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

• The Joy of Six (p. 97) – review of a generally pretty successful compilation of half a dozen new British short films;
• McCullin (p. 101) – review of the excellent, thorough documentary about the great war photographer Don McCullin;
• Films by Victor Erice (p. 114) – specifically, his first two features Spirit of the Beehive and South, both released on gratifyingly cheap and even more gratifyingly English-friendly Spanish Blu-ray discs;
• Gate of Hell (p. 116) – review of Masters of Cinema’s immaculate presentation of Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Eastmancolor showcase, an eye-popping visual treat that’s nonetheless a notch below the best mid-Fifties Japanese period dramas;
• Films by Kim Ki-duk (p. 116) – specifically his debut Crocodile (1996) and his recent Arirang (2011), a surprisingly apposite double bill given the latter’s back-to-basics return to his improvised roots;
• This Is Cinerama (p. 120) – review of Flicker Alley’s surprisingly effective Blu-ray treatment of the ginormous-screen classic. Obviously, it can’t possibly replicate an authentic Cinerama experience at home, but the plethora of extras is a historian’s dream.