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Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke: ‘Let’s just embrace love and sex’
The idea for Drive-Away Dolls was born in a bar – it’s been a long time coming since. Husband-and-wife duo Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke realised their script together, about two lesbian best friends...
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Griffin Dunne: ‘Scorsese’s energy and enthusiasm was infectious’
Before 1985, Griffin Dunne was probably best known for being the sidekick first-victim-turned-reanimated-wisecracking-corpse of horror-comedy An American Werewolf in London. Searching for decent roles...
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Under the Cover: Petra Eriksson
In the first of a new series, we’re going to be shining a spotlight on the amazing illustrators and artists who help to make Little White Lies one of the best-looking magazines on the shelf. First up,...
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Victor Erice: ‘Cinema is a form of destiny’
It has been 31 years since we last saw a feature film by the Spanish maestro Victor Erice, and that film was the transcendent documentary the ephemeral nature of art, The Quince Tree Sun. He remains...
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Luca Guadagnino: ‘I don’t watch tennis matches. It’s quite boring to me’
It’s 6.59am Pacific Standard Time, and Luca Guadagnino is sat in the passenger seat of a packed car, shades balanced on dome, and looking down into his smartphone to begin our chat. The last time I...
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Three’s Company: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist on Challengers
We hooked up with the hottest cast of the year to get their Z: It’s the obvious answer but, Call Me by Your Name, which I post-match analysis and insight on Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. In the film,...
View ArticleRose Glass: ‘Like every director, there’s a god complex somewhere’
After achieving critical acclaim for her breakout debut Saint Maud, Rose Glass teamed up with Kristen Stewart for a rough-n-ready romp in the New Mexico desert. The result is Love Lies Bleeding – a...
View ArticleAlice Rohrwacher: ‘The past must be a living thing’
A filmmaker fascinated by the intersection between natural words and human civilisation, Alice Rohrwacher concludes her decade-long inquiry into the question of “What to do with the past?” with La...
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Jane Schoenbrun: ‘I think of film as a medium that is going to disappear...
Most trans people grow up without the language to understand their own experiences, and so could only see themselves obscurely through strange resonances and echoes in childhood media. Jane...
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Under the Cover: Tom Humberstone
The tone for the cover of our 103rd issue, dedicated to Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest, was initially inspired by Daniel Clowes’ illustrated poster for Todd Solondz’s 1998 dark ensemble comedy, Happiness....
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Iain Softley: ‘I had this idea in my mind, “What would the story be if these...
Back in 1994, Backbeat told a Beatles story with a difference, focusing on the band’s early days gigging in Hamburg dive bars, and homing in on their pre-fame bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen...
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‘It was hard to hit me in the face with the steak’– Jon Heder on 20 years of...
Actors can go entire careers without creating characters that withstand the test of time but what happens when they achieve that goal straight off the bat? That’s what happened to Jon Heder, star of...
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Jeff Nichols: ‘It’s a very intoxicating thing, riding on a bike’
For a long time, The Bikeriders was just a project Jeff Nichols talked about. His close friend Michael Shannon would rib him about it, pointing out that he’d been mentioning it for years and was still...
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou: ‘It’s a constant relationship’
Back in 2009, two Greek writers caused quite a stir with their disturbing feature debut, Dogtooth, which focused on three teenagers isolated by their controlling father, pushing against the limits of...
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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons: ‘Is Yorgos okay with us giving away the secrets?’
Two of the finest actors of their generation pair up for the first time – one a Yorgos Lanthimos veteran, the other a newcomer to this world. When Emma Stone first partnered with Lanthimos on The...
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Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’
One is a veteran of the screen who’s been acting for over 40 years, the other’s career began to blossom after a starring role in Alexander Payne’s 2017 dramedy, Downsizing – Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau...
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Margaret Qualley and Mamadou Athie: ‘A Yorgos film is much more dreamy and...
After her small role in Poor Things, Margaret Qualley reteams with Yorgos Lanthimos in Kinds of Kindness, where she plays a variety of supporting parts, not least as a mysterious set of twins who may...
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Zoë Kravitz: ‘Directing is what I’ve always wanted to do’
Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice began life as a “fever dream novella” that she worked on throughout the years with co-writer E.T. Feigenbaum, who would then become her showrunner on the criminally...
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Naomi Ackie: ‘I know that feeling of wanting something that is just out of...
For a film like Blink Twice, which opens on a close-up of a lizard, it is apt that its star Naomi Ackie is a chameleon. The classically-trained Londoner cut her teeth with a host of scene-stealing and...
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Kneecap: ‘There was no word for cocaine in Irish’
It’s April, and after an early flight to Belfast, I’m taken to the Falls Road. I’m here to interview Republican-Irish rap trio Kneecap: Mo Chara (Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh), Móglaí Bap; (Naoise Ó...
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