And if that’s not enough Pink Floyd (see left), Live At Pompeii UNIVERSAL is the director’s cut of their rather fine 1972 film, featuring such early in-concert favourites as “Careful With That Axe Eugene” and “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun”. Heaven knows, Prince’s records in recent years have ranged from the simply dire to the downright unlistenable. But he’s still a consummate showman, as he proves on Prince Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas UNIVERSAL . Recorded at the end of last year, the show includes his versions of Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and James Brown’s “Pass The Peas”. But be warned: it’s not a greatest hits show, and you won’t find “Purple Rain” et al. The Gospel According To Al Green UNION SQUARE PICTURES doesn’t include many of his hits either, although “Let’s Stay Together” is here. For the rest, the 1984 film finds Green in full-on evangelical mood with prayers and sermons alongside the likes of “Nearer My God To Thee”. Alicia Keys?From Start To Stardom WEINERWORLD is an “unofficial” documentary?which means it includes interviews with everyone but Keys herself. Rockin’ In The USA DTS is a bit of a treat, with 22 tracks taken from German TV between 1969 and 1974, including astounding performances from the Grateful Dead (pictured below), Captain Beefheart, Spirit, The Beach Boys and Little Feat. Five years ago, the Pretty Things got back together to give their pioneering, pre-Tommy ‘rock opera’ SF Sorrow a makeover. SF Sorrow Live At Abbey Road SNAPPER commemorates the event and includes guest appearances from David Gilmour and Arthur Brown. A slew of variable in-concert DVDs this month includes Reef Live SNAPPER , which checks in at a marathon two-and-a-half hours, Stiff Little Fingers In Concert SECRET FILMS , on which “Suspect Device” sounds as explosive as ever, a riotous Jesus Jones Live At The Marquee SECRET FILMS and a reformed Mountain, trying a little too desperately to recreate the golden age of the power trio on Sea Of Fire WEINERWORLD . But for sheer, old-fashioned class, try Memories Of Duke WEINERWORLD , a loving homage to Duke Ellington from 1968.

Generally hailed as Renoir’s ‘unfinished masterpiece’, this sad, lyrical short from 1946 is based on a Guy de Maupassant story. A young girl finds a quasi-romance after wandering off from her picnicking family near the Seine. It’s all about Renoir’s impressionistic eye for nature and the transience of innocence: a personal, poetic work which now, extended, looks better than ever.

Buckling under the weight of expectation inherent in all ‘New Latin Cinema’ (this isn’t City Of God), El Crimen still has another deft performance from movement poster-boy Gael Garc

Burr Steers’ debut as writer-director is perhaps a little too self-consciously off-kilter, but the film’s humour is satisfyingly sour and the performances of a large ensemble cast are impeccable. Pitched somewhere between the macabre and the merely eccentric, Igby stars a convincingly debauched Kieran Culkin as the film’s eponymous rebellious teen. Igby is much troubled by his father’s breakdown, a sullen juvenile at odds with a world he wants no part of and indeed wants only to drop out of.

Claire Danes and Amanda Peet are excellent as the women he gets involved with, Ryan Phillippe is unbelievably smarmy as Igby’s preppy brother and Susan Sarandon enjoys herself immensely as their monstrous mother. But it’s Jeff Goldblum you’ll remember for a reptilian turn as Igby’s godfather in a sensationally creepy performance.

The latest in the excellent Classic Albums series turns to the Floyd’s masterpiece?and given such dubious contenders as Meat Loaf and Judas Priest have already featured, the surprise is that it’s taken this long. The hour-plus documentary follows the familiar mix of archive footage (ranging back to the early days with Syd Barrett) and current interviews, in which David Gilmour in particular comes across as hugely entertaining. And what makes it a classic album? The talking heads conclude it’s a combination of the universality of the theme, Gilmour’s guitar-playing and the strength of Waters’ songwriting before he hit The Wall.

They may not be the most charismatic bunch ever to tread a rock’n’roll stage, but Doves sure know how to put on a fine show. Recorded live in the extraordinary location of the Eden Project in Cornwall during the summer of 2002, the Manchester trio storm through a rousing set of uplifting tunes, in which “Pounding” and “There Goes The Fear”, from their latest album, The Last Broadcast, are inevitably the highlights.

EXTRAS: Arguably even better than the main feature. A huge array of extras includes a documentary specially filmed for the DVD, a second mini-doc on their ill-fated earlier incarnation as Sub Sub, all the promo videos, hidden tracks, and unseen footage of the Hacienda in all its drug-crazed glory.

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Compilation of documentary, videos and live footage marking the 35th anniversary of the Krautrockers. Though their backgrounds were in jazz and classical, they blasted rock into the future via its first principles through repetitive, improvised sessions. This DVD has live material from Cologne and a ’76 slot on TOTP playing their one hit, “I Want More”. The live footage is irretrievably ’70s in its visual mixture of the garish and dismal but the music’s way out and beyond. Interviews confirm the cerebral underpinning of this most deceptively primal of bands.