Michel Ciment is a renowned film critic, historian and judge at international film festivals. Editor of the French film review, Positif, his publications include collected interviews with Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan and John Boorman. Translated from the French by Julie Rose Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
Search for publicationsJohn 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. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
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