Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot’s insightful essay on the need to turn it up: Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

Catherine Cusset’s Everything Vanishes

Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch Coming soon from Red Car Press Renowned French author Catherine Cusset, finalist for the Prix Goncourt and author of Jouir, A Brilliant Future, and Life of David Hockney, delivers her fourteenth novel, a powerful, tragic, and detailed deconstruction of one of the most important and intimate friendships of her life.

Black Coal, Thin Ice

How does a Chinese director empty the noir sensibility of any and all of the glamour associated with its Hollywood counterpart? How does it become a study in pure dourness and grimness? If you’re Yi’nan Diao, the first thing you do is set it in a place as grim and dour as a northern Chinese

EUROTRASH SLEAZE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Alessi & Fenech I haven’t posted a review in a while because I haven’t seen anything worth reviewing, but this little 1969 masterpiece from Ottavio Alessi, TOP SENSATION, hit me on the head like an anvil when I stumbled across it this morning. Maud de Bellroche, looking like a butch dominatrix on the run from