Tag: johnboorman

Action, action, action! Kenji Tanigaki's The Furious will close this year's festival opposite Ben Wheatley's Normal, which is opening the event.

James Bond running around in a loincloth. That may be the singular image that comes to mind when Zardoz is mentioned. If another image pops, it's likely "giant statue of a head flying through the air." Out of context, the...

At a retrospective at New York's Film Forum, including the baroque thriller, Point Blank, the Appalachian nightmare, Deliverance, the bizarre, sci-fi adventure, Zardoz, and his epic Arthurian legend, Excalibur, Director John Boorman premiered QUEEN AND COUNTRY, the sequel to his...

John Boorman's 1987 film Hope and Glory, about the London Blitz seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy, is a favourite in the Rowan-Legg household (seriously, we can all quote it almost verbatim to the point of annoying guests)....

What could be better than a double bill of production design gone wild by directors of gritty, testosterone loaded films 1970s going 'off the reservation' in the craziest of ways!  Exhibit A: John Boorman goes from Deliverance to Zardoz.  Exhibit...