‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ Trailer: Charlie Kaufman’ Returns With A Surreal New Mindbender For Netflix
Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman is quite the character, beyond writing modern surrealist classics like “Being John Malkovich,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Adaptation” and writing and directing some of his own strange postmodern features like “Synecdoche, New York” and the stop-motion film “Anomalisa.” Kaufman has been doing the press rounds quite a bit this summer, promoting not only his upcoming Netflix movie “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” but also his new book “Antkind.” And a portrait has emerged, though to be fair, one that was always there if you’re paying attention: Kaufman is deeply neurotic, self-loathing, and very misanthropic (definitely read that recent New York Times profile, or NYT Book interview; “I’m sorry, what?