Projections 5: Film-makers on Film-making

Projections 5: Film-makers on Film-making

by WalterDonohue (Author), JohnBoorman (Editor)

Synopsis

With particular emphasis on animation, this fifth of a series in which film-makers discuss their art includes an extensive interview with Nick Park, the double-Oscar-winning creator of the "Wallace and Gromit" films. There is also an interview with the American animator, Henry Selick, creator of "The Nightmare Before Christmas", and a piece about the founding figure of stop-motion animated film, Ray Harryhausen. Other pieces include an article by Freddie Young, who discusses his work as a cameraman on "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", notes by Eleanor Coppola about the making of "The Godfather III" and "Dracula", and coverage of Quentin Tarantino's encounter with Brian De Palma. The book looks to the past with veteran director Fred Zinneman, and to the future with Tod Haynes's "Safe".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Edition: 1st
Publisher: John Boorman and Walter Donohue
Published: 01 Apr 1996

ISBN 10: 0571178111
ISBN 13: 9780571178117

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