Little White Lies #105

Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them.

In this issue:

In the issue

Lead review: Bird
Hannah Strong on the lyrical and earthy aspects of Andrea Arnold’s gorgeous new work.

The Sensual World
Nia Childs meets filmmaker Andrea Arnold who dissects her method and explains her love of ethereal textures.

Outsider Odysseys
The Andrea Arnold corpus – from her early shorts through to 2023’s Cow – examined via six punchy essays.

Between Two Worlds
Savina Petkova in conversation with the German actor Franz Rogowski, who picks apart his own screen image.

View from the Balcony
Gamer; motocross-lover; method actor (kinda). David Jenkins has a chat with Irish megastar, Barry Keoghan.

South by South-East
Mike McCahill takes a trainride along the southeast coast of England in search of Thames Estuary cinema.

In the back section

Mikey Madison and Sean Baker
The director and star of Palme d’Or-winner, Anora, speak to Iana Murray going deep into the world of sex work.

Mati Diop
Rōgan Graham meets the maker of the remarkable prizewinning docu-essay hybrid, Dahomey, who explains the film’s urgent anti-colonial message.

Steve McQueen
The British artist and filmmaker meets Rōgan Graham and talks the vital importance of primary research that went into making his new film, Blitz.

Tyler Taormina
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is a Yuletide classic in the making, and its director has a sincere fondness for the holiday season.

In review
Sean Baker’s Anora
Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie á Deux
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door
Milisuthando Bongela’s Milisuthando
Mati Diop’s Dahomey
Mark Cousins’ A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot
François Ozon’s The Crime is Mine
Jacques Audriard’s Emilia Pérez
Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki’s The Battle For Laikipia
Pascal Bergamin’s Portraits of Dangerous Women
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light
Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor’s No Other Land
Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice
Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man
Edward Berger’s Conclave
Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson

Plus, Matt Turner selects six key home ents releases for your consideration; Hannah Strong sends a postcard from the Venice Film Festival; David Jenkins sends a postcard from the San Sebastián Film Festival, and Marina Ashioti assesses the queer impact of the iconic Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a Halloween-themed Sticky Gold Stars column.