It is with profound sadness, and boundless gratitude for his extraordinary life, that we remember our beloved husband and father, Roger Corman. He passed away on May 9th, at home in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Julie and his daughters Catherine and Mary. He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him. A devoted and selfless father, he was deeply loved by his daughters. His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, “I was a filmmaker, just that.”
-Julie, Catherine and Mary Corman
We are delighted to announce Roger Corman’s Machine Gun Kelly is an official 2026 Cannes Classics selection and will be screening at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.
Charles Bronson’s first starring role, Machine Gun Kelly was hailed by Cahiers du Cinema as an example of American genre film.
Beautifully restored for the Corman 100, Machine Gun Kelly will be shown in Superscope for the first time since its release in 1958. Roger’s wife, Julie, and his daughters Catherine and Mary will be in attendance to introduce the film.
Today would have been Roger Corman’s one hundredth birthday. To celebrate 100 years of Corman and honor his legacy, we will be bringing restored prints of his films to film festivals around the world throughout the year. Dates and festivals to be announced. We hope you will join us and celebrate together.
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Dubbed the “King of the B-movies,” Roger Corman’s visionary filmmaking revolutionized independent cinema and influenced several generations of storytellers from Martin Scorsese to James Cameron.
In addition to directing over 50 films, he produced almost 500 features, created and ran two production companies and hired young talent in all facets of the business, both in front of and behind the cameras.
Join us for four nights this April honoring his legacy, starting with the TCM Premiere of the documentary, ROGER CORMAN: THE POPE OF POP CINEMA (2021) tonight at 8pm ET.
Learn more with the link in our bio.
If you are in Paris this week. Thank you @cinemathequefr for this special 12 film retrospective
Reposted• @cinemathequefr Disparu en mai 2024, il était l'une des figures majeures du cinéma américain d'après-guerre, qu'il aura contribué à dessiner à la fois comme réalisateur et producteur. Derrière la caméra, il signe un nombre impressionnant de séries B, thrillers ou films d'épouvante fauchés, parmi lesquels quelques grandes réussites ("Le Masque de la mort rouge", "The Intruder"). Comme producteur, il donne sa chance à de futurs grands noms d'Hollywood : Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, ou Jonathan Demme.
Hommage à Roger Corman en 12 films. Du 16 au 25 octobre.
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My daughter @catherinecorman 's short film Lost Explorer, starring myself and our old friend #sallykirkland , and based on the work of Nobel Laureate #patrickmodiano , has been long-listed for an Academy Award. Voting ends tomorrow. Shot on location in Venice and Malibu on @kodak_shootfilm #super8
Thank you for having all of us! And thank you to everyone who came out and let us reminisce! Posted @withregram • @beyondfest One of the greatest days of our lives. Beyond Fest wouldn’t exist without @rogercorman .
L-R @mickgarrispm , Jon Davison, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Allan Arkush, Amy Holden Jones and Ron Howard @am_cinematheque
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For your August viewing pleasure! Posted @withrepost • @criterioncollection Grindhouse Gothic: Roger Corman Directs Edgar Allan Poe 🖤 When exploitation cinema’s most visionary impresario took on American literature’s greatest horror writer, it was a match made in hell. The B-movie maestro conjures an otherworldly gothic atmosphere in these menacing Poe adaptations. 🖤 Plus! Check out our amazing episode of ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING with Corman.
@criterioncollection Peter Bogdanovich's TARGETS (1968) has entered the collection! 🎞 📀 Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in Bogdanovich's startling debut feature. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, TARGETS is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.
