Friday, May 11, 2012
Film From Raiders and Jesse James to Kidman as Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman Talks to NPL
Posted by Jim Ridley on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Think about the sensibility broad enough to sensitively adapt books as far-ranging as Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff and Richard Price's The Wanderers — that's Philip Kaufman, who's never quite received his due for movies as great as the 1975 Eskimo drama The White Dawn or the ’78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (cleverly updated to New Age-addled San Francisco).
At 2 p.m. Saturday, the Nashville Public Library main branch is hosting a free projected-from-DVD screening of the movie that put Kaufman on the map: his 1972 revisionist Western The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, with Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger and a manic Robert Duvall as Jesse James. Not only will this whet your appetite for Kaufman's long-awaited Hemingway and Gellhorn — a biopic with Nicole Kidman as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and Clive Owen as her resentful husband Ernest Hemingway that premieres May 28 on HBO — it gave the library's Bill Chamberlain and Clint Tatum an excuse to record an interview with the writer-director for their podcast "Off the Shelf." You'll find it here.
