‘Streets of Fire’ as Global Myth
Streets of Fire boldly rejects conventional genre boundaries, merging action, rock opera, MTV video, and neo-noir into an audacious and stylized urban myth that resonates globally.
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French Political Thrillers Deliver Never-Ending Paranoia
In these two political thrillers from Henri Verneuil, neither is above faking out the viewer and both are obsessed with the architecture of the modern city.
‘The Sicilian Clan’ Emerges from Cinema’s Shadows
Buried for decades, Henri Verneuil’s crime caper The Sicilian Clan slips out from the shadows.
Murder for Two: Oedipal Death-Cycles in ‘The Eye of the Beholder’
Behm turns the detective novel first on its head and then sideways before shot-putting it across a terrain of Żuławskian terror; its film adaptation is an equally nerve-wracking descent into oedipal destruction.