Despite its flaws, Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a meticulously detailed study of conflict and hauntingly foreshadows the current moment.
Bringing together these personal albums in one magisterial set, Skintone Edition Volume 1 is a beautiful, powerful study of Susumu Yokota in his own words.
The Librarians is a vital David and Goliath documentary of the fight against book banning, a harbinger of fascism, in America.
Telepathic Fish: Trawling the Early ’90s Ambient Underground is a cleverly curated album that captures a unique DIY moment in UK electronica.
Moments feels like a less effective, generic version of the addictive earworms that Cut Copy once prescribed to our ears with masterpieces.
Carlos Saura’s once censored Los Golfos exists in a purgatory between the relatively plot-less freedom of some neorealist films and the excesses of delinquent youth melodrama.
Even with its darker tones and layered feedback, The Watchline features some of John Tejada’s most beautiful music. It’s an electric evolution.
Stax Revue: Live in ’65! captures an electric moment for the R&B label and for Los Angeles, and unearths a rowdy, earlier concert in Memphis.
Like its filmmaker Tokuzô Tanaka, The Betrayal has been largely sidelined by other jidaigeki (historical) and chanbara (samurai) films in Japan’s traditional canon, but this revelatory new release rewrites the record.
The Quay Brothers’ version of Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass is equivocal and bursting with plump metaphors ripe for interpretation.
Nick Drake’s luminous 1969 debut gets a box set that chronicles its creation and accentuates the late musician’s unique, timeless brilliance.
Filmmaker Joshua Zeman discusses the human-animal bond in Checkpoint Zoo, revealing a unique perspective on war in the process.
