Post by masterofallgoons on May 15, 2024 14:07:53 GMT
Roger Corman, 98, Dies; Prolific Master of Low-Budget Cinema www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/movies/roger-corman-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Somehow I missed this news item from last week. I don't know how that could have happened, but I didn't hear anyone talking about it, but Roger Corman died last week at 98 years of age.
But anybody who's into movies is familiar with Roger Corman. Of he's the legendary and extraordinarily prolific producer as well as occasional writer and director of a myriad of trash and schlock... with some real gems of trash cinema, and also some legitimately excellent films in that amazing run.
Famously, he also launched the careers of many legends of Hollywood. Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppolla, James Cameron, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdonovic, Joe Dante, Dennis Hopper, Robert Towne, and many others owe Corman a debt of gratitude for getting their careers started... and so many other legends worked with him over the years.
He's so prolific that he's made too many films to list, but some of the significant ones are Little Shop of Horrors, A Bucket of Blood, Targets, Boxcar Bertha, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, Piranha and Piranha 2, are some of the significant ones... with those Poe adaptations that he directed with an Avengers style lineup of old horror actors being some of my favorites.
An obvious legend. He will be missed.
Somehow I missed this news item from last week. I don't know how that could have happened, but I didn't hear anyone talking about it, but Roger Corman died last week at 98 years of age.
But anybody who's into movies is familiar with Roger Corman. Of he's the legendary and extraordinarily prolific producer as well as occasional writer and director of a myriad of trash and schlock... with some real gems of trash cinema, and also some legitimately excellent films in that amazing run.
Famously, he also launched the careers of many legends of Hollywood. Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppolla, James Cameron, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdonovic, Joe Dante, Dennis Hopper, Robert Towne, and many others owe Corman a debt of gratitude for getting their careers started... and so many other legends worked with him over the years.
He's so prolific that he's made too many films to list, but some of the significant ones are Little Shop of Horrors, A Bucket of Blood, Targets, Boxcar Bertha, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, Piranha and Piranha 2, are some of the significant ones... with those Poe adaptations that he directed with an Avengers style lineup of old horror actors being some of my favorites.
An obvious legend. He will be missed.
