When “Boulevard Nights” opened in early 1979, it was one of several major studio films — along with “The Warriors,” The Wanderers,” and “Over the Edge” — to take on gang violence as its primary ...

In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine in East Los Angeles. The film “Boulevard Nights,” which dramatized the life of Chicano gangs in the neighborhood, had ...

The director of the 1979 drama, which was barely released before its inclusion in the National Film Registry and coronation by Quentin Tarantino, looks back as the movie is released on Blu-ray for the ...