Question: Do both War Of The Satellites and Last Train To Mahakali films have the directors from the same country?

He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers." Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia". A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance. Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor. <SEP> He is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres( Knight of the Order of Arts and letters) in 2013. After writing a television serial, Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama" Satya"( 1998), and made his directorial debut with" Paanch", which never had a theatrical release due to censorship issues. He then went on to direct" Black Friday"( 2007), a film based on the by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. Its release was held up for two years by the Central Board of Film Certification because of the pending verdict of the case at that time, but was released in 2007 to widespread critical appreciation. Kashyap's followup," No Smoking"( 2007) met with negative reviews and performed poorly at the box-office. His next venture" Dev.D"( 2009), a modern adaptation of Devdas was a critical and commercial success; followed by the political drama" Gulaal"( 2009), and the thriller" That Girl in Yellow Boots"( 2011). Kashyap's prominence increased with the two- part crime drama," Gangs of Wasseypur"( 2012). Kashyap subsequently co-produced the critically acclaimed drama" The Lunchbox", and the biographical drama" Shahid"( both 2013), the former earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language nomination. His next films were the anthology" Bombay Talkies"( 2013), and the drama" Ugly"( 2014). In 2016, Kashyap directed" Raman Raghav 2.0", a film based on the serial killer Raman Raghav. His next film was the sports drama" Mukkabaaz", which was released in 2018. The same year, he co-directed India's first Netflix Original series, the crime thriller" Sacred Games", based on Vikram Chandra's novel of the same name and the romantic drama" Manmarziyaan". He was the co-founder of two film production companies: Anurag Kashyap Films and Phantom Films. Anurag Kashyap is an Indian film director, writer, editor, producer and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. <SEP> The Last Train may refer to: <SEP> The Last Train from Madrid is a 1937 drama war film set during the Spanish Civil War. <SEP> The film was distributed in the US and the UK by Allied Artists. In the US, it was released as a double feature with" Attack of the 50 Foot Woman". War of the Satellites is a 1958 independently made American black- and- white science fiction film drama, produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Richard Devon, Dick Miller, and Susan Cabot. This low- budget feature was rapidly conceived, filmed, and released to exploit the international media frenzy surrounding the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite, the first in space. An" unknown force" declares war against Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling and then launching the first satellite into space. <SEP> It was made for the Star Plus television series Star Bestsellers and was first telecast in 1999. The film won the Special Jury Award at the 8th Annual Star Screen Awards. In 2005, the film was one of the four short films screened at an event organized by "Films Anonymous" at Hyderabad. The film tells the story of a doctor on death row who claims to have discovered a permanent cure for any virus-based disease and stars Kay Kay Menon and Nivedita Bhattacharya. Last Train to Mahakali (1999) is short film written and directed by Indian film director-screenwriter Anurag Kashyap.