Perry Henzell
A new Dietrich & Von Sternberg box set, Abel Ferrara’s debut 9 Lives Of A Wet Pussy and Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come – we cover them in this week’s Video Dispatches.
They say if two’s company, then three’s a crowd, but I like crowds, especially when they’re crowds of gangster movies from countries around the world. So this is our third outing (first here, second here), and if my editor doesn’t kill me, there might be a fourth. Yes, there’s crime in every country, and where there’s crime there are criminals, and when they get organized they become gangsters, and if said country has a film business chances are they will make gangster movies.
