Roger Corman: In Conversation With The King of Indie Film (2019)

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Reelblack founder Mike D. [a.k.a. the Soulja Boy of Black Cinema] had the honor and privilege of spending an hour talking about film and filmmaking with a true legend and pioneer of American cinema--Mr. Roger Corman.

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Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926)[2] is an American director, producer, and actor.[3][4] He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.[5]

Admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du cinéma, in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française,[6] as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[7] In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award[8] "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers."[9]

Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola,[10] Ron Howard,[11] Martin Scorsese,[12] Jonathan Demme,[13] John Sayles,[14] and James Cameron,[15][16] and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 70s.[17][18] He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda,[19] Jack Nicholson,[15] Dennis Hopper,[14] Bruce Dern,[20] Sylvester Stallone,[21] Diane Ladd,[22] and William Shatner.[23]

Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including The Silence of the Lambs,[24] The Godfather Part II,[25] Apollo 13,[26] The Manchurian Candidate[27] and Philadelphia.[28]

A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled 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. - Wikipedia.

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