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John Boorman

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

May 2024

  • Quentin Tarantino applauds Roger Corman during the closing ceremony of the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Brief letters
    Roger Corman: the genius director who reversed the film-making process

    Brief letters: John Boorman’s tribute | Olive oil for earache | Apostrophised places | Keeping busy in later life | Not born yesterday

March 2023

  • Steven Spielberg on the set of The Fabelmans

    Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that

    John Boorman
    Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans was the only best picture nominee this year actually shot on film. It’s time to stop misnaming movies, says the director John Boorman

September 2022

  • Burt Reynolds, Bill McKinney and Jon Voigt in Deliverance, 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    Deliverance reviewed: ‘a finely structured allegory about America’ – archive, 1972

  • Jean-Luc Godard shooting Le Mépris with Brigitte Bardot in 1963.

    ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute

June 2021

  • Ned Beatty (second from left) in the 1972 film Deliverance, with his co-stars Ronny Cox, Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.

    John Boorman: how a belligerent Ned Beatty won me over

    Letter: The director of Deliverance recalls how the late actor landed the part of Bobby Trippe, despite his fiery audition
  • Ned Beatty<br>Jon Voight &amp; Ned Beatty Film: Deliverance (USA 1972) Director: John Boorman 30 July 1972 CTH26704 Allstar Picture Library/WARNER BROS. **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Ed &amp; Bobby

    Ned Beatty obituary

    American stage and screen actor best known for his film roles in Deliverance, Network, Superman and Hear My Song
  • Ned Beatty in 2005.

    Ned Beatty, star of Deliverance, Network and Superman, dies aged 83

    Prolific supporting actor also appeared in All the President’s Men, Nashville, The Big Easy and Hear My Song

April 2021

  • Runaways … Dave Clark and Barbara Ferris in Catch Us If You Can.

    Catch Us If You Can review – on the run with the Dave Clark Five

    John Boorman’s feature film debut sends the pop band on a zany adventure that serves as a potent time capsule of 60s celebrity PR

April 2020

  • Lauren Bacall (Photo by Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images)

    The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!

    Inspiring, addictive and occasionally gasp-worthy – to mark the publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing, we arrange the best Tinseltown memoirs in order of excellence

March 2020

  • 1967, POINT BLANK<br>ANGIE DICKINSON &amp; LEE MARVIN Character(s): Chris &amp; Walker Film ‘POINT BLANK’ (1967) Directed By JOHN BOORMAN 30 August 1967 CT1947 Allstar/MGM **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Conclusions by John Boorman review – film gossip and nostalgia

    The filmmaker on Gerard Depardieu’s snoring, Burt Reynolds’s sexual skills and why boxset TV is disappointing

February 2020

  • John Boorman with Excalibur.

    John Boorman: 'You think the holy grail is lost? No. I have it on my piano'

    The director of classic Hollywood films including Excalibur, Point Blank and Deliverance lives alone in a giant house in rural Ireland. He talks about his career, growing old – and his obsession with the trees in his garden

October 2018

  • ORSON WELLES during the shooting of DON QUIXOTE Picture from the Ronald Grant Archive

    Orson Welles' jungle book, Bilbo on mushrooms: the great unmade movies

    For every glittering Hollywood project that hits cinemas, there’s a raft that never see the light of day. Here’s five of the most fascinating films you’ll never see

December 2017

  • John Hurt

    The Observer's obituaries of 2017
    John Hurt remembered by John Boorman

    The film director remembers his friend, the actor with ‘a single malt of a voice’, who despite his ups and downs, remained a great professional

May 2017

  • DELIVERANCE 1972 Warner Bros film<br>E7WBNN DELIVERANCE 1972 Warner Bros film

    How we made
    How we made Deliverance

    John Boorman: ‘Wherever poor Ned Beatty went, people would say: Squeal like a pig! It went on for years’

March 2016

  • Ben Wheatley photographed in London last month by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review.

    Ben Wheatley: ‘Financing a film as crazy as this takes good casting’

    As his adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 sci-fi novel High-Rise is released, the director talks about his love of uncompromising films and why he reads all his reviews

January 2016

  • Vilmos Zsigmond cinema film Hungary cinematography

    Vilmos Zsigmond: the cinematographer who transformed how films look

    Along with his lifelong friend, László Kovács, the late Hungarian was a master of lenses and light, and their combined effect on cinema is impossible to overstate

September 2015

  • Cillian Murphy, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright and John Boorman

    Irish stars call for abortion reform

    Authors, directors, actors and musicians join campaign for repeal of Ireland’s eighth amendment, which gives foetus same rights as citizens

June 2015

  • John Boorman.

    John Boorman: ‘Deliverance would be impossible to make today’

  • 140x84 trailpic for Queen & Country - video review

    Queen & Country - video review

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