Roger Corman
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| '''Roger Corman''' (1926 – 2024) was an [[American film producer]], [[Film distribution |distributor]] and [[film director|director]] of [[low-budget]] [[exploitation films]]. | '''Roger Corman''' (1926 – 2024) was an [[American film producer]], [[Film distribution |distributor]] and [[film director|director]] of [[low-budget]] [[exploitation films]]. | ||
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| - | Many of Corman's films are low-budget cult films including some which are adapted from the tales of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. | ||
| In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the [[Cinémathèque Française]], 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]]. In 2009, he was awarded an [[Academy Honorary Award]] "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". | In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the [[Cinémathèque Française]], 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]]. In 2009, he was awarded an [[Academy Honorary Award]] "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". | ||
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"In many ways Roger Corman (1926 – 2024) was to American cinema what Jess Franco (1930 - 2013) was to European cinema. They both directed low budget, B movie style films that attracted subcultures." --Sholem Stein "I don't want anybody to use the words 'good taste' around here." --Roger Corman, spurious |
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Roger Corman (1926 – 2024) was an American film producer, distributor and director of low-budget exploitation films.
In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, 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. In 2009, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers".
Corman is also famous for handling the U.S. distribution of many films by noted foreign directors, including Federico Fellini (Italy), Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), François Truffaut (France) and Akira Kurosawa (Japan). He mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
Corman occasionally acted in films by directors who started with him, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993). Apollo 13 (1995), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004), A documentary about Corman's life and career titled Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.
Filmography
The IMDb credits Corman with 55 directed films and some 385 produced films from 1954 through 2008, many as uncredited producer or executive producer (consistent with his role as head of his own New World Pictures from 1970 through 1983). Corman also has significant credits as writer and actor.
Selected credits:
- It Conquered the World
- A Bucket of Blood
- The Little Shop of Horrors
- The Corman-Poe Cycle
- X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes
- The Wild Angels
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- The Trip
The Corman Film School
A number of noted filmmakers (including directors, producers, writers, and cinematographers) have worked with Corman, usually early in their careers, including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Polly Platt, Peter Bogdanovich, Declan O'Brien, Armondo Linus Acosta, Paul Bartel, Jonathan Demme, Donald G. Jackson, Gale Anne Hurd, Carl Colpaert, Joe Dante, James Cameron, John Sayles, Monte Hellman, Carl Franklin, George Armitage, Jonathan Kaplan, George Hickenlooper, Curtis Hanson, Jack Hill, Robert Towne, Menahem Golan, James Horner, and Timur Bekmambetov. Many have said that Corman's influence taught them some of the ins and outs of filmmaking. In the extras for the DVD of The Terminator, director James Cameron asserts, "I trained at the Roger Corman Film School." The British director Nicolas Roeg served as the cinematographer on The Masque of the Red Death. Cameron, Coppola, Demme, Hanson, Howard and Scorsese have all gone on to win Academy Awards. Howard was reportedly told by Corman, "If you do a good job on this film, you'll never have to work for me again."
Actors who obtained their career breaks working for Corman include Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Charles Bronson, Todd Field Michael McDonald, Dennis Hopper, Tommy Lee Jones, Talia Shire, Sandra Bullock, Robert De Niro, and David Carradine, who received one of his first starring film roles in the Corman-produced Boxcar Bertha (1972) and went on to star in Death Race 2000 (along with Sylvester Stallone). Many of Corman's protegés have paid their mentor homage by awarding him cameos in films, such as in The Godfather Part II, The Silence of the Lambs, Apollo 13,
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