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John Boorman - news / articles
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Boorman lands top honour at Turin Film Festival -
13 November 2010
-Director/producer John Boorman is to receive a top honour at Italy's Turin Film Festival next month (Dec10), celebrating his contribution to contemporary cinema.-
-The Oscar-nominee will be the guest of honour at the 28th annual Turin Film Festival's award ceremony o
John Boorman - what members say
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Superb thriller 21 February 2005
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Hilarious! So bad it's good! 3 September 2010
John Boorman - filmography
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The Tiger's Tail
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciaran Hinds
Director: John Boorman
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Dublin property developer Liam O’Leary (Gleeson) gets the shock of his life when his exact double starts to follow him around. The sinister stranger begins posing as Liam both at home and at work, and Liam must struggle to prove his own identity as everyone assumes he is his criminal double.
 
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In My Country
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
Director: John Boorman
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Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during the Apartheid era are invited to come forward and confront their ..read more »
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from 2,092 members
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The Tailor of Panama
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack
Director: John Boorman
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Watch now: Unavailable
Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) is a London tailor working in Panama, offering a high-quality service to many of the richest and most powerful families in the country. One day he is approached by British secret agent Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) and asked to supply information on some of his ..read more »
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from 2,320 members
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The General
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sean McGinley, Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Director: John Boorman
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Hollyfield was a Dublin slum where the rejected, the derelict and the anti-social were housed. Young Martin Carhill grew up in a milieu where crime was the main occupation. He was sent to a correction school when caught stealing food for his family. Abused by priests and the police, he grew up with ..read more »
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from 1,408 member
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Beyond Rangoon
(1995)
Starring: Cho Cho Myint, Frances McDormand, Jit Murad
Director: John Boorman
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Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, during which time she falls in with students fighting for democracy. She ..read more »
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Where The Heart Is
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover
Director: John Boorman
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In this comedy from writer-director John Boorman, wealthy real estate mogul Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) owns a demolition firm which specializes in blowing up old buildings to make way for upscale new ones. When neighbors protest his plans to raze a dilapidated old building to make way for a ..read more »
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from 236 members
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Hope And Glory
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Sammi Davis, Sarah Miles, David Hayman
Director: John Boorman
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An affectionate reverie about war, childhood, and British stoicism, John Boorman's Hope and Glory is the veteran filmmaker's recollection of the bombing of London during World War II. Set on the British home front during the early days of the war, this episodic movie shows the blitz through the ..read more »
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from 3,087 members
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The Emerald Forest
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Charley Boorman, Meg Foster, Powers Boothe
Director: John Boorman
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The Emerald Forest is based on a true story, as related by Los Angeles Times correspondent Leonard Greenwood. Powers Boothe stars as Bill Markham, a US engineer working on a dam project in the Amazonian jungles. Bill's young son, Tomme (played by director John Boorman's son Charley Boorman) is ..read more »
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from 1,106 member
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Excalibur
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Nigel Terry, Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren
Director: John Boorman
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John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Nigel Terry is perfectly cast as ..read more »
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from 6,407 members
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Exorcist 2 - The Heretic
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Ned Beatty, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn
Director: John Boorman
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Regan (Linda Blair), the demonically possessed child from 'The Exorcist', is now a relatively normal, happy teenager, living under the care of a psychiatrist (Louise Fletcher) and her mother's ex-secretary (Kitty Winn). When the demons return to haunt Regan, priest Father Lamont (Richard Burton), ..read more »
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from 2,071 members
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Zardoz
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Bosco Hogan, John Alderton, Sean Connery
Director: John Boorman
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A resident of 23rd-century Earth becomes involved in a revolution after discovering the hidden truth about society's rulers in director John Boorman's sci-fi drama. Sean Connery plays Zed, the central rebel, who begins the film as a member of the Exterminators, a band of skilled assassins who exact ..read more »
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from 1,120 member
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Deliverance
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight
Director: John Boorman
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Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (..read more »
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from 16,169 members
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Hell In The Pacific
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Lee Marvin
Director: John Boorman
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A US Marine pilot (Lee Marvin) and a Japanese Naval officer (Toshiro Mifune) find themselves marooned on the same island in the middle of World War II. The pair's first impulse is to continue the wartime struggle and engage each other in a battle to the death, but they soon realise that their ..read more »
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from 556 members
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Point Blank
(1967)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Director: John Boorman
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A man is shot and left for dead by his unfaithful wife and her mobster lover. Now he's back and out for revenge against the businessmen and mobsters who did him wrong.
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from 499 members
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Catch Us If You Can
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Barbara Ferris, David Lodge, Yootha Joyce
Director: John Boorman
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The Dave Clark Five star in director John Boorman's debut. The band play stuntmen who decide to quit the rat-race for one wild weekend on an island. Meanwhile their agents and the press are on their tails. With Barbara Ferris, Yootha Joyce and David Lodge. Music by the Dave Clark Five.
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from 166 members
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John Boorman facts
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...at they all underestimate is that while the landscape may look very pretty (and John Boorman's direction does a fantastic job of this) it is as wildly unforgiving as it is ...
