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Persistence of memory

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Down the Hill, Up the Hill, Into the Cave

Where the bad man in the ape suit and diving helmet touched me

"...easily the least imaginative monster costume this side of Roger Corman. The ape in the diving helmet kills one..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Short Cuts

UT filmmakers get Guggenheims, spots at Cannes, and more. Plus: SXSW is never over.

"...1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (which sounds like a Roger Corman vehicle, but trust us on this, it isn't),..."

April 30, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

There Is No Try ...

Foleyvision does the Turkish 'Star Wars'

"...Vader stand-in battles a pair of Gil Gerard-era Buck Rogers types, it's hard not to feel a surge of..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mr. Creeptastic

Every day is Halloween when you're Professor Griffin.

"...we just go to the video store to get Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood, and the truth of it..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...worthy of not D.W. Griffith, but the even bolder Roger Corman...."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column

UT Film Has 'Gold Fever'

"...worthy of not D.W. Griffith, but the even bolder Roger Corman...."

Sept. 8, 2003 Postmarks

The Need for Sleaze

Bill Landis will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Feb. 23 to introduce two films and talk about his new book, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square.

"...Maniacs!) were treated seriously. John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Roger Corman, Bruce Lee, the Shaw Brothers, Andy Warhol, Ed..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Eat Your Heart Out

Not in the mood for love this Valentine's Day? We think we have the answer.

"...3. Little Shop of Horrors. Roger Corman's 1960 original is primo Bowery-black comedy to this..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Daughters of Darkness

Eurotrash, with teeth.

"...both Stephanie Rothman's Velvet Vampire, an exploitation delight for Roger Corman, and Harry Kümel's Daughters of Darkness, a Belgian/Italian/French/West..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Something Wild

There's no pussyfooting about it: The Truth About Charlie is a remake -- of the widely adored Charade -- and Jonathan Demme isn't apologizing for it.

"...wide-ranging career that has included early efforts for the Roger Corman school of cheap and quick filmmaking (Crazy Mama,..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pieces of Time

The legendary Peter Bogdanovich discusses his latest film, The Cat's Meow, about a hush-hush Hearst scandal of long ago.

"...one of Hollywood's bright new promises. Tutelage in the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking resulted in the tight and..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Naked Truth

Legendary exploitation producer Dave Friedman comes to town to present Mau Mau Sex Sex, the documentary of his career with Dan Sonney.

"...partner Dan Sonney pioneered the way for filmmakers like Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, Doris Wishman, and William Castle. Forty-odd..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Butt-Numb-a-Thon Roster

"...3. Rock All Night (1957) d. Roger Corman..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature

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Why Mike Clark-Madison's cover story will be informative even to the most experienced city veteran, and why the work of exploitation director Stephanie Rothman deserves serious study.

"...our shared passions was drive-in/exploitation films, the spawn of Roger Corman and AIP. When we first discovered Stephanie Rothman,..."

May 18, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Working Girls

What do the eight films in the Austin Film Society's latest free series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s" have in common? They are all works by inherently feminist filmmakers, and the chronological order of the series tracks the growth of American feminist thought during these two decades.

"...and Seventies, with Samuel Z. Arkoff's American Pictures International, Roger Corman's New World Pictures, and the blaxploitation film movement..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Birds

The best way to enjoy this campy futuristic adventure is to get a case of cheapo beer, invite some friends over, and have your own personal MST 3000 session with it.

May 11, 2001 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...with AIP [American International Pictures, home turf of director Roger Corman] features and other stuff that I'd seen as..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

It's Alive!

The unassuming, 42-year-old Bill Jones is Austin's premier garage-kit model maker, and that Godzilla leering down at you from the corner of the room is only 1 / 500th scale. Lucky you.

"...time when you were more likely to find an AIP/Roger Corman double bill down at the drive-in than an..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Grease Trap

"...splendidly awful subject matter feels like John Steinbeck meets Roger Corman at the Rocket Drive-In. The Ghost of Tom..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Detroit Rock City

"...may be the closest anyone's come to the Alan Arkush/Roger Corman epic Rock 'n' Roll High School. High praise,..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...on vacation? At this rate they're threatening to make Roger Corman look like a slacker). This time out it's..."

June 2, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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Remembering actor-filmmaker Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Cannonball, Eating Raoul)

"...Race 2000 but for MGM's Private Parts (produced by Roger Corman's brother Gene), a perversely twisted but generally good-humored..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Remembering Writer Charles Willeford

"...When producer Roger Corman optioned Charles Willeford's novel, Cockfighter, Willeford jumped at..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Grand Theft Auto

"...Don Steele, Rance Howard, Clint Howard. After working with Roger Corman on Eat My Dust, Ron Howard returned for..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Review by Mike Emery

The Fantastic Four

"...Four. Produced by no less than the great schlockmeister Roger Corman, the film is all hokey, word-balloon-filling dialogue, melodramatic,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

Austin Filmmaking, Ten Years After

Film director Richard Linklater interviews Bob Ray, the director of the new Austin-made movie Rock Opera, about the Austin Film scene over the past 10 years.

"...to L.A., and they'd go get a job with Roger Corman or something. There wasn't any reason to stay..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

The Big Combo

"...Director Kaplan, a student of Martin Scorsese, is another Roger Corman graduate who began with such exploitation fare as..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Star Wars

"...Stakeout, Kershner's first feature, was, of course, produced by Roger Corman. The mature drama The Luck of Ginger Coffey..."

May 14, 1999 Screens Feature

Eat His Dust

Ron Howard Premieres EDtv in Austin

"...have followed since his debut in 1977 helming the Roger Corman car-crash spectacle Grand Theft Auto. Others that followed..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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