You can find the whole film in two parts on Youtube, but admittedly in Russian without English subtitles.

The book is pretty much a scene by scene discussion of the film with lots of disgressions and lengthy footnotes, so I would say you kind of need to know the film first.

"We are so small beneath the stars, so large against the sky
And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye."

I picked it up after the review here a few months back and loved it; it's the kind of music book that sends you to iTunes every few pages and makes you wonder why you have never heard this stuff before.

I would say that it might be the first 3D film which absolutely must be seen in 3D.

And stick The Honourable Schoolboy in the middle too, it's the under-rated part of the Karla trilogy.

Alasdair Roberts is also fantastic, especially "Spoils". Really rich and allusive.

I think that Corn Rigs is a Robert Burn poem set to music; I kind of like the imagery of those hoary-handed eighteenth century farmers just getting down and dirty in the middle of their muddy fields.

As a good introduction I would recommend the compilation "Gather In The Mushrooms". Also, the soundtrack to "The Wicker Man" should really be mentioned here too.

No love for El Indio and his melodramatic baroque craziness?