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

• The Arbor – review of Clio Barnard’s alarmingly original take on the concept of drama-documentary;
• Involuntary – review of Ruben Östlund’s agreeably off-kilter study of Swedish social foibles;
• Possession – review of Second Sight’s excellent DVD of Andrzej Żuławski’s ferociously confrontational study of marital breakdown: probably the most complex and intelligent of the films that made the DPP’s “video nasties” list;
• The Burmese Harp – review of Masters of Cinema’s Blu-ray-only edition of Kon Ichikawa’s anti-war masterpiece;
• Compulsion – review of Second Sight’s DVD of Richard Fleischer’s widescreen treatment of the Leopold and Loeb murder case that also inspired Rope and Swoon;
• Satyajit Ray Volume 3 – review of Artificial Eye’s latest box set, containing the revelatory Deliverance, the masterly Tagore adaptation The Home and the World, and the disappointing Ibsen adaptation An Enemy of the People;
• While the City Sleeps – review of Fritz Lang’s wickedly funny thriller about media priorities when faced with a life-or-death drama.