Little White Lies

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Nickel Boys • Filmmaker RaMell Ross made his name in documentary, but with this fiction debut, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, he’s delivered 2024’s most harrowing and transcendent film.

THE INTERIOR SELF A CONVERSATION WITH RAMELL ROSS • THE CO-WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF NICKEL BOYS REMAINS HUMBLE IN THE LIGHT OF HAVING MADE ONE OF 2024’S BEST FILMS.

THE INVISIBLE MAN A CONVERSATION WITH ETHAN HERISSE • THE YOUNG ACTOR SPEAKS ON THE FINE ART OF CREATING A PERFORMANCE THAT EXISTS ENTIRELY OUTSIDE OF THE FRAME.

IN PRAISE OF ETHIO-JAZZ PIONEER, MULATU ASTATKE, AND THE USE OF THE CLASSIC TRACK ‘TEZETA’ IN NICKEL BOYS.

HARD LABOUR A CONVERSATION WITH AUNJANUE ELLIS-TAYLOR • THE ACTOR ON HOW BEING PART OF A FILM LIKE NICKEL BOYS IS PART OF A WIDER PROJECT OF RAISING AWARENESS AND CHANGING MINDS.

HOW NICKEL BOYS RECLAIMS THE FIRST-PERSON CAMERA FROM A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE.

WAYS OF SEEING • CINEMATOGRAPHER JOMO FRAY EXPLAINS HOW THE GOAL OF SHOOTING NICKEL BOYS WAS ABOUT MAKING AUDIENCES BELIEVE THEY ARE INSIDE ANOTHER BODY.

ON THE CREATION OF THE BEST AND MOST IMPORTANT FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES IN EXISTENCE: LOUVERTURE FILMS.

SACRED IMAGES • IN PRAISE OF FILMMAKERS WHO WHO TALK ABOUT BRUTALITY WITHOUT SHOWING BRUTALITY.

COMMUNITY MATTERS • IN CELEBRATION OF THE GRASSROOTS ORGANISATIONS WHOSE MANDATE INVOLVES SPREADING THE LOVE FOR BLACK AND GLOBAL MAJORITY CINEMA.

I SEE A DARKNESS • WELSH-ZAMBIAN FILMMAKER RUNGANO NYONI DESCRIBED HER JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS IN MAKING HER EXTRAORDINARY SECOND FEATURE, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL.

HOW CINEMA HAS CAPTURED THE DIFFERING METHODS AND IDEALS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND MALCOLM X.

Magic and Loss: the making of Queer • Luca Guadagnino, Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on bringing the classic, controversial William Burroughs novel kicking and screaming to the big screen.

Queer

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Merchant Ivory

The Order

Better Man

We Live In Time

A Real Pain

Jesse Eisenberg • The actor and occasional writer / director on how he was able to avoid building a concentration camp for his new film, A Real Pain.

Grand Theft Hamlet

Architecton

The Girl with the Needle

Vermiglio

The Brutalist

“It’s a fucking film”. Brady Corbet on The Brutalist. • The maverick writer/director espouses the need to stick behind your aesthetic and creative ideals at all costs.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Hard Truths

The Colours Within

Nightbitch

Babygirl

Halina Reijn • The old “sex is power” cliché is put through the ringer by the writer/director of the sly, comic erotic thriller, Babygirl.

A Complete Unknown

Maria

Pablo Larraín • Is it possible to make a biopic without being reverential? The Maria director says if you love your subject then it doesn’t matter.

LWLies Presents… The Top 10 Films of 2024 • The ten best of the 2024 vintage, with numbers 11 through to 30 exclusively on LWLies.com.

Meet the Author #2 • Violet Lucca, author of ‘David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials’ (Abrams)

Mermaid Legend

Three Wishes for Cinderella

Yokohama BJ Blues

The Cell

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Il Posto & I Fidanzati

The Watcher in the Attic

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

The Tokyo Film Festival • LWLies drops in on one of South East-Asia’s most important film events for the first time – and is stunned by its quality and warmth.

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