‘Synecdoche, New York’ on DVD March 10, 2009

Sony sent over the release date and details about Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York”. Check it out…

Synecdoche, New York — a unique film from Academy Award®-winner Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) that blends fantasy, deep emotion and the filmmaker’s very recognizable humor — arrives on DVD and Blu-ray™ High-Def March 10 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Writer Charlie Kaufman also goes behind the camera for the first time to helm the film which was met with great excitement from both audiences and critics when it premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Time’s Richard Corliss, who recently named it runner-up in his ‘Top 10 Movies of 2008,’ called Synecdoche … “a miracle movie … the best live-action film of the year.”

Synecdoche, New York has also won this year’s Spirit Awards’ Robert Altman Award, honoring Kaufman, casting director Jeanne McCarthy and the ensemble cast.

Enriching this DVD release is bonus content that includes four new featurettes (In and Around Synecdoche, NY; The Story of Caden Cotard; Infectious Diseases in Cattle: Bloggers Roundtable; and NFTS/Script Factory Masterclass with Charlie Kaufman) and Screen Animations. The Synecdoche, New York DVD will be available for $28.96 SRP, and the Blu-ray™ High-Def release will sell for $39.95 SRP.

Director Charlie Kaufman received his 2004 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and was also nominated in 2003 for his script of Adaptation. Here he leads a superb all-star cast that includes a host of Academy Award®-winners and nominees: Philip Seymour Hoffman (winner 2005, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Capote); Samantha Morton (nominee 2002, Best Actress in Leading Role, In America); Michelle Williams (nominee 2006, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Brokeback Mountain); Catherine Keener (nominee 2005, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Capote); Emily Watson (nominee 1998, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Hilary and Jackie); Dianne Wiest (winner 1994, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Bullets Over Broadway). Also starring are Golden Globe®-nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (Road to Perdition), Golden Globe®-nominee Hope Davis (About Schmidt) and Tom Noonan (Heat, Last Action Hero).

Synecdoche, New York is produced by Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) and Sidney Kimmel (Alpha Dog).

Synopsis:

Oscar-winning writer Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York, “one of the best films of the year” (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times), follows the life of regional theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he struggles with romantic relationships (Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams and Catherine Keener), as well as with the problems of aging, and a mysteriously degenerative medical condition. He develops all this into a monumental theater piece. Building a full-scale replica of New York City inside an impossibly large warehouse and populating it with thousands of actors, Cotard spends the remainder of his life creating a piece so personal and epic in scope, that the line between reality and art collide, and the universe that he has created swallows up everything within it.

Blu-ray™ High-Def & DVD Special Features Include:

* Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
* Featurette: In and Around Synecdoche, NY
* Featurette: The Story of Caden Cotard
* Featurette: Infectious Diseases in Cattle: Bloggers Roundtable
* Featurette: NFTS/ Script Factory Masterclass with Charlie Kaufman
* Screen Animations
* Audio: English
* Subtitles: English
* Closed Captioned
* Bonus Previews