POST MORTEM: Roger Corman - Part 4

[@tywatkins6451]

Damn this was so cool to hear him talk. Wow.

[@frankbruno9499]

PRICELESS interview.Thank you!

[@mickgarris2555]

Thank you! Check out our conversations with him on the POST MORTEM podcast.

[@malcolmcurran6248]

As the well known Chinese saying goes the teacher is great when his students outshine him. If Rodger Corman had been around in the 15 and 1600s he'd have no doubt been working with, directing and producing Shakespeare and Webster. Garris is a fabulous interviewer and Corman an unmatchable guest. What an inspiration and pleasure. Brilliant both of them!

[@mickgarris2555]

Thanks for the kind words. Roger is still one of the great guardians of cinema. I hope you caught our podcast of the Beyond Fest tribute to him.

[@malcolmcurran6248]

@@mickgarris2555 I haven't yet thanks but I will. It's truly a great and memorable piece of film history and especially because your questions and follow ups are so well thought out and got him to speak about how he worked technically and personally on those shoestring budgets and ten day shooting schedules. Most director interviews tend to lapse exclusively on characterizations or themes or the idiosyncrasies of actors. And when he does, it's not about some prima donna pouting in their trailer but hysterically and frighteningly in dealing with a bunch of surly moody bikers. Priceless. I love how he explains how he took, as a trained engineer, an overhead birds eye view to get the scenes and actors organized in his mind first before shooting when he began directing. And because he's so urbane, precise, low key, modest and approachable and this is the guy who had me searching the basement nightly at eight years old with a flashlight checking for cobwebs and menacing shadows having at that time only seen the trailer for the Fall of the House of Usher? Thanks again to you both. Great work.

[@MaestroPanda]

"The guy I would fault is a guy who spends 80 million and it's two people walking around a room". Coincidentally, Jack And Jill (2011) budget was 79 million dollars.

[@vikramkrishnan6414]

The Phantom Menace, anyone?

[@ianklink3509]

I was a nano-second away to having an internship with Corman's company but they had to give it to an undergrad many years ago. Thank you for posting this interview, as it was enlightening, as well as entertaining. Great series Mr. Garris!

[@MickGarrisInterviews]

Many thanks! We'll be announcing new interviews soon! Keep watching!

[@EpictheEpicest]

Thanks for this interview and other interviews from this channel. You ask some good questions and it was really nice to hear from Roger.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I’m glad he thought “The Intruder” with Shatner was his best. I thoroughly agree.

[@FlexFightmaster]

Great interviewee but also a great interviewer, thank you very much.

[@MickGarrisInterviews]

FlexFightmaster Many thanks. Glad you’re enjoying them.

[@rae_vandaloo]

These interviews are the best. Thank you so much

[@MickGarrisInterviews]

Gabriel Toso Glad was you’re enjoying them! Thank you!

[@ljaleon]

Great interiews Mr. Garris! greetings from Chile

[@bartman898]

Another great interview. Mr. Corman is not at all how I pictured him.

[@cq2320]

How does this only have 3000 views?

[@MickGarrisInterviews]

You tell me! Share away!

[@cq2320]

done :)

[@bradenhawrylyshyn546]

This man is my hero along with the great Joe Bob Briggs........Legends!!

[@satelliteoflove13]

Thanks for posting this, it was really great! Mr. Corman really discussed some interesting aspects of filmmaking. I kept on thinking that the book on the table was about Corman's career or written by him. Is it just a prop? Thanks again for the interview!

[@satelliteoflove13]

***** Thanks for the penetrating research! It's very much appreciated!

[@MickGarrisInterviews]

***** Words to live by!

[@aaronmaxwelldjamax9517]

thank god he said it at the end "original is the way to go", yes it is, and that is why netflix and hulu and cable are thriving now, theatres have less and less filmgoers due to pg13 overload and cg crammed crap without a story. everyone now that is sophistacted and knows cinema has gone to streaming and cable and so forth. that is where original content thrives now a days.

[@aaron2709]

This cat is brilliant.

[@kentallard8852]

I wish Corman had expanded beyond just the shlock, think of a film like Brick even though it had a budget of $450,000 he wouldn't produce that. And also there really haven't been people moving onto bigger and better things after working for him since the early/mid-1980s.

[@MickGarrisInterviews]

A real book, but not a Corman book.

[@renzocasablancalivros2147]

Garris could interview a plastic plant and make it interesting ´cause everytime he chats with a filmmaker one can see HE´S ENTHRALLED by the people sitting in front of him.

[@mickgarris2555]

Many thanks! Glad you are enjoying it. Hope you are checking out the POST MORTEM podcast with new interviews every other week.

[@bernardkam1534]

Yep. He's actually listening, not waiting to talk. It makes the interview, nah scratch that, the conversation, much better.