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WELCOME TO LITTLE WHITE LIES 78 THE IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK ISSUE

If Beale Street Could Talk • Intense melancholy and blissful romance mask an undercurrent of political outrage in Barry Jenkins’ rhapsodic take on James Baldwin.

IN MY HEART • How do you follow a film which rode a wave of immense love from relative obscurity to the Oscar for Best Picture? Moonlight director Barry Jenkins sits down with LWLies to pick apart his wonderful James Baldwin adaptation, If Beale Street Could Talk.

This Is Love • In praise of James Baldwin’s ‘The Devil Finds Work’

ON The SHOULDERS OF Giants • Actor Colman Domingo on his connection to author James Baldwin

Glasgow Film Festival presents… 1969: End of Innocence • The ever-industrious Scottish festival is a LWLies fave, and they’re taking a journey back to the Summer of Love.

A THEORY OF BLACK AESTHETICS

JOURNEYS SPECIAL: INDIE MEMPHIS • On the southern festival offering a bold new vision for both itself and film programmers the world over.

Harlem Shuffle • A whirlwind tour through the cinema of Harlem, New York.

SOUL ON SCREEN: A PLAYLIST FOR CINEPHILES • From its inception, soul music has soundtracked some of cinema’s most evocative moments – the celebratory and humorous, suspenseful and mournful, and everything in between. To commemorate the release of Barry Jenkins’ 1970s-set drama If Beale Street Could Talk, the editors of this magazine have asked your author – a “nice Jewish girl” with a DJing hobby, of all people – to sift through forty years of love stories, action _icks, melodramas and musicals in search of the most memorable narratives with the funkiest grooves.

Nicholas Britell: TRACK BY TRACK • The rising star composer talks about creating music for Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk.

FLY POSTERS • Founded in 1972, the Separate Cinema Archive is committed to preserving black film history. Spanning more than a century of memorabilia from around the world, the collection not only shows the evolution of movie promotion over the years, but also how blackness has been portrayed, exploited and commoditised throughout the history of cinema. The following posters come from a time when the “blaxploitation” genre ushered in a wave of new cinematic heroes, and a more honest portrayal of urban life previously unseen in mainstream Hollywood.

Threads • A column about clothes and movies by Christina Newland

Steve Carell • From office buffoon to father of a teenage drug addict, the American actor is a veritable screen all-rounder. He’s also a truly lovely chap.

Beautiful Boy

The Kindergarten Teacher

Maggie Gyllenhaal • The striking star of The Kindergarten Teacher talks about living in the long shadow of dashed dreams.

The Mule

The Front Runner

Bergman: A Year in a Life

Green Book

Mahershala Ali • One half of the cross-country buddy comedy Green Book muses on changing political attitudes in Hollywood.

Capernaum

Monsters and Men

The Upside

Life Itself

Boy Erased

Destroyer

The House by the Sea

Piercing

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Mary Queen of Scots

An Impossible Love

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Richard E Grant • The loquacious actor (and latter-day perfumer), discusses his stellar turn as a silver-tongued grifter in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Vice

Burning

Lee Chang-dong • The South Korean maestro helps pick apart his mysterious psychodrama, Burning.

A Private War

Colette

Joe Cornish...