Can You Still Do the Thing with Your Eyes? The Phil Kaufman Poll

The Right Stuff, for sure. saw it when i was eight in the theater and even at that age i was transfixed for the whole 190+ minutes.

it's a movie that is great enough to put him in the directors HOF for me. obv he was responsible for several other classics too but that one is a movie i could watch at any time.

I think that'll win, yeah, and, as I posted recently, it's a great film. My own vote will go to Body Snatchers, though. Wish I could get a nice clip of the scene where I got the title, but of the two on YouTube, one is a doctored joke, and the volume on the other is too low.

great poll idea! I uh somehow haven't seen any of these

Haven't seen it since it was released, but I suspect the sexual politics of The Unbearable Lightness of Being may have dated quite badly.

His Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake is a good fun satire of faddish consumerism, but it's not actually as scary or intense as the 50s original.

Voted for The Right Stuff of course, maybe the last great Western.

I saw The Unbearable Lightness of Being when it came out but not since. It didn't do much for me, but I'm going to try to watch it again. I think I'd be more receptive to it today--my knowledge of 1968 at the time was pretty much limited to what went on in the States. Never went back to Henry & June, either.

I like the original Body Snatchers fine, and the political context of Siegel's film is more urgent, but just as a horror film, I find Kaufman's more intense--especially, of course, the final shot.

Being is a terrific novel that didn't have to be a film, but it's good.

Only seen 5 of his features (the '78-90 run), and of those, Snatchers. Or did i see Northfield Minnesota too? Don't remember.

Rising Sun is such a mess. I liked a few moments--best was Wesley Snipes when the corporate creep beckoned him to park his car: "Wrong fuckin' guy, wrong fuckin' century." Connery seemed to waver back and forth between sly self-parody and plain bad acting; wasn't sure which sometimes. Couldn't follow the plot points around the murder, or just gave up trying.

Hemingway & Gellhorn is a fucking TERRIBLE movie. I switched it off 3/4 of the way through.

I voted Henry and June.

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Body Snatchers and The Right Stuff are contenders, but I watched The Unbearable Lightness of Being again last year and didn't cringe from the sexual politics -- a surprise. More epics should be this insouciant.

I've only seen Rising Sun and Quills, so I def need to see more by this guy (likely starting with IotBS and TRS).

Is Unbearable Lightness one of those where I should bother to read the book first?

I read the book first; it matters in this case insofar as the text has an intrusive narrator in the manner of an 18th century novel yet the thing remains insouciant.

Rising Sun is complete crap. How on earth you could fuck up a Crichton vehicle in 1993 is beyond me, but it's painfully terrible.

Voted The Right Stuff.

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Surprised. Thought The Right Stuff would win going away, and didn't think anything other than the top three would get votes.

i can't remember a thnk about unbearable lightness, either the film or the book, and I read it and saw the movie at least twice. I remember a bowler hat.