Weeds

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Revered by film-making legends from Alain Resnais to Martin Scorsese, the Japanese director Yasijuro Ozu specialised in minutely observed and exquisitely composed domestic dramas. Made in 1959, Floating Weeds was one of Ozu's last features, a remake of one of his early silents about backstage politics and romantic turbulence among a troupe of travelling Kabuki theatre players. The subject may sound alien but Ozu makes their problems timeless and universal.

Sumptuous theatrical tale from Japan

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Baltimore folk-rockers go back to nature

Everything’s rosy on band’s upbeat seventh

Pasture prime: smog lifts over the Bob Dylan 
of dysfunction

Quixotic, quizzical chamber songs from Chicago’s questing six-stringer

Lush new age music underpinned by pop smarts