About

Cashiers du Cinemart started in 1994 as a zine I photocopied and stapled myself. By the late nineties it had become an actual magazine, though it never started acting like one. The name's a jab at France's Cahiers du cinéma — cashiers, as in what you hand your money to on the way into the show.

I've never taken film theory especially seriously. The magazine runs on underground and independent film: edgy writing, incendiary opinions, and an obsessive, often indefensible love of movies most people wouldn't sit through once, let alone twice.

Print ran through 2008. Three more issues followed as print-on-demand paperbacks and Kindle editions, the last in 2014, and the magazine carries on here. In 2010, BearManor Media collected the best of it as Impossibly Funky.