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

• Out of sight, out of mind (p. 27) – a brief history of the production and suppression Ken Loach’s notoriously polemical documentary for the Save the Children Fund, given its public world premiere on September 1 after being shelved for forty years;
• Page One: Inside the New York Times (p. 72) – review of Andrew Rossi’s access-all-areas documentary about the venerable American broadsheet newspaper at a time of crisis for traditional media;
• Before the Revolution (p. 84) – review of the BFI’s dual-format edition of Bernardo Bertolucci’s dazzlingly precocious second feature;
• The Colour of Pomegranates (p. 84) – review of the Second Sight DVD, which finally does the film justice after several near-misses;
• Father (p. 85) – review of Second Run’s excellent DVD of István Szabó’s coruscating second feature, a milestone of 1960s Hungarian filmmaking;
• The Garden of the Finzi-Contini (p. 85) – review of the latest Arrow Academy release, a DVD-only edition of Vittorio de Sica’s final Oscar-winner. Presumably the poor quality of the transfer explains the lack of the usual Blu-ray: a shame, as the package is otherwise excellent;
• The Music Room (p. 86) – Satyajit Ray’s masterly fourth feature given the deluxe Criterion treatment;
• Schloss Vogelöd (p. 89) – review of Masters of Cinema’s DVD of F.W. Murnau’s oldest surviving feature, also (misleadingly) known as The Haunted Castle.