"A thoughtful, scholarly study of one of America’s most underrated filmmakers."
Leonard Maltin "Annette Insdorf's incisive and sympathetic book grants Kaufman the place in the pantheon he deserves."
Roger Ebert    A sympathetic, in-depth, and entirely jargon-free look at Kaufman’s work."
DGA Quarterly"It could take only a great scholar of film to understand and appreciate the work of one ... Read moreof our great quintessential American filmmakers, and Annette Insdorf, in her masterly and captivating study of Philip Kaufman, does just that. This book is insightful, perceptive, and confident, and like Kaufman's films, it repays the reader's attention generously and with great compassion and humanity."
Ken Burns "A study so closely tuned to his work and so neatly supplemented with his own insights from interviews and e-mails that it reads like a biography of an oeuvre."
The New Yorker online  "A shrewd and very readable study."
Filmmaker   "With commitment and enthusiasm, Annette Insdorf excels at thematic and formal discussions in this enlightening introduction to the films of Philip Kaufman. The book will become the authoritative word on Kaufman's films, a must for all scholars and fans of his work."
Edward Baron Turk, author of Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald "Philip Kaufman is a shrewd and very readable study. It seeks not only to locate Kaufman's distinct visual style and philosophical bent across his body of work, but also to elevate Kaufman to a unique niche in American and world cinema: as a Euro-style auteur living in the U.S. in the age of commercial cinema, whose work across genres resists easy categorization but nonetheless resonates for its freshness of perception about the human condition and the codes of behavior that both restrict and liberate us."
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