Yorgos Lanthimos

LWLies 101: The Poor Things issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

Join us on a jaunt across Europe in the wild and wonderful latest from Yorgos Lanthimos.

Poor Things – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with his Emma Stone for a lavish and lewd romp through a steampunk vision of Europe.

Croisette wishes: 20 films we’d like to see at Cannes in 2023

By Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Pedro Almodóvar number among the heavy hitters expected on the red carpet.

Yorgos Lanthimos is reworking Frankenstein with Emma Stone

By Charles Bramesco

The pair are set to adapt the novel ‘Poor Things’, about an undead woman pieced back together.

Nimic

By David Jenkins

Matt Dillon joins Yorgos Lanthimos for this bizarre short about a New York cellist whose life is usurped by a passer-by.

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The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 50-26

By Little White Lies

Our noughties ranking reaches the midway point, as Amélie, Oldboy and Spider-Man 2 all make the cut.

Yorgos Lanthimos is eyeing a gothic western for his next project

By Max Copeman

The director is reportedly close to signing on to adapt Richard Brautigan’s novel ‘The Hawkline Monster’.

The Favourite

By David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.

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Barry Keoghan: ‘Acting is therapeutic, but it also messes with your head’

By Hannah Strong

The Irish rising star talks American Animals, shoplifting and how playing a certain type of character can lead to having weird dreams on set.

The Favourite – first look review

By Adam Woodward

Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz vie for Olivia Colman’s affections in this erotic 18th century romp from Yorgos Lanthimos.

25 new films to look out for this awards season

By Lillian Crawford

Barry Jenkins, Damien Chazelle and Yorgos Lanthimos all look like early contenders for major awards.

The Coen brothers are heading to the 2018 Venice Film Festival

By Adam Woodward

Their feature-length western will screen in competition alongside new works from Luca Guadagnino, Jennifer Kent and Alfonso Cuarón.

The first trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite is here

By Adam Woodward

Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz star in the writer/director’s farce-ridden latest.

25 films we’d like to see at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

By Little White Lies

Claire Denis, Yorgos Lanthimos and Terrence Malick could be competing for this year’s Palme d’Or.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

By Trevor Johnston

Yorgos Lanthimos is up to his old tricks in this typically strange and idiosyncratic psycho-thriller.

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Cannes Film Festival 2017 – The winners

By David Jenkins

The world’s greatest film festival is over for another year, and here are all the films that received awards.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

A nasty case of dramatic inertia blights Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest black comedy.

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