Stuart Maconie reviews the latest DVD releases, plus there's a look at the work of Japanese director and actor Takeshi Kitano, renowned for his violent crime thrillers.
Comedy drama. set in the mid-1970s, about life in a Swedish commune. When a woman leaves her husband with her two children, she has no place to go except for her brother's commune. Directed by Lukas Moodysson, and starring Lisa Lindgren and Michael Nyqvist. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Scandinavia has the reputation of being a land of beautiful natural blondes and midnight sex romps. This film, by Torben Skødt Jensen and Ghita Beckendorff, charts the history of attitudes to sex and reveals the reality to be somewhat more complicated.
Documentary examining how post-war Britain was enlivened by the increasingly popular trad-jazz scene, which became the country's first mass youth culture.
Mike Dibb's portrait of the actor, broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian.
Global news reports.
