While browsing a downtown used book emporium this afternoon, I chanced upon and scooped up the first two issues of Faber & Faber’s film annual Projections. Founded by film director John Boorman and Faber Film editorial director Walter Donohue as a “forum for practitioners of the cinema to write about their work,” Projections began in 1992 and ran for 15 volumes. It now appears to have moved online in a truncated form, hosted by Focus Features.
I’m sure I’ll be boring you soon with some of my discoveries. Just check out the table of contents for Projections 1:
- Bright Dreams, Hard Knocks: A Journal, John Boorman on the year 1991
- Film Fiction: More Factual than Facts, Sam Fuller
- The Early Life of a Screenwriter, Emeric Pressburger
- Demme on Demme, Jonathan Demme
- Masters of Photogenics, Nestor Almendros
- My Director and I, River Phoenix and Gus Van Sant on My Own Private Idaho
- Surviving Desire, a script by Hal Hartley
- Losing Touch, a poem by Tony Harrison on George Cukor
- Making Some Light, Michael Mann on the making of Last of the Mohicans
Projections 2 might be even better:
- Shadow and Substance, George Miller
- Movie Lessons, Jaco van Dormael
- Searching for the Serpent, Alison Maclean
- Freewheelin’, Gus Van Sant and Derek Jarman
- Acting on Impulse, Willem Dafoe on his craft
- The Early Life of a Screenwriter II, Sydney Gilliat
- Altman on Altman, Robert Altman
- Bob Roberts, a script by Tim Robbins
- I Wake Up, Dreaming, a journal by Bertrand Tavernier on the making of L.627