LWLies 83: The A Hid­den Life Issue – On Sale Now!

Since work­ing for this mag­a­zine I’ve been wait­ing for the stars to align and to be able to splash a Mal­ick movie on the cov­er, and frankly I’d have been hap­py with any of those he gift­ed us since The Tree of Life. Final­ly, every­thing slot­ted into place and so here is an issue cel­e­brat­ing the lone­some genius of mod­ern cinema’s fore­most poet-philosopher.

On the cover

A Hid­den Life is the sto­ry of an Aus­tri­an con­sci­en­tious objec­tor in the era of Hitler’s rise to pow­er, but this theme of per­son­al and polit­i­cal sac­ri­fice is set against a sim­ple and pure love sto­ry. Lon­don-based illus­tra­tor Niall Grant has cre­at­ed a dou­ble cov­er in a folk-goth­ic style that fea­tures Franz and Fani Jäger­stät­ter (played by August Diehl and Valerie Pach­n­er respec­tive­ly) which con­nect at the cen­tre to empha­sise a human bond that can nev­er be broken.

In this issue…

No Regrets
August Diehl and Valerie Pach­n­er reveal to Han­nah Wood­head what it was like to make art on a movie set with Ter­rence Malick.

Young God
Mal­ick is known for the high seri­ous­ness and cos­mic expan­sive­ness of his work, but that wasn’t always the case argues Nick Pinkerton.

The Ten Com­mand­ments
A ten-essay sym­po­sium on the fea­ture films of Ter­rence Mal­ick. Each essay taps into a unique aspect of the indi­vid­ual films, which range from deep the tren­chant­ly crit­i­cal to the deeply per­son­al. Con­trib­u­tors include Anna Swan­son, Claire Marie Healy, Mar­tyn Con­te­rio, Adam Nay­man, Dila­ra Elbir, Lil­lian Craw­ford, James Slay­mak­er, David Jenk­ins, Han­nah Wood­head and Adam Woodward.

Threads
In her reg­u­lar col­umn on clothes and film, Christi­na New­land traces the rich icono­graph­ic his­to­ry of the priest’s habit.

The best films of the decade
A round up of our broad sur­vey of the great films of the 2010s. How many have you seen?

Illus­tra­tions by Sophie Mo, Yann Le Bec, Jamie Eke, Stephanie Sergeant.

In the back section…

Willem Dafoe, ultra-ded­i­cat­ed star of wack­a­do cab­in-fever hor­ror com­e­dy, The Light­house, explains why he doesn’t eat lob­ster any more to Adam Woodward.

Céline Sci­amma, direc­tor of laud­ed French romance Por­trait of a Lady on Fire, picks apart mod­ern def­i­n­i­tions of fem­i­nism with Ele­na Lazic.

Jes­si­ca Haus­ner dis­cuss­es the intri­ca­cies of her eerie sci-fi para­ble Lit­tle Joe with Adam Woodward

Dev Patel is revealed to be the one of the loveli­est peo­ple in film as he dis­cuss­es his lead role in A Per­son­al His­to­ry of David Cop­per­field with Han­nah Woodhead.

Todd Haynes has made his first legal thriller in Dark Waters, and David Jenk­ins meets him to rake over the results.

Trey Edward Shults is the young turk of the Amer­i­can Indie scene, talk­ing up his new musi­cal-dri­ven fam­i­ly saga, Waves, with Han­nah Woodhead.

All illus­tra­tions by Iris Hetzfeld

In review…

Robert Eggers’ The Light­house, Bong Joon-ho’s Par­a­site, Des­tin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mer­cy, Bene­dict Andrews’ Seberg, Shengze Zhu’s Present. Per­fect., Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real, Jes­si­ca Hausner’s Lit­tle Joe, Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jew­ell, Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, Meli­na Mat­soukas’ Queen & Slim, Shinkai Makoto’s Weath­er­ing With You, Jay Roach’s Bomb­shell, Céline Sciamma’s Por­trait of a Lady on Fire, Takashi Miike’s First Love, Arman­do Iannucci’s A Per­son­al His­to­ry of David Cop­per­field, Suhaib Gasmelbari’s Talk­ing About Trees, Luke Lorentzen’s Mid­night Fam­i­ly, Richard Stanley’s Colour Out of Space, Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, Ter­ry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Trey Edward Schults’ Waves, Has­san Fazili’s Mid­night Trav­eller and Justin Kurzel’s True His­to­ry of the Kel­ly Gang.

Also, our Top 30 Home Ents releas­es of 2019.

LWLies 83 will be with sub­scribers on 11 Jan­u­ary and on-shelf 13 Jan­u­ary. Pre-order or sub­scribe now from our shop.