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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", “The King of The B’s”, "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.

Many of the more than 500 features directed or produced by Corman were low-budget films that later attracted a cult following, such as The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Intruder (1962), X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), and the counterculture films, The Wild Angels (1966) and The Trip (1967). House of Usher (1960) became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and which collectively came to be known as the "Poe Cycle".

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 was 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.

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SEGAL

SEGAL

Il cinema secondo Corman

Il cinema secondo Corman

Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen

Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen

Sharksploitation

Sharksploitation

Martin Scorsese: Hollywood a la italiana

Martin Scorsese: Hollywood a la italiana

Lost Explorer

Lost Explorer

Roger Corman, le pape du pop cinéma

Roger Corman, le pape du pop cinéma

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

O Colírio do Corman Me Deixou Doido Demais

O Colírio do Corman Me Deixou Doido Demais

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

Tales of the Uncanny

Tales of the Uncanny

Ivan, O TerrirVel

Ivan, O TerrirVel

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2

Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

Greetings from Tromaville!

Greetings from Tromaville!

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four

Extraordinary Tales

Extraordinary Tales

Kings of Cult

Kings of Cult

It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story

It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story

Behind the Swinging Blade

Behind the Swinging Blade

That Guy Dick Miller

That Guy Dick Miller

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins