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Julio, the sheltered son of a wealthy Asturian businessman, carries a childhood trauma that has left him terrified of women — and prone to murderous violence. After garrotting a prostitute with piano wire in Avilés, he flees to a Madrid boarding house, where the landlady's teenage daughter Mónica falls for him even as the newspapers report more killings by the 'wire killer.' The police have no lead, Mónica's mother cannot keep her away from the charming new lodger, and the girl drifts steadily toward becoming his next victim in this rare Spanish giallo, the only feature directed by critic Jesús García de Dueñas.

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Frank, a cool-headed ex-con who fronts his life with a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, is the best safecracker in Chicago — but he wants out of the criminal life for good. One final diamond heist for the mob is supposed to buy him the straight future he has mapped out. When the fence who bankrolls the job double-crosses him, Frank learns that walking away is far harder than breaking into any vault. Michael Mann's first feature announced his signature style in a neon-lit, rain-slick portrait of a professional thief.

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Eddie Weinbauer, a bullied teenage metalhead, idolizes rock star Sammi Curr — and when Curr dies in a hotel fire, a sympathetic DJ gives Eddie the only copy of Curr's final, unreleased album. Playing the record backwards lets Eddie commune with Sammi's spirit, which at first helps him turn the tables on his tormentors. But the ghost is malevolent and seizes more and more control, until Eddie has to fight back before Sammi's vengeance turns the Halloween dance into a massacre.

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In Huntleigh Prison, a group of cellmates plan the perfect burglary: they will escape the day before their release, rob a maharajah's palace of its diamonds, and then break back in again — giving them the perfect alibi, since they will seemingly never have left their cell.

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In 1950, aspiring writer Flannery O'Connor comes home to her mother Regina in Georgia, newly diagnosed at twenty-four with the lupus that killed her father. While she struggles to finish and publish her first novel, her imagination stages scenes straight out of her own fiction, and the film drifts between her real life and the stories forming in her head. Through that feverish inner work she wrestles with her Catholic faith, her illness and her ambition, and slowly comes to terms with both her condition and her mother.

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Marseille sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit and spends fourteen years locked away in the island fortress of Château d'If. He escapes, recovers a hidden fortune, and reinvents himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. With his new wealth and identity, he methodically hunts down the men whose betrayal put him in prison.

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Disc 3 contains The Crooked Circle (1957), plus a new audio commentary by film historian/screenwriter Gary Gerani and the theatrical trailer. Against the warnings of his older brother Joe, a former fighter who knows how dirty the business is, young Tommy Kelly takes up professional boxing. Honest trainer Al Taylor guides him at first, but crooked managers and gamblers soon move in and pressure Tommy to throw a fight. Caught between his ambitions and the fix closing around him, Tommy turns on the racket and helps expose it.

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In a near-future society, no man may become a father without state approval, and four hopefuls are sent to a government retreat in the California mountains for a final evaluation. When they arrive, there is no official, no instructions and no sign of how — or whether — they are being judged. Left alone with a baby doll and mounting paranoia, the four men try to prove themselves worthy of parenthood to an audience that may not exist.

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Disgraced L.A. sheriff's deputy Nick O'Brien tracks Donnie Wilson — the one thief who ever outsmarted him — to Europe. There, Donnie has fallen in with the Panther mafia and a crew of diamond thieves preparing to rob the world's largest diamond exchange. O'Brien works his way inside the crew, and the line between hunter and accomplice starts to blur.

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Disgraced L.A. sheriff's deputy Nick O'Brien tracks Donnie Wilson — the one thief who ever outsmarted him — to Europe. There, Donnie has fallen in with the Panther mafia and a crew of diamond thieves preparing to rob the world's largest diamond exchange. O'Brien works his way inside the crew, and the line between hunter and accomplice starts to blur.

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When a powerful and sadistic official has her little brother killed, a young girl bent on revenge seeks out a blind bounty hunter renowned for his fighting skill. He refuses to help her become a killer, but agrees to let her stay if she helps him with everyday chores. Then the girl disappears, and the bounty hunter tears through the city trying to reach her before it is too late.

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Abandoned in the countryside by her debt-ridden father, 11-year-old Karin is left at her grandfather's temple in the small coastal town of Iketeru. Her grandfather, the temple's monk, hands her care to Anzu, his adopted son — a 37-year-old immortal ghost cat who works as a masseur and is as kind-hearted as he is unreliable. The stubborn girl and the easygoing cat grow closer as they cross paths with the town's humans and spirits, and a trip to Tokyo to visit her mother's grave spirals into a detour through the afterlife. A rotoscoped feature co-directed by Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita.

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Disc 2 contains the feature film in 1080p on Blu-ray. (Disc 1 is the 4K UHD feature disc and Disc 3 is the bonus-features disc; both are listed separately.) Ridley Scott returns to ancient Rome for a continuation of the Gladiator story, set years after Maximus was killed by his own uncle. Lucius has his homeland seized by the tyrannical emperors who have taken control of the empire, and he is forced into the Colosseum as a combatant. Driven by rage, he searches his own past for the strength and honor he will need to win Rome back for its people.

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Years after seeing the revered hero Maximus die at his uncle's hands, Lucius is driven into the Colosseum when his home falls to the tyrannical emperors who now rule Rome with an iron fist. Burning with rage, and with the Empire's future hanging in the balance, Lucius must draw on his past to find the strength and honor to restore Rome's glory to its people.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the Gladiator II special features: the featurettes 'A Dream That Was Rome: Origins' (11 min), 'What We Do in Life, Echoes in Eternity: The Cast' (15 min), 'In the Arena: Filmmakers' (13 min), 'To Those About to Die, We Salute You' (14 min), 'Building an Empire: Post-Production' (21 min) and 'The Making of Gladiator II' (20 min), plus deleted scenes (10 min).

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Disc 2 contains the film Jennifer (1953), with a new audio commentary by film historians Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio. Ida Lupino plays Agnes Langley, a down-on-her-luck woman hired, through Jim Hollis, to look after an empty Southern California mansion. The previous occupant, the owner's cousin Jennifer, has vanished without a trace, and Agnes becomes obsessed with the disappearance. She gradually comes to suspect Jennifer was murdered — and that Jim, the man she has fallen for, did it.

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This origin story traces how Sergei Kravinoff became Kraven, one of Marvel's most notorious villains. His fraught bond with a brutal father pushes him onto a road of revenge, and the savage fallout shapes him into the world's greatest hunter — and one of its most feared men.

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This origin story traces how Sergei Kravinoff became Kraven, one of Marvel's most notorious villains. His fraught bond with a brutal father pushes him onto a road of revenge, and the savage fallout shapes him into the world's greatest hunter — and one of its most feared men.

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Decades from now, Joe sees his girlfriend Ash shot dead right in front of him by a gunman who then vanishes into thin air. Ruined by grief, Joe tries to kill himself, only to uncover disturbing truths about the world he lives in. His reality is not what it appears to be, and he may be the only one who can save it.

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Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks on a series of odd jobs to buy it. Hilarity and adventure ensues when the book is stolen and Paddington and the Browns must unmask the thief.

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Endless Night: Aspiring photographer Michael Rogers meets American heiress Ellie Thomsen on a stretch of Devon coast known as Gypsy's Acre, said to be cursed. They fall in love and marry, and Ellie buys the land so Michael can build their dream home - but when Ellie goes missing during a horseback ride, the curse seems real, and a more shocking truth may lie behind her disappearance. Picture Mommy Dead: Three years after socialite Jessica Flagmore Shelley died in a house fire, her daughter Susan is released from the convent where she stayed after a nervous breakdown, and comes home to her father Edward and his new wife Francene, her former governess. Susan stands to inherit a large sum at 25, but strange voices and visions convince her that her mother's death was no accident.

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Yumi, a fashion student living with her mother Tomi and her shiftless stepfather Ryoichi, is thrown on her own resources when Tomi is jailed for striking back at Ryoichi's assault on her daughter. Yumi finds shelter at the hostess bar where her mother once worked, fending off the advances of its male clientele. A rescue by the handsome ex-lawyer Nozawa hints at an escape into a more glamorous world — one carrying dangers of its own.

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Santa Claus has been kidnapped from the North Pole, and the Commander of the E.L.F. Task Force must join forces with a bounty hunter of worldwide ill repute to get him back. Their unlikely partnership is the only hope of rescuing him and saving Christmas.

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When Santa Claus is kidnapped from the North Pole just before Christmas, Callum Drift, the commander of Santa's security detail, is forced to partner with Jack O'Malley, a cynical bounty hunter who sits near the top of the naughty list. The two follow the trail across the globe, crossing paths with mythological figures and a witch who intends to punish the naughty forever. Their uneasy alliance is the last hope of finding Santa and getting him back in the sleigh before Christmas Eve.

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Disc 1 contains Union Station (1950), with a new audio commentary by author/film historian Alan K. Rode, the film's theatrical trailer, and bonus Kino Lorber trailers (The Turning Point and The Counterfeit Traitor). Joyce Willecombe, secretary to a wealthy businessman, spots two suspicious men carrying a gun aboard her train and reports them to William Calhoun, chief of the railroad police at Union Station. The men prove to be part of a gang that has kidnapped her employer's blind daughter and is demanding a ransom, with the station named as the drop point. Calhoun and Inspector Donnelly lay a trap inside the bustling terminal, racing to intercept the exchange and free the girl before the kidnappers slip away.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains the film and the special features: interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff and Clouzot biographer Marc Godin; an interview with actor Yves Montand from 1988; Henri-Georges Clouzot: The Enlightened Tyrant, a 2004 documentary on the director's career; Censored, an analysis of cuts made to the film for its 1955 U.S. release; a program on the film's 4K restoration; and trailers. In a broke, sun-baked South American oil town, four stranded Europeans jump at a dangerous offer: two thousand dollars each to drive two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over three hundred miles of brutal mountain road to an out-of-control oil-well fire. Given no safety equipment and a cargo that the smallest jolt could detonate, the men set out in pairs, their nerve and solidarity eroding mile by mile. Clouzot turns the journey into an almost unbearable study of fear, greed, and what desperation does to people.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film only, presented in a new 4K digital restoration with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack; all of the set's special features are on the accompanying Blu-ray disc. In a broke, sun-baked South American oil town, four stranded Europeans jump at a dangerous offer: two thousand dollars each to drive two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over three hundred miles of brutal mountain road to an out-of-control oil-well fire. Given no safety equipment and a cargo that the smallest jolt could detonate, the men set out in pairs, their nerve and solidarity eroding mile by mile. Clouzot turns the journey into an almost unbearable study of fear, greed, and what desperation does to people.

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Criminal psychologist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) loses his arm in a car accident and receives a transplant — unaware the limb came from an executed serial killer. As his behavior starts to change and other recipients of the killer's body parts turn up dead, Bill races to learn what his new arm wants. A body-horror thriller from director Eric Red.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains deleted footage with optional audio commentary by director Eric Red (10:03); an interview with Eric Red (52:15); an interview with editor Anthony Redman (22:32); an interview with actor Paul Ben-Victor (13:40); an interview with actor Peter Murnik (17:14); a stills gallery (2:44); TV spots (1:30); and the theatrical trailer (1:42).

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Two robbers seize a bank and demand three million marks for the hostages inside. What the police never suspect is that the real mastermind behind the job is watching from outside, one step ahead of their every move.

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In 12th-century Asia, Mongol chieftain Temujin falls for Bortai, daughter of the Tartar leader, and seizes her from her wedding caravan, sparking a war between their peoples. Bortai at first despises her captor, but after Temujin is betrayed and imprisoned, she helps him escape and comes to love him. Temujin then unites his forces to crush his enemies and claim his destiny as Genghis Khan.

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Antiques dealer Jesús Gris discovers a golden, scarab-shaped device hidden inside a statue - a centuries-old invention that grants eternal life but leaves its user craving blood. As Jesús grows younger and more dependent on the device, a dying industrialist who has hunted it for decades sends his brutal nephew Angel to take it from him. Guillermo del Toro's debut feature turns the vampire story into a melancholy fable about addiction, mortality and family.

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A sadistic killer is murdering patrons of New York's underground gay S&M and leather scene. Rookie officer Steve Burns, who fits the victim profile, is sent undercover into the bars and clubs to draw the murderer out. The deeper Burns sinks into that world, the more his own identity begins to slip - and the hunt becomes as much about what the case is doing to him as about catching the killer.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains 'Walking the Line', an interview with actor Randy Jurgensen; 'Cut Offs', an interview with editor Bud S. Smith; 'Who's That Guy?', an interview with actor Jay Acovone; 'Pounding the Beat', an interview with actor Mike Starr; 'Boy on the Bus', an interview with actor Mark Zecca; 'Mineshaft Memories', an archive interview with actor Wally Wallace; 'Breaking the Codes', a visual essay by David McGillivray; 'Stop the Movie', a short film by Jim Hubbard; 'The History of Cruising', an archival featurette; 'Exorcising Cruising', an archival featurette; William Friedkin's BeyondFest 2022 Q&A at the American Cinematheque; and an extensive image gallery.

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Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged farmer still wholly under the sway of his domineering, religious mother, falls apart when she dies. Unable to let her go, he digs up her corpse and props it up at home - then begins robbing other graves, and eventually murdering, to keep her company. Based on the crimes of Ed Gein, Deranged follows Cobb's slide from loneliness into full psychopathy, anchored by Roberts Blossom's chilling lead performance.

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Ezra Cobb, a middle-aged farmer still wholly under the sway of his domineering, religious mother, falls apart when she dies. Unable to let her go, he digs up her corpse and props it up at home - then begins robbing other graves, and eventually murdering, to keep her company. Based on the crimes of Ed Gein, Deranged follows Cobb's slide from loneliness into full psychopathy, anchored by Roberts Blossom's chilling lead performance.

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Friends, collaborators and horror-world peers remember Gunnar Hansen, the first actor to wear Leatherface's mask, in this documentary tribute. Their stories draw a sharp line between the hulking screen killer and the soft-spoken, intelligent writer and performer Hansen was in person, and the film traces his career and life in the decades after his one iconic role.

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Loosely dramatizing the Chikatilo murders, the film follows disgraced teacher Andrei Evilenko as he hides behind Communist Party respectability while preying on women and children across the crumbling USSR. Investigator Vadim Lesiev, blocked by a system that refuses to admit such a killer exists, enlists a gay psychoanalyst to help him profile and corner the man.

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Loosely dramatizing the Chikatilo murders, the film follows disgraced teacher Andrei Evilenko as he hides behind Communist Party respectability while preying on women and children across the crumbling USSR. Investigator Vadim Lesiev, blocked by a system that refuses to admit such a killer exists, enlists a gay psychoanalyst to help him profile and corner the man.

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Disc 2 contains The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) on Blu-ray — the previously released 1080p disc — presenting the film with its original supplements: audio commentary by director Rob Minkoff and writer John Fusco; the featurettes The Kung Fu Dream Team, Dangerous Beauty, Discovering China, Filming in Chinawood, and Monkey King and the Eight Immortals; a previsualization featurette with commentary; a blooper reel; deleted scenes with optional commentary; and the trailer. A Boston teen who lives on kung fu movies buys a mysterious staff that whisks him back to ancient China, where prophecy says he must free the imprisoned Monkey King. Joined by a wine-loving immortal, a taciturn monk and a young fighter bent on revenge, he journeys across China with the Jade Warlord's army on his trail — and reluctantly learns to fight for real.

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A Boston teen who lives on kung fu movies buys a mysterious staff that whisks him back to ancient China, where prophecy says he must free the imprisoned Monkey King. Joined by a wine-loving immortal, a taciturn monk and a young fighter bent on revenge, he journeys across China with the Jade Warlord's army on his trail — and reluctantly learns to fight for real.

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A Maine mill foreman cracks open a basement sealed for decades, and the night crew assigned to clean it out stumbles on a monstrous, oversized rat nesting below the plant. As workers start dying on the graveyard shift, the foreman races to stop the creature while management pressures him to keep the line running.

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A Maine mill foreman cracks open a basement sealed for decades, and the night crew assigned to clean it out stumbles on a monstrous, oversized rat nesting below the plant. As workers start dying on the graveyard shift, the foreman races to stop the creature while management pressures him to keep the line running.

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Pansy Deacon is a London woman consumed by fear and physical complaints who vents her rage on her husband, her son, and strangers alike. Her younger sister Chantelle, a warm, easygoing hairdresser and single mother, is the one person who still reaches her. Over a fraught family gathering, Mike Leigh's drama contrasts the two sisters' lives to study kinship, duty, and the stubborn persistence of love through years of hurt.

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In snowy Fukui, loose-cannon yakuza Kawada rebels when his boss allies with a powerful Osaka syndicate. The syndicate's rivals recruit Kawada as their proxy, but his temper alienates them too, leaving him to face overwhelming forces largely alone. Kinji Fukasaku's final yakuza film, drawn from a real gang war, stars Hiroki Matsukata with Sonny Chiba.

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Disc 2 contains Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) on Blu-ray, presented from the new 4K restoration of the original camera negative. By day, Theresa Dunn teaches deaf children at an inner-city school; by night she cruises singles bars for anonymous sex, a double life rooted in a strict Catholic upbringing and a disfiguring childhood scar. Two contrasting men — steady James and volatile Tony — pull her deeper into self-destruction. Richard Brooks adapted Judith Rossner's best-selling novel, with Diane Keaton in a Golden Globe-nominated performance.

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Vada Sultenfuss, a precocious, death-obsessed 11-year-old growing up in her widowed father's funeral home, spends the summer of 1972 with her best friend Thomas J., an allergic boy who idolizes her. As her father falls for the funeral home's new cosmetician, Vada faces first love, first loss, and the start of adolescence.

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A mysterious young woman flees across the Pacific Northwest while a resourceful fixer, hiding a devastating diagnosis of her own, is hired to track her down. As pursuer and pursued draw closer, the reason for the hunt reveals stakes that could endanger all of humanity. John Rosman's debut stars Hayley Erin and Sonya Walger.

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Built almost entirely from home footage Omar Rodríguez-López shot over four decades, this documentary follows his creative partnership and friendship with Cedric Bixler-Zavala from their El Paso beginnings through At the Drive-In's explosive rise and the genre-bending ambition of The Mars Volta. Their success came at a cost: addiction, grief and betrayal tore the two apart and ended their collaboration in 2013. The film traces the long, painful road back — how both men reckoned with what they had done to each other and eventually found their way to forgiveness and reunion.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray) contains the film plus all of the set's special features: Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley; Influence and Controversy: Making "Performance" (2007); The True Story of David Litvinoff, a new visual essay by Keiron Pim; Performers on "Performance," a documentary featuring actors James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and others; The Two Cockneys of Harry Flowers, a program on the dialogue overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film; Memo from Turner, featuring behind-the-scenes footage; and the trailer. London enforcer Chas has fallen foul of his boss, Harry Flowers, and needs a place to disappear. He bluffs his way into the Notting Hill basement flat of Turner, a washed-up rock star living in bohemian seclusion with Pherber and Lucy, and at first the two men circle each other warily. But drugs, role-playing and Turner's fascination with his guest begin to erode the boundary between the gangster's identity and the rock star's — until the two personas start, terrifyingly, to merge.