John Boorman – MRQE

Point Blank

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

The Tiger’s Tail

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

In My Country

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

The Tailor of Panama

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.

Where the Heart Is

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.

Beyond Rangoon

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who’s unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son’s violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.

Two Nudes Bathing

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Originally produced for the Showtime anthology series Picture Windows and screened at the Cannes Film Festival, this whimsical British short speculates upon the origins of the anonymous painting, Two Nudes Bathing, which hangs in the Louvre. The painting depicts two beautiful, naked young women engaged in a tender act. The result is the notorious painting in which the nude girls are depicted with one of them daintily holding the nipple of the other. Naturally, the finished work causes quite a stir in Comte’s prudish household. Though rumors persist of a feature-length version of this film, they are unfounded: it was originally shot and produced as a 35-minute short, and that was the version that ran and was reviewed at Cannes.

I Dreamt I Woke Up

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Film about the influences in director John Boorman’s life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains surrounding his home in Ireland.

Hope and Glory

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Director John Boorman drew from his own childhood experiences for this coming-of-age tale about a boy growing up in and around London during World War II. For young Billy, the nightly bombings provide a frightening show, but they include opportunities to rummage through the rubble with friends in the mornings. As Billy plays, his family struggles to remain intact as they suffer through the anguish and losses of wartime.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

John Boorman adapts L. Frank Baum’s classic Wizard of Oz novel with this computer-animated picture, the first for the veteran director. The 25-million-dollar production will focus more on the book and less on being a straight-up remake of the beloved 1939 musical.