Biography: Philip Kaufman |
Born in Chicago, IL, writer/director Philip Kaufman makes accessible American art films and stays out of the Los Angeles area, preferring the home base of San Francisco, working with his wife, Rose, and his son Peter. After studying at the University... more
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Tags: Psychological Thriller Police Detective Film Thriller
Length: 96min
Philip Kaufman directs the detective hriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction...
Cast: Michael Caine Billie Whitelaw Geoffrey Rush
Tags: Erotic Drama Biopic Period Film Drama
Length: 123min
The Marquis de Sade was a man who liked to stir up trouble, at a time when his native France was in a state of tremendous political turmoil, and this historical drama examines how much controversy he could cause even under repressive circumstances. In...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Cast: Juliette Binoche Daniel Day-Lewis Saul Zaentz Sven Nykvist
Tags: Drama Erotic Drama
Length: 172min
In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he...
Cast: Harvey Keitel Kevin Anderson
Tags: Whodunit Crime Mystery Buddy Film Detective Film
Length: 129min
When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a...
Cast: Uma Thurman
Tags: Biopic Drama Romance Erotic Drama
Length: 136min
The real-life relationship between two of the most controversial literary figures of the 20th century forms the basis for this drama. Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a struggling author trying to finish her first book, a study of the work of D.H....
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Cast: Jeff Goldblum Philip Kaufman
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Thriller Science Fiction Alien Film
Length: 115min
This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from...
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age Juvenile Delinquency Film
Length: 113min
The year 1979 saw an epidemic of American street-gang films, including Phil Kaufman's hit period drama The Wanderers. Set in the Bronx in 1963, the film concerns the titular gang of Italian-American teens and their ongoing power struggle with the...
Length: 193min
Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut...
Cast: Louis Gossett, Jr. Henry Mancini
Tags: Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 109min
Director Philip Kaufman took his production of Eskimo life to actual locations in the Arctic Circle, making it only the third film in history (after Nanook of the North and Eskimo) to shoot there. Kaufman also employs authentic Eskimo dialect in the...
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972)
Cast: Robert Duvall
Tags: Crime Drama Revisionist Western Western
Length: 91min
The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September...
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