When Roger Corman receives his Honorary Oscar next month at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards ceremony, will it be for his career as a director, an impresario, or both? The Academy's official press release plays things straight down the middle, crediting Corman equally for his own films (more than 50 as director) and for his mentoring the likes of Scorsese, Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and James Cameron. Meanwhile, in time for Halloween, Anthology reminds us that there's much to admire about Corman the drive-in auteur‹indefatigable ringleader of biker-,gangster-, and monster-movie mayhem—with 14 of the films he directed from 1960 to 1970 (the year in which he started his full-service production and distribution company, New World Pictures, trading the director's chair... More >>>