Sight & Sound December 2008

The December 2008 issue of Sight & Sound has just landed on my desk, and includes the following self-penned pieces:

• ‘That loving feeling’ – this month’s lead review, of Djamshed Usmonov’s To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (pages 48-49, and online)
• Book review of Peter Hames’ (ed) The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy (page 93)

plus these individual DVD reviews:

• Eureka (page 85)
• The GPO Film Unit Volume 1: Addressing the Nation (page 85)
• The Living End (page 86)
• Films by Max Ophuls: Caught and La Ronde (page 87)
• Pleasures of the Flesh (page 87)
• Red Desert (page 87)
• Tigrero – A Film That Was Never Made (page 87)
• J’Accuse (page 89)

Red Desert

A new MovieMail catalogue entry, for Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert. They also commissioned a piece on Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, but that seems to have been delayed.

Night Train

I’ve just published a review of Jerzy Kawalerowicz’ psychological suspense thriller Night Train (1959) on Kinoblog.

Screenonline in October

The new Screenonline homepage was launched earlier today, with yours truly responsible for two major features.

The first is a survey of the feature film output of the BFI Production Board, with an overview and individual entries on A Private Enterprise (1974) and Anchoress (1993).

The second is a look at the career of screenwriter-producer-director Sidney Gilliat, better known as one half of the longstanding Launder and Gilliat partnership. Geoff Brown wrote the career overview, but I wrote most of the individual entries, including Rome Express (1932), Seven Sinners (1936), Millions Like Us (1943), Waterloo Road (1944), The Rake’s Progress (1945), I See A Dark Stranger (1946), Captain Boycott (1947), London Belongs To Me (1948), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953), The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954) and The Green Man (1956).

My other new material this month is a piece on Norman McLaren’s dazzling hand-drawn animation Love on the Wing (1938).

Историк британского кино Майкл Брук

Since I can’t read the end result myself, I’m gambling that I don’t come across as a completely clueless imbecile – but I was interviewed for and am quoted in this feature on British cinema, published yesterday by the BBC’s Russian service.

I’m guessing that “историк британского кино Майкл Брук” refers to yours truly in his capacity as a British film historian, but that’s about my limit.

Sight & Sound November 2008

The November 2008 issue of Sight & Sound has arrived from the printers, and features ten pieces with my byline, namely:

• ‘South by Southeast’ – a report from the Sarajevo Film Festival (page 8 )
• Love Letters and Live Wires – Highlights from the GPO Film Unit’ – film review (page 64, and also online)
• ‘Dark Days of Salò’ – a look at the various new editions of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film (page 84)

plus these individual DVD reviews:

• King of New York (page 85)
• Kings of the Road (page 85)
• Love is the Devil (page 86)
• Films by Maurice Pialat: L’Enfance nue and Police (page 86)
• Uniform (page 87)
• Violence at High Noon (page 87)
• Brand Upon the Brain! (page 88)