Reviews

If Easy Rider spelled the end of the hippie dream, then Chainsaw provided the full-blown nightmare. A camper van full of paisley-shirted, astrology-obsessed kids pulls up in rural Texas only to discover Leatherface and his family only too willing to show them some local hospitality. The opening half-hour still remains the most unnerving in horror history.

New York punk trio surpass media hype with cataclysmic debut

Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth hold a party in their home studio

Seventh album from immaculate country-rockers with guest appearances by Jakob Dylan, Bernie Leadon and Matthew Sweet

Third from 'Frisco 'twee'-revivalists

Respected Texan troubadour's eighth album

Long-overdue two-disc, 37-track compilation of Glasgow's missing link between David Bowie and Nick Cave

Bowie guitarist's Bowie-esque '74 debut

Handy primer on Ian Hunter's seminal '70s rockers

OPENS APRIL 11, CERT 15, 77 MINS Damien Odoul's debut feature is a coming-of-age film with a difference. Shot in black and white, full of violent and surreal imagery, it has more in common with the movies of Buñuel and Vigo or Arthur Rimbaud's poetry than with any conventional teen movie. Alienated teenager David (Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc) lives on a remote French farm with his uncle. The older farm hands decide to get him drunk for the first time.