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| John
Boorman |
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| Director
/ Producer / Screenwriter |
| 1933 - |
| Born January 18,
London, England |
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Production Countries: USA, UK, Ireland |
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Genres: Drama, Adventure Drama, Comedy Drama |
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Collaborators:
Ron Davis (Editor), Anthony Pratt
(Production Designer), Brendan Gleeson (Leading Player), Robert Chartoff
(Producer), Philippe Rousselot (Cinematographer), Tom Priestley (Editor),
Ian Crafford (Editor), Derek Wallace (Production Designer), Lee Marvin
(Leading Player), Alexander Jacobs
(Screenwriter) |
| Highly
Recommended: Point
Blank (1967), Deliverance (1972) |
| Recommended:
The
General (1998) |
| Worth
a Look:
The Emerald Forest (1985), Hope and Glory
(1987) |
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Approach with Caution:
Hell in the Pacific (1968), Leo the Last
(1970), Zardoz (1974), Excalibur (1981), Where the Heart Is (1990),
Beyond Rangoon (1995), The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
| Links:
[ IMDB ]
[
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference
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Festival Profile ] [
Screen Online Biography ] [
Film Freak Central Interview ] [
Filmbug Biography ] [ 1998
Salon Interview ] [ Guardian
Article by Boorman ] |
| Books:
[ Adventures
of a Suburban Boy ] [ The
Emerald Forest Diary ] [
John
Boorman ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Point
Blank (1967), Deliverance (1972),
Excalibur (1981) |
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"There
is little doubt that this British-born director would have made
it as a painter. His films, though sparsely scattered through
the the 1960s and 1970s, are, without exception, among the most
striking visually in the modern cinema. The images in his films
are as haunting as they are handsome, and some, like the final
shot of the hand rising from the water in Deliverance,
may disturb your dreams." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1999) |
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"However erratic
Boorman's career, his finest work displays a passion,
originality and consistency of vision all too rare among British
directors. Despite his documentary origins, he has seldom felt
restricted by his country's traditional demands for realism; his
films are provocative, personal, and unusually unpredictable." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"He
is a unique, visionary filmmaker, but his yearning for new types
of material does not quite hide a record more at ease with
reliable genres. His most conventional pictures, the most
accessible in their situation, have been the best." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Unusually intense action films with complex characters form the
core of Boorman's filmography." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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