Jonathan Kaplan is the most prolific of several American directors who got their first Hollywood assignments in the exploitation films of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, where Kaplan landed on the recommendation of his New York University instructor Martin Scorsese after directing a prize-winning student film, Stanley, Stanley. Characteristic of the better exploitation films, Kaplan's offer a decidedly left-leaning sensibility (White Line Fever, Truck Turner, Over the Edge) and an easy, radical humor (The Student Teachers). Jonathan Kaplan will appear in person on Saturday, September 26.
