There's a point in the making of a film, Philip Kaufman says, that he loves better than any other. It's that moment when the actors are working, the cameraman and boom operator are following them ...

An exclusive interview with director Philip Kaufman for the 40th anniversary of "The Right Stuff," a legendary film chronicling the birth of NASA's crewed space program.

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

Philip Kaufman, 81 years of age, of West Hartford died Tuesday, December 24, 2013. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of the late Max and Fanny (Insler) Kaufman. Phil was a teacher in the New ...

Philip Kaufman The director of "Quills," the new film about the Marquis de Sade, discusses sex, writers, repression and his movie's parallels to the Starr-Clinton fiasco.

Philip Kaufman calls his 1983 masterpiece ‘probably the longest movie ever made without a plot.’ Here the director discusses how film fibs, demons, and labia made ‘The Right Stuff’ just right.

To celebrate the Fourth of July here are 13 —signifying the original 13 states — movies that celebrate what it means to be ...

Yet the powerful disquiet of Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake lies in how its conspiracy begins on molecular and municipal levels: spores, raindrops, flower buds, garbage ...

In 1990, Philip Kaufman released Henry & June, a film that forced the MPAA to create the NC-17 rating. The visually stunning romance is part drama, part suspense, and wholly unique.

Philip Kaufman's new "Quills" pits the Marquis de Sade against Kenneth Starr in Napoleonic drag.

INTERVIEW: Can't Get No Satisfaction, Philip Kaufman Thrusts Again with "Quills" by Andrea Meyer/indieWIRE (indieWIRE/11.28.00) — Philip Kaufman is no stranger to controversy.