John Boorman

Heir to the visionary tradition of British Romanticism, John Boorman is one of the great masters of cinematic form. His sense of color, movement, and space perfectly matches his interest in poetry and myth.

John Boorman Portrait Film

Four Chapters

John Boorman's Screenplays and the Shooting Process

John Boorman's Production and Set Designs

John Boorman's Storyboards

Griffith, Boorman, and Parallel Editing

Abraham Lincoln (D. W. Griffith, 1930)

Romantic Landscape

The Hay Wain (John Constable, 1821, National Gallery, London) [For John Boorman's thoughts on the different facets of Romantic painting in this room, refer to interview or Learn More]

Viewing Positions

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Caspar David Friedrich, 1818, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg)

Romantic Ruins

Ruins of Eldena Monastery near Greifswald (Caspar David Friedrich, 1824-1825, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

William Blake

The Life of a Flea (William Blake, 1819, Tate Britain, London)

Jung and Dream Imagery

Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)

Wastelands

Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)

Apocalypse Now

(Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

Tristan and Isolde (Boorman)

Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)

Parsifal (Boorman)

Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)

Götterdämmerung (Wagner)

Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)

Carmina Burana (Carl Orff, 1935)

The "Wheel of Fortune" from the Carmina Burana in Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)