Sight & Sound. June 08.

The one piece online from Sight & Sound's "Cinema of the New Europe" cover package is Michael Brooke and Kamila Kuc's interview with Andrzej Wajda. From their intro: "Katyn is the first Polish film to tackle two of the most contentious issues in the country's history: the massacre of up to 20,000 members of Poland's intellectual and military elite and its cover-up by its Soviet perpetrators."

Editor Nick James talks with Bruce Weber about his legendary (and often-revived) Chet Baker doc, Let's Get Lost.

"Colossal Youth demands to be seen more than once: a first viewing just about lets you acclimatise to its mesmerically slow pacing, visual stillness and incantatory verbal rhythms," writes Jonathan Romney.

"He calls himself 'the best-known author of unknown movies' and perhaps he's right." Tim Lucas celebrates the release on DVD of a series of films by Chris Marker from First Run Icarus.

I'm not sure how this came about exactly, but Geoffrey Macnab, Kieron Corless and Brad Stevens are credited with the review of Jirí Menzel's I Served the King of England: "The film has a zest that belies the director's age. There is no sense here of a distinguished director striking a ponderous and introspective note at the twilight of his career."

"Sex, money, incest, murder: it may be based on a notorious real-life high-society scandal that rocked the wealthy American heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune, but Tom Kalin's Savage Grace seems determined to handle the story's explosive ingredients with the utmost circumspection, turning what could have been a sensational melodrama into something much more complex - though not necessarily more successful as a film." Just one reviewer here, Lisa Mullen.

Posted by dwhudson at May 20, 2008 7:41 AM