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  1. Biography. Read More. Renowned for pushing actors and crews to their very limit in order to achieve transcendent results, director John Boorman was a committed filmmaker who refused to settle into fixed genres while remaining as commercially unpredictable as he was artistically fascinating. Routinely dismissing realism in favor of fantasy and ...

  2. John Boorman (born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Boorman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  3. John Boorman (s. 18. tammikuuta 1933 Shepperton, Middlesex, Britannia) [1] on brittiläinen elokuvaohjaaja, tuottaja ja käsikirjoittaja. Boormanin tunnetuimpia ohjauksia ovat Syvä joki, Zardoz, Excalibur sekä hänen omiin sodanaikaisiin lapsuuskokemuksiinsa perustuva Odotuksia . Nuorempana Boorman työskenteli BBC:llä muun muassa ...

  4. Bill Paxton doesn't monkey around. Roger Ebert | 1998-12-15. LOS ANGELES Bill Paxton has an Oscar contender and a giant gorilla movie coming out within a couple of weeks of each other, and that's the story of his career. He makes little movies ("One False Move," "Traveller," "Trespass") and big ones ("True Lies," "Apollo 13," "Twister").

  5. English. Japanese. Budget. $4,150,000 [1] Box office. $3,230,000 [1] Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune, the only two actors in the film. [2] It is based on the importance of human contact and the bond that can form between enemies if lacking other contact.

  6. John Boorman was born in Shepperton, Middlesex on 18 January 1933. After the Blitzed childhood he evoked in Hope and Glory (1997), national service and a spell in dry-cleaning, he progressed from journalism into television, eventually becoming the head of the BBC 's Bristol-based Documentary Unit in 1962. His first feature, Catch Us If You Can ...

  7. Apr 10, 1981 · Excalibur: Directed by John Boorman. With Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi. Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.