I get the feeling from watching that trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s upcoming “Synecdoche, New York” that nearly everyone’s gonna agree he was probably better off with collaborator Spike Jonze, but so what?

After Jonze passed on that to direct “Where the Wild Things Are” (which may never even produce it to a screen anywhere near you in the profile that Jonze envisioned), Kaufman continued as both writer and director of that apparently rather sprawling flick, due out in at least limited release Oct. 24. And without that filter, we apparently get Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a theater director but really playing, well, Charlie Kaufman.

Anyone who’s seen “Adaptation” probably agrees that can be a maddening but extremely entertaining thing to watch. In “Synecdoche, New York” (the title is apparently a play on Schenectady), Hoffman’s character spends at least 17 years (guessing from a heartbreaking line that comes at the end of the trailer) building a replica of the entire city of New York in a

According to Variety, who provided the trailer at the end of that post, the flick is an uneven meditation on life, death and anything else that crosses Mr. Kaufman’s rather twisted mind, but it additionally “exerts sufficient capability and artistic mystery to pull the willing a fair way down its twisty trail, and a first-rate cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman and some wonderful women supply a constant lifeline even when it’s hard to know what’s going on.

When those women are Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Dianne Wiest, I’m definitely along for the ride, no matter how ponderous it gets (and even whether I have to drive to Atlanta to see it.) Anyways, that’s adequate prattling on from me. Enjoy the trailer, which although it’s often too dark to prepare out is still abundant to get me geeked up for that one, and have a perfectly pleasant weekend.

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