Our Lady of the Assassins brings director Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) back to Colombia, where he was raised, to find the city of Medellín filled with drug trafficking and youth gangs. So in filming Fernando Vallejo's novel about a fiftyish gay writer returning to this city after three decades, Schroeder shot guerrilla-style on high-definition video to move quickly on the dangerous streets. Fernando (German Jaramillo), the writer who claims to have slept with more than 1,000 boys, finds an unlikely love in teen gangbanger Alexis (Anderson Ballestros) and takes the killer on a tour of the city he knew in his youth. Setting it against the backdrop of a wanton city under siege, Schroeder crafts a film of whiplash urgency.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."