Writing a score for the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film, 1929’s Blackmail, gave composer Neil Brand new insight into the master’s techniques.
Excellent features from Adrian Sitaru and Radu Jude, and a standout portrait of Nicolae Ceausescu, trumped efforts to overhaul the house style at this fountainhead of the Romanian New Wave.
Gazing up at Lynette Wallworth’s marine odyssey for ‘fulldome’ planetariums, Basia Lewandowska Cummings agrees that it’s better down where it’s wetter.