Biography: John Boorman |

One of Britain's most acclaimed directors, John Boorman is known for making films resplendent with great visual flair and taut narrative. Boorman is also known as one of the commercial mainstream's more independently-minded directors; his high-risk... more
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2010)
Tags: Fantasy 
Length: min
John Boorman adapts L. Frank Baum's classic =Wizard of Oz novel with this computer-animated picture, the first for the veteran director. The 25-million-dollar production will focus more on the book and less on being a straight-up remake of the beloved...

Tags: Comedy Drama 
Length: 106min
Deliverance and Tailor of Panama director John Boorman returns to the director's chair for this tale of a hawkish businessman who slowly finds his life being taken over by the twin brother he never knew he had. Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a...

Cast: John Boorman Pierce Brosnan Jamie Lee Curtis Geoffrey Rush   
Tags: Spy Film Spy Comedy Comedy Drama Political Satire Satire Black Comedy 
Length: 109min
Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself recently banished to Panama. When Osnard...

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick & "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999)
Cast: Tom Cruise Steven Spielberg   
Length: 60min
Produced by the British television network Channel 4, this documentary takes a look at the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, with special emphasis on the production of what proved to be his final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Family,...

Cast: Liv Ullmann Jacques Rivette Ismail Merchant David Lynch Claude Lelouch Spike Lee Patrice Leconte Andrei Konchalovsky 
Tags: Art Film 
Length: 88min
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under...

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Political Drama Message Movie 
Length: 103min
The many emotional scars left by South Africa's history of institutionalized racism come under the microscope in this drama. As South Africa comes to terms with the legacy of apartheid, their government has created the Truth and Reconciliation...

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman (1998)
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 55min
This made-for-cable retrospective of movie star Lee Marvin (1924-1987) was assembled by filmmaker John Boorman, who directed Marvin in two gutsy features: Point Blank (1967) and Hell in the Pacific (1968). Beginnng with the actor's impressive battle...

Tags: Erotic Drama Drama 
Length: 102min
This sprightly British drama speculates upon the origins of the anonymous painting, ~Two Nudes Bathing, which hangs in the Louvre. The painting depicts two beautiful, naked young women engaged in a tender act. The tale begins as a portrait painter...

Cast: Jon Voight   
Tags: Gangster Film Biopic Crime Drama Crime 
Length: 123min
John Boorman, who won the 1998 ~Cannes Film Festival's Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier for his Leo the Last (1969) about an alienated aristocrat in a London slum. Shot in widescreen...

Tags: Adventure Drama Political Drama Drama 
Length: 105min
In a role originally intended for Meg Ryan, Patricia Arquette plays Dr. Laura Bowman in director John Boorman's film of an American abroad in a strange country. It's 1988 and Laura is desperate to flee the United States and the memory of her husband...




























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