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Charlie Kaufman's Brain Teaser Movies

Charlie Kaufman is best known for the quirky screenplays for Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He's written and directed the new film Synecdoche, NY.

Host Scott Simon talks to film critic Desson Thomson about Kaufman's brain-teaser movies — films that make the human mind the landscape of the story.

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