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About the Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufmanis an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning nearly five decades. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award along with nominations for an Academy Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He has been described as a “maverick” and an “iconoclast,” notable for his versatility and independence, often directing eclectic and controversial films. He is considered an “auteur” whose films have always expressed his personal vision.: 1 Kaufman’s works have included genres such as realism, horror, fantasy, erotica, western, and crime.
Kaufman earned his breakthrough for the film The Unbearable Lightness of Beingwhich earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is noted for directing such films as The Wanderers (1979), Rising Sun (1993), the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Henry & June (1990), and Quills (2000). He gained prominence for The Right Stuff (1983), which received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. He is also known for directing the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special nomination.
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They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children’s movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
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Is there something to be said for the writings of the Marquis? Is there something to be said for pornography? And is there something to be said against both? I hope our film is balanced and rich enough to encourage debate and discussion.
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The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
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I read, therefore I’m interested in writers.
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To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
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What’s really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
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That’s a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it’s about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.
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Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep ’em down in L.A.
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I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie ’cause there’s like a dual mystery, she’s searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she’s also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.
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Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there’s a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
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You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
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It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we’re back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
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This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
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The truth is, I’m drawn to all kinds of things.
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Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
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But you know, there’s always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that’s something that really concerns me.
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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
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