The Motion Picture Club have announced their 2008 honorees. Amy Adams and 
Richard Jenkins will be awarded the Star of the Year honors, Rosemarie DeWitt 
and Luke Goss will be awarded the Stars of Tomorrow honors, and Ed Harris will 
be feted with the Director of the Year award. The Awards will be presented at 
the Club's 68th annual Installation and Awards Luncheon on November 6 at the 
Marriott Marquis in Los Angeles. [Peter Knegt]...

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by Eric Hynes (October 22, 2008)

Staring into the abyss through a kaleidoscope, Charlie Kaufman's 
"Synecdoche, New York" sees ecstatic, innumerable facets in the 
depths. Another of Kaufman's Alice in Wonderland narratives, his 
first directorial effort is more gnarled and coiled than his 
scripts for Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich," "Adaptation") 
and Michel Gondry ("Human Nature," "Eternal Sunshine of the 
Spotless Mind"), yet also more emotionally direct. Impossible to 
fully grasp on first pass, the film nevertheless has a rigorous 
-- and perversely funny -- through-line of extreme anxiety and 
sorrow. "I won't accept anything but the brutal truth," says his 
protagonist, theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour 
Hoffman). "Brutal, brutal," he repeats, hammering home the cliched, 
self-conscious overstatement, but he means it every time.

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by Peter Knegt (October 21, 2008)

"I know how some people might think that when a film is made for such 
little money, it's a less desirable project," Michelle Williams said 
recently in an interview with indieWIRE,  "But I find it more 
liberating. There's less pressure."  Over the past decade Williams 
has built her career around such films, from Tom McCarthy's "The 
Station Agent" to Charlie Kaufman's upcoming "Synecdoche, New York." 
But she admits the "smallest" film she's ever made is Kelly 
Reichardt's "Wendy & Lucy, currently gathering significant acclaim 
on the festival circuit and stirring awards season buzz. "It was the 
most bare bones," she said.

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