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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king
13 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
He gave life to teenage cavemen and candy-stripe nurses. Crab monsters and humanoids from the deep. T-bird gangs and towns that dreaded sundown. His name is Roger Corman. And on Nov. 14, he will receive an honor that no one would have predicted: an honorary Academy Award. The 83-year-old B-movie titan has made nearly 400 films as a director and producer. From the start, Corman was a magnet for hungry young actors, writers, and directors who would work for slave wages for the chance to make their first film. They called it the "University of Corman," and the alumni include Francis Ford Coppola, »
- Chris Nashawaty
Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Roger Corman and His Oscar
12 November 2009 9:08 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The list of Roger Corman protégés is amazingly long and stuffed with goodies of all persuasions. There are the famous men: Scorcese (Box Car Bertha); Demme (Caged Heat, Crazy Mama), Nicholson (Little Shop of Horrors), Joe Dante (Cockfighter), Francis Coppola (Battle Beyond the Sun), Ron Howard (Grand Theft Auto) Sylvester Stallone (Death Race 2000), Bruce Dern, Robert De Niro (Bloody Mama) Peter Fonda ( The Wild Angels), Peter Bogdanovich (Saint Jack) Curtis Hanson (Sweet Kill) and Jonathan Kaplan (Night Call Nurses) and those are just a few of the guys who wrote to the Motion Picture Academy to advocate for the award that Corman is finally getting this weekend. Corman with Jonathan Demme. They said, "it is virtually impossible to separate our various entries into the film industry from Roger Corman and his obsession with working with newcomers." Or how about... »
- Patricia Zohn
“B” Movie Titan Roger Corman To Receive Honorary Oscar
12 November 2009 1:44 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Eighty-three-year-old Roger Corman, who has produced nearly 400 "B" movies -- none of them regarded as a candidate for an Oscar nomination -- over a career that began 55 years ago, will himself receive an honorary Oscar at next year's ceremonies, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. Corman later told the Associated Press that even he was "truly surprised" by the announcement. "I felt the academy would not give an award to someone who made low-budget films," he said. Unlike the major studios, Corman has used his own money to finance his exploitation films, generally investing in unknown talent who later achieved star status, including Frances Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, John Sayles, and Peter Bogdanovich. "I know that they all would have achieved the same level if they had never met me," Corman told the wire service, "but I think what I was able to do was to give them a start and help them a little bit in their careers, and I take great pride in that." »
Audrey Hepburn Lacma Series: Roman Holiday, Sabrina
24 October 2009 12:04 AM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s “Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever” Intro Screening schedule and synopses from Lacma’s press release: Roman Holiday October 23 | 7:30 pm | Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich Cloistered in a Roman palace on a brief state visit and yearning for a taste of la dolce vita, a young princess from an unnamed European country breaks curfew and hits the town, where too much champagne propels her straight into the arms of an accommodating American—a reporter who knows an exclusive story when it wakes up in his apartment, needing coffee and a new outfit for the scooter. Love blossoms when they set off on a magical mystery tour of the great monuments of the Eternal City; but as [...] »
- Andre Soares
Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever
23 October 2009 5:57 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s "Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever" is the title of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art film series that kicks off this evening with a double bill: Roman Holiday (1953, right), the film that both made Audrey Hepburn a star — in her first leading role — and earned the actress her only Academy Award, and Peter Bogdanovich’s little-seen They All Laughed (1981), Hepburn’s last starring role in a feature film. Bogdanovich will introduce the screening. Classy without being aloof; alluring without being vulgar; sophisticated without being snotty. That pretty much would summarize Audrey Hepburn’s screen presence. She could be hilarious, e.g., doing her best to seduce Cary Grant in Charade (1963); she [...] »
- Andre Soares
Remembering Madeline Kahn
30 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Occasionally I'll look through my 'labels' in the internal machinery of this blog and think "my god! I never talk about [insert actor's name here]. Why? What's wrong with me?!?" Yesterday was such a day. The great Madeline Kahn would have celebrated her 67th birthday had she not left us far too soon, ten years ago in fact. Sniffle.
"Here I stand the goddess of desire, set men on fire... I have this power.
Morning, noon and night it's drink and dancing, some quick romancing...
And then a shower."
Team Experience
So, with fond memories of the genius comedienne on my mind, I asked a couple of my guest bloggers to tell me they're favorite Madeline Kahn moments. I need help you see. Obviously I haven't expressed enough love for her right here on my own. The damning evidence: No label before today.
Jose from Movies Kick Ass perked right up at the mention »
- NATHANIEL R
Harry Carey Jr. talks Wagon Master, John Wayne, Ben Johnson and John Ford
22 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Harry Carey Jr. is a name that you may not recognize, but if you're a western or John Ford fan you'll certainly recognize his face. You may also recognize the name in that he's the son of the famous western star Harry Carey. Long known as a member of John Ford's stock company, along with the likes of John Wayne, Ward Bond and Jack Pennick, he was given the opportunity to headline Wagon Master with Ben Johnson. Wagon Master finally sees a release onto DVD and it even includes a commentary with the gregarious Carey and Peter Bogdanovich. M&C had a wonderful opportunity to call in and interview the delightful gentlemen as well. M&C: Hello, »
- Jeff Swindoll
Shepherd: 'Presley offered me drugs'
13 September 2009 2:16 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Cybill Shepherd has revealed that she ended her relationship with Elvis Presley after he offered her prescription drugs. The rock legend, who dated Shepherd in 1973, attempted to regain her affections even after she began seeing director Peter Bogdanovich. She told Access Hollywood: "I saw the drug addiction. Once, when it was time to go to bed, he said (more) »
- By Anisa Kadri
Bacall, Corman, Gordon Willis Earn Honorary Oscars
13 September 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
This year's list of honorary Oscar recipients has been announced, and it's a varied list, but I don't think you can argue against any of the picks. Lauren Bacall, one of the most legendary film noir actresses who has remained active into her 80s, will be honored by the Board of Governors at next year's Academy Awards.
Joining Bacall, who co-starred with her future husband Humphrey Bogart in several mysteries of the 1940s, will be the one and only Roger Corman. Now, if you only know Corman as a director and producer of low-budget B-movies, you should be hipped to the fact that Corman is the root of one of the most significant family trees in movie history. He's influential in starting the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Curtis Hanson, Nicolas Roeg, and John Sayles, among others. Six of those guys »
- Colin Boyd
Roger Corman Finally Deemed Oscar Caliber
13 September 2009 1:31 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
When I read the news the other day that Roger Corman was selected to receive an Honorary Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, I was kind of surprised. Not because I couldn't believe Roger Corman would be given an Honorary Academy Award but because I'd have sworn they'd already done so years ago. Apparently not. Talk about an honor long overdue.
Roger Corman began his directing career with 1955's Swamp Women and last sat in the director's chair for 1990's Frankenstein Unbound, but he still remains active as a producer, such as his forthcoming Syfy production DinoShark. As one of his assistants once told me, "He'll be making movies until the day he dies."
If any of you are wondering why they would bestow an Oscar, Honorary or otherwise, upon a man whose cinematic canon includes the likes of It Conquered the World and The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent »
- Foywonder
Shepherd Left Elvis After Late-night Drugs Offer
15 August 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Cybill Shepherd walked out on Elvis Presley when she realised his drug problems were spiralling out of control.
The tragic rock icon was romancing the clean-cut young star when he offered her prescription pills one night when they were getting ready for bed.
Shepherd recalls, "He said, 'Here, take these,' and he had pills in his hands and I said, 'Aren't you gonna take some of them?' and he said, 'Well, I've already had mine.'
"He was almost already asleep and I went and flushed them down the toilet, returned his emerald and diamond ring and just said, 'Thankyou, but I can't.'"
Presley refused to believe Shepherd had ended their romance and demanded she ditch filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich if she wanted to stay with him, during one unexpected late night visit months later.
Shepherd adds, "I don't think it had sunk in that I had already ended it." »
Don't Be Caught 'Spread'
13 August 2009 9:23 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
Ashton Kutcher has lots of boring simulated sex with fellow tabloid legend Anne Heche in David Macken zie's "Spread," a witless homage to "Shampoo" and "American Gigolo" that's brain-dead on arrival.
Do all cliffside houses in Los Angeles look alike? Or does Heche -- playing a 40-something agent, she is said to have taken Peter Bogdanovich's old spread -- live in the same one as Kevin Spacey in "Shrink" and about 20 other indie flicks?
Such questions -- and fantasies about Mrs. »
- By LOU LUMENICK
tMF Oscarwatch: Best Actress Losers - Ellen Burstyn ( Requiem for a Dream)
11 August 2009 12:09 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If there is one particular actress that filmmaker Darren Oronofsky likes to cast, then it has to be Ellen Burstyn. In The Fountain, the director himself wrote into the script a role for the acclaimed actress. In Requiem for a Dream, Burstyn was nominated for a Best Actress award, and it was very unfortunate she did not win- her performance is way up there with the greats.
In the movie, Burstyn portrays Sara Goldfarb, an elderly widow who became addicted with weight-loss amphetamine pills, was hospitalized against her will, undergoes painful electro-convulsive therapy, and later on was confined at a mental asylum. For her performance, she won the Indie Spirit Award for Best Lead Female and more than 8 major critics' association awards for Best Actress. She also received nominations for Best Actress from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes and the Oscars.
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tMF Oscarwatch: Best Actress Losers - Ellen Burstyn ( Requiem for a Dream)
11 August 2009 12:09 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If there is one particular actress that filmmaker Darren Oronofsky likes to cast, then it has to be Ellen Burstyn. In The Fountain, the director himself wrote into the script a role for the acclaimed actress. In Requiem for a Dream, Burstyn was nominated for a Best Actress award, and it was very unfortunate she did not win- her performance is way up there with the greats.
In the movie, Burstyn portrays Sara Goldfarb, an elderly widow who became addicted with weight-loss amphetamine pills, was hospitalized against her will, undergoes painful electro-convulsive therapy, and later on was confined at a mental asylum. For her performance, she won the Indie Spirit Award for Best Lead Female and more than 8 major critics' association awards for Best Actress. She also received nominations for Best Actress from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes and the Oscars.
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tMF Oscarwatch: Best Actress Losers - Ellen Burstyn ( Requiem for a Dream)
11 August 2009 12:09 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If there is one particular actress that filmmaker Darren Oronofsky likes to cast, then it has to be Ellen Burstyn. In The Fountain, the director himself wrote into the script a role for the acclaimed actress. In Requiem for a Dream, Burstyn was nominated for a Best Actress award, and it was very unfortunate she did not win- her performance is way up there with the greats.
In the movie, Burstyn portrays Sara Goldfarb, an elderly widow who became addicted with weight-loss amphetamine pills, was hospitalized against her will, undergoes painful electro-convulsive therapy, and later on was confined at a mental asylum. For her performance, she won the Indie Spirit Award for Best Lead Female and more than 8 major critics' association awards for Best Actress. She also received nominations for Best Actress from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes and the Oscars.
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Huh? Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand to Star in Movie?
1 July 2009 3:06 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
That Seth Rogen is one busy dude! Now, our friends at hitflix.com are saying there's a road comedy being planned to star Rogen and Barbra Streisand!
Now for those folks doubting Streisand's talent for comedy, look no further than "Meet the Fockers" or any of her old Peter Bogdanovich flicks. Streisand has great timing!
So the film that the two are supposed to be in talks for is called "Mother's Curse" and it has a strong possibility of getting made.
Hitflix is saying:
I know that they're still working on the script to this one, and there may be more rewrites ahead in the near future. When I asked Seth about the film, he referred to it as "one of the many projects I may or may not do in the next fifteen years," which is a fair description. So keep in mind... I'm not saying this will or won't happen. »
- Manny
Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009 (Rip)
25 June 2009 1:17 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Somewhere you can hear Charlie's disembodied voice weeping for an Angel passing. I mean that in the kindest non-snarkiest way in case anyone misreads. If you lived through the 70s or 80s you will undoubtedly have at least a small place in your heart for the seminal Charlie's Angels cast and probably Farrah Fawcett in particular. She got the most mileage from the show, career wise, probably by exiting it so very quickly. Smart girl. I preferred Jaclyn Smith as a child and then Cheryl Ladd but now in retrospect I'm totally a Kate Jackson man. Yet through it all, personal preferences aside, it was Farrah who emerged as the true superstar among them.
She died this morning at 62, losing her long battle with cancer.
Farrah provided me with my first fully conscious ideas about the divide between TV stars and Movie Stars: TV stars were part of the fabric of every day life, »
- NATHANIEL R
Love is Undying in new supernatural film
15 June 2009 8:21 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Director Steven Peros sent along some info and a bunch of exclusive photos (see them below), from The Undying, his new supernatural film from Roscommon Pictures. Peros, best known for scripting Peter Bogdanovich’s Kirsten Dunst-starrer The Cat’S Meow from his own play, also wrote Undying with producer David M. Flynn.
Robin Weigert (first photo, with Paul David Story), who nabbed an Emmy nomination for playing Calamity Jane in HBO’s acclaimed series Deadwood, stars as Dr. Barbara Houghton, who moves into a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as she starts a job at a hospital. Still reeling from the death of her fiancé, she becomes intrigued by the story of Elijah, a Civil War soldier whose ghost supposedly haunts her new home. When Jason (Anthony Carrigan, second photo), a stabbing victim she has treated, is taken off life support, she steals his body and takes it to the farmhouse, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Shall we gather at the river?
11 June 2009 1:11 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
The first time I saw him, he was striding toward me out of the burning Georgia sun, as helicopters landed behind him. His face was tanned a deep brown. He was wearing a combat helmet, an ammo belt, carrying a rifle, had a canteen on his hip, stood six feet four inches. He stuck out his hand and said, "John Wayne." That was not necessary.
John Wayne died 30 years ago on June 11. Stomach cancer. "The Big C," he called it. He had lived for quite a while on one lung, and then the Big C came back. He was near death and he knew it when he walked out on stage at the 1979 Academy Awards to present Best Picture to "The Deer Hunter," a film he wouldn't have made. He looked frail, but he planted himself there and sounded like John Wayne.
John Wayne. When I was a kid, we »
- Roger Ebert
DVD Round Up, May 27, 2009: ‘Eden Log,’ ‘El Dorado,’ ‘Yonkers Joe’
27 May 2009 11:57 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Welcome back to the Round-Up, a safety net to catch the DVD titles that fell off the mainstream tightrope. The titles this week have virtually nothing in common other than coming in two waves from two studios - a pair of classics from Paramount’s Centennial Collection and a trio of indie films from the great Magnolia Pictures.
All five titles were released on May 19th, 2009.
“Centennial Collection #8: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “”This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Behind the camera? John Ford, a director whose name is synonymous with “Westerns.” Gathered in front of it? An ideal cast – James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin. Now presented on two discs, with all-new special features, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance rides into town as classic entry in the Paramount Centennial Collection. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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