Adventures of a Suburban Boy

Informationen zum Autor John Boorman was born in London in 1933. After working as a film reviewer for magazines and radio, he joined the BBC in 1955 as an assistant editor, and later directed a number of documentaries. His first feature was 'Catch Us If You Can' in 1965. His latest film, Country of My Skull , opens in 2003. He is a five-time Academy Award-nominee, and was twice awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998). He is the author of Money Into Light: The Emerald Forest - A Diary , as well as the being the co-founder and editor of Faber & Faber's long-running series Projections: Film-makers on Film-making . Klappentext Offers a memoir of a suburban boy, who's creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light. Adventures of a Suburban Boy is film-maker John Boorman's vivid memoir of writing and directing films such as Deliverance and Excalibur, and working with Sean Connery, Helen Mirren and Burt Reynolds. Zusammenfassung Offers a memoir of a suburban boy, who's creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light.

Product details

• Authors: John Boorman, Boorman John
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780571216963
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21696-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; ART / Film & Video, Biography: arts & entertainment, Media, entertainment, information & communication industries, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Screenwriting, Cinema Industry