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Roger Corman
American film director, producer, and actor (1926–2024)
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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 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 A Bucket of Blood (1959), 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).
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🇺🇸 Cassavetes Was Wrong! Why ‘Boxcar Bertha’ Belongs in the Canon
Martin Scorsese's second feature, an exploitation picture made on assignment for drive-in mogul Roger Corman, has long been undervalued — a new 4K UHD...
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