The director of "Deliverance," "Point Blank," and "Excalibur" details the making of his latest film, "The Emerald Forest" in a candid diary that offers an unvarnished look at today's film industry

The Emerald Forest Diary: A Filmaker's Odyssey

Boorman, John

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Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The Emerald forest diary

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Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Boorman, John. Money into Light: The Emerald Forest A Diary. London / Boston, Faber &amp; Faber, 1985. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. XIII, 241 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Back cover clipped on bottom left hand corner. Writing on title page. Clean inside. 'Film-making is an agonizing struggle. It is in itself a quest for truths, for understanding.' John Boorman. June 1982 John Boorman, director of Deliverance and Excalibur arrives in Los Angeles to raise finance for a film based on a newpaper account of a young American boy who was kidnapped by Brazilian Indian and whose father spent ten years searching for his lost child. March 1985. The film, The Emerald Forest , is sneaking previewed to audiences in Dallas and San Diego. This Diary chronicles the three-year journey John Boorman undertook to make this film. This quest took into the tangled, but fascinating, jungle of Hollywood (its studios, lawyers, financiers), involved him in the complex manoeuvrings that went on within England's Goldcrest organization, and sent him on a journey through the rain forest and rivers of Brazil. (Publisher).

Money into Light: A Diary

Faber&Faber

Hope and Glory

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Performing Arts

Launched last year as an annual devoted entirely to cinema through the writings of its practitioners, rather than its criticsThis second issue features an interview with Robert Altman (The Player), offers a journal on contemporary European cinema from French director Bertrand Tavernier, and more. 60 photographs.

Projections 1: A Forum for Film-Makers

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"Projections 2" highlights Robert Altman, whose film "The Player" restored him to his proper place in cinema's pantheon. Actor Tim Robbins, who memorably incarnated Griffin Mill in "The Player", has written, directed and acted in Bob Roberts, the script of which is printed here in full. And another actor, Willem Dafoe, describes how he approaches his craft. There are also pieces by Belgian director Jaco van Dormael, New Zealand director Alison Maclean and Australian director George Miller, who charts the journey he has made from "Mad Max" to the (then) eagerly awaited "Lorenzo's Oil". Finally, Bertrand Tavernier's diary records the evolution of his controversial film "L627" against the shifting European cultural landscape.

Projections 2

John Boorman and Walter Donohue

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.

Projections 3: Film-Makers on Film-Making

This book offers a veritable feast of comment by international filmmakers. Following the tradition of the previous three volumes, the centerpiece of Projections 4 is a diary by a filmmaker that encompasses the year in film. This year James Toback, the screenwriter of Bugsy, undertakes the diary. Photos.

Projections 4

When the door of the Lumiere factory opened to release the workers, it was more than just the end of the day - it was the beginning of a brand new art form that has shaped the consciousness of the twentieth century. This very first moment of the very first film gave birth to other moments that are cherished in the recollections of people all over the world. In this issue we collaborated with the French film magazine "Positif". The centrepiece of this issue came to us from "Positif". For their 400th issue "Positif" asked the film-makers with whom they had forged a special relationship over the past forty years to write about the films, directors and actors who have had a special significance for them. An array of seventy international film-makers - including Altman and Angelopoulos, Chabrol and the Coens, Eastwood and Frears, Kazan and Kieslowski, Leigh and Loach, Makavejev and Marker, Ophuls and Penn, Resnais and Rohmer, Rosi and Rudolph, Tavernier and the Tavianis, Varda and Zulawski, among others - responded, and we present this treasure trove of film-making comment as a way of celebrating the 100 years of cinema. 1995 was also the centenary of Buster Keaton. In honour of this, Kevin Brownlow - noted film-maker, historian and restorer of the silent cinema - recounts the making of Keaton's masterpiece, "The General".

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The trade publication PROJECTIONS is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. This 500th issue collaborates with a prestigious French cinema journal, features a series of essays by Martin Scorsese, pieces by and about actors, and commemorates the 40th anniversary of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 60 photos.

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