Contributions from Adam Woodward | Little White Lies

Contributor Adam Woodward

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Film Music

Howard Shore tells the story behind his favourite film scores

by Adam Woodward

The leg­endary com­pos­er dis­cuss­es his work on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings tril­o­gy and more.
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Incoming

A rare cut of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is up for auction

by Adam Woodward

Now’s your chance to own a piece of film his­to­ry – along with Jack Nicholson’s cor­duroy jacket.
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Film Music

Catching up with the London Contemporary Orchestra ahead of Phantom Thread live

by Adam Woodward

Con­duc­tors and long­time friends Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames reveal how they helped bring Jon­ny Greenwood’s mes­meris­ing score to life.
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Review

Annihilation

by Adam Woodward

Alex Gar­land deliv­ers a visu­al­ly stun­ning, cool­ly affect­ing alle­go­ry for life, loss and human fallibility.

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In Retrospect
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Incoming

Timothée Chalamet set to play Henry V in David Michôd’s next film

by Adam Woodward

The Lady Bird and Call Me by Your Name star is in talks to appear in Net­flix dra­ma The King.
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Interviews

Paul Thomas Anderson: ‘Daniel retiring completely changes things’

by Adam Woodward

The Amer­i­can mas­ter talks Phan­tom Thread and prepar­ing for a post-Daniel Day-Lewis future.
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Incoming

Black Dynamite is back, baby!

by Adam Woodward

Michael Jai White has teased a sequel to Scott Sanders’ blax­ploita­tion-spoof­ing action com­e­dy from 2009.
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Interviews

Masters of War: Martin McDonagh on Frances McDormand

by Adam Woodward

The British writer/​director extols the many virtues of the star of his new film, Three Bill­boards Out­side Ebbing, Missouri.
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Journeys

Visiting Ingmar Bergman’s enchanting Swedish hideaway

by Adam Woodward

We jour­ney to Fårö, a remote island in the Baltic Sea, in search of Sweden’s enig­mat­ic master.
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Film Music

Oneohtrix Point Never discusses his intoxicating Good Time score

by Adam Woodward

Musi­cian Daniel Lopatin on sound­track­ing the Safdie broth­ers’ stun­ning latest.

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