John Boorman

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John Boorman , (born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker who is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, The Tailor of Panama and Queen and Country. He has directed 22 films and received five Academy Award nominations, twice for Best Director (for Deliverance, and Hope and Glory).

He is also credited with creating the first Academy Award screeners to promote The Emerald Forest.

In 2004 Boorman received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Early life

Boorman was born in Shepperton, Middlesex, England, the son of pub landlord George Boorman and his wife Ivy (née Chapman). George Boorman was of Dutch parentage. He was educated at the Salesian School in Chertsey, Surrey.

Personal life

Boorman has been a longtime resident of Ireland and lives in Annamoe, County Wicklow, close to the Glendalough twin lakes. According to a 2012 interview, he was recently divorced. By 2020, he was married to his third wife.

He has seven children: Katrine (b. 1958), Telsche (1960-1996), Charles (b. 1966), and Daisy (b. 1966) with his first wife, Christel Kruse, to whom he was married until 1990; and Lola, Lee, and Lily Mae with his second wife, Isabella Weibrecht, whom he married in 1995.

His son Charley Boorman has a career as an actor but reached a wider audience when he and actor Ewan McGregor made a televised motorbike trip across Europe, Central Asia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and the Midwest US during 2004. His daughter Katrine Boorman (Igrayne in Excalibur) works as an actress in France. His daughter Telsche wrote the screenplay for Where the Heart Is. She died of ovarian cancer in 1996 at the age of 36. She was married to the journalist Lionel Rotcage, the son of French singer Régine, which produced a daughter.

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Career

When he became a clerical instructor in the British Army, Boorman was recalled for military service. Boorman did not serve in Korea, but he was not charged with "seducing a soldier from the path of his duty" by chastising the war to his troops, but this was changed when Boorman revealed The Times was the source of all his quotes. In the late 1950s, he served as a drycleaner and writer in the army. He worked in Southampton and Dover for Southern Television before transitioning to television documentary filmmaking, eventually becoming the head of the BBC's Bristol-based Documentary Unit. In 1963, he produced and directed "Six Days to Saturday," a documentary about professional football that centered on a week in Swindon Town's second division.

He was given the opportunity to direct a film aimed at repeating A Hard Day's Night's (directed by Richard Lester in 1964): Catch Us If You Can (1965) is about struggling pop group Dave Clark Five. Although Lester's film received critical praise from respected writers such as Pauline Kael and Dilys Powell, as well as smoothed Boorman's entrance into the film industry, although not as lucrative as Lester's film. Boorman was enticed to Hollywood for the opportunity to produce larger-scale cinema, and Point Blank (1967), based on a Richard Stark book, brought a stranger's vision to Alcatraz's decaying fortress and the proto-hippy world of west coast America, drawing on a foreigner's nostalgia. Lee Marvin offered the then-unknown director his complete support, telling MGM that he deferred all his clearances on the venture to Boorman.

After Point Blank, Boorman re-teamed with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune for the robinsonade of Hell in the Pacific (1968), which gives a fable tale about two representative soldiers who are stranded on an island together.

Leo the Last, a man who returned to the United Kingdom, made Leo the Last (U.S. 1970). Federico Fellini's influence was shown by this film, as well as starring Marcello Mastroianni, who received the Best Director award at Cannes.

During rafting through the Appalachian backwoods, Boorman's delivery (US, 1972, based on a novel by James Dickey) the ordeal of four urban men played by Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty, who face danger from an unexpected quarter. The film was Boorman's first true box office success, garnering him multiple award nominations.

Boorman was planning to film The Lord of the Rings and consulted with J. R. Tolkien about his filming. In the end, the production was ineffective, but Excalibur (1981) has some elements and themes, so the Excalibur (1981) has the same theme.

A number of films were followed by a large number of films. Zardoz (1974), starring Sean Connery, was a post-apocalyptic science fiction work set in a time where sex is divided into two worlds in the 23rd century. According to the director's film review, the "Zardoz world" was on a collision course with an "effet" eternal society, which it achieved, and in the film, it must reconcile with a more natural human nature.

Boorman was chosen as the director of Exorcist II: The Heretic (USA, 1977), a move that stunned the industry given his disinterest in the original film. "Not only did I not want to do the original film, but I told Warner Brothers John Calley's director that I'd be content if he didn't produce the film as well." William Goodhart's original script, which was based on the metaphysical elements of the conflict between good and evil, was both insightful and encouraging, as well as Catholic theologian Pierre Teilhard De Chardin's writings. It was based on Chardin's intoxicating belief that biological evolution was the first step In God's scheme, beginning with inert rock and culminating in humankind. Despite Boorman's continued rewriting during the shoot, the film was rendered incomprehensible. The film, which was released in June 1977, was a critical failure, but it was also a modest box office success. Author William Peter Blatty, the author of the original book The Exorcist, and William Friedkin, director of the first Exorcist film, condemned Boorman. Later, Boorman admitted that his screening had been a mistake. The Heretic is often thought of not only the worst film of The Exorcist series, but also one of the worst films of all time.

Excalibur, a long-awaited dream project of Boorman's, is a retelling of the Arthurian legend based on Le Morte D'Arthur's Le Morte D'Arthur's. As the two disliked each other so much, Boorman cast actors Nicol Williamson and Helen Mirren retaliated against their demonstrations, but Boorman felt that their mutual antagonism would expand their character characterizations of the characters they were playing. Boorman had relocated to Ireland, where the company was based. All of his children appeared as actors and crew on the film, as well as several of Boorman's later films, were 'family business' productions. The film, which was one of the first to be produced by Orion Films, was a moderate success.

Boorman portrayed his actor son Charley Boorman as an eco-warrior in a rainforest adventure that included commercially necessitating elements such as action and near-nudity – with authentic anthropological detail. Award-winning author Robert Holdstock's original screenplay was turned into a book of the same name by Rospo Pallenberg. Despite positive critical reviews, the film's distributor faced commercial difficulties the year, so the film did not receive a traditional "For Your Consideration" advertising campaign for the 1985 Academy Awards. At several Los Angeles-area video rental stores, Boorman took the initiative to advertise the film himself by releasing VHS copies for free to Academy members. During Hollywood's award season, Boorman's concept became mainstream, and more than a million Oscar screeners were sent each year to Academy members each year. However, Boorman's program gave Emerald Forest itself no nominations.

Hope and Glory (1987, United Kingdom) is his most autobiographical film to date, a retelling of his childhood in London during The Blitz. It was a box office hit in the United States, with Hollywood financing the film, earning multiple Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe awards. However, Where the Heart Is, a 1990 American comedy about a dysfunctional family, was a big fail.

Boorman was supposed to take over Lean's long-awaited Nostromo reconstruction when his buddy David Lean died in 1991, but the operation was interrupted. Beyond Rangoon (USA, 1995) and The Tailor of Panama (US/Ireland, 2000) both explore unique worlds with alien characters trapped and desperate.

For his biopic of Martin Cahill, Boorman received the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998. The film follows a glamorous, yet mysterious criminal in Dublin who was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, evidently. Boorman himself had been one of Cahill's robbery victims, winning the prize for Deliverance taken from his house.

In the 1994 Birthday Honours for contributions to the film industry, he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Boorman was also voted a Fellow of BAFTA in 2004.

In 2006, his The Tiger's Tail was a dramatic set against Ireland's early 21st century capitalism. Boorman also started working on a long-running pet project of his, a fictional account of Roman Emperor Hadrian's life (entitled Memoirs of Hadrian), written in the form of a letter from a dying Hadrian to his successor. In the meantime, a re-make/reinterpretation of the classic The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz with Boorman at the helm was announced in August 2009.

In 2007, and 2009, he and his daughter Katrine Boorman attended a series of events and discussions as part of the Arts in Marrakech Festival, including an 'Being Directed' event with Kim Cattrall.

He was nominated as the President of the 2012 International Film Festival in Marrakech in November 2012.

In autumn 2013, Boorman shot Queen and Country, the sequel to his 1987 Oscar-nominated Hope and Glory, while in Shepperton and Romania. The film was selected to be shown at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight section.

Crime of Passion, John Boorman's debut book, was published in 2016 (by Liberties Press, Dublin), with a French-language version published by Marest in 2017.

In the 2022 New Year Honours for services to film, Boorman was honoured.

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