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WHAT’S ON AT THE CINEMA THIS WEEK? • LA OPENINGS, FROM FRIDAY

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF "SUSHI" • IT’S THE NEWEST CULINARY PHENOMENON SWEEPING LOS ANGELES. GET A TASTE OF… JAPAN!

Licorice Pizza • A summertime dream of monkeyshines, romantic dalliances and the early history of the waterbed craze – this is Paul Thomas Anderson’s most purely pleasureable and swooningly immersive film to date.

WE GOT THIS! • PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND ALANA HAIM IN CONVERSATION ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SWELL NEW MOTION PICTURE LICORICE PIZZA.

Is this the WORLD’S BIGGEST Paul Thomas Anderson fan? • On the scene with Flowers Foster

BEING ME IN ’73 • It’s a wrap for the year in movies, and our resident critic separates the celluloid wheat from the chaff.

COCKTAILS WITH MARK BRIDGES: COSTUMIER TO THE STARS • FLETCH BAGLEY TOOK IN A ROUND OF DAIQUIRIS ON THE TERRACE OF CHADNEY’S WITH THE LICORICE PIZZA COSTUME DESIGNER AND INDUSTRY LEGEND MARK BRIDGES, WHO REVEALS EXACTLY HOW HE CAME UP WITH ALL THOSE DIVINE GARMENTS.

OH, DAVID, GIVE ME YOUR HANDS. • AN ENCOUNTER WITH DAVID BOWIE IN 1973

HOT TO TROT: GARY VALENTINE • THE KID WHO LITERALLY EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT

SOUND OFF! • We pride ourselves at LWLies in offering a soapbox to you, the lowly reader. We ask you to “sound off” on a subject of your choosing, but one that may be pertinent to our rarefied audience. This week, Reseda High freshman Ronnie Zolondek has a few things to say about pinball.

ASTROLOGY NOW • See you among the stars!

BAXTER CONRAD 1902-1973 • The late Hollywood enigma is eulogised by his official biographer and opium caddy, Lemuel Cruz-Campo.

#20 Threads • A column about clothes and movies

LWLies Presents… The Top Ten Films of 2021 • Cinema’s back, baby! And 2021 turned out to be a vintage year for silver screen offerings.

Johnny Knoxville • Ahead of cinematic swansong Jackass Forever, we doff a cap to one of Hollywood’s most lovable goofs.

Memory Box

Taming the Garden

Minyan

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

A Hero

Memoria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul • The Thai slow cinema maestro explains how he made his new film Memoria as a pure and open piece of cinematic collaboration.

Cow

Cyrano

Petrov’s Flu

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

The Souvenir: Part II

Amulet

Romola Garai • The actor-turned-writer/director on #MeToo, upturning genre tropes, and her haunting feminist horror feature, Amulet.

Ailey

Mass

La Mif

The Duke

Parallel Mothers

The Tragedy of Macbeth

How We Made The Tragedy of Macbeth • Joel Coen and his team relay the secrets of breathing new life into one of the most hallowed texts in all of history, ‘Macbeth’.

Flee

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

Guillermo del Toro • Loves noir, classical storytelling and Bradley Cooper, hates drones. Here, the director discusses the making of Nightmare Alley.

Ali & Ava

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Belfast

Zeros and Ones

Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol

Hiruko the Goblin

Galaxy of Terror

The Sun Shines Bright

The Party and the Guests

Dillinger

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