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Watching the fabbest of all fours in their first US press conference, puffing away on cigs and deflecting inane enquiries, you feel proud to be a Brit. "Sing something for us!" "No, we need money first." Could Justin Timberlake—or Julian Casablancas, for that matter—be half as sarcastic? Imagine waking from a 40-year coma and coming afresh to these extraordinary scenes: four scouse charmers off the plane with their matching suits and Pan Am shoulder bags.

New wave god turned worldbeat evangelist gets opera bug

Yet another live album from that model of maturity, Library Lou

School's out forever, dude, in the new Jack Black comedy

DIRECTED BY Bernardo Bertolucci STARRING Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel Opens February 6, Cert 18, 115 mins Film buffs have never looked less sexy than they do in Bertolucci's curiously distant rendering of Paris in May 1968. True, the film buffs in question spend most of their time lounging naked, playing psycho-sexual mind games and rutting feverishly. And yes, all three stars (Pitt, Garrel and, in particular, Green) are undeniably easy on the eye—something Bertolucci is at pains to stress with lots of salivating camera lingering on flesh.

Sofia Coppola's second feature is a graceful, melancholic romance set in Tokyo and starring Bill Murray

Macca talks with his usual earnest charm in this documentary about 1989's Flowers In The Dirt. Casting Elvis Costello as the sarcastic Lennon figure during sessions for "My Brave Face", McCartney leads his band through selections from the album, The Beatles and classic rock'n' roll.

Not so much a greatest hits as a musical autobiography, including new tracks and re-recorded B-sides

Acclaimed Danish film-makers do battle

Written and directed by the perennially underrated French-Canadian Denys Arcand, this engrossing 1989 fable sees Lothaire Bluteau as an actor playing Jesus who's caught up in conflict with the church. His problems begin to echo those of the Biblical Christ. Oscar-nominated, the dry, ironic style gives it a wry resonance more effective than any breast-beating.