John Boorman Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Director , Producer , Screenwriter more
British nationality
Birth January 18, 1933 (Shepperton, England)

BIOGRAPHY
John Boorman was born in the town of Shepperton, a suburb of London. He grew up next to the city’s film studios. Boorman spent part of his childhood with the Jesuits and his youth was marked by German bombings during the Second World War. He will tell the story of this difficult period in The Seven Years War . John Boorman will also integrate many autobiographical elements into his works.

At eighteen, he earned his living as a radio film critic and writing articles for various magazines. The most brilliant and original English director of his generation, he started out on television. He became a television editor for the BBC, before directing short documentary films.

In 1965, he made his first feature film Sauve qui peut . The following year, a return to documentaries with a film on DW Griffith , “The Great Director”. It was while researching Griffith that John Boorman met Judd Bernard who entrusted him with the script for the detective film The Point of No Return with Lee Marvin . The following year, Boorman directed Marvin again for Duel in the Pacific , an open-air film starring Toshirô Mifune , Akira Kurosawa ‘s favorite actor .

In 1970 he returned to London to film Leo the Last with Marcello Mastroianni . Two years later, he returned to the United States to direct Deliverance ; the film is a huge critical success. After this success, Boorman wanted to make a science fiction film. He wants to adapt The Lord of the Rings , but faced with the cost of the project the producers refuse. He then wrote an original, very pessimistic anticipation scenario: Zardoz , which he would shoot in Ireland. Despite the presence of Sean Connery in the credits, the film will be a dismal failure. Boorman then directed the sequel to William Friedkin ‘s The Exorcist , The Exorcist 2 – The Heretic , a commissioned film. The filmmaker then took four years to create what will undoubtedly remain as the masterpiece of his career: Excalibur . Then began a decade of success for him. He continues The Emerald Forest , The War is Seven Years and Everything to Succeed . All three films are greatly appreciated by critics and audiences. After a medium-length film I dreamt I woke up

, John Boorman directed Rangoon in 1994 , a studio film about the dictatorship in Burma with Patricia Arquette . After shooting the TV film Two Nudes Bathing with John Hurt and Charley Boorman , the filmmaker participated in Lumière et société film in homage to the Lumière brothers , where forty directors each presented a short film. In 1998, he returned with The General , an independent film. Filmed in black and white, the film won the Best Director Award at Cannes. After three years of silence, John Boorman signs The Tailor of Panama , a spy film with Pierce Brosnan . Even if the film seems far from Boorman’s universe, with this studio film he signs an ironic and relevant work.

In 2004, the filmmaker directed Juliette Binoche in Country of My Skull , a film set in South Africa. A true cinema nomad, Boorman has been traveling between the United States, England and Ireland for over thirty-five years now. Two years later, he filmed The Tiger’s Tail , a police comedy starring Kim Catrall and Brendan Gleeson . The filmmaker returned to directing in 2014 with the melodrama Queen & Country which focuses on the fate of two young soldiers during the Korean War.