Marc Ribot

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex (2023)

The complex and revolutionary music and lyrics of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, the glam rock powerhouse behind "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" and other iconic songs. Featuring archival performances and interviews with Elton John, Ringo Starr, and David Bowie, plus fi ...

Carmine Street Guitars (2018)

Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars. ...

The Experimental Rock of Instants Chavirés (Or How to Put an End to Jazz) (2018)

A documentary on underground and experimental rock acts performing at Les Instants Chavirés, a music venue in Montreuil, France. Performers include Thierry Madiot, Peter Brötzmann + Han Bennink, The Ex + Tom Cora, Roof, Hint + Quentin Rollet, Kampec Dolo ...

LeF (2016)

It took nine years to create two feature films. They were conceived as a movie-diptych about Leonid Fedorov and a group of musicians formed around him. ...

Encore (2014)

Many many words have been written and a few ingenious TV documentaries have been filmed about the great Russian rock band Auktyon, which recently celebrated 30 years of playing music. Everything is completely different in the case of the film Encore: it to ...

Marc Ribot Trio - Festival Djazz de Nevers 2011 (2011)

Marc Ribot - La Corde Perde-The Lost String (2009)

The Soul of a Man (2003)

Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, th ...

Marc Ribot: The Lost String (2003)

Guitarist Marc Ribot, a longtime legend among musicians but little-known outside the industry, finally gets the recognition he deserves in this compilation of performance footage from intimate clubs in New York's Lower East Side and Europe. These shows pro ...

A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2002)

A rare peek into the working methods of John Zorn. Filmed over a ten year period, this documentary includes live footage of Masada, Naked City, Cobra, as well as improvisations, his classical work and rare interviews. A prize winner at European festivals, ...

Sabbath in Paradise (2000)

Documentary examining contemporary Jewish musical culture in New York's avant garde Jazz scene in the 1990s. ...

Marianne Faithfull: Blazing Away (1990)

Filmed at St. ...

Tom Waits: Big Time (1988)

Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect. ...

Floating Islands (2023)

What story is hidden in the stranded suitcase full of pictures, sounds and letters whose origins we do not know? The film is an homage to cinema, a film poem made up of images between dream and reality; a network of sounds, text fragments and voices that l ...

Amexica: Life in the Borderlands (2021)

A road trip, over ten years, across the so-called Amexican border, a mythical boundary, both physical and cultural, that separates the United States of America from the United Mexican States; a journey in search of the multiple stories of those who inhabit ...

Defining Hope (2017)

We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that can "fix" us and keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical decisions. In our death-denying culture, no matter how sick we get, t ...

Class Divide (2016)

A look at NYC's gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low ...

Gare du Nord (2013)

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here... ...

Drunkboat (2012)

After twenty years of being a drunk, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The ordeal brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he remembers in Chicago. ...

The Time We Killed (2004)

The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the brink of the US invasion of Iraq. Robyn Taylor tries to kick her growing agoraphobia by re-imagining her past and contemplating world events of the presen ...

The Killing Zone (2003)

Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nigerian refugee camp as a child - is gunned down by an eleven-year-old in Brooklyn. In an instant, everything ...

Death By Unnatural Causes (1991)

A visceral homage to those living and dying under the shadow of AIDS in a world run amok. ...

Mystery Train (1989)

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles up ...

Down by Law (1986)

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans. ...