CANNES -- Roger Corman does not cut the figure of a filmmaker one would expect to show up in Cannes Classics. But here he is: At 85, elegant, soft-spoken, and a meticulous man of few words, the cult filmmaker is the subject of a documentary, ''Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel,'' directed by Alex Stapleton. Ms. Stapleton's funny and...
BRET EASTON ELLIS, the author of ''Less Than Zero'' and a man who knows a thing or two about the 1980s, recently tweeted, ''The two key American films of the 1980s: 'Blue Velvet,' 'Something Wild'...'' The first choice is no surprise, but the second confused some of his followers. ''When I tweeted it, people responded to 'Blue Velvet' but asked,...
As concert documentaries go, both ''Neil Young: Heart of Gold'' (2006) and the new ''Neil Young Trunk Show'' are luxury goods. Beautifully lighted and meticulously recorded, they look and sound like several million bucks. They're different in just about every other way, though. The elegiac ''Heart of Gold'' was dedicated to Mr. Young's father, who...
Jonathan Demme (født 22. februar 1944) er en amerikansk filminstruktør.
Han arbejdede først for Roger Corman. Han vandt en Oscar i 1991 for Ondskabens øjne.