Projections 3: Film-makers on Film-making

Projections #3

by John Boorman, Walter Donohue (Editor)

Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. The centrepiece of this issue is the journals of Francis Ford Coppola, whose films, such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, are considered masterworks of contemporary cinema. This volume also contains articles by leading film-makers about the state of the art at this moment.

Included in this volume:

Francis Ford Coppola - Journals 1989-1993
Chen Kaige on Chinese Cinema
Sydney Pollack on Directing Actors
Allan Starski - Art Direction: Wajda to Spielberg
Hal Willner - Making Music for Short Cuts
Michael Almereyda on Pixelvision
Kasdan on Kasdan
Michael Tolkin on Screenwriting
Art Linson on Producing
Quentin Tarantino - The Director as Writer
Sally Potter - Orlando Diary
Gus Van Sant on Hollywood
Richard Stanley - Dust Devil Diary
Hal Hartley - Flirt
Zrinko Ogresta - Cry from Croatia.

Genres: Film

228 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

John Boorman is an English filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.