{"id":22020,"date":"2013-10-23T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T22:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=22020"},"modified":"2019-10-23T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:35:31","slug":"the-right-stuff-philip-kaufman-ang-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/10\/23\/the-right-stuff-philip-kaufman-ang-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Stuff &#8211; Philip Kaufman &#038; Ang Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday Philip Kaufman born on Oct 23 1936 &#8211; (He now resides in San Francisco)..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writer-director Philip Kaufman (American, b. 1936) creates provocative, often experimental films that convey a deep reverence for filmmaking as an art form. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t5KF2EUW6g0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MoMa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/visit\/calendar\/films\/1263\">showcased Kaufman&#8217;s films <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Click to see large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1KaufmanSven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1KaufmanSven-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1KaufmanSven\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1KaufmanSven-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1KaufmanSven-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1KaufmanSven.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/09\/20\/rip-sven-nykvist\/\">Sven Nykvist <\/a>and  Philip Kaufman<br \/>\n(Kaufman cast young Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin for the film <em>Unbearable Lightness of Being<\/em>. Kaufman also had Sven as the cinematographer.. two from Bergman family).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1aaaBiLenaBeinga-e1571866517853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1aaaBiLenaBeinga-e1571866517853.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35222\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QPuKY7buLso\">Henry and June <\/a> (Full film on youtube)   Fred Ward was amazing as Henry Miller.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/06\/08\/millers-crossing\/\">Miller&#8217;s Crossing <\/a>&#8211; previous post) <\/p>\n<p>Philip Kaufman<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Philip-Kaufman-fights-grief-to-make-Hemingway-3574361.php\"> fights grief to make Hemingway film.<\/a>  (Nicole Kidman played<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/07\/20\/ernest-bela-tarr-and-nietzsches-horse\/\"> Gellhorn and Clive Owen played Heminway.<\/a> )  <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Happy birthday Ang Lee &#8211; Oct 23, 1954 Taiwan <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1angLeeBergman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1angLeeBergman.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1angLeeBergman\" width=\"511\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1angLeeBergman.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1angLeeBergman-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/synaestheticworld.tumblr.com\/post\/31950963608\/kateoplis-ang-lee-meets-ingmar-bergman-for-the\">image via <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/727-ang-lee-on-ingmar-bergman \">On Ingmar Bergman <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bergman said, \u201cYou have to love your actors.\u201d He was a very warm, lovely person. Because of The Virgin Spring, it felt like thirty-some years ago the man took my innocence. And then years later, he gave me a very motherly hug. It\u2019s a strange, miraculous, magic power. I never think the way I make movies has any relation to his; he\u2019s like God to me. I will take inspiration. I won\u2019t dare to imitate. But a hug is a hug, filmmaker to filmmaker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vfUzWn_R7jE\"> Virgin Spring by Bergman changed his life.<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CMpKszSqxkY\">Pushing Hands<\/a> Full film on youtube .(this is his first film.. about a Chinese father living in USA.. his son married an American.) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=seGBQhAhVyg\">Wedding Banquet.<\/a> (his first gay film that won int&#8217;l film awards) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ASCjH7KQ2YA\">Tony Leong on Ang Lee <\/a> (this is a good interview) <\/p>\n<p>Civil war film.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z5ZbzHlh-Js\"> Ride with the Devil <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two festivals<a href=\"http:\/\/artery.wbur.org\/2013\/10\/23\/ang-lee\">revisits Ang Lee.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday Philip Kaufman born on Oct 23 1936 &#8211; (He now resides in San Francisco).. Writer-director Philip Kaufman (American, b. 1936) creates provocative, often experimental films that convey a deep reverence for filmmaking as an art form. MoMa showcased Kaufman&#8217;s films Click to see large Sven Nykvist and Philip Kaufman (Kaufman cast young Daniel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/10\/23\/the-right-stuff-philip-kaufman-ang-lee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Right Stuff &#8211; Philip Kaufman &#038; Ang Lee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}