Sad, beautiful, the wittiest film of the year, “Anomalisa” takes place largely in a hotel room in Cincinnati, where a customer service expert (his well-regarded book: “How May I Help You Help Them?”) ...

"We didn’t want the characters to look cartoony," says Charlie Kaufman of his dark comedy that put a twist on stop-motion animation. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor This story first appeared in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Showrunner Ann Druyan and executive producer Brannon Braga used lots of hand-drawn animation throughout the series as a visual ...

Charlie Kaufman tells the newest, oldest stories. New because they begin at the oddest points. Like a secret passage into John Malkovich's brain. Or a memory-erasing machine that can leave you with a ...

"Anomalisa," one of the great films of 2015, is an R-rated animated feature about adults, made for adults. It represents a breakthrough, not in terms of technology, though it's technically expert, but ...

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s stop-motion drama was the big critics’ choice this weekend – here’s your chance to talk about the film in full In the US, Anomalisa ended up taking $3m off a budget ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The world we are introduced to is not the colourful and wacky one that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animation lovers know that the medium isn't just kids' stuff — but it took Oscar voters a little while to catch on. Ten years ago, ...

Three weeks ago, Charlie Kaufman was pacing anxiously around a green room at the Palm Theater in Telluride. Just a few feet away, “Anomalisa,” his first directing effort in seven years, screened for ...

There’s something strange and dreamlike and delicate and beautiful about “Anomalisa,” an animated film for grown-ups that takes a long while to make its point, but does so with a dark brilliance. It’s ...