Count Me Out: Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn, edited by Toner Quinn and published in February of this year, was selected as one of Sight & Sound magazine’s summer reading recommendations in the latest issue. Here’s what Reviews Editor Kate McCabe had to say:

‘When Bob Quinn’s Irish-language film Poitín (1978) first aired on RTÉ, one viewer rang up to suggest they “burn the film and don’t let it out of the country”. Thankfully, they didn’t get their way and it’s still his best-known film outside Ireland. But there’s so much more to Quinn’s 60-year career. Count Me Out, a collection of the director’s writing edited by his son Toner, is a crash course in his maverick state of mind. It covers Quinn’s public falling-out with RTÉ, a dicey meeting with Gaddafi, and his long fight against the commercialisation of Irish broadcasting. Among the candid grievances are accounts of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire (1975), his film inspired by the great Irish poem ‘The Lament for Arthur O’Leary’, and a beautiful tribute to Poitín star Donal McCann.’ – Katie McCabe, Sight and Sound

To purchase a copy of Count Me Out, see here.