Roger Corman is the Rome of post-war American cinema; all roads lead to him. Before inventing 70s American cinema, by giving ‘the brats’ their break (stand up Scorsese, Coppola, Bogdanovich…), he reinvented the genres they worked within a decade earlier. Whether re-instating the psychology of terror within the horror genre, or lending grandeur to the once-moribund gangster film, he is American cinema’s Year Zero. Welcome to his New World. Welcome, Mr. Roger Corman.

Watch a video guide through this year's Roger Corman retrospective with EIFF Programmer Niall Greig Fulton here: