Roger Corman

Last night I was looking at more places for jobs and accomodation in Canada, and I watched the latest episode of The Wire, which was a really good one.

Today was another really quiet and dull day at work. The biggest event in the office at the moment is that they may be getting more people moved around the departments, again.

After work I headed up to the Cineworld cinema to see the next event that I had booked at the Film Festival, which was a discussion with the legendary director, writer and producer Roger Corman. Corman has produced over three hundred films and himself directed around fifty. At his peak he apparently made seven films in one year (he said that he had periods where he was filming one movie, casting the next and editing another all in the same day). He started his career in the 1950s and specialised in low-budget horror, science-fiction, gangster, biker and teen movies with his biggest successes being a cycle of movies based on Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems with Vincent Price. He also gave directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Rob Howard and James Cameron their big breaks, as well as actors such Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro. The event started late and over-ran by nearly half an hour but it was interesting and enjoyable, and Corman was full of great stories. It was hosted by Sight and Sound magazine, and we all got free copies of the magazine when we came in, which was nice (even though I'd already got this month's - I have a subscription).

On my way home I got a fish supper for my dinner.