"Director: Jem Cohen"

• R.E.M. - In View - The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 | DVD | (22/12/2014) from £9.94   |  Saving you £4.05 (40.74%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In View is meant as a companion piece to REM's best-of album, In Time, but it works well as a collection in its own right. A video history of some of the Athens, Georgia band's biggest songs, its focus is firmly on the latter part their long career, with videos from Automatic for the People ("Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon", "Nightswimming", "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"), Out of Time ("Losing My Religion"), Monster ("What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"), New Adventures in Hi-Fi ("E Bow the Letter", "Electrolite"), Up ("Daysleeper", "At My Most Beautiful"), and Reveal ("Imitation of Life", "All the Way to Reno"). There are just two videos from their pre-breakthrough album Green ("Orange Crush" and "Stand"), though admittedly they shied away from making videos early in their career. Still, nobody can fault the presentation of In View. Of course, the promos are spectacular, if occasionally too self-consciously artsy, but there's even more here. There are three live videos, recorded in Trafalgar Square, and six additional, rarely seen videos ("Tongue", "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us", "New Test Leper", "Bittersweet Me", "Lotus", "I'll Take the Rain"). Best of all, though, is the ability to watch them with or without brief, introductory interviews with the band, which give a window into REM's ongoing appeal: as talented as they are, they're still refreshingly human pop stars. --Robert Burrow

• Museum Hours | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An enigmatic visitor and a guard at Vienna's grand art museum form a life-changing friendship in this extraordinary film from festival favourite Jem Cohen. Using a lightly experimental fusion of drama and documentary the film cleverly observes how art and modern day life interconnect. Starring music legend Mary Margaret O'Hara Museum Hours is intelligent gently humorous engaging and offbeat.

• R.E.M. - This Film Is On | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £12.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (13.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ten tracks from REM including: 'Near Wild Heaven' 'Losing My Religion' 'Radio Song' 'Belong' 'Half A World Away' and 'Country Feedback'.

• Fugazi: Instrument | DVD | (19/04/1999) from £31.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-25.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Benjamin Smoke | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This documentary recalls the life of the lead singer and lyracist of Atlanta-based bands 'Smoke' and 'Opal Foxx Quartet'. Born Robert Curtis Dickerson but referred to simply as ""Benjamin"": the musician died HIV positive at the young age of 39 from cirosis of the liver caused by Hepatitas C. 'Benjamin Smoke' is a both a wild and a tender film that goes straight to the heart.

• The Ex - Building A Broken Mousetrap | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £13.67   |  Saving you £-2.68 (-24.40%)   |  RRP £10.99

  'Building A Broken Mousetrap' presents The EX in New York a DVD made by Jem Cohen (who made the ""Instrument"" movie of Fugazi) shot on September 11 2004. The Ex live in The Knitting Factory the first night of their US tour. A celebration of life and activism. 4 songs captured in 16 mm film another 4 songs in DV. One hour of intense exciting live music intertwined with construction-site footage from New York and Amsterdam protest footage against the Republic National Convention city footage...the blurred line between building and destruction. No retakes no corrections no fine-tuning.