John Boorman
September 5 to October 17, 2024
We're dedicating the start of our season to one of cinema's major visionaries, British filmmaker John Boorman (*1933). Shuttling between his home country and Hollywood, Boorman directed legendary classics like the crime film Point Blank (1967), the adventure film Deliverance (1972), the fantasy epic Excalibur (1980), and the autobiographically-tinged tragicomedy Hope and Glory (1987). Not only did he repeatedly reinvigorate genres, he was also able to smuggle his very personal approach into the demands of commercial moviemaking – faithful to his poetic motto, "films should be poems, not novels." We are pleased to present the complete retrospective of his feature films in Austria.
We're dedicating the start of our season to one of cinema's major visionaries, British filmmaker John Boorman (*1933). Shuttling between his home country and Hollywood, Boorman directed legendary classics like the crime film Point Blank (1967), the adventure film Deliverance (1972), the fantasy epic Excalibur (1980), and the autobiographically-tinged tragicomedy Hope and Glory (1987). Not only did he repeatedly reinvigorate genres, he was also able to smuggle his very personal approach into the demands of commercial moviemaking – faithful to his poetic motto, "films should be poems, not novels." We are pleased to present the complete retrospective of his feature films in Austria.
