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Old 17th November 2011, 06:39 PM
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Corman proved himself as a fine director as well with his series of Edgar Allen Poe films (incl. The Masque of Red Death photographed by Nic Roeg), and there was The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a brilliant documentry style Al Capone gangster film from 1967. There was 1962's The Intruder, a gritty drama about racial prejudice in the Deep South featuring an astonishing visceral performance from William Shatner. For me his great masterpiece again from 1967, is The Trip, one of the great American films of the 20th century. Even watching the film today some 40 years later, it still seems bold and inventive with its psychedelic LSD soaked visions, stroboscopic lighting, and enough rapid-fire stream-of-consciousness editing to rival Natural Born Killers...
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