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Stunningly beautiful and utterly bizarre Japanese fable about a medieval Kabuki actor (Kazuo Hasegawa), renowned as a female impersonator, who carries his on-stage portrayal of a woman out into the world in order to seduce and murder the noblemen responsible for his parents' death. The direction is haphazard, the imagery is amazing. DVD EXTRAS: Director's biography, web link.

All dressed up and somewhere to go—Oklahoma visionaries in resplendent spectacle

More brilliantly bilious dispatches from This England

Retro techno par excellence

Excellent, if creepy, lo-fi folk

First UK releases for currently hot band

Set in and around a half-built rubble-strewn suburb of nowhere Vienna, pounded by summer sunstroke, and featuring brutal scenes of rape and battery, Dog Days is a bracing blast of arthouse nihilism from Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl. And like a bleak psychotropic Short Cuts, the success of this multi-character piece depends on how the viewer responds to Seidl's remarkable yet savagely pessimistic world view.

Hardcore folktronica. From Cherbourg

Re-release of classic krautrock albums with bonus tracks

Stunning new album from Britain's best-kept secret