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

• How We Won The War (p. 35) – an overview of Soviet and Russian cinema’s treatment of the Great Patriotic War, aka World War II;
• White Elephant (p. 109) – review of Pablo Trapero’s well-intentioned, well-staged but slightly disappointing seventh feature (at least by the standards he’s previously set himself);
• Baise-Moi (p. 112) – review of Arrow’s knockout edition of Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi’s problematic rape-revenge film, the first DVD version to be both uncut and framed correctly;
• City of Women (p. 115) – review of Masters of Cinema’s superb Blu-ray and DVD editions of what I now regard as Federico Fellini’s last great film: I was rather more impressed by it this time round than when I first caught it in Paris in the early 1990s, although English subtitles certainly would have helped;
• The Murderer Lives At 21 (p. 115) – review of Masters of Cinema’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of suspense master Henri-Georges Clouzot’s deceptively lighthearted directorial debut – given the film’s obscurity and the fact that it’s a whodunit at base, I decided to avoid narrative spoilers, which meant that I had to soft-pedal one of the film’s key themes.