Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

One minor salvation for my day is that I got to see the new trailer for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This movie has been near the top of my Personal Anticipation List for nearly a year, though there is still no release date. From the brilliant mind of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine is the story of a feuding couple who undergo a radical procedure which erases their memories of one another. Like Being John Malkovich, Human Nature and Adaptation, this Kaufman movie sounds like it will push the creative boundaries of movie storytelling. I can't wait- even though I'll have to for another six months at the very least. My guess is that they'll try for a spring time release. This will be a quirky, critic-driven film, so it would make sense to put it out in the dead season of March and April, before the onslaught of summer competition. The appearance of the teaser does serve as a promising sign that the movie won't be pushed back all the way to fall 2004, which is still an excruciating possibility.