Director's Cut: Best of Projections

(Paperback, Main)

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Contains interviews on:


De Niro and Me by Martin Scorsese


Lee Marvin by John Boorman


Tony Curtis talks to Jamie Lee Curtis


Janet Leigh talks to Jame Leigh Curtis


James Stewart talks to Gregory Solman


Christopher Doyle's diary of working with Wong Kar-Wai


Frances McDormand talks to Willem Dafoe


Robert Towne on writing Chinatown


Walter Murch on Sound Design


Viggo Mortensen writes about Sandy Dennis


Plus, for this special issue - Jonathan Caouette talks to Jason Wood about the making ofTarnation on his computer.

Author Bio

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 and Faber's long-running series Projections: Film-makers on Film-making.