The Gambler (Cinématographe) Imprint

The Gambler (Cinématographe) ImprintNew York City professor Axel Freed (James Caan, The Godfather) is in crippling debt due to gambling addiction. He owes over forty thousand dollars to his bookie Hips (Paul Sorvino, Goodfellas), who has mob connections and threatens violence against Axel if he doesnt pay his debts. Managing to borrow enough money from his mother to pay what he owes, Axel flees town with his girlfriend Billie (Lauren Hutton, American Gigolo) for Las Vegas, which thrusts

Lowly building superintendent Ah Shing discovers children playing a Ouija-like game with a saucer in an empty apartment

James Bond Does It Everywhere

and bird and beast and flower were one with man and death was but a dream

Explosion Tests

killing (and eating) everyone in their path

Storyboard and script photo galleries

a new introduction to fumetti neri by crime genre expert Sergio Angelini and new writing on the film’s director by Troy Howarth

Screen: Multi-Angle

surreal sense of humour

gothic cinema

uncut version of LES PROIES DU MAL (Pellissier's first feature) and DR

a new visual essay by film scholar Josh Nelson on film noir and identity in Dark City