![]() It's a powerful, revisionist, revenge Western with many unique touches, but it gets a bit cutesy in its second half as stoic Josey Wales (Eastwood) teams up with a band of quasi-comic misfits to fight the final battle. ![]() All Rights Reserved.Some cinephiles hold Clint Eastwood's Civil War-era Western The Outlaw Josey Wales in equal esteem to Eastwood's Unforgiven, and some even prefer it. ![]() Kaufman's later work included an adaptation of the Michael Crichton book Rising Sun (1993) Quills (2000), a tale about the notorious French writer Marquis de Sade and Twisted (2004), a police thriller set in San Francisco. His next film, Henry and June (1990), a film about the erotic relationship of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, was the first film to earn the MPAA's NC-17 rating. In 1988, Kaufman received an adapted screenplay Oscar nomination for his work on Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He followed this up with a successful adaptation of Richard Price's The Wanderers (1979), a writing credit for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1983), and a major critical success in adapting and directing Tom Wolfe's bestselling book about the U.S. Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), however, became a huge hit. Kaufman co-wrote the script for and agreed to direct Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), but two weeks into the film Eastwood took over the direction. ![]() His first film for Universal was The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, (1972), followed by an adaptation of the James Houston novel, The White Dawn (1974) for Paramount. Fearless Frank (1967), which he wrote and directed, failed to find a distributor until its star, Jon Voight, became an overnight success with Midnight Cowboy (1969), earning Kaufman an invitation to the Universal Studios Young Directors Program. ![]() For it, Goldstein shared the Prix de La Nouvelle Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1962, Kaufman and his family returned to Chicago, where his unpublished novel, with the help of Benjamin Manaster, became the film Goldstein (1965), loosely based on one of Martin Buber's Tales of the Hassidim. In 1960, he moved to San Francisco and then to Europe, where he taught in Greece and Italy, and then to work on an Israeli kibbutz while attempting to write a novel. Kaufman married screenwriter Rose Fisher in 1959. Born in Chicago, Ill., Kaufman graduated from the University of Chicago in 1958 with honors and returned a year later after leaving Harvard Law School to complete a master's degree in history. ![]()
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