Reviews

The definitive example of High Godard (that brief period after his spectacular debut, À Bout De Souffle, and before the left-wing quasi-revolutionary abstractions of British Sounds and Passion), Bande À Part is a veritable checklist of stylish and insouciant Nouvelle Vague chic. There's the casually one-dimensional protagonists, in this case pseudo-gangsters Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and their new playmate Odile (Anna Karina).

Dennis Hopper-directed noir-by-numbers from 1990. Don Johnson's ambiguous stranger drifts into a sultry small town to run a con, and gets caught between lust for married Virginia Madsen and troubled teen Jennifer Connelly. Routine; but cherish this movie for the once-in-a-lifetime soundtrack Hopper persuaded Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal to jam.

16 Horsepower frontman's score for a Belgian dance company

Smart-bomb metal and high jinx from Sweden's latest kick-ass export

Second album since the 2000 reunion, and first on Mike Scott's own label

First new album in 12 years from post-punk legends

Glorious fifth album proper from ever-shifting Bostonians reaches down through the years

Twenty-eight-track compilation of Utah saints' greatest hits, with sleevenotes by Alan Osmond

Filtered French house par excellence

Classic ghost story from Ring writer and director