Reviews

The most exciting US boy/girl duo since The White Stripes

Re-release of albums by legendary '80s Factory band featuring 808 State's Graham Massey

More of the best various-artist releases

Quality Australian thriller about fraternal bank robbers

Filming in Venice and Morocco whenever funds permitted, Orson Welles shot this adaptation of The Bard's play in scraps over four years in the late 1940s. The circumstances—there were literally years between shots—inspired kaleidoscopic editing and audacious improvisation:when costumes failed to arrive for a critical murder, Welles restaged it half-naked in a Turkish bath. The result:the most vibrant slice of Shakespeare-noir ever filmed.

Burt Lancaster, gruff and manly, and Tony Curtis, delicately fey, star in Carol Reed's howlingly homoerotic tale of two leotard-clad acrobats in '50s Paris, vying for each other's respect, for the affections of Gina Lollobrigida, and for mastery of the triple somersault. "Teach me the triple!" says wide-eyed Curtis to Lancaster. "Are you crazy?!" splurts Lancaster, outraged.

Relentless Brazilian street-gang drama spanning three decades

Perfect '70s pop pastiche from Nashville-based singer-songwriter

First album in four years from many-aliased Michael Paradinas

Kraftwerk's first 'proper' album since 1986, plus ex-member's solo outing