Trans am

It'll forever remain one of the great, blessed blips of cinema history. Flashy populist Spielberg crafted in '93 the definitive Holocaust portrayal. He educated and disturbed while avoiding exploitation. Scale and intimacy were balanced, the intensity was just the right side of too much. Austrian businessman Schindler (Liam Neeson) bribes the SS and saves over a thousand Jews from death. It's the many who didn't make the list you think about. Ralph Fiennes is a mesmerising bully.

The return of the widow Gainsbourg, with friends

Her ninth studio album, and first after leaving Arista, her home since 1975

Marvellous second album of irresistible Anglophile strangeness from Albuquerque oddballs

A Kyoto skyscraper is contrasted with a crematorium chimney, gravestones abound, as do sinister black crows. And yet despite the lugubrious undertow of this, Yasujiro Ozu's penultimate movie (made two years before his death), there's a warmth to the tale of the Kohayagawa family, their ailing business and their eccentric patriarch that somehow transforms post-war angst into sublime acceptance.

Stunningly underrated, ferocious portrait of Wild Bill Hickok

Robert Altman's offbeat '70s transposition of Chandler's noir classic

First UK release from powerful and strange Michigan singer-songwriter

Classic 1964 live recording, long revered by collectors, finally given official release

Rock'n'roll's leading dysfunctional couple play their biggest UK shows yet