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Adventures of a Suburban Boy (Paperback, Main)
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In Adventures of a Suburban Boy, John Boorman, hailed by the
Observer as 'arguably Britain's greatest living director', offers
an enthralling memoir of a creative life spent turning dreams into
celluloid, and money into light. One of cinema's authentic
visionaries, Boorman nevertheless enjoyed an archetypal English
suburban boyhood in the 1940s and 50s, attending Catholic school
and finding his first employment in a dry-cleaner's. But his
abiding passion was for film, and he got his first break during the
'gold rush' era of British television in the 1960s. After directing
several innovative documentaries for the BBC, he graduated to
motion pictures, first filming pop stars The Dave Clark Five for
Catch Us If You Can, before venturing to Los Angeles to make his
first Hollywood picture - and his first masterpiece - Point Blank.
The film inaugurated Boorman's profound friendship with star Lee
Marvin, which also led to a second professional collaboration on
Hell in the Pacific. What follows are accounts of Boorman's joys
and agonies in the making of such extraordinary pictures as the
terrifying backwoods adventure Deliverance, the fantastical epics
Zardoz and Exorcist II: The Heretic, the glorious Arthurian legend
Excalibur, his magnificent drama of imperilled Amazonian tribes,
The Emerald Forest, and his semi-autobiographical,
multi-Oscar-nominated Hope and Glory. Among the many friends and
collaborators of whom Boorman offers vivid portraits are Lee
Marvin, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Burt
Reynolds, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson.
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