CORMAN DIRECTED 52 FEATURES IN 16 YEARS!

Forget Hitchcock the IFI should be holding a Roger Corman retrospective! The man made as many films but took only 1½ decades to do so. Most are out on DVD and are well known. Corman did Grabbers and 100 mornings back in the 1950s, he did the famous Poe films, started the hippie movies, and restarted the biker movie with Wild angels. So what's this got to do with an Irish film site? Well there is no way an Irish director could make as many films as Corman! Not even half the amount. Not even a quarter or a fifth! Despite the availability of HD video and the computer editing systems the Irish setup is designed to prevent filmmakers from producing a lot of work. Script rewrites, pre-production loans, funding applications, and of course needing to make a few short films when starting out. This all takes YEARS! How many features will the new directors of recent titles such as Eamon, Savage, Situations vacant, and Swansong have made a decade from now? Probably one or two more is the answer. The great man did work here back in the 1990s in Connemara but got badly treated and left. There is no place in Ireland for a Corman-type director!