Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers
Derek Hill
Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against imaginative cowardice of all persuasions, much like their artistic forebears - the so-called Movie Brats Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others - did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back ... Read more
Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realised, accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling, surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this new breed of American film captures the angst of its characters and the times in which we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be. This book analyzes and traces the origins of the pivotal films and directors in this undeclared war on the mundane.
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Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
Do the surreal and subversive visions of Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, et al constitute a movement on a par with the 'Movie Brats' of the 1970s and the Nouvelle Vague?
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