The great dance music innovators' final concert, recorded live at the Budokan in April 1996

Guitar legend's moving valediction

'Godfather of goth' hires former Birthday Party producer Nick Launay for 'urgent' 12th album

New Hope, PA nutters started out with a Casio and then bled rock's corpse dry

Second and third pre-Stankonia albums from Atlanta funk-hop giants, at mid-price

Thirty-six axe-wielders in mostly reflective mood

Analytical US-style remake of slow-burning Japanese chiller

Director Peter Watkins' mid-1960s work for the BBC still shines. Culloden recreated the famous battle as if covered by a modern news team—a radical approach for the time. More controversially, The War Game showed that nuclear war was an unwinnable nightmare, and was consequently banned by the Beeb, though it picked up an Oscar when released theatrically in 1966.

Despite the presence of the hapless Josh Hartnett, Tim Blake Nelson (him from O Brother, Where Art Thou) stirs up a sprightly, sinister revamp of Othello. Mekhi Phifer's fine as the school basketball hero who blows his future when jealous Josh, in the lago role, convinces him Julia Stiles is a duplicitous Desdemona. All this and Martin Sheen trying to look non-presidential as the sports coach.

In his final starring role, Richard Harris glowers impressively as the Irish underworld patriarch in Don Boyd's inspired relocation of Shakespeare's King Lear to contemporary Liverpool, Sadly Boyd directs with a low-voltage energy which flattens out intense emotion and visceral violence into brightly lit, blandly shot TV cop drama.