Seeking a Dose of ‘Disreputable Cinema’? Check Out Roger Corman’s ‘X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes’
A fervent believer in pinching pennies, turning a profit, and working on the quick, the recently deceased Corman pursued films geared to audiences that were young, prurient, and eager for a thrill.
The Museum of the Moving Image hosts films under various rubrics to fulfill its avowed purpose of elaborating upon how “the moving image … shapes how we see and feel the world.” Some of the programs are locally focused, including the borough-specific “Queens On Screen” and the Astoria-adjacent “Always On Sunday: Greek Film Series.” Other categories are particular to an era (“Silents, Please!”), a genre (“New Adventures in Non-Fiction”), and a scale (“See It Big: 70 MM”).
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