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To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
MADE in 1906, the first gangster film was probably The Black Hand and later the introduction of sound established the genre as a cinema staple, adorned by classics like Scarface and Little Caesar.
Unsurprisingly, given that profit is Hollywood’s principal motive, hoodlum cinema has continued to flourish, delivering such cinematic milestones as The Godfather, Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time in America and Quentin Tarantino’s strikingly overcooked Pulp Fiction.
Now, appropriately from Warner Bros — the Hollywood studio that created legendary genre stars like Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney — comes The Kitchen, an ultra-violent crime thriller set in New York in 1978.
