John
Boorman
biography
He began his career as a film critic for magazines and the radio. In 1955 he joined the BBC, where he worked as a film editor and also shot some documentaries. His debut as a director was in 1965 with the feature Having a Wild Weekend, which was not very successful. Then Boorman moved to Hollywood where he shot his first important film Point Blank (1967), immediately followed by Hell in the Pacific (1968), both starring his friend Lee Marvin. The Seventies will definitely mark the style that makes him famous: the violence of the obscure in Deliverance (1972), the science fiction cult-movie Zardoz (1973), the horror of Exorcist II: The Eretic.
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