Projections 1: A Forum For Cinema - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571167292 ISBN 13: 9780571167296

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1992

Synopsis

Projections is a forum for practitioners of the cinema to write about their work. The first issue includes a journal compiled by John Boorman which records his responses to the events and trends of 1991, and their implications for the future of cinema. Like his Emerald Forest diary, Money into Light, it is a fascinating mix of anecdote, personal reflections, thoughts on the nature of cinema, and comments on the practical business of making films.

Projections also contains contributions from cinematographer Nestor Almendros, who describes the craft of photographing the human face, and from Jonathan Demme, who traces the evolution of his career from his early days with Roger Corman to his chilling Silence of the Lambs. River Phoenix and Gus Van Sant discuss their work together on My Own Private Idaho; there is a script from one of the most original talents in American today, Hal Hartley, and a penetrating account by director Michael Mann of his startling new version of Last of the Mohicans.

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About the Author

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.

Synopsis

This annual review of cinema includes information about the industry as well as speculation on its future and possible developments. The centrepiece of this issue is a journal that John Boorman has prepared over the course of 1991, in which he records his responses to the events and trends of the past year and their implications for the future of cinema. The book mixes anecdote, personal reflections, thoughts on the nature of cinema, and comments on the practical business of making films. The book also contains contributions from leading directors, editors, and actors about the state of the art at this moment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0571167292
• ISBN 13: 9780571167296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Boorman John, Donohue Walter