"Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York, the devastating Bunuelian comedy of mortality that he also directed, can't get a movie off the ground. I'm having great difficulty, he sighs. I'm not a person that people want to trust with their money. It's very frustrating."
"Earlier this year, production of a film he was preparing to make Later the War, starring Eddie Redmayne as a manufacturer of dreams who diversifies into nightmares was shut down in Belgrade; he hopes it will resume. To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. Not to get into it, but I'm not a great sleeper, he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee."
"The webcam is angled in such a way that his bearded, bespectacled face is shunted into the bottom half of the screen, leaving ample space above him where a big, fluffy thought-bubble might go. Kaufman, right, with Michel Gondry and Kate Winslet at the Academy Awards in 2005. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters He has just arrived back home in New York from the Venice film festival,"
Charlie Kaufman cannot get a movie off the ground and faces difficulty securing investors who trust him with financing. Production of Later the War, starring Eddie Redmayne as a manufacturer of dreams who diversifies into nightmares, was shut down in Belgrade and is hoped to resume. Kaufman struggles with sleep and appears on webcam with his bearded, bespectacled face framed low on screen. He presented How to Shoot a Ghost at the Venice film festival, a lyrical short written by Eva H.D. starring Jessie Buckley as a recently deceased photographer wandering Athens, accompanied by a newly dead queer translator, together savoring life from the afterlife.
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