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Tag Archives: Philip Kaufman
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) Philip Kaufman, Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew
In 1876, the Missouri legislature issues a pardon and amnesty to the James and Younger gangs despite many people considering them outlaws. Read More »
Fearless Frank (1967) Philip Kaufman, Monique van Vooren, Jon Voight, Joan Darling, Fantasy, Comedy
A satirical comedy about an unsophisticated country boy who treks off to Chicago, gets shot by mobsters and awakens to find that he has the powers of Superman. Read More »
The White Dawn (1974) Philip Kaufman, Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Adventure, Drama, History
In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Read More »
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Philip Kaufman, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Horror, Sci-Fi
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco Read More »
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Philip Kaufman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Drama, Romance
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
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