Reviews

Fourth album from Hounslow's Britpop perennials

First album in 11 years from Belgian "electronic body music" pioneers

Mini album from Birmingham avant-rockers

Follow-up to 2000's Got It Made from NY-Manc punk-hop crew. Includes that album's TV ad tune "Play Some D"

B.A.D. mainman and Roxy DJ's double-CD tribute to reggae's premier label

Wry, off-centre singer-songwriter on good form

Patricia Highsmith's villain comes to life again

French classroom documentary hits the mark

Bob Fosse surprised everyone in '74, showing there was more to his dark vision than nimble dance steps. He riffs permissively on Lenny Bruce's stand-up routines (which were never routine), and Dustin Hoffman's rarely been bolder. Somehow nominated for loads of Oscars while railing against the establishment's buffoonery.

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).