Director's Cut: Best of Projections

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Contains interviews on: De Niro and Me by Martin Scorsese Lee Marvin by John Boorman Tony Curtis talks to Jamie Lee Curtis Janet Leigh talks to Jame Leigh Curtis James Stewart talks to Gregory Solman Christopher Doyle's diary of working with Wong Kar-Wai Frances McDormand talks to Willem Dafoe Robert Towne on writing Chinatown Walter Murch on Sound Design Viggo Mortensen writes about Sandy Dennis Plus, for this special issue - Jonathan Caouette talks to Jason Wood about the making ofTarnation on his computer.

John Boorman was born in London in 1933. After working as a film reviewer for magazines and radio, he joined the BBC in 1955 as an assistant editor, and later directed a number of documentaries. His first feature was Catch Us If You Can in 1965. His latest film, Country of My Skull, opens in 2003. He is a five-time Academy Award-nominee, and was twice awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998). He is the author of Money Into Light: The Emerald Forest - A Diary, as well as the being the co-founder and editor of Faber and Faber's long-running series Projections: Film-makers on Film-making.