Little White Lies

There’s no shortage of cinema that indulges our appetite for good food – but in Lulu Wang’s 2019 sleeper hit The Farewell and Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning drama triptych Moonlight, eating becomes so much more than a mere act of sustenance. The former

My kingdom for a kebab, a dollar slice, even a mediocre eggs benny – so long as I don’t have to make it myself. In the first few weeks of indefinite pandemic limbo, fresh-baked bread and elaborate, multi-part feasts flooded my social media feeds. It

In collaboration with Sony Pictures, we challenged our readers to create a Little Women book cover as a way to celebrate the film’s home entertainment release. From over 70 amazing entries, here is the one that our designers chose as the winner, an i

It was Apicius, the 1st Century Roman gourmand, who supposedly coined the phrase, “we eat first with our eyes.” As true now as it was then, it’s a statement that is apt for food on screen. In the digital age, film is the perfect vehicle to sate our v

If, as the saying goes, the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it, it’s probably true that no one knows better how to put that into practice than movie people. For a few silver screen luminaries, eating and drinking lavishly in restaura

“When you enter a dinner party you enter this weird social contract, says Jeff Reichert co-director of Feast of the Epiphany along with Farihah Zaman and Michael Koresky. “How many of us have stormed out of a dinner party? No, you stay through to the

In the 2012 film Berberian Sound Studio, sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) travels to Italy for a job on a fictitious slasher picture and soon gets engulfed by the madness he sees on screen. Though his background isn’t in foley work, he gets roped

To Western ears, it’s surely one of the most evocatively Japanese of film titles. Ozu Yasujiro’s 1952 drama The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice conjures up images of beautiful ceramics, pearly white grains, possibly even a tatami-floored room in which

"The French Dispatch is a compilation of different short stories, and one of them deals with a chef, so food was quite an important part of that. We had a food prep person on the film who’s there to make sure everything looks fresh and good. I typica

The American novelist Fanny Fern is credited with coining the ubiquitous proverb that suggests “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”. In the case of America’s sweetheart William Bradley Pitt, a similar but distinct adage might be applicab

Leaving behind a career in American football, John David Washington has been making steady waves in the acting sphere. His most lauded and recognisable roles have come from a number of films concerned with abuses of power, including his leading turn

Directed by SPIKE LEE Starring CLARKE PETERS DELROY LINDO CHADWICK BOSEMAN Released 12 JUNE 4 ANTICIPATION. Always excited to hear from Spike Lee but Netflix doesn’t feel ideal for a war movie. 4 ENJOYMENT. Not exactly subtle but full of glorious mom

Directed by SALVADOR SIMÓ Starring JORGE USÓN, FERNANDO RAMOS, LUIS ENRIQUE DE TOMÁS Released 9 JULY With the Jean-Luc Godard portrait Redoubtable and Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato still lingering in the memory, and a Rainer Werner Fassb

Directed by LUDOVIC BERNARD Starring LAMBERT WILSON KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS JULES BENCHETRIT Released 10 JULY 3 ANTICIPATION. Lovely concept, always up for an underdog story. 3 ENJOYMENT. Clean and precise to look at, comforting in its inevitability. 3

Directed by THOMAS CLAY Starring MAXINE PEAKE CHARLES DANCE FREDDIE FOX Released OUT NOW 5 ANTICIPATION. Have literally been watching the clock in anticipation of Thomas Clay’s next movie. 4 ENJOYMENT. Hamstrung a little by the single setting and a c

Directed by NINIAN DOFF Starring EDDIE IZZARD, KATE DICKIE, JAMES COSMO Released 7 AUGUST If there’s a movie sub genre that makes you want to run for the hills, it’s horror-comedy. A doff of the cap to those brave filmmakers who attempt to force toge

After tackling the lesser known part of Joan of Arc’s story, her childhood, in the 2017 metal musical Jeannette, French director Bruno Dumont brings her adventures to their famous, grisly conclusion in his follow-up, Joan of Arc. LWLies: When you mad

Directed by DW YOUNG Starring FRAN LEBOWITZ PARKER POSEY GAY TALESE Released 28 JUNE 4 ANTICIPATION. Give me a musty old paperback any day. 2 ENJOYMENT. More a showcase of tweed patterns than a convincing case for book preservation. 2 IN RETROSPECT. 

Directed by BRUNO DUMONT Starring LISE LEPLAT PRUDHOMME BENOÎT ROBAIL FABRICE LUCHINI Released 10 JULY 4 ANTICIPATION. Always here for Dumont, especially in his weird anti-comedy phase. 4 ENJOYMENT. Meshes formal brilliance with a unique and moving d

Directed by AMY ZIERING, KIRBY DICK Starring DREW DIXON, TARANA BURKE, KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW Released 26 JUNE Former A&R Executive Drew Dixon is the focal point of this forceful documentary. She rose to prominence at Def Jam Recordings during their early

Directed by MATT WOLF Starring JOHN ALLEN ABIGAIL ALLING MARGRET AUGUSTINE Released 10 JULY 3 ANTICIPATION. The red jumpsuit promo image evokes the most outré corners of sci-fi. 4 ENJOYMENT. Entertaining and edifying in equal measure. 5 IN RETROSPECT

Directed by RON MANN Starring RICK KELLY, NELS CLINE, JIM JARMUSCH Released 26 JUNE Carmine Street Guitars is a musical instrument outlet that has stood on the same site in New York’s Greenwich Village since 1990. Per the name emblazoned on its front

Directed by RICHARD TANNE Starring LILI REINHART SARAH JONES AUSTIN ABRAMS Released AUGUST TBC 3 ANTICIPATION. A starring movie vehicle could supply a deserved platform to rising talent Lili Reinhart. 2 ENJOYMENT. She’s ready for more grown-up challe

LWLies held a competition in conjunction with Modern Films and Joe & Seph’s popcorn where we set the task to budding creatives to build a cinema in their own home as a way to ward off the isolation of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. All the en

Directed by CLAIRE OAKLEY Starring MOLLY WINDSOR JOSEPH QUINN STEFANIE MARTINI Released 28 AUGUST 3 ANTICIPATION. A genre-straddling debut with a cast of new faces. Could go either way. 4 ENJOYMENT. Cornwall coming-of-age and coming out. 4 IN RETROSP

Claire Oakley’s first feature is a bewitching and mysterious journey into the subconscious of a young woman discovering new, scary but thrilling desires inside herself. Her fantasies come to life in the shadows of the maze-like, off-season caravan pa

Directed by XAVIER DOLAN Starring GABRIEL D’ALMEIDA FREITAS XAVIER DOLAN ANNE DORVAL Released 10 JULY 3 ANTICIPATION. Dolan is a wild, fascinatingly inconsistent filmmaker. 4 ENJOYMENT. But when he’s good, he’s great. 4 IN RETROSPECT. This is the Qué

Directed by ALEX THOMPSON Starring KELLY O’SULLIVAN RAMONA EDITH-WILLIAMS BRADEN CROTHERS Released 10 JULY 3 ANTICIPATION. A film about a woman’s friendship with a child, could be cute. 4 ENJOYMENT. Funny, heartwarming and difficult, plus this kid ha

Directed by LINDSAY ANDERSON Starring MALCOLM MCDOWELL GRAHAM CROWDEN LEONARD ROSSITER 1982 Out NOW Blu-ray Rabble-rousing British filmmaker Lindsay Anderson’s 1982 opus stands as the mangled capstone of what has been dubbed his ‘Mick Travis Trilogy’

Directed by ÉTIENNE CHATILIEZ Starring BENOÎT MAGIMEL HÉLÈNE VINCENT VALÉRIE LALANDE 1988 Released 20 JULY Blu-ray You may not be particularly au fait with the name of French writer/director Étienne Chatiliez, and that is down to the fact he scored a

Directed by NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI Starring SHINNOSUKE MITSUSHIMA KEISHI NAGATSUKA TOKIO EMOTO 2017 Released 6 JULY Blu-ray This was supposed to be the last movie that the prolific, prodigious Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi was able to make, assumin

Directed by MARTIN SCORSESE Starring IRA RUBIN STEVEN PRINCE CATHERINE SCORSESE 1963-78 Out NOW Blu-ray If Martin Scorsese movies can be seen as vast, colourful, pungent flowers, then the short features contained on this new Blu-ray collection are th

Directed by DOROTHY ARZNER Starring LUCILLE BALL MAUREEN O'HARA LOUIS HAYWARD 1940 Out NOW Blu-ray Were you to search for examples of women working as directors during the height of Hollywood’s studio system era, the results would be meagre to say th

Directed by JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI Starring JEREMY IRONS EUGENE LIPINSKI JIRÍ STANISLAV 1982 Released 6 JULY Blu-ray Particularly in the early stretch of his career, Jeremy Irons had an incredible eye for challenging, left-of-centre projects that would pu

Directed by HIDEO SEKIGAWA Starring EIJI OKADA YUMEJI TSUKIOKA YOSHI KATÔ 1953 Released 13 JULY Blu-ray Made eight years after the end of World War Two, Hideo Sekigawa’s Hiroshima shows the horrific effects of the world’s first use of the atom bomb w

Directed by DAVID FINCHER Starring MICHAEL DOUGLAS SEAN PENN DEBORAH KARA UNGER 1997 Released 27 JULY Blu-ray People often say of the Coen brothers that there is no consensus favourite when it comes to landing on their best film. The same could be sa

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Laurene Boglio (cover) is a French art director and illustrator based in Brooklyn. She works as the art director of LWLies since 2017 and loves making animated black and white disturbing gifs. “I loved feeling free to invent and imagine the space whe