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

• The Interrupters (p. 52) – this month’s Film of the Month, a sobering documentary study by the maker of Hoop Dreams of Chicago street violence and a promising initiative aimed at dealing with it;
• Carmen (p. 83) – review of the DVD (sadly, I wasn’t sent the Blu-ray) of Second Sight’s restored edition of Francesco Rosi’s 1984 opera-film;
• Cœur fidèle (p. 83) – review of Masters of Cinema’s first Jean Epstein release, a demonstration-quality silent film Blu-ray;
• Pigs & Battleships/Stolen Desire (p. 87) – review of another Masters of Cinema package, this time devoted to Shohei Imamura’s first and fifth features;
• They Went Into Space (p. 88) – review of Telewizja Kinopolska’s sci-fi collection (‘Pojechane w kosmos’), containing the DEFA co-productions The Silent Star and Signals: An Adventure in Space, the Stanisław Lem adaptation Pirx’s Test Flight and the hilarious Indiana Jones ripoff The Curse of Snake Valley. The latter may well be the silliest film I’ve reviewed for S&S to date.