In Conversation | Little White Lies

In Conversation

Illustration of a smiling Daisy-May Hudson by Judith P. Raynault
Interviews

Daisy-May Hudson: ‘I want to make films that crack people’s hearts open’

by Katherine McLaughlin

The ambigu­ous and some­times trag­ic nature of moth­er­hood is the sub­ject of writer/​director Daisy-May Hudson’s force­ful debut, Lollipop.
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Interviews

Wes Anderson: ‘You’re hoping for the right accident’

by Hannah Strong

We speak to the mas­ter­mind behind The Phoeni­cian Scheme about fam­i­ly, fathers-in-law, and the great, grand plan of all things Wes Anderson.
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Interviews

Ryan Coogler: ‘I’m more confident in my film language than I am in my English’

by Kambole Campbell

Ryan Coogler reflects on devel­op­ing a sto­ry root­ed in per­son­al pas­sions with his grand, IMAX-shot thriller, Sinners.
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Interviews

Joshua Oppenheimer: ‘The End is an artefact of barbarism’

by Lucy Peters

How the doc mae­stro turned his hand to (musi­cal!) fic­tion in his com­pelling and sin­gu­lar new film, The End.
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Interviews

Vera Drew: ‘At least they’re not saying “banned filmmaker” anymore’

by Juan Barquin

As The Peo­ple’s Jok­er final­ly goes glob­al, the mav­er­ick film­mak­er behind the wildest super­hero film of the year sounds off about microbud­get film­mak­ing, the trans canon, and Jok­er 2.
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Interviews

Brady Corbet: ‘It’s a fucking film’

by Hannah Strong

The mav­er­ick writer/​director espous­es the need to stick behind your aes­thet­ic and cre­ative ideals at all costs.
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Interviews

Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Is our modern pain valid?’

by Darren Richman

The actor and writer/​director of A Real Pain dis­cuss­es his Pol­ish her­itage and the tricky prospect of film­ing scenes for a com­e­dy dra­ma in a con­cen­tra­tion camp.
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Interviews

Magic and Loss: On the making of Queer

by Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagni­no, Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on bring­ing the clas­sic, con­tro­ver­sial William Bur­roughs nov­el kick­ing and scream­ing to the big screen.
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Interviews

Tyler Taormina: ‘The soundtrack is one of the germinating seeds of the work’

by David Jenkins

Christ­mas Eve in Miller’s Point is a Yule­tide clas­sic in the mak­ing, and its direc­tor has a sin­cere fond­ness for the hol­i­day season.
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Interviews

Franz Rogowski: ‘If you talk about birds, you always talk about ethereal energy’

by Savina Petkova

The Ger­man star unlocks the process of deep immer­sion that led him to dis­cov­er­ing his char­ac­ter in Andrea Arnold’s Bird.
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Interviews

Barry Keoghan: ‘I have my own method; I’m still learning and discovering’

by David Jenkins

The role of charis­mat­ic chancer Bug in Andrea Arnold’s Bird feels like a vic­to­ry lap for Hol­ly­wood’s most unlike­ly new darling.
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Interviews

Andrea Arnold: ‘I’m very interested in the sensual world’

by Nia Childs

One of Britain’s fore­most chron­i­clers of life in the eco­nom­ic mar­gins opens up about the pres­sures of mod­ern film­mak­ing and her desire to let audi­ences take what they want from her films.