Two themes are routinely described as transformative for Primal Scream’s celebrated 1991 recording: acid house and Andrew Weatherall. But, as Ben Gilbert outlines, other factors led to an album that was both era-defining and defined by the era in which it was made
With his new duo The Asphodells, Andrew Weatherall has created an album that's equal parts pastoral electronic pop and naughty indoor pursuits. He speaks to Luke Turner about fruity Englishmen and the importance of setting yourself high standards
Our Boston, MA correspondent Craig Terlino ponders the basis of modern US cinema great Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature, which opens as a 70mm presentation at the Odeon West End in London this Friday, before going on regular nationwide theatrical release from November 16
In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory
Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner returns with a prickly sci-fi hybrid to give Invasion of the Body Snatchers a run for its money. Nick Chen meets the filmmaker to find out about anti-cinema and whether there really is such a thing as happiness