Appreciation: Larry Cohen, the genre director who steadfastly avoided the generic
(LA Times NBA)

The `New Hollywood` era of the late 1960s and early ´70s has inspired shelves of showbiz history books about how visionary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg fused their personal experiences with the stuff of old B-movies,...