Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Brian Salisbury is back with another movie so bad, it's also good. This time he dips into the catalogue of Roger Corman and unearths a galactically-bound remake of The Seven Samurai.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This is a peripheral Matt Drudge-like posting and I'm sorry, but as soon as I heard the term "dino-chickens" I was hooked. In my entire life I've never heard this term, and I'm speaking as a guy who once wrote a Roger Corman- or George Pal-type script called Killer Chickens. The size of ostriches, out for blood, looking to settle a score with humans...screaming overall-clad victims being...
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Famed genre director and producer Roger Corman has received an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Governors Awards.
Michael May's Adventureblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
War-Gods of the Deep is a pretty misleading title, but then, almost everything about this movie is misleading. It has some really awesome parts, but there's also a fair bit of disappointment. For one thing, there are no war-gods. In fact, there's no war. That part of the title is apparently meant to disguise for US audiences that this is a British adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The City Under...
The Bleeding Tree (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yesterday, Devin Faraci of the movie website C.H.U.D. posted the following to his Twitter, I can't believe Cinematical is running an Oscar story shit-talking Roger Corman! That hurts. So I found the offending article, Hints About 2010 Oscars Emerge: No More Five-Person Presenting by Eric D. Snider, right there at the top. It says, "Corman, who has directed more than 50 films and produced nearly...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 1939 the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Edgar Bergen for creating a funny puppet. Some people may have thought that was silly. They also may have found it silly that a strange little "cartoon" called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned itself an honorary Oscar. The legendary Bob Hope was given a fistful of honorary Oscars over the course of his amazing career ... and I don't remember...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 1939 the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Edgar Bergen for creating a funny puppet. Some people may have thought that was silly. They also may have found it silly that a strange little "cartoon" called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned itself an honorary Oscar. The legendary Bob Hope was given a fistful of honorary Oscars over the course of his amazing career ... and I don't remember...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
[Note: Scott Weinberg has the pro side of this argument -- why Roger Corman does deserve an Oscar -- in an article that will run later today.] In a post yesterday about the honorary Academy Awards given out over the weekend, I said this about one of the recipients, Roger Corman: "Corman, who has directed more than 50 films and produced nearly 400 (!), has never been nominated for an Oscar, probably...
Lifetime Piling Up (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
So apparently, this past Saturday, Roger Corman, King of the Bs, got an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Career Achievement. Personally, I think this is awesome. Let's ignore his often-referenced "finds" of actors & directors who'd go on to great careers of their own and let me list off my reasons why I'm happy to hear this. 1. He Tried to Kill "Waterworld": Corman was the first...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This ability to make art on a murderously short shooting schedule with no money and reused sets (or cleverly-shot practical locations) was passed on by Corman to his most adroit proteges: Dante had a low-budget, homage-heavy blast with PIRANHA; Cameron willed a sci-fi classic out of next-to-nothing in THE TERMINATOR; and Peter Bogdanovich used two contract-mandated days of Boris Karloff to pull off...
Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
You could be forgiven for not realizing the Oscars embarrassed themselves two times in a single weekend. First of all they called attention to the fact that Gordon Willis and Lauren Bacall don’t have Oscars. Though he’s a cinema giant, it’s fair to say Roger Corman hasn’t exactly trafficked in Oscar type material so we’ll [...]
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
As you've probably already heard, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is shaking things up at this year's Oscars by having 10 Best Picture nominees instead of five, and by moving the honorary awards (read: the boring part of the show) to a special ceremony of their own. That ceremony will be held in November, and-- holy crap, it was this weekend! The almost-Oscars were on Saturday! They're...
FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
It's been a long time coming, but Roger Corman has finally received his Oscar. At the annual Governors Awards ceremony, honoring the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients,...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
• The inaugural edition of the Governors Awards took place Saturday night in a ballroom not far from the Kodak Theatre where the academy holds the Oscars every year. Showcasing the honorary awards in a separate ceremony allowed the recipients -- absentee Thalberg winner John Calley and honorary Oscar winners Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis (at right) -- to be feted in style rather...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis and John Calley were awarded Oscars this weekend at a special presentation at Hollywood & Highland Center called Governors’ Awards. The affair was a nostalgic celebration with attendees referring to the good old days when Oscars were handed out in such casual affairs without time limits, where recipients’ acceptance [...]
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