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Culture | The Guardian UStheguardian_us_culture@halo.nu
2025-12-05

‘He played with language better than anybody’: Terry Gilliam and John Boorman on Tom Stoppard theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/ #TerryGilliam #TomStoppard #JohnBoorman #Culture #Stage #Film

Bradley Bravardbradleybravard
2025-11-22

"Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you find anything."

-Burt Reynolds as Lewis Medlock
Deliverance (1972)
Dir: John Boorman

Poster for the 1972 movie Deliverance
The Hollywood Reporterhollywoodreporter
2025-11-21

Philippe Rousselot on a Lifetime Behind the Camera

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Deadlinedeadline
2025-10-31

‘Boorman And The Devil’ Review: New Docu On Making Of 1977 Disastrous ‘Exorcist’ Sequel Is A Winner – Someone Release This Film!

deadline.com/2025/10/boorman-a

Valtagliaferrivaltagliaferri
2025-10-31

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IndieWireindiewire
2025-10-24

‘Boorman and the Devil’ Review: This Deep Dive Into How ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic’ Spiraled Out of Control Deserves a Wide Release

indiewire.com/criticism/movies

The Hollywood Reporterhollywoodreporter
2025-09-05

‘Boorman and the Devil’ Review: An Enjoyably Exhaustive Doc Chronicles the Making of ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic,’ One of Hollywood’s Most Despised Sequels

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Culture | The Guardian UStheguardian_us_culture@halo.nu
2025-09-02

‘Clearly the worst film ever made by anyone ever’: the story behind John Boorman’s horrific Exorcist sequel theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/ #Venicefilmfestival #Documentaryfilms #JohnBoorman #TheExorcist #Horrorfilms #Culture #Film

Curt Johnson - Indie Geniusindiegenius
2025-08-30

Movie TV Tech Geeks This Gritty Burt Reynolds Thriller May Not Be a Horror Movie, But It’s One of the Most Influential Films on the Genre dlvr.it/TMmR4v

find me: @pumiquxt@sfba.socialpatamystic@sfba.social
2025-08-08

last night I watched the movie “Hell in the Pacific” in Spanish without subtitles. I do not understand Spanish. The movie was fantastic. #LeeMarvin #ToshiroMifune #JohnBoorman

Stan Careystancarey@mastodon.ie
2025-05-30

"You can’t join if you can’t swear." New post at @stronglang on swearing as a childhood rite of passage in wartime London:
stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/

#swearing #profanity #film #language #JohnBoorman #WWII #StrongLanguage

Strong Languagestronglang@lingo.lol
2025-05-29

Swearing as a rite of passage. A new post by @stancarey:

stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/

#swearing #profanity #film #JohnBoorman #WWII #StrongLanguage

Strong Languagestronglang.wordpress.com@stronglang.wordpress.com
2025-05-29

Swearing as a rite of passage

Think about your earliest swearing. Did you graduate from euphemisms? (As a child I used sugar, drat, and flip/feck for shit, damn, and fuck.) Or did you jump right into prodigious profanity? Did you practise in private, and did you try out your new vocabulary among friends – or in front of shocked family members?

Or maybe, as in John Boorman’s Hope and Glory (1987), you were forced to swear. In this period film, which reimagines the director’s childhood in London during the Blitz, coming of age meant coming to terms with the senselessness of war and the elusive sense of swearwords.

As Boorman writes in his wonderful memoir, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, the film was “a way of looking at my personal mythology”. For a child in wartime, some of that mythology centred on ammunition, an object of constant fascination:

We kids rampaged through the ruins, the semis [semi-detached houses] opened up like dolls’ houses, the precious privacy shamefully exposed. We took pride in our collection of shrapnel. Most of it came from our own anti-aircraft shells, which also did more damage to roofs than the Luftwaffe. I often picked up fragments that were still hot and smelt of gunpowder. . . . The most prized acquisition of all was live ammunition. We would lock bullets in a vice and detonate them by hammering nails into their heads.

This is recreated in Hope and Glory in a scene where Billy – Boorman’s surrogate – encounters a gang of boys while out scouring the ruins for treasure. They want to see what he’s made of and conduct some routine intimidation, before realising their common enemy. The mood warms enough for the leader, Roger, to invite Billy into the gang. But first he must pass an unusual test (transcript from 2:10 below):

Roger: Do you wanna join our gang?
Billy: Don’t mind.
R: Do you know any swear words?
B: Yes.
R: Say them.
B: [hesitates]
R: Go on. Say them. You can’t join if you can’t swear.
B: Uh, I only know one.
All: [laughter]
R: Well say that one then.
B: [hesitates]
R: [shoves Billy] Go on.
B: Fuck.
All: [gasp]
R: That word is special. That word is only used for something really important. Now repeat after me: Bugger off.
B: Bugger off.
R: Sod.
B: Sod.
R: Bloody.
B: Bloody.
R: Now put them all together: Bugger off, you bloody sod.
B: Bugger off, you bloody sod.
R: [smiles] Okay, you’re in.
All: [cheering]
R: Let’s smash things up.
All: [loud cheering]

There’s much to enjoy in this scene. The specific innocence of children of that age and time. The camaraderie waiting behind their show of toughness. Their unselfconscious naïveté about swearing; their awe at fuck.* This viewer’s immense relief that none of them is hurt by the reckless play with explosives.

And I love how swearing plays a central role in Billy’s initiation. A string of (very British) swears is the key, the set of magic words that establishes rapport with a group of his peers, dissolving the boundary between outsider and insider and nudging him just slightly towards adulthood.

*

* For a Boorman film that went in another direction, see my post on avoiding swear words in the making of Deliverance.

#bloody #bugger #Children #comingOfAge #dramaFilms #filmmaking #films #fuck #HopeAndGlory #JohnBoorman #sod #swearing #swearingInFilms #taboo #tabooLanguage #tabooWords #war #warFilms #WorldWarII

Poster for the film Hope and Glory. It shows a schoolboy running towards the camera, grinning broadly. Over his right shoulder there are several airships in the sky, and below them some other children on the street. The boy's jacket swings open, his tie is loose, and he's wearing short pants and shoes, like a school uniform. The tagline above the film title reads: A celebration of family. A vision of love. A memoir of war. All through the eyes of a child.
Mediathekperlenmediathekperlen@nexxtpress.de
2025-04-13

John Boorman – „Der Schneider von Panama“ (2001)

Klassisches britisches Kino. Obwohl es ein durch und durch amerikanischer Film ist. Doch wenn ein englischer Großregisseur ein Drehbuch des Großmeisters John le Carré mit einem Iren in der Hauptrolle besetzt, der gerade noch als 007 das Empire und die Welt retten durfte, dann kommt das eben dabei heraus. Ein kleines, selbstironisches Kunstwerk, das tagespolitisch aktueller kaum in die Zeit passt. (ZDF, WH)

Erwinkules 💪Solid_Snail@ruhr.social
2025-01-06

#Excalibur by #JohnBoorman boxd.it/8jSAp5

Michael Knox-Smithmikesfilmtalk
2024-12-18

Jägarna (1996) AKA The Hunters: Is Like Swedish Straw Dogs mikesfilmtalk.com/2013/02/11/j , , , , , , ,

Deadlinedeadline
2024-10-08

John Boorman Animation ‘The Honey Wars’ Attracts Sweet Voice Cast Of Jamie Lee Curtis, Vanessa Kirby, Patrick Stewart, Brendan Gleeson, Richard E. Grant & Jon Voight

deadline.com/2024/10/john-boor

Rob Christopherrandomcha@mstdn.social
2024-09-16

3 things about John Boorman’s HELL IN THE PACIFIC [1968]

1. Devouring a raw fish.
2. Sand garden.
3. A discarded photograph of a young Japanese woman.

Be sure to watch the “alternate ending,” which was the director’s preferred one.

#3things #movies #war #warmovies #toshiromifune #leemarvin #johnboorman #cinema

The image depicts two men engaged in a physical struggle on a beach with a calm blue ocean visible in the background. The man on the left, who has a beard and short dark hair, is being held in a headlock by the man on the right. The man on the right, who has short gray hair and a beard, has his right arm wrapped around the other man's neck while his left arm is extended outward with his fingers splayed. The man on the left appears to be covered in sweat or water, with visible water stains on his light-colored shirt. He is clutching his abdomen with his left hand, which is stained with blood. The light and composition suggest a tense, dramatic moment.
Richard HullRichard_Hull@social.coop
2024-06-03

One is Zardoz, the other is one of Hitler's defence bunkers on the coast of Denmark (from this Guardian story today)
#WWII
#Zardoz
#JohnBoorman
theguardian.com/world/article/

Two images side-by-side; one is one of Hitler's defence bunkers on the coast of Denmark, the other is the stone head from John Boorman's 1974 cult film Zardoz
Ben Gunn ⁂bengunn@fe.disroot.org
2024-05-17
"I didn't know how empty was my soul...until it was filled"
#Excalibur #JohnBoorman #Quote #KingArthur #Film #1981

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