The Recoup

SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

DVD Reviews

  • Five-Eight: Weirdo Reborn

    A mini-documentary about a band righting a musical wrong that was inadvertently thrust upon them twenty years ago by their record label. Read more

  • Five-Eight: Weirdo Reborn

    A mini-documentary about a band righting a musical wrong that was inadvertently thrust upon them twenty years ago by their record label. Read more

  • Every Other Summer is a documentary film of the Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival, and this film about the 2013 edition highlights what makes this a different kind of festival experience. Read more

  • Every Other Summer is a documentary film of the Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival, and this film about the 2013 edition highlights what makes this a different kind of festival experience. Read more

  • Documentarian Errol Morris’ first three films have been reissued by Criterion, and all three show the portrait of a young man growing into one of the country’s most important documentarians. Read more

  • Documentarian Errol Morris’ first three films have been reissued by Criterion, and all three show the portrait of a young man growing into one of the country’s most important documentarians. Read more

  • The Family Jams captures Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom in the days shortly before both became internationally known, as they tour America in 2004. Read more

  • The Family Jams captures Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom in the days shortly before both became internationally known, as they tour America in 2004. Read more

  • Hoop Dreams (Criterion)

    Twenty years after its release,the three-hour sports documentary that Roger Ebert named as the best film of the 1990s remains one of the best sports films and best documentaries ever made. Read more

  • Hoop Dreams (Criterion)

    Twenty years after its release,the three-hour sports documentary that Roger Ebert named as the best film of the 1990s remains one of the best sports films and best documentaries ever made. Read more