Friday nights in April on Turner Classic Movies will be devoted to the prolific career of Roger Corman, featuring a plethora of Corman’s varied genre films.
The festivities get underway on Friday, April 3 with a screening of 2021’s Roger Corman: Pope of Pop Cinema documentary at 8:00 pm, which delves into the producer and director’s low-budget approach that helped shape the independent film movement, produced a number of genre classics, and launched the careers of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, and Peter Bogdanovich, and many more.
Highlights of the series include: Boxcar Bertha, Dementia 13, Targets, A Bucket of Blood, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Masque of the Red Death, The Trip, and The Wild Angels.
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