Mythology and Moviemaking
A Conversation with John Boorman
By Phillip Williams
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/mythology_and_moviemaking_2442/
Like the tropical nightmares of Joseph Conrad, the films of John Boorman lead us down rivers-real and imagined-into the heart of what ails us, and the quest for a remedy. Boorman's latest picture, The Tailor of Panama, adapted from the novel by John Le Carre, takes us back to the wasteland-this one of the tropical, urban variety.