‘King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen’ Gives an Unsung Auteur His Due

There’s a scene in King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen where the titular subject recalls his 1973 gangster movie Black Caesar and why he decided to make it a story about black characters. “So what?” is his response. This sums up Larry Cohen in a nutshell. Black Caesar could easily have been retooled as another mobster story about Italian…