Szindbád review roundup

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Michael Brooke

DVD cover for Szindbád Second Run’s DVD edition of Zoltán Huszárik’s masterpiece Szindbád comes out today, and reviews have generally been ecstatic.

The Digital Fix (Anthony Nield);
DVD Outsider (L.K. Weston);
Mondo Digital (Nathaniel Thompson);
Sight & Sound (Michael Atkinson);
Sunday Telegraph (Alan Stanbrook);
Time Out (David Jenkins)

These ones are less keen on the film, but are nice about the extras:

Electric Sheep (Alison Frank);
24 Frames per Second (Sam Inglis)

…and here’s Second Run’s own page about the film and the DVD.

Sight & Sound: August 2011

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Michael Brooke

Cover of Sight & Sound August 2011 The latest Sight & Sound is out, complete with the following pieces by me:

Faccia a faccia (p. 85) – review of Eureka’s new DVD of Sergio Sollima’s underrated Italian western, released uncut for the first time in Britain;
The Halfway House (p. 86) – review of Optimum’s excellent DVD restoration of Ealing Studios’ J.B. Priestley-like wartime ghost story;
The Kremlin Letter (p. 86) – review of Eureka’s DVD of John Huston’s fantastically downbeat Cold War drama about disillusioned spies;
Rififi (p. 89) – review of the Arrow Academy edition of the classic heist thriller, complete with one of the best black-and-white pictures yet seen on a Blu-ray;
The Kingdom I & II (p. 91) – review of the superb new Second Sight edition of Lars von Trier and Morton Arnfred’s gleefully unhinged hospital soap opera.