Little White Lies

The freshest and most credible voice in film, LWLies is the world's most stunning film source. Honest, unmerciful, relevant - and always beautiful.

Encounters: The cinema of Luca Guadagnino • Ahead of his new tennis-themed ménage à trois, Challengers, we uncover the common themes and predilections within the desirous and opulent cinema of Luca Guadagnino.

Hawk Eye • LUCA GUADAGNINO ON HIS SEARCH FOR THE DYNAMIC, THE EROTIC AND THE EMOTIONAL IN HIS SCINTILLATING NEW FILM, CHALLENGERS.

Three’s Company • Josh O’Connor, Zendaya and Mike Faist on the challenges of Challengers.

Emotion Seller • CHALLENGERS SCREENWRITER JUSTIN KURITZKES BREAKS DOWN THE ART OF THE THREE-HANDER SPORTS MOVIE.

Gentleman’s Agreement • A SHORT, SHARP HISTORY OF CINEMA’S EARLY DEPICTIONS OF BISEXUALITY.

Cinesynthia! • TEN REVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS INSPIRED BY TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS’ TECHNO-POP SCORE FOR CHALLENGERS.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Movie Star • FOUR CRITICS IN CONVERSATION PONDER THE OPULENT PAST AND PRECARIOUS FUTURE OF THE CONCEPT OF THE MOVIE STAR.

Ads Infinitum: A Guadagnino Portfolio

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke • The co-directing couple behind whiz-bang B-picture homage, Drive Away Dykes Dolls, on this 20-years-in-the-making dream movie.

Drive-Away Dolls

Baltimore

The Last Year of Darkness

Love Lies Bleeding

Rose Glass • The director of the storming after hours classic-in-the-making, Love Lies Bleeding, on the strange worlds of crime and bodybuilding.

Monster

Fantastic Machine

Robot Dreams

Opus

High and Low: John Galliano

Kidnapped

Silver Haze

Drift

The Sweet East

Sean Price Williams • One of America’s finest cinematographers on the weird journey to making his debut feature, The Sweet East.

Banel & Adama

Close Your Eyes

Victor Erice • A rare encounter with one of Europe’s most elusive and brilliant filmmakers on the occasion of his new majestic work, Close Your Eyes.

Io Capitano

La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher • The Italian filmmaker on the magical mystery tour into the past that makes up her gorgeous latest, La Chimera.

Music

The Teachers’ Lounge

Evil Does Not Exist

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

Disco Boy

The New Boy

All You Need Is Death

The Delinquents

Rodrigo Moreno • The director of Argentine crime comedy, The Delinquents, on its intuitive production and roots in film history.

Chocolat

The Bat Woman

That Cold Day in the Park

Suzhou River

One From the Heart: Reprise

L’Amour Fou

Berlinale • The quality of the films at the 2024 edition of the Berlin Film Festival was overshadowed by atmosphere of censorship and hostility towards its guests.

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