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Alex StapletonMuzyka:
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Roger Corman, Robert De Niro, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Eric Balfour, David Carradine, Traci Lords (więcej)Opisy(1)
A feature-length documentary about Roger Corman's life, career and remarkable influence on modern moviemaking. Blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America's age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy's brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home, government-sponsored educational reels promised an imminent nuclear threat from across the Atlantic, and Hollywood, Babylon of the western world, hung on the brink of collapse. It was here, in the last-ditch machinations of a dying juggernaut, that a mild-mannered, civil engineer's son would become the most influential force in modern movie making. Corman's World tracks the triumphant rise of Hollywood's most prolific writer-director-producer, the true godfather of independent film making. (Anchor Bay Films)
(więcej)Recenzje (2)
The content of Stapleton’s documentary fully corresponds to the subtitle of another, significantly juicier look into the backstreets of Hollywood – Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. The erstwhile rebel was appropriated as their spiritual father by mainstream actors, producers and directors, who comprised the system against whose products Corman’s films were defined. Corman himself views this disgrace – made doubly irritating by the awarding of an Oscar for a lifetime of filming busty actresses, severed limbs and carnivorous fauna – with emotion. Why not grant him that, to have a comparably uncompromising pragmatist among American filmmakers. Though I doubt that he would have made his delightful trash flicks, which are so much more entertaining than anything of the like that is now passed off in all seriousness as top-tier genre movies, with the vision of an Oscar and cultural enrichment of his homeland in his head. With respect to its subject matter, the documentary is not very “nasty” as such; with the exception of a brief interlude, it shamelessly omits the essential historical and social context, and during the moments when stories from filming replace personal impressions, it becomes quite slow, but it still serves well for basic orientation and if you have at least a slight weakness for exploitation trash flicks, you will likely end up wanting to get your hands on a few of Corman’s films and spend a pleasant weekend with them. 65%
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I like Roger Corman's work, as well as his approach to directing. It works because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do it for so long. Cheap movies, but at the same time he was instrumental in launching big names throughout Hollywood. Thanks to that, he became a great person. Yes, the documentary adores him, but this is a man who deserves it.
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