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Post Mortem with Mick Garris

Roger Corman (LIVE from the Overlook Film Festival)

Post Mortem with Mick Garris

Mick Garris

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Legendary director/writer/producer Roger Corman joins Mick for a live edition of Post Mortem from the Overlook Film Festival in Oregon in front of a standing-room only audience. Join Mick as he chats with Roger, offering tales and wisdom from over sixty years of filmmaking including his thoughts on the remakes of his films, how he would describe a Roger Corman picture to a stranger and the lost concept of the drive-in arthouse film opening. Follow Mick and the podcast on Twitter at @PostMortemMG

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0:00.0

You are now listening to post-mortem with Mick Harris, where the most influential

0:08.5

voices in horror cinema will spill their guts, literally.

0:14.2

To the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

0:18.6

Now here's your host, Mick Garris.

0:21.5

This is post-mortem, and I'm Mickeris. I first met Roger Corman in the 1970s when I interviewed

0:27.0

him for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Then again when I was doing my old Z-channel show, The Fantasy

0:32.0

Film Festival. Even then he was a legend, an

0:34.7

inspiration and to my surprise and delight a very articulate man. He was overflowing with

0:39.5

stories of film

0:43.2

present.

0:44.2

pictures was new then and it was a very exciting time for a young film fan like me.

0:48.6

These TV interviews can be reached at my website Mick Garrisarras interviews dot com anytime but they're a nice slice of

0:55.9

cinema history but time has not changed Roger Corman in the least at 91 he still

1:01.0

goes to the office every day, still makes movies, still is active and

1:04.8

engaged, and excited by new prospects.

1:07.4

A few years ago, Korman was a guest on my Fear Net TV post-mortem series, which later gave birth to this podcast. I love talking with

1:15.0

him and I learned something new about him and about filmmaking every time. This

1:18.7

podcast is a very unique episode. It was recorded with a live audience at the Overlook Film Festival at the Timberline

1:24.8

Lodge in Oregon, where I presented him with the festival's annual Master of Horror Award.

1:29.7

It's the fourth time Roger and I have had a conversation for public consumption, and there were still plenty of new stories I'd never heard before.

1:36.6

Roger Corman is a legend, but a legend who's still going strong after over 60 years of making movies.

1:42.0

Our chat was in front of a standing room only

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