Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Reviews
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Genre : Documentary Release Date : December 16, 2011 MPAA Rating : R Duration : 90 minute(s) Production Budget : -Studio : Anchor Bay Films Official Site : http://www.cormansworld.com Reviews Rate :
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the greatest tribute in Alex Stapleton's film shows Jack Nicholson, decked out in shades and a white T-shirt, sobbing like a baby as he talks about Roger Corman
Review rate : C
by V.A. Musetto [New York Post ]
Stapleton manages to enhance the film's relatively boilerplate story with tinges of emotion from the interviews she coaxed from many of the now-famous
by Kalvin Henely [Slant Magazine ]
some of the interviewee omissions are glaring
Review rate : B
by Peter Rainer [Christian Science Monitor ]
should have some sensational DVD extras
by Dennis Harvey [Variety ]
overall tone of Corman's World is celebratory rather than mournful
Review rate : B+
by Nathan Rabin [AV Club ]
less an attempt to reconcile those poles than to show how neatly and necessarily they are bound together
by Michelle Orange [Movieline ]
it goes down easy enough and gets significant mileage from the high wattage interviewees
by Geoff Berkshire [Metromix.com ]
his exasperating qualities are recalled, chief among them his legendary miserliness
by A.O. Scott [New York Times ]
have liked to see more clips from his hard-to-find films
Review rate : C
by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]
falls back on the most commonplace standards
by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]
deftly intercuts a myriad of colorful clips from Corman's earliest and later pictures with the enjoyable raft of interviews
by Gary Goldstein [Los Angeles Times ]
Alex Stapleton's warmly loving documentary
by David Noh [Film Journal International ]
by Michelle Orange [Movieline ]
