Projections 7: Film-makers on Film-making

Projections #7

by John Boorman, Walter Donohue (Editor)

The centrepiece of this issue comes from the celebrated French film magazine, Cahiers du Cinema. For their 500th issue Martin Scorsese contributed material not only about his own work - including his relationship with Robert de Niro - but also about film-makers he admires: those of his generation (Coppola, De Palma, Lucas and Spielberg), as well as those film-makers whose legacy enriches cinema today (Ford, Raoul Walsh, Ida Lupino, Hitchcock, John Cassavetes). He celebrates the glories of the British cinema, and concludes by posing five essential questions about film.

Other contributors include:

Jamie Lee Curtis - In Conversation with Janet Leigh and Lillian Burns
Hippolyte Girardot - Never Forget Mastroianni
Frances Mcdormand & Willem Dafoe - Acting is Believing
Robert Mitchum - Looking Like Nothing Matters
Brian Cox - Manhunter
Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
Sylvia Syms - Victim
Teresa Wright - Shadow of a Doubt
Jaco van Dormael - Life Lessons
Bebe Barron - Making Music for Forbidden Planet
Christopher Porter - Photographing Dead Man
Frank Capra/Douglas Sirk - A Centenary Tribute
William K. Everson/Marcello Mastroianni - In Memoriam

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

John Boorman 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.

Reviews

[Lee]

'John Huston especially detested Burt Lancaster, and he also detested golf, which Lancaster loved. Huston was well known for playing cruel jokes on people. Lancaster held a golf tournament, and Huston and a friend went out and bought a thousand ping-pong balls, wrote dirty slogans all over them, rented a helicopter and spread them all over the course in the middle of a match. Of course, no-one could find their ball after that, and the match had to be postponed.'

[Josh]

I love this series of books. The articles are well written and insightful. But what else would you expect from the editors of Cahiers du Cinema?

[Peter Donovan]

Loved these books as a teenager.