35 B-sides and rarities, with two unreleased tracks, on two CDs

Career-celebrating compilation stretches patience

Very early Hendrix tapes dusted down by his sax mate

Box set of previously unheard recordings by most famous singer ever

First three albums from alt.country pioneers remastered with bonus tracks

Stunningly dark, neurotic and indeed erotic drama from the matchless Nic Roeg who, in 1980, was flying. Set in Vienna, it traces the tangled affair between the passionate Theresa Russell and the deadpan (and very subtle) Art Garfunkel, with Harvey Keitel looking on suspiciously. Riddled with narrative and stylistic flash and mad degeneracy, somehow Roeg makes it stick. DVD EXTRAS: Trailer, scene selection.

Being John Malkovich team twist the rules of narrative to ingenious comic effect

Brian De Palma's taken several critical and box office beatings in his erratically compelling career, but Femme Fatale's straight-to-video UK release must mark an all-time low for him. Not that the film deserves much better—it's glossy tosh, a supposedly erotic crime thriller about deceit and redemption in which De Palma lavishly indulges his stylistic obsessions to very little purpose. Painfully poor work from a great director.

Athens, Georgia's finest back at the Academy, facing the future, taking on all comers

Third album from Detroit blues exponents and White Stripes chums