We bring you our guide to living well in the world’s capitals, from exhibitions to cinema, food, drink, fashion, music and beyond. Just call it culture and take it, it’s yours.

LONDON, FRIDAY 12th SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 14th SEPTEMBER 2014

Class A
First up this week we have the patriarch of the Skarsgård family of actors, Stellan, in his new role as an introverted and hard-working snow plow driver by the name of Nils. Set in the bleakly frost blighted fjords of Norway In Order of Disappearance, a bruisingly black comic thriller from director Hans Petter Moland, deals a hefty slice of Nordic noir with an undercurrent of black comedy and some pretty spectacular deaths based upon Nil’s discovery of his son’s death from a supposed heroin overdose.

After uncovering evidence of the young man’s murder – armed with heavy machinery and a good dose of beginner’s luck, Nils embarks upon a quest for revenge.. .expect to see many a strangulated or decapitated coke dealer and blacker-than-black Scandinavian humour.

In Order of Disappearance, 2014, 117 mins

‘Regrets belong to everybody, don’t they?’
In June 2012, famed abstract expressionist Jasper Johns came upon an old photograph of the artist presented in an auction catalogue. In the picture Freud sits on a bed  sits on a bed, holding his right hand to his forehead in a gesture of weariness or despair. Hardly a heartwarming picture but for Johns this photograph was so heavily inspiring not only by this scene but also by the damaged appearance of the photograph itself that in the months that followed, he carried the image through a huge range of artistic variations – some of which can now be seen at Somerset House’s Courtauld gallery throughout September.

The title and signature inscribed on most of the works — “Regrets/Jasper Johns”—  relating to the the cycle of dead ends and fresh starts, the way problems and solutions develop from one work to another, and the incessant interplay of materials and meaning  harks to a reoccurring message throughout the life’s work of one of the world’s greatest living artists.

Jasper Johns: Regrets, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Saturation 70. Cool factor 100.
Writer-director Tony Foutz’s Saturation 70 has some pretty weighty descriptions behind it – “A vision past of the future foretold” and “The greatest cult movie you have never seen” for starters. Bold statements? Well, considering it was never finished; the cast was to consist of then five-year-old Julian Jones, the son of Rolling Stone Brian Jones, Michelle Phillips, and Gram Parsons as well as Stash Klossowski de Rola and Nudie Cohn, and had a script billed as an update to the story of The Wizard of Oz but in space, then you start to give it a little more respect.

If you’re rearing to see it then head to The Horse Hospital who will showing all that remains of the project alongside a screening of the only-existing footage from the film, a five minute showreel cut to the Flying Burrito Brother’s version of the Rolling Stones’ Wild Horses, recorded contemporaneously to the Saturation 70 shoot for the second Burrito Brothers album, Burrito Deluxe, which also features the band dressed in costumes from the film on its sleeve. Trippy, man.

Saturation 70, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
Until September 27th 2014

Droning on
Join two fearless innovators, including The Velvet Underground’s John Cale and technology storyteller Liam Young as they perform at the Barbican’s Theatre this weekend in Loop>>60Hz: Transmissions from the Drone Orchestra. This really isn’t an experience to be missed – Cale and his band will be performing music from across their catalogue, joined by Liam Young and his flock of drones that will be flying live above the audience in the Barbican Theatre. Patch together a brilliant score of original compositions and selected tracks from Cale’s incredible career with imaginings on the subject of seeing drones as emerging cultural objects and you’re in for driftingly ambient evening. Mind yer ‘ead.

Loop>>60Hz: Transmissions from the Drone Orchestra, Barbican, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS

Hops and Chops in another ol’boozer
Lately the great British pub is back – and by god is it on fine form. Nestled deep in the lively and exciting Smithfield area, the former original London gin-joint The Fox and Anchor joins a long list of tentatively restored boozers offering that extra bit more as well.

The Fox has been serving the traders of Smithfield market for years and has now been lovingly brought back to life with mahogany doors, etched glass and heavy brass, serving, of course,  good grub alongside our nations’ other favourite; good strong plonk. Another real treat in this unique pub is nestled right at the back and goes by the name of The Foxes Den. Three cosy wooden booths or snugs for those who enjoy a bit of privacy away from the hustle and bustle of the main bar area. This is where it many a good weekend starts and continues well into Monday morning. No fuss. No messing about. Sorted.

The Fox and Anchor, 115 Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 6AA