How To Shoot a Film in 5 Days
According to Shane Meadows (and his producer, Mark something-or-other), you get a few mates together (particularly if you’re mates with Paddy Considine), call in a few favours with the Arctic Monkeys, and trust to luck that you get enough usable footage. According to Roger Corman, it’s all about planning ahead.
The Masque of the Red Death
“It’s time for a new dance”
Nevermore!
Nevermore!
The Intruder
A very different film from Corman’s crowd-pleasing Poe adaptations, The Intruder is a sharp dissection of racism in the American South at the time of desegregation. Political commentary disguised as exploitation film, it plays very differently to a modern audience - particularly in Britain - than it would have in 1962, when it barely found [...]
The Pit and the Pendulum
Which is what I want to call my pub. (Alas, I’m not the only one who’s thought of this.)
Honestly, I’m still recovering from Van Diemen’s Land. Still loving the Corman/Poe awesomeness, but don’t have much to add to that…
(Except possibly to say that at no point does any female character wear a negligee that flimsy [...]
House of Usher
(I was considering a bad punning title, but I’ve decided to spare you, just this once)
The EIFF’s Roger Corman retrospective kicked off with The Fall of the House of Usher, the first of his splendid Poe adaptations. It’s gloriously gothic stuff, in fabulous Color (not technically Technicolor, as that’s a trademark - the titles proudly [...]