Sight & Sound. August 07.

The August issue marks Sight & Sound's 75th anniversary; to celebrate, the editors have asked "critics from around the world to nominate their favourite overlooked masterpiece. The result: 75 lost films you just have to track down." But first, you'll have to track down the print version of this issue; this feature's not online.

What is online: Amy Taubin's conversation with Gus Van Sant about Andy Warhol and Andrew Roberts arguing that the "Harry Potter films are the most commercially successful entries in the time-honoured British boarding-school genre."

Reviews:

• "A study of loss and disorientation, filled with silences, ambiguities and unspoken affinities, Daratt (Dry Season) is shot in a carefully composed style and communicates through small gestures and physical interactions rather than striking visual effects," writes Roy Armes. "How can the people of Chad move forward after the horrors they have endured? How can a new generation cope with the burden of the past?"

• Kim Newman on Die Hard 4.0, known only in the States, naturally, as Live Free or Die Hard: "This latest Die Hard movie is undecided as to whether it is a reboot for its 1980s-spawned franchise or a last hurrah for shaven-headed, unbreakable Bruce Willis as an action hero."

• Hannah Patterson on Sherrybaby: "[Director Laurie] Collyer's ace in the hole is the skill of lead actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose extraordinarily vital performance powers the film, and is reason above all to see it."

Hopefully, Tim Lucas's review of Psychopathia Sexualis will make it online as soon as some minor glitch is fixed.

Posted by dwhudson at July 30, 2007 9:00 AM