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Roger Corman

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  Diane Ladd obituary

  Oscar-nominated actor in Wild at Heart and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

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  Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B-movie

  The director’s mastery of trashy, low-budget exploitation films like It’s a Bikini World and Group Marriage turned her into a cult icon. Now, aged 88, she’s finding out they’re more relevant than ever

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  Brief letters

  Roger Corman: the genius director who reversed the film-making process

  Brief letters:John Boorman’s tribute | Olive oil for earache | Apostrophised places | Keeping busy in later life | Not born yesterday

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  Roger Corman obituary
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  Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

  Peter Bradshaw
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  Roger Corman: a career in pictures
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  Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and king of the B-movie, dies aged 98

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  Week in geek

  Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four movie is notoriously terrible – do we really want it resuscitated?

  Calls are growing for the 1994 film to be freed from YouTube hell – but is it there because evil Hollywood execs tried to kill it, or is it just a really bad film?

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  Monte Hellman obituary
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  Monte Hellman, cult director and Reservoir Dogs executive producer, dies aged 91

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  How we made

  How we made: Jane Asher and Roger Corman on The Masque of the Red Death

  ‘I hated the bath scene. They stuck awful little modesty circles on my nipples and they kept floating off’

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  The Masque of the Red Death review – horribly apt Poe adaptation

  Roger Corman’s 1964 cult classic about a medieval pestilence closing in on a decadent count played by Vincent Price has uncomfortable resonance

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  Stealing screen time: Ocean's 8 and the rise of female crime gangs

  The star-studded reboot follows a tradition of criminal equality on the big screen, from Girl Gang and The Bling Ring to Steve McQueen’s upcoming Widows

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  Hitchcock, Hepburn and Dirty Harry: vintage movie posters – in pictures

  Produced for classic films such as Psycho, Roman Holiday and The Italian Job, these rare original Hollywood posters are now all worth a pretty penny as cultural antiques

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  Film blog

  Jonathan Demme: 'A storyteller of bold and muscular force'
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  Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme dies aged 73

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  B-movie king Roger Corman: ‘Death Race isn’t an essay on violence – it’s an action comedy’

  With the release of Death Race 2050, a remake of his cult classic, the veteran director talks about the film’s political undertones – and how he became the king of trash

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  Film blog

  Curtis Hanson: a thrilling film-maker and effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood style

  Hanson got Meryl Streep whitewater rafting, Eminem to act and brought James Ellroy’s cult novel LA Confidential brilliantly to life on film

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  Philip French's classic DVD

  Six Gothic Tales review – Philip French on Roger Corman’s elegant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe

  This box set featuring six of Poe’s horror stories starring Vincent Price are a chilling treat, writesPhilip French

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  Philip French's classic DVD

  The Pit and the Pendulum review – Philip French on Roger Corman's low-budget, hair-raising Poe adaptation

  This Blu-ray version with plenty of extras does full justice to Corman's low-budget, hair-raising Poe adaptation, writesPhilip French