days, the safer option remains streaming. Those who choose to stay home and stream are constantly rewarded with so much new content it’s mind-boggling. At the start of each month, most streamers—Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max—do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking…

Being John Malkovich Is Better Now Than It Was in 1999

Being John Malkovich—the brainchild of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze—is still one of the great modern American films. However, what it meant to me at the time of release is not what it means to me now. And looking at it in a macro sense, it represents a lot more than just a…

Meeting His Parents Takes a Horrifying Turn in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Meeting the parents is always scary, but most of our experiences probably didn’t feature a family, or situation, quite like this. In the first trailer for I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the latest film from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’s Charlie Kaufman, a young woman meeting her boyfriend’s family finds herself at the point…

Tessa Thompson Played the Kate Winslet Role in an Eternal Sunshine Live Read, and We Were There

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a damn near perfect film. A film that has, and will, stand the test of time and should not be tinkered with or remade ever. But if—for one night only—you cast different famous actors in the roles and they read the script out loud for a live audience,…

Doug Liman May Direct a YA Film That Was First Adapted by Charlie Kaufman

When someone mentions “young adult” lit or movies, immediately the mind thinks of Twilight, The Hunger Games, and Divergent. But Chaos Walking is a bit different. Though it also has a high-concept genre story, it was going to be adapted by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Now, a new director is on board.…

See the Incredible Detail That Turned Anomalisa Into a Puppet Movie Masterpiece

Though it may feel like there’s only one movie currently playing at the theater, there’s actually another. It’s a smaller, fantastic film named Anomalisa, a stop-motion puppet film written and co-directed by mad genius Charlie Kaufman, and here’s why you absolutely need to check it out. Paramount has released several featurettes on the film (two…

The Trailer For The Year’s Most Surprising Movie Is Finally Here

You may not believe it, but one of this year’s best movies features puppets. It’s called Anomalisa, written and co-directed by Charlie Kaufman, the genius behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film opens December 30 in limited release then everywhere else in January and the first trailer is…

We Just Saw The Insanely Weird, Utterly Brilliant Films Everyone Will Be Raving About Soon

Two of the year’s best movies also happen to be among the weirdest movies we’ve seen in ages. Just insanely weird. The Lobster is about humans who must find a mate, or they’ll be turned to animals. Anomalisa is Charlie Kaufman’s latest movie, and it’s all about highly articulated puppets ruminating on family, life and…

The Original Ending Of Being John Malkovich Was Much, Much Weirder

No one would accuse director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich of not being a weird film, but the ending of Kaufman’s original script was off-the-wall bizarre. Seriously, it involved a puppetry duel and the corpse of Harry S Truman. Over at Badass Digest, Devin Faraci has a synopsis of the latter…

I.Q. 83, Arthur Herzog’s Ode to the Stupidity Plague, Will Be a Movie

It’s taken 20 years to finally get some steam, but Charlie Kaufman’s been hired to do an entirely new draft and the plan is for Steve Carell to star. And you have to admit: Carell can totally pull off a man becoming progressively less intelligent. Andrew Lazar first brought the project to DreamWorks 20 years…

At 10 years old, Eternal Sunshine is still fresh and timeless

So many movies from 10 years ago look dated or kind of irrelevant nowadays — but as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reaches its 10th birthday, people are noticing that it feels as though no time has passed. Almost as if the intervening decade had been erased from our minds. Writing in Examiner, Brian…

Dream Team. Robert Zemeckis directing a film version of Patrick Ness’ The Knife of Never Letting Go, with a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman? Yes please.

Spike Jonze’s Next Movie: A Man Falls in Love With His Phone

Spike Jonze is back to making movies about grown-ups, after the bizarre and somewhat polarizing Where The Wild Things Are. And his new movie, reportedly titled Her, is commenting on our relationship with technology in a way that sounds really fascinating: A man falls in love with the operating system on his phone, which is…

Watch a vomiting alien beat up the Pope, in the weirdest E.T. parody ever

We missed this news when it was announced a while back. The complete run of Get a Life, Chris Elliott’s cult comedy series, is finally coming to DVD from Shout! Factory. This show, in which Chris Elliott is an overgrown paperboy who still lives with his parents, had a writing staff that included Charlie Kaufman…