The new issue of Sight & Sound is out, complete with my second contribution to the magazine (the first being way back in September 2002). Actually, it’s a double helping, since I interviewed Guy Maddin for the main feature (and asked him to caption favourite stills, though the subs stripped out most of the idiosyncratic punctuation) as well as reviewing The Saddest Music in the World. This is my first S&S cinema review, which also posed the challenge of synopsising a Maddin scenario with a straight face.

The interview was conducted over the phone, and I treasure the signoff – Maddin told me that if my deadline was coming up and I needed to check something and I couldn’t reach him in time, I had his permission to just make something up. I didn’t take him up on his offer, but it wasn’t half tempting.