Jon Boorstin is a writer and filmmaker who works in a broad range of media. His novel The Newsboy's Lodging House won the New York City Book Award for historical fiction. He made the Oscar®-nominated documentary Exploratorium; wrote the IMAX film To the Limit, winner of the Geode Award for best IMAX film; and wrote and, with director Alan J. Pakula, produced the thriller Dream Lover, winner of the Grand Prix at the Festival du Cinéma Fantastique in Avoriaz, France. He is the co-creator of the television series Three Moons over Milford, a comedy about the end of the world. Boorstin has written a book on film theory titled Making Movies Work and has taught film at USC, the American Film Institute, the Hamburger Filmwerkstatt, and as a Fulbright professor at the National Film Institute in Pune, India. Boorstin’s new novel Mabel and Me was published in April.
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On Its 40th Anniversary: Notes on the Making of All the President’s Men
In time All the President's Men revealed its theme to us — what John Huston called “the bell that rings in every scene.” This wasn’t just a movie about the reporters’ need to know....
Everything Was in the Making
This book is for the pioneers at heart: those who want to be in the garage with Steve Jobs, on the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, at Cape Canaveral in 1961....
A Remembrance: Jon Boorstin’s Parallax View on Gordon Willis (1931 – 2014)
Jon Boorstin remembers cinematographer Gordon Willis....
In on the Big Bang: Why I Love the Queen of Slapstick
Jon Boorstin finds the whole story of American movies in Mabel Normand....
Dueling Revolutions: Abel Gance's 'Napoleon'
On Abel Gance's five and half hour silent film, 'Napoleon'...
Who Invented Chaplin's Tramp?
It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp....
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