Maverick British film director Mike Hodges has created such diverse works as "Get Carter", "A Prayer for the Dying", "Flash Gordon", and "Morons from Outer Space". This book profiles his work and his influence.
Roger who? The name may not ring a bell but his films certainly will: Attack Of The Crab Monsters, The Little Shop Of Horrors, The Masque Of The Red Death, A Bucket Of Blood and dozens more. Roger Corman was the king of the B-movies, directing around fifty movies between 1954 and 1970. Shot at breakneck speed on shoestring...
Hal Hartley - the Long Island born, blue-collar director and a touchstone figure in terms of contemporary American Independent cinema, burst onto the scene with The Unbelievable Truth in 1989. Funded by his benevolent bosses at the TV production company where he worked answering the phone, the dialogue driven comic-drama...
A bullet-riddled body floats in the pool of a faded screen star. A desperate wife and a crafty insurance man mix lust with murder. Two musicians flee Prohibition gangsters by joining an all-girl band. A likeable loser climbs the corporate ladder by pimping for his bosses. Only in the skewed world of Billy Wilder would such situations...