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Features

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Incoming

Ira Sachs’ next film will focus on a queer love triangle of European festival darlings

by Charles Bramesco

Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw play lovers driven apart when one of them has an affair with Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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Home Ents

Discover Francis Ford Coppola’s Psycho-inspired directorial debut

by Anton Bitel

The Roger Corman-produced Dementia 13 is much more than a quickie Hitchcock ripoff, as this Director’s Cut proves.
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Interviews

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi: ‘I’ve shot lot of stuff in cars because of Godard’

by Trevor Johnston

The Japanese director explains how he transformed a Murakami short story into the intimate emotional epic, Drive My Car.
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Home Ents

Love and misery in Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing

by Anton Bitel

The director’s 2002 drama about life on a London housing estate is a film of bleak moments and occasional hope.
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In Praise Of

How Duel paved the foundation for Steven Spielberg’s career

by Mitchell Beaupre

This made-for-TV feature has all the trademarks that would go on to define one of America’s most acclaimed filmmakers.
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Love in the Library – A brief guide to one of cinema’s most erotic spaces

by Susannah Goldsbrough

From Gone Girl to Atonement to Mothering Sunday, libraries have long featured in scenes about sex and sexuality.
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Incoming

Sizing up this year’s submissions for the Best International Feature Oscar

by Charles Bramesco

Could this be Titane’s time to shine? Will Memoria make the cut? Or will Drive My Car cruise to victory?
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Cartoon

David Squires on… COP26 and cinema’s answer to the climate crisis

Can catastrophe on Earth be avoided? Not if our world leaders have anything to say about it…
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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 91: The Titane issue – On sale now!

by Hannah Strong

Buckle up and say a Hail Mary as we take a peek under the hood of Julia Ducournau’s visceral Palme d’Or winner.
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Check out these stunning photos from the making of West Side Story

by Adam Woodward

This collection of rarely seen production stills shows the original Jets and Sharks in action.