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Dark, moody interior scene with bold, contrasting colours of green, red, and blue. Human figure sits hunched in the foreground, partially obscured by the cluttered environment.
Review

It’s Not Me review – an innovative homage to Carax’s main muse

by David Jenkins

Leos Carax delves through his own per­son­al archive in this glo­ri­ous essay film that’s in thrall to Jean-Luc Godard.

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Starry night sky with a lone figure silhouetted against a dark landscape of bare trees
Not Movies

Deciphering Don Hertzfeldt’s ME

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The lat­est short film from the inde­pen­dent ani­ma­tion leg­end is an elu­sive odd­i­ty even by Don Hertzfeldt’s standards.
Darkened country cottage against a cloudy night sky, dim yellow lights glowing from the windows.

The sublime short films of Derek Jarman, seen for the first time in decades

by Grace Dodd

Thanks to the efforts of the LUMA Foun­da­tion and Jar­man’s friend James Mack­ay, a series of shorts pro­duced by the pio­neer­ing film­mak­er have been restored and screened for the first time in London.
Packed auditorium with large projection screen displaying scenic mountainous landscape.
Festivals

Community and creativity thrive at Finland’s Tampere Film Festival

by Hannah Strong

At North­ern Europe’s old­est short film fes­ti­val, cinephiles from around the world come togeth­er to declare small is beau­ti­ful – be it in the sauna or on the ice.
An elderly man wearing a grey suit stands between two younger men in white coats, with other people visible in the background of a hospital setting.
Review

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Dahl lovingly brought to life as only Anderson knows how

by Hannah Strong

Wes Ander­son adapts a Roald Dahl short sto­ry with his sig­na­ture atten­tion to detail and visu­al panache.

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Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Dumb Money + Craig Gillespie | Strange Way Of Life | Brokeback Mountain (2005)

On Truth & Movies this week, we take a look at stranger-than-fic­tion tale of Red­dit vs Wall Street in Dumb Mon­ey and spoke to it’s direc­tor Craig Gille­spie. We also review Pedro Almodovar’s high­ly antic­i­pat­ed short film Strange Way Of Life star­ring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pas­cal for­mer lovers in the wild west. And for film club it is more cow­boys and for­bid­den love in Ang Lee’s Broke­back Mountain.
Two men in a dimly lit room, one wearing a red shirt and the other a suit. Vintage-style lamps and antique furnishings can be seen in the background.
Review

Strange Way Of Life review – characteristically Almodóvarian queer western

by Hannah Strong

An age­ing gun­slinger and the sher­iff of a small town reunite after many years in Pedro Almod­ó­var’s sweet short film.

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Festivals

Everything old is new again: archival cinema at London Short Film Festival

by Tahney Fosdike

Archival films and footage pre­sent­ed a rich oppor­tu­ni­ty for film­mak­ers and cura­tors to explore con­tem­po­rary themes and events at this year’s festival.
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Incoming

A new short film from Alice Rohrwacher is getting a release through Disney+

by Charles Bramesco

The 37-minute Le Pupille joins a group of rebel­lious young­sters spend­ing the hol­i­days at their board­ing school.
Three young men in casual clothing sitting on a concrete ledge outside a brick building.
Interviews

The art of adapting short films into feature-length movies

by Marina Ashioti

Eddie Stern­berg dis­cuss­es the risks and chal­lenges of expand­ing his 2015 short into a fea­ture-length film.