Reviews

The Bellrays – The Red, White & Black

More heaving dollops of maximum rock'n'soul from Riverside, California

Japan – David Sylvian

Remastered and elaborately repackaged reissues of nearly everything Sylvian and Co did in the '80s

Bruce Palmer – The Cycle Is Complete

Long-lost, flighty solo venture by Buffalo Springfield bassist

Cuban Reels

Stone's intimate document of Castro as man rather than monster

Nickelodeon

This respectful ode to the early days of the US movie industry was the third consecutive box-office flop for Peter Bogdanovich, and the movie that put an end to his wünderkind status in Hollywood. Not fair: Nickelodeon is an accomplished, unjustly-maligned movie very much in the same whimsical period vein as Paper Moon, reuniting the father/daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal and throwing in an on-form Burt Reynolds. Watch and be charmed.

Ulzana’s Raid

Directed by the hugely uncompromising Robert Aldrich, this ferocious post-Wild Bunch western stars Burt Lancaster as a world-weary army scout at odds with callow cavalry officer Bruce Davison on a mission to hunt down the errant Apache chief Ulzana, who with a small band of warriors has broken out of the reservation and are now looting, killing and raping their way across the bleak southwestern territories. Much tampered with by the studio on its original 1972 release and the subject of heated debate about its depiction of the Apaches, the film is in fact both complex and intelligent in its

Girl On A Motorcycle

Originally released in 1968 as Naked Under Leather, this infamous Marianne Faithfull fantasy is more legendary than it is actually any good. A bored small-town wife speeds off on her Harley Davidson to romp around with the Alain Delon of her imagination. An amusing piece of kitsch, bizarrely helmed by iconic cameraman Jack Cardiff. Had they spiked his tea?

Alfie – Do You Imagine Things?

Playful Northern fops take a great leap forward from 2002's A Word In Your Ear

This Month In Soundtracks

David Byrne is best known for his work with Talking Heads, Eno, a smash hit last year with X-Press 2, and his label, Luaka Bop. It's less well-known that he co-wrote the score for The Last Emperor (despite the fact it won him an Oscar) and has worked with theatre experimentalist Robert Wilson.

The Peter Malick Group Featuring Norah Jones – New York City

Early recordings of recent Grammy-winner
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