Reviews

Former Eurythmic's break-up album

England's blue-eyed soul boy goes back to his roots

Delicate, multi-layered esoterica from UK improv innovator

Second album from Japanese Mogwai

Marvin'n'Jim's classic of subtlety and restraint, digitally remastered with extra tracks and a bonus hits DVD

Before the epidemic, primitive '80s garage dementia from UK's suburbs

Round-up of Felix Da Housecat's prodigious '90s electro-disco productions

Documentary about the lives of gay and lesbian orthodox and Hasidic Jews

Veteran producer Irwin Winkler's 1990 directorial debut, recreating the paranoid climate that enveloped early-'50s Hollywood during the anti-communist witch-hunts. Robert De Niro is the fictitious RKO director watching lives, morals and ethics come apart under the strain. A clear-eyed and heartfelt history lesson, with a Martin Scorsese cameo that's a barely disguised portrait of blacklist exile Joseph Losey.

Claude Lelouch arguably never surpassed this 1966 Oscar-winning romance, which sweetened French new wave experimentation for the global mainstream. For all the heart-tugging lyricism, it's still immensely affecting. Bright Anouk Aimée and brave Jean-Louis Trintignant, both widowed, fall in love as that durable theme tune twinkles away.