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.

The Testament of Ann Lee • The filmmaker Mona Fastvold creates a bold and intoxicating meta-musical that chronicles the eventful life and times of Ann Lee, one of the founders of religious sect the Shakers.

Song & Dance • A Conversation with Mona Fastvold

Body & Soul • A Conversation with Amanda Seyfried

Bells & Whistles • A Conversation with Daniel Blumberg

True Faith • Celebrating the psychedelic cinema of spiritual transcendence.

I See The Light • Some FAQ on all things celluloid.

IT’S A WRAP 2025 IN FILM

Park Chan-wook • The violently competitive world of HR and employment is the subject matter of the South Korean filmmaker’s highly prescient latest.

No Other Choice

Marty Supreme

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson • The whodunnit maestro reveals the secrets of writing an “impossible” murder in his scintillating latest, Wake Up Dead Man.

Rental Family

Hamnet

Chloé Zhao • Plato, Carl Jung and Terrence Malick are what kept the filmmaker inspired while making her jaw-dropping latest, Hamnet.

GIVE THE GIFT OF MOVIES

H Is for Hawk

The History of Sound

Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal • The internet’s boyfriends (UK and Ireland division) chat role immersion and animal noises for their new sweeping romance, The History of Sound.

Is This Thing On?

The Voice Of Hind Rajab

Sirāt

Óliver Laxe • The Spanish maker of Sirāt on ways to plumb the depths of the subconscious to locate that pure cinematic hit.

Wasteman

Sentimental Value

Joachim Trier • Norway’s favourite son on how to follow-up a global hit – with another wistful, intuitive and thought film about melancholy in Sentimental Value.

Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Rose Byrne • The Australian actor on nailing the role of a lifetime as the harried lead in Mary Bronstein’s darkly comic If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

100 Nights of Hero

Peter Hujar’s Day

Ben Whishaw • How a day in the life of the New York photographer and Warhol associate Peter Hujar was channelled into a witty and nostalgic feature-length drama.

The Chronology of Water

Animalia

My Father’s Shadow

Akinola Davies Jr and Sope Dirisu • The director and star of the haunting My Father’s Shadow talk fatherhood, political memory and singing in Yoruba.

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

The President’s Cake

Nouvelle Vague

The Secret Agent

Kleber Mendonça Filho • The Brazilian writer/director on why his new film The Secret Agent offers a celebration of community to fight back against the evils of the political right.

Splendid Outing

Wild Style

Over Your Dead Body

Cinema Expanded: The Films of Frederick Wiseman

The Dead

The Stunt Man

City on Fire

Strongroom

Greetings from the Tokyo International Film Festival! • Japan’s premiere international film festival lures you in with the big names then knocks you out with the local gems.

In celebration of the late Udo Kier and the film Barb Wire • One of cinema’s most exubrerant and charismatic queer icons has passed. We salute his film-stealing turn in the 1996 Pamela Anderson vehicle, Barb Wire.

Abundant Blessings.

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