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May 14, 2024 · Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break. Jonathan Demme (left) on the set of his 1991 film "The Silence of the Lambs" with the actor playing the director of the FBI, Roger Corman, who gave Demme his start in show business. Roger Corman, who died last week at 98, was so important and influential that a thorough ...
Corman was the subject of the 1978 documentary Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel, produced and directed by Christian Blackwood. Portions of the film reappeared in 2011's Corman's World . He won the first Producer's Award ever given by the Cannes Film Festival in 1998.
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. From westerns to teen movies, biker pics to ...
Roger Corman (born April 5, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died May 9, 2024, Santa Monica, California) was an American motion picture director, producer, and distributor known for his highly successful low-budget exploitation films and for launching the careers of several prominent directors and actors, notably Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, and ...
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Jul 30, 2013 · All you need is a camera and a great story. Of course, finding even professional actors with that kind of gravitas and measure is difficult. But there are greater things behind it all: that scene, with the never-ending stacks of sheets piled high, that scene is everything—it attests to all the tiny, hidden tragedies of the everyday that occur around us, that we ignore in our own search for ...
Dec 15, 2011 · Alex Stapleton, director of Corman's World.9.)He brought credibility to exploitation films.Before Corman came onto the scene, science fiction, horror and action movies were seen by most mainstream ...
May 14, 2024 · Corman once joked he could make an epic about the fall of the Roman empire with two extras and a sagebrush. In slight contrast was the Poe series, amusing shockers in widescreen and colour. These ...
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