To celebrate the release of the third issue of the film quarterly Narrow Margin, its editors have selected three films by Larry Cohen: Bone (1972), Q (1982), and The Ambulance (1990). Narrow Margin #3 is devoted to Cohen and Rita Azevedo Gomes. It features original criticism, the first English-language translations of important texts on both filmmakers, a roundtable on Cohen’s The Ambulance (1990), and a new interview with Azevedo Gomes. Print copies will be available for purchase at each screening.

An Aztec god atop a New York skyscraper, an ambulance roaming the streets for victims, the white bourgeoisie’s worst nightmare: Larry Cohen’s pulp fictions tear through the fabric of American life. Shot for peanuts with the ambitions of high-concept blockbusters, his guerrilla productions place the wildest spectacles of 50s B movies squarely in the sweaty, grimy world of post-Vietnam America. Like Cassavetes making a Bert Gordon film, Cohen’s movies bring the fantastical from the studio backlot to the mean streets. In each of his films, ordinary men and women are challenged to defy the powers that be and believe what they see with their own eyes. In turn, Cohen urges us to question everything we take for granted—even at the risk of being called crazy. Testaments to true grit and sharp instincts, Cohen’s cinema spits in the eye of “elevated horror” and gives it to you straight, bruised and beautiful.