Little White Lies

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ENTER THE DUNEIVERSE • An introduction to the world of Frank Herbert's 'Dune'

THE SANDMAN • A Quebecois kid at the horizons of space and time: Denis Villeneuve on Dune.

FAREWELL my CONCUBINE • Rebecca Ferguson on tearing up the clichés of femininity and motherhood in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.

LWLIES Sixties • A decade of film art reimagined

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET IN FIVE ACTS • Hardcore teen idoldom exists, and the bobbysoxers are out in force for a man they called Timmy. Ahead of his role as a young messiah in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, we explore the topography of his curious rise to fame.

ARRAKIS RISING • Dune production designer Patrice Vermette on how he dragged the sci-fi spectacle back to the analogue era.

DESERT MOVIES: A TAXONOMY • Deserts, and the movies that were filmed in them.

GO SEE A STAR WAR • The 1980s space race to capitalise on the success of George Lucas’s Star Wars delivered a riches of embarrassment.

WOMAN OF THE DUNES • The authors of a new book on the films of Studio Ghibli draw interesting parallels between Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ – and the debut feature by Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

THEY SHOOT, HE SCORES • Dune composer Hans Zimmer explains how he channels the classics in an eclectic range of film scores.

#18 Threads • A column about clothes and movies

Sparks • Pop-rock deities Ron and Russell Mael on how they (finally!) landed a major movie collaboration with Leos Carax and his new musical epic, Annette.

Annette

The French Dispatch

Respect

Cary Joji Fukunaga • How does someone get to make a James Bond movie? With considerable difficulty, says No Time to Die director, Cary Joji Fukunaga.

The Nest

Souad

Rose Plays Julie

A Brixton Tale

Jeymes Samuel • The music producer/singer-songwriter known as The Bullitts slinks into the role of filmmaker with his super fun revisionist western, The Harder They Fall.

Candyman

Paris Calligrammes

Ulrike Ottinger • In celebration of her new doc Paris Calligrammes, we look back at the storied and ecclectic career of this German maestro.

Copilot

Misha and the Wolves

Sweetheart

Marley Morrison • This first-time filmmaker discusses the making of her charming queer love story, Sweetheart.

Pig

The Story of Looking

Wildland

Nasty Canary: Bette Davis • Exploring the latent queer appeal of the Hollywood grande dame ahead of a full retrospective at London’s BFI Southbank.

The River

The Servant

The Psychic

Deep Cover

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch

Beauty and the Beast

The Cannes Film Festival • Extra precautions and a new booking system ended up helping the French mega festival to deliver a vintage crop of movies.

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