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Philip Kaufman - what members say

Henry And June review by Chunkysimon from Falkirk Scotland

Or Fred and Uma 17 September 2004
...ny in an unintentional way- or maybe it is intentional. I dunno. For a better Philip Kaufman film watch the Invasion of the Body Snatchers, for a better Fred Ward film watc... Read customer review

Quills review by from Dorset

Compulsive look at life in 18th century asylum 30 June 2005
... throughout is excellent, and the dark interiors well photographed. Directed by Philip Kaufman who also directed 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', another fine film. ... Read customer review

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being review by EditorInChimp from London

A curiously forgettable experience 10 August 2010
...t from being affecting in the way it should. The film is handsomely mounted by Philip Kaufman, and there are individual sequences (most notably the incorporation of document... Read customer review

Philip Kaufman - filmography

Twisted on DVD (2004)
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Police Detective Jessica Shephard becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this psychological thriller.

54% from 7,724 members

Quills on DVD (2000)
Starring: Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip ..read more »

61% from 6,763 members

Rising Sun on DVD (1993)
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel
Director: Philip Kaufman
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A Los Angeles special agent (Snipes) must team up with an expert on Japanese culture (Connery) to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. The case turns out to be bigger than either of them had thought. Rather loosely based on Michael Crichton's novel.

62% from 3,378 members

Rising Sun - Blu-ray (1993)
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel
Director: Philip Kaufman
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A Los Angeles special agent (Snipes) must team up with an expert on Japanese culture (Connery) to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. The case turns out to be bigger than either of them had thought. Rather loosely based on Michael Crichton's novel.

61% from 1,013 member

Henry And June on DVD (1990)
Starring: Fred Ward, Maria De Medeiros, Uma Thurman
Director: Philip Kaufman
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An erotic drama based on American author Henry Miller, his wife June and a young Frenchwoman by the name of Anais Nin.

52% from 1,882 member

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being on DVD (1987)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin, Juliette Binoche
Director: Philip Kaufman
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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a sensual and sensitive adaptation of Milan Kundera's tragicomic existentialist novel that follows the story of Thomas (Daniel Day Lewis), a womanising Czech doctor in 1968 Prague, prior to the Soviet invasion, whose sexual appetite is never fully satisfied. ..read more »

64% from 4,187 members

The Right Stuff on DVD (1983)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid
Director: Philip Kaufman
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This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test ..read more »

70% from 3,085 members

The Wanderers (1979)
Starring: Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, John Friedrich
Director: Philip Kaufman
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The high school scene of the Bronx in 1963 is ruled by rival gangs. The Wanderers are the Italians-only gang, ruled by a group of streetwise, fast-talkin' boys looking for good times and pretty girls in the streets of their tight-knit neighborhood. This charming vignette of 1960s Bronx life, set to ..read more »

68% from 1,655 member
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers on DVD (1978)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
Director: Philip Kaufman
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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 outer space, and soon strange flowers begin ..read more »

66% from 5,189 members

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew
Director: Philip Kaufman
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The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield.

56% from 11 members
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Philip Kaufman facts

5 most recent films

Twisted - 2.5 stars
Quills - 3.0 stars
Rising Sun - 3.0 stars
Rising Sun - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Henry And June - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Right Stuff - 3.5 stars
The Wanderers - 3.5 stars
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - 3.5 stars
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - 3.0 stars
Rising Sun - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid - 3.0 stars
Henry And June - 2.5 stars
Twisted - 2.5 stars
Quills - 3.0 stars
Rising Sun - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Fred Ward - 4 times - show films
Veronica Cartwright - 4 times - show films
Ed Harris - 3 times - show films
Barbara Hershey - 3 times - show films
Dennis Quaid - 3 times - show films