[Konvas] Roger Corman, Oscar Winner??

[Freya]

Francis Ford himself first directed a film for Roger Corman. I think its great he is getting an oscar. he is not the kind of filmmaker who fits into the oscar mould/stereotype but its kind of unfair not to recognise him for that reason. He has made some fantastic films. "Masque of the red death" is high on my list of all time fave films. That film should have won an oscar!

love

Freya



--- On Mon, 9/14/09, fauxfilm at aol.com <fauxfilm at aol.com> wrote:

> From: fauxfilm at aol.com <fauxfilm at aol.com>
> Subject: [Konvas] Roger Corman, Oscar Winner??
> To: cinema at konvas.org
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 9:33 PM
> Rumor has it Coppola will be handing a lifetime
> achievement Academy Award to Roger Corman. I say bravo. The
> guy has made more movies than any three producers you can
> put together, and lost money (supposedly) on only one in all
> that time. At his advanced age, he is STILL producing. A lot
> of big names got their start under Roger's wing on
> b-movies and drive-in exploitation flicks. 
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> He may not have been a great director and producer by
> Hollywood standards, but he was the master of
> shooting-on-a-dime... teaching lessons that all we indie
> producers and directors have benefited from.
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> I always really liked the guy. Not because of his movies,
> but because of his lets-get-this-done attitude.
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> 
> My next door neighbor Ed, who is a fine semi-retired actor
> with many TV shows and features to his credit, acted in a
> couple of Corman's films in his early days.  Ed is
> an endless source of crazy stories of those days.
> 
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> Aside from making movies, not everyone knows that Corman
> was also <I>in</I> them on occasion... and not a
> bad actor ("Silence of the Lambs", etc.).
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> And my six-degrees-of-separation personal connection to
> him... before I was a wannabe director I was a wannabe
> actor.  My thankless roles in bad TV shows and Lifetime
> movies led to my present career on the other side of the
> camera.  Which all started 21 years ago when I stepped
> on stage for the first time in my first role... that of the
> evil dentist (a role made famous by Steve Martin) in a
> really excellent production of "Little Shop of
> Horrors."  I even got to ride a cool vintage (and
> finicky) motorcycle on stage in my first entrance.  So,
> in a way I must thank Roger for my present career.  Or
> at least the path to it.
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> Go Roger. 
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> T2
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