The latest Sight & Sound is out, complete with the following pieces by me:
- Limitless (p. 60) – review of Neil Burger’s slick but highly entertaining thriller about brain-enhancing drugs;
- Tracker (p. 76) – review of the watchable but ultimately ho-hum New Zealand-set adventure film pitting fellow outsiders Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison (one Boer, the other Maori) against each other;
- ‘The art of Michelangelo’ (p. 84) – review of Masters of Cinema’s dual-format releases of the early Antonioni films La signora senza camelie and Le Amiche;
- Blood Simple (p. 85) – review of Momentum’s DVD of Zhang Yimou’s eccentric but often compelling Chinese period remake of the Coen Brothers’ first feature;
- Dark Star (p. 85) – review of Fabulous Films’ pretty fabulous DVD of John Carpenter’s much-loved low-budget sci-fi debut;
- Larks on a String (p. 86) – review of Second Run’s director-approved edition of Jiří Menzel’s long-banned satire mocking the overweening absurdity of political dogma;
- Slingshot (p. 89) – review of Peccadillo Pictures’ DVD of Brillante Mendoza’s virtuoso study of the lives of the inhabitants of a Manila slum.