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- Despite their blatantly low production values, the majority of Corman’s films are surprisingly entertaining and literate, and they are often characterized by a campy, self-deprecating humor. His influence on contemporary American cinema was enormous, in large part because of his discovery and promotion of young actors and directors.
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Dec 15, 2011 · The grindhouse auteur's mad mix of imagination and innovation changed movie-making forever. New documentary Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel explores his colorful contributions to...
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In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française, [7] as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, the founder of New Concorde and was a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [8] .
May 12, 2024 · Corman made those Poe movies for American International Pictures, a film production company that sounds like it was named by a child trying to come up with an adult-sounding business title.
- David Fear
May 13, 2024 · Corman’s approach to making movies on shoestring budgets to attract a mainstream audience changed the face of cinema. Among a few other stalwarts of the B picture boom of the 1950s, Corman...
- Tom Jolliffe
Those profit-driven pictures collectively launched the golden age of independent directors, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Roger W. Corman, ’47, the so-called Pope of Pop Cinema and the founder of New World Pictures, died on May 9. He was 98.
May 12, 2024 · Modern American cinema begins with Roger Corman. Without him we would not have Coppola, Scorsese, Bogdanovich, Nicholson, Demme and countless others.
May 13, 2024 · A producer-director with nearly 500 credits to his name, Roger Corman, who has died at 98, was a giant of American independent cinema. The singular resourcefulness of this king of the B-picture, who began his career in the mid-1950s, saw him weather every industry storm for the best part of 70 years.
