Why isn’t Jack Smith’s films available on DVD? Here’s the breakdown on why and the efforts of Penny Arcade and J. Hoberman to bring them to the masses.

Soft Skull Press has reissued an amazing new edition of Jack Sargeant’s history of the influential Cinema of Transgression movement of the ’80s.

George Renan’s An Introduction to the American Underground Film, written in the ’60s, is an invaluable encyclopedic reference to the classics.

Movie Journal by Jonas Mekas is essential reading on what the underground film movement was like in NYC back in the ’60s by the man who invented it.

J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum’s classic Midnight Movie is still an important must-read for fans of cult and underground films.