Why was this a financial disappointment when it was easily the best film of 2015?
Because it's an indie film that got some of its budget from the internet. It really is a great movie and Kaufman didn't want to rely on Hollywood because he knew they would fuck it up.
>>69116835
Kaufman knows Hollywood only funds Capeshit and they would ruin his projects. He's a very wise man.
>>69116414
The existential crisis of being a beta New York yuppie Jew was already beaten into the ground by Woody Allen decades before Kaufman came along and started doing the same thing with some meta stuff thrown in.
>>69116414
Movie was shit desu.
I heard it was kind of bad tho.
>>69116414
It's good, interesting, moments or seeds of brilliance, but it's not perfect or even great.
Synecdoche was however.
>>69116414
Torrents when?
Didn't like this one, love Kaufman's other work.
This is just a rehash of his past ideas but in a less interesting way.
Take away the fact that it's puppetry, and it has nothing going for it we haven't seen already.
>Yet do we viewers, too, find the cab driver pushy, the porter awkward, the waitress clueless? Does this mean that we identify with Michael’s pathetic dignity and share his judgmental condescension, only to sympathize with him all the more—and all the more inappropriately—when he makes messes of the lives of others and of his own? Or are all of Kaufman’s characters equally benighted, the devoted fan rendered oblivious by her narrow loneliness and dreaming of a new life, as well as the celebrity who’s imprisoned in his own public image and private habits and can’t ever find the new life that he dreams of?
>The trap of calculated complicity that Kaufman sets, however, is no howling metaphysical abyss (as is Martin Scorsese’s mirror on his audience in “The Wolf of Wall Street”). Rather, it’s narrow, lachrymose, and stereotyped, looking askance at Michael’s ego cloud only to coax viewers further into contentment with their own humble lives.
>Kaufman’s widely distributed pity for the lot of humanity is distributed somewhat prejudicially. The cab driver gets to be angry and stupid; Michael gets to be aware of that anger and stupidity. The clerks get to do their jobs with their game faces; Michael gets to watch them conform or crack.
>>69116414
This movie sucked.
Worst project Kaufman has been a part of. Absolute shit.
>>69117355
>[...]Perpetually outside and just a little above, Michael is aware of the pathetic yet touching failings that mark everyone else—the people who live and feel firsthand, without the self-awareness of a theoretical and creative observer such as Michael (or Kaufman), but also with greater authenticity and truer humanity. Yet Kaufman betrays himself as much with his condescending compassion as with his withering observations. He builds his modest characters as collections of traits that appear as calculated details drawn from life but serving to do nothing but evoke sighs akin to those yielded by pictures of children and pets. The artificial sweetness and gentle satire of his portraits of characters who could be labeled as everyday people is haughty and incurious.
>The line that he draws between a Michael, who has a creative profession that yields a public identity, and a Lisa (or any of the other people he encounters), who simply work for a living and simply live, is the Hollywood line. With its immense but blank, self-regardingly self-congratulatory sympathy for the benighted masses toiling in their ostensible ordinariness, with its critical judgment of the talented but unfeeling, observant yet selfish minor artistic celebrity, “Anomalisa” looks like the work of an incurious egomaniac of conferences and offices, sets and studios, who hasn’t soiled the soles of his shoes on actual sidewalks for decades.
I actually looked into seeing it in the theater and it was only playing in a small indie arthouse cinema downtown I couldn't be fucked to go to.
>>69116414
Is the bluray worth waiting for? It's got my favorite actress's voice in it.
>>69117412
Flawed as it is, it's worth seeing for the animation alone, it's an awesome feat.
>>69117314
4 months now
>>69117219
This
Annie Hall is way better than this overrated POS
>>69117355
>>69117389
This is the most pretentious fucking thing I've read in a long time
>>69116414
Michael is a faggot but the puppetry and cinematography is quite excellent.
>>69117623
You're the average 4chan user. Any words with more than 3 syllables will make things 'pretentious' to your capabilities.
>>69117623
What do you expect from the film reviewer of the most pretentious fucking rag ever, The New Yorker.
>>69117623
>>69117790
>le pretentious
>>69116414
7/10 desu
>buys his son a Japanese sex toy
he really needed to see a psychologist, what with having autism on top of a Fregoli delusion
>>69117623
What's pretentious about it?
