LWLies 82: The Uncut Gems issue – On Sale Now!

We’ve long wor­shipped at the altar of Adam San­dler. All the way back in 2013 our esteemed edi­tor David Jenk­ins gave a pre­sen­ta­tion enti­tled ​‘The Cin­e­ma of Adam San­dler’ at London’s ICA, so per­haps it was only a mat­ter of time before we man­aged to find an excuse to get the Sand­man on the cov­er of our magazine.

Luck­i­ly for us, New York film­mak­ers Josh and Ben­ny Safdie are also San­dler fans, and in cast­ing him in their excel­lent fifth fea­ture, Uncut Gems, they pro­vid­ed us with a per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty to bold­ly go where LWLies has nev­er gone before…

On the cover…

We’re thrilled to be work­ing with Brighton-based artist Tavan Manee­tapho again, who’s pre­vi­ous­ly illus­trat­ed for Lit­tle White Lies. This is her first cov­er for us. She says of her own style:

“The char­ac­ters in my uni­verse are usu­al­ly the mis­fits in soci­ety – the day­dream­er, the lon­er, the one that laughs just a lit­tle too loud. I cre­ate work with the hope to touch and to affect feel­ings that aren’t nec­es­sar­i­ly on the sur­face, some­times jux­ta­pos­ing sad­ness with humour.”

In this issue…

Mon­ey on the Street
Charles Bramesco meets Josh and Ben­ny Safdie for a chin­wag about San­dler and seder.

Safdie & Co
Han­nah Wood­head speaks to five key Safdie col­lab­o­ra­tors about what goes into mak­ing one of their movies.

Shine On You Crazy Dia­mond
Nick Pinker­ton pro­vides a pro­file of Adam San­dler, a thor­ough­ly mod­ern movie star.

Stand-Up Guys
A sur­vey of the Amer­i­can come­di­ans who tried their luck on the big screen. Words by Adam Lee Davies.

Shetl Fab­u­lous
Car­o­line Golum pro­vides a per­son­al jour­ney through Jew­ish cinema.

The Karat Patch
We gave a group of illus­tra­tors some movie-watch­ing home­work and asked them to design a piece of jew­ellery inspired by their title. These are the results.

A Safdie Broth­ers Read­ing List
Christi­na New­land, David Jenk­ins and Adam Wood­ward write their own book reports on some required read­ing assigned by Josh and Ben­ny Safdie.

Threads
In her reg­u­lar col­umn, Christi­na New­land delves into the his­to­ry of a cin­e­mat­ic sta­tus sym­bol: the signet ring.

Illus­tra­tions by Lau­réne Boglio, Tavan Manee­tapho and Sophie Mo.

In the back section…

Rian John­son out­lines his the­o­ries about mak­ing the who­dunit cool again to Han­nah Woodhead.

Christi­na New­land receives an audi­ence with two cin­e­mat­ic leg­ends: Al Paci­no and Robert De Niro.

Mati Diop speaks to David Jenk­ins about mak­ing the tran­si­tion from short films to a fea­ture that was the toast of Cannes.

Jen­nifer Kent reflects on her bruis­ing por­trait of Aus­tralian colo­nial­ism, The Nightin­gale, with Han­nah Woodhead.

Noah Baum­bach recalls his mem­o­ries of Cal­i­for­nia and scenes from a mar­riage to David Jenkins.

Kim Longinot­to explains to Sophie Monks Kauf­man what inspired her to trade inter­views for archive footage in her lat­est film, Shoot­ing the Mafia.

Edward Nor­ton talks Chi­na­town, Thom Yorke and Moth­er­less Brook­lyn with Adam Woodward.

All illus­tra­tions by Tom Hum­ber­stone

In review…

Mar­tin Scorsese’s The Irish­man, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Mati Diop’s Atlantics, Jérémy Clapin’s I Lost My Body, Noah Baumbach’s Mar­riage Sto­ry, Tai­ka Waititi’s Jojo Rab­bit, Alex Gibney’s Cit­i­zen K, Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son, Marielle Heller’s A Beau­ti­ful Day in the Neigh­bour­hood, Jen­nifer Kent’s The Nightin­gale, Alma Har’el’s Hon­ey Boy, James Mangold’s Le Mans ​’66, and more.

LWLies 82 will be with sub­scribers on 12 Novem­ber and on-shelf 13 Novem­ber. Pre-order or sub­scribe now from our shop.