Ache

Life-affirming swan song from Carter Family matriarch

Fifties classic revived for NFT's James Mason season

Those folky solo years of the late Face

LaBute blasts back to his best form with sculpted firestarter

Two nautical novels brought brilliantly to life in one action stunner

Candid look at America's drug-loving teen queens

Dennis Hopper is Huey Walker, a '60s radical who's been wanted by the Feds for decades. When he's captured in the late '80s, repressed, clean-cut young FBI man Kiefer Sutherland lands the job of escorting him to trial through Reagan-era America, but Hopper turns the tables, and teaches him how to drop out. Your average, idealistic, pan-generational odd-couple road movie, but Hopper, spoofing his Easy Rider persona, is a howl.

Seventeen singles that reached pole position in the UK, US or Europe, plus new R Kelly ballad

Ten months, twelve pupils, one teacher, one documentarian and 300 hours of footage are mixed and tweaked to produce 100 minutes of gripping observational drama set in a rural French classroom. Here, the avuncular Georges Lopez instructs his students and dispenses wisdom in equal measure, while his soft baritone rolls from day to day, season to season, like the voice of God.

First-time CD release for pre-Big Star band recordings