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	John Boorman - Biography - Moviefone
		Boorman is also known as one of the commercial mainstream's more independently-minded directors; his high-risk approach to filmmaking has insured that his films are as economically unpredictable as they are unique.
		Boorman himself has been quoted as saying "Filmmaking is the process of turning money into light and then back into money again," an epigram whose simplicity has in many ways defined the ups and downs of his career.
		Boorman's next two projects, the Sean Connery vehicle Zardoz (1973) and Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), were unquestionable disappointments that dimmed the director's post-Deliverance glow.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-boorman/82431/biography (809 words)

	John Boorman--The Lybarger Links Interview
		John Boorman is one filmmaker who is not known for playing it safe.
		Boorman may have been fascinated by Cahill's exploits, but he understands the plight of those The General wronged.
		Boorman, who also wrote the script, said that studios had expressed an interest in the movie, but he chose to produce the movie independently.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/johnboorman.htm (966 words)

	John Boorman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Boorman (born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, Surrey), is an English filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The General.
		Boorman was selected as director for Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), but the resultant film was widely ridiculed and regarded as a total failure.
		In 1999, Boorman won the "Best Director" award at the Cannes Film Festival for his fl-and-white biopic of Martin Cahill (The General), a somewhat glamorous yet mysterious criminal in Dublin who was killed, apparently by the Irish Republican Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Boorman (945 words)

	JOHN BOORMAN – IN INTERVIEW
		Boorman issued swift answers, solved the technician's problems, and sent him out a calmer man. Soon, the afternoon's shooting about to begin and the rain letting up, the director left the tent.
		Boorman's whole movie career might be seen as leading to this point – the igniting of the mythical spark in a story which has long been his most cherished movie project.
		Boorman's earlier films are crammed with presaging hints of the Arthur legend: from the name itself popping up in a key role in Zardoz (Arthur Frayn, sage and wizard) to the quest motifs, the notion of "heroes" struggling toward a source of meaning and resolution in a world of flux in Point Blank and Deliverance.
	americancinemapapers.homestead.com /files/EXCALIBUR.htm (3217 words)

	John Boorman (The General)
		The news that John Boorman had won the best director prize for "The General" at the Cannes Film Festival this spring was one of the most cheering movie events of the year.
		But refuge for Boorman has often come in the form of myth and legend, and in the 1981 "Excalibur," he achieved his long-cherished dream of filming the Arthurian myths that have been his greatest inspirations.
		Boorman, who lives in Ireland, had long been fascinated by Cahill -- particularly since Cahill had broken into the director's home (an incident alluded to in "The General" when Cahill swipes a gold record during a burglary).
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/JB03.HTM (2381 words)

	Point Blank with John Boorman
		Boorman: Well, you mention John Huston in a wheelchair, but for the most part, directing is a very physical occupation.
		Boorman: Oddly enough, of course you know by coincidence "Point Blank" is playing with "The General" at the New York Film Festival, and both are about a criminal.
		Boorman: I think the tragedy of being a film director is that we spend more time on the films that we don't make than the ones we do make.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Boorman_John_981218.html (927 words)

	Netribution > Features > John Boorman > 1
		John Boorman's The Tailor of Panama is released this week with Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan in violently contrasting roles than those we associate them with.
		Boorman is one of our most celebrated directors, his filmography speaks for itself in terms of power and diversity but, the man admitted to Stephen Applebaum, as a 68 year old he hasn't many films left in him.
		When John Calley at Columbia told me that he'd bought the rights to this book and asked me if I wanted to be involved, I was astonished that an American studio would be making this picture, because it didn't fit with the kind of films they normally make.
	www.netribution.co.uk /features/interviews/2001/john_boorman/1.html (1012 words)

	John Boorman Movies & News
		Boorman is also known as one of the commercial mainstream's most independently minded directors.
		Boorman collaborated again with Marvin on the allegorical "Hell in the Pacific" (1968), which cast the actor as a WWII soldier stranded on an island with a Japanese soldier (Toshiro Mifune).
		Boorman's next projects were the Sean Connery vehicle "Zardoz" (1973), "Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1977), and the acclaimed "Excalibur" (1981).
	www.moviesonline.ca /_admin/celeb-John-Boorman.htm (970 words)

	John Boorman
		Though the script was initially deemed unfilmable by producers, Boorman spent three weeks with another friend, Alex Jacobs, and rewrote it.
		Boorman's first box office hit didn't come until 11 years later.
		Boorman lives in Ireland where he spends much of his free time outside.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=5182 (466 words)

	Amazon.ca: Zardoz: Video: John Boorman,Sean Connery,Charlotte Rampling,Sara Kestelman,John Alderton,Sally Anne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Three reasons to watch Zardoz are John Boorman's emerging vision and personal iconography, the power of Sean Connery's presence and acting (especially at the point in his career when he was trying to break from the Bond type-cast), and Geoffrey Unsworth's masterful photography.
		The opening fifteen minutes are among the most memorable: Boorman begins the movie with numerous striking compositions (greatly enhanced by this pristine DVD edition), and a dreamlike, largely silent progression which highlights his storytelling talent; Zed's 'learning sequence', later in the film, is also remarkably put together.
		John Boorman's outré film ZARDOZ (1974) is a somewhat campy but visually stunning science-fiction dystopian fantasy set in the distant future.
	www.amazon.ca /Zardoz-John-Boorman/dp/6301744128 (1952 words)

	John Boorman - Films as Director:, Other Films:
		Boorman has always been much concerned with the look of his films.
		At its best (in Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, and The General) Boorman's cinema is rich and subtle, his fascination with images matched by taut story-telling and a nice sense of the opacity of people's motives, his characters constantly made aware of the complex and unanticipated consequences of their actions.
		In these three films Boorman ensures that we appreciate how difficult it is to make judgments of good and evil, how tangled the threads of motivation can be, a concern which also informs his later expeditions into apparently more "political" topics in Beyond Rangoon and The General.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Be-Bu/Boorman-John.html (1529 words)

	Rich Man, Boorman: Film Freak Central Interviews Director John Boorman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steeped in a sense of loss and the melancholy of high Romanticism, John Boorman is an artist working in metaphor and Jungian archetype.
		Water is Boorman's solvent of choice, winnowing away the chaff from his subjects, and his films, at their best, are as organic and mean as the curve of a canyon wall.
		Boorman, though only briefly while he was driven from one appointment to another.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/jboormaninterview.htm (2108 words)

	John Boorman - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		John Boorman - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Boorman, John, born in 1933, English film director, screenwriter, and producer, who has directed a number of visually stylish films in both...
		John the Evangelist (?-ad 101), in the New Testament, one of the 12 apostles, son of Zebedee and younger brother of Saint James the Great.
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	Amazon.ca: The General: Video: John Boorman,Brendan Gleeson,Adrian Dunbar,Sean McGinley,Maria Doyle Kennedy,Angeline ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many of Boorman's films take the form of quests, fueled by some dream of utopia; on some level, Point Blank is the tragedy of a just man, appalled and ultimately defeated by the complexity of his world's corruption.
		Boorman says his Cahill is a throwback to those Celtic chieftains of old who ruled by thievery and violence; as an anachronism, this charming, brutal bear of a man (perfectly incarnated by Brendan Gleeson) is undeniably reprehensible, but he stands in deliberate contrast to the institutionalized hypocrisy and corruption of church, state, and IRA alike.
		This is a very good movie, Boorman's best since Deliverance, but the disc, which presents a 2:35:1 version in "desaturated color" and a 1:85:1 version in fl and white, makes it unclear which way the director intended it to be seen.
	www.amazon.ca /General-John-Boorman/dp/0767833635 (1171 words)

	Amazon.fr : Adventures of a Suburban Boy: Livres en anglais: John Boorman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Boorman's emotional life was shaped by his parents' triangulated marriage-his mother was in love with his father's best friend-and his longing to escape the drabness of suburban life.
		The die was cast: Boorman became a darling of British cinema, eventually seeking recognition in Hollywood.
		Boorman treats his successes lightly, using them as examples of how he pulled his projects together.
	www.amazon.fr /Adventures-Suburban-Boy-John-Boorman/dp/0571216951 (592 words)

	===== FILMFESTIVAL =====
		A desperado in the continents of Myth and a chronicler of adventures from the kingdom of Reality, John Boorman, in the fourteen films he has made from 1965 to the present, re-examines and renews the most important cinema genres, successfully reconciling his artistic vision with the filmgoer's desire to enjoy the show.
		Boorman was born in Epsom, on January 18th, 1933, and even as a child, growing up in Sheperton, in a household dominated by women, next to the Thames and close to the famous film studios, he felt the irresistible fascination of the world of cinema.
		In 1956, he was hired as an apprentice film editor at privately-owned ITN, and the ten years of successful television work that ensued at various TV stations (Southern TV, BBC Bristol) constitute an invaluable preparation period for his work in film.
	www.filmfestival.gr /2001/uk/tributes_boorman.php (170 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Film-makers on film: John Boorman
		John Boorman, whose career in film spans four decades, is one of Britain's foremost film directors.
		He's the maker of a whole series of often visionary classic movies, from American masterpieces such as Point Blank (1967) and Deliverance (1972), which could fairly be called works of genius, to excursions into the mythic English past, national or personal, in Excalibur (1981) and Hope and Glory (1987).
		One scene that especially strikes Boorman, who himself used his boyhood in Hope and Glory, is the dream Guido has where he's being bathed and put to bed.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/09/03/bffmof03.xml (974 words)

	John Boorman Biography \| Authors and Artists for Young Adults
		Regarded as one of Britain's most imaginative and technically brilliant film directors, John Boorman works in such diverse genres as supernatural horror, social comedy, science fiction, action-adventure, and the thriller.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
		John Boorman from Authors and Artists for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-boorman-aya (192 words)

	BAM : Brooklyn Academy of Music
		Boorman is also a globetrotting master of location shooting, and has made films in urban jungles, rural backwaters, and even the rainforest.
		Boorman takes us to a far-flung location infrequently glimpsed on screen, with a political situation that remains relevant today.
		A sampling of Boorman’s experiences as filmmaker, with alter egos, dreams, and the director himself speaking from his adopted home of Ireland.
	www.bam.org /Film/Boorman.aspx (838 words)

	Titles by John Boorman
		Exhibiting a defiant and humorous take on life during the London blitz, the family of the young boy at the center of the story (Sebastian Rice-Edwards) is a close-knit and resilient bunch, undeterred in the face of the war and reveling in each other even as they hide from the incessant bombing.
		Boorman doesn’t dwell on the horrors of war; instead he celebrates the richness and resilience of the people he remembers so fondly.
		Director John Boorman (Deliverance) masterfully handles the tale of the mythical sword Excalibur, and its passing from the wizard Merlin to the future king of England.
	www.awardannals.com /creator.php?id=6064 (359 words)

	Salon.com People \| John Boorman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Were Mirbeau around today, he'd probably smack his lips at British director John Boorman's latest film, "The Tailor of Panama." Based on the bestseller by John le Carré, the picture revels in the seedy, humid orgy of Panama in the late '90s and the various international intrigues surrounding that country's famous canal.
		Boorman's playful dip into the tropical fleshpots is greatly assisted by a cast led by Pierce Brosnan as MI6 operative Andy Osnard, a scheming, avaricious scalawag hornier than Brosnan's Bond and lacking 007's redemptive patriotism.
		Spoiler alert: Boorman also discusses the ending of "The Tailor of Panama" at length in response to the sixth and seventh questions, which are on Page 2.
	dir.salon.com /people/conv/2001/04/02/boorman/index.html?pn=3 (906 words)

	John Boorman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Boorman's first feature, HAVING A WILD WEEKEND (1965), was a competent, exuberant 1960s musical featuring the Dave Clark Five which attempted, unsuccessfully, to duplicate the success of the Beatles/Richard Lester ground-breaker A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964).
		Boorman's subsequent films, through ZARDOZ (1974), show off his impressive visual style, his gift for superior plotting and pace, and his recurrent concern with the themes of the hunt and survival.
		The son of one of the men was played by the director's son Charley Boorman, who later starred in THE EMERALD FOREST (1985) as a white child who is raised for ten years by a primitive Amazon tribe.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho5/boorman_j.htm (408 words)

	John Boorman Masterclass - Film - British Council - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After spending six months in South Africa shooting his forthcoming film Country of My Skull, John Boorman is returning with the British Council to hold two, four hour, masterclasses.
		During the shoot for Country of My Skull, John was approached by many members of his crew for advice on filmmaking, so the classes are aimed to be as wide-ranging and as practical as possible.
		There will be a screening of The General at the Cape Town class, and John Boorman will also appear at Exclusive Books in Cape Town and Johannesburg for talks and signings.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-film-boorman-masterclass.htm (199 words)

	John Boorman - Moviefone
		John Boorman on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		When one watches John Boorman's film version of the book, one realizes just how accurately he captures the essence of the book.
		John Boorman - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, John Boorman Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-boorman/82431/main (112 words)

	Excalibur the Movie (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Filmed in the Irish countryside with beautiful visual effects, director Boorman's grim, realistic, and classic telling of the Arthurian legend is a faithful adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte D Arthur.
		John Boorman brings the timeless legend of King Arthur to the screen in visually sumptuous style.
		Many of the shots were done within a few miles of John Boorman's home.
	dandalf.com.cob-web.org:8888 /dandalf/excalibur.html (259 words)

	Biography for John Boorman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Boorman attended Catholic school (Salesian Order) although his family was not, in fact, Roman Catholic.
		Later he worked as a critic for a women's journal and for a radio station until he entered the television business, working for the BBC in Bristol.
		Father of Katrine Boorman, Charley Boorman, Telsche Boorman and Daisy Boorman.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000958/bio (481 words)

	Boorman,John Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		John Boorman came of age as a filmmaker in the 1960s--the golden age of world cinema.
		In this latest edition of the influential "Projections" series, longtime editor John Boorman and his wife Isabella Weibrecht turn their eyes to filmmaking in the global sphere, focusing in particular upon the feminine experience.
		Some of the film masters and their topics include Robert Towne on the witting of "Chinatown," Steve Martin on acting, the Coen brothers on how they achieved the special effects in "The Hudsucker Proxy," and Walter Murch on the sound design for...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Boorman,John (919 words)

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