It’s rare that you can directly trace any sizable movement in cinema back to a single movie. There may be the occasional watershed film where styles and themes coalesce after percolating for several years; but […]
1972’s Boxcar Bertha is an American International film, produced by Roger Corman, directed by Martin Scorsese–his second feature in fact. There’s a lot going on there in that collection of words. Corman, Scorsese, AIP. Based […]
By Wade Sheeler American International Pictures (aka AIP) was the company most famous for churning out ultra-low budget double features geared to the drive-in set and teen scene, focusing on science fiction, horror, exploitation and […]
Count Yorga, Vampire, is a 1970 horror film written and directed by Bob Kelljan and released by B-movie specialists American International Pictures, the studio made famous by workhorse director and producer Roger Corman. Twilight Time […]
You can’t fault Dementia 13 for its ambition: a gothic, slow-burn horror film thick on atmosphere and dread. You can, however, fault director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Roger Corman for everything else: stilted dialogue, […]
Peter Bogdanovich is the closest the American cinema has gotten to having a Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut figure: a hybrid of film critic and filmmaker. After writing books on directors such as John Ford, […]
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