Little White Lies

10 stories

Little White LiesCinemaCarrie, Crystal Lake and the Price of Conformity As the wider shift towards conservative values champions increasingly restrictive ideals of femininity, how can the "monstrous feminine" transform female rage into rebellion?

10.28

Little White LiesCinemaLance Oppenheim: ‘The line between criminal enterprise and entertainment has become so fragile’ With Primetime, the non-fiction specialist switches to drama for a discomforting exploration of a lurid US TV sensation.

10.28

Little White LiesCinemaAnimol review – boyhood behind bars Ashley Walters’ directorial debut is a bruising portrait of masculinity behind bars, hampered by a frustrating screenplay.

10.28

Little White LiesCinemaI Love Boosters review – a technicolour takedown of capitalism Boots Riley’s riotous anti-capitalist caper is a technicolour fantasia brimming with scathing social commentary.

10.28

Little White LiesCinemaGentle Monster review – provocation without purpose Léa Seydoux stars as a mother whose life unravels when her husband is arrested on suspicion of child abuse, in this frustratingly evasive drama.

10.28

Little White LiesCinemaPrimetime review – Pattinson's uncanny take on Hansen is a career high Robert Pattinson cleanses the world of an ancient evil in Lance Oppenheim's take on the murky story of Chris Hansen and NBC's To Catch A Predator.

10.27

Little White LiesCinemaNightborn review – bad baby, bad movie Hanna Bergholm maternal folk horror avoids logic and credibility at every turn as it tells of a couple's attempts to nurture a nightmare child.

10.26

Little White LiesCinemaWicker review – a swooning comic fairy-tale with a large side of spice Olivia Colman finds her romantic ideal in Alexander Skarsgård’s literal wicker man in Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s entertaining, saucy fable.

10.26

Little White LiesCinemaThe Macabre Convergence of FW Murnau's Art and Life On the centenary of his silent masterpiece and the release of 'The Faust Bible', we examine FW Murnau’s mastery of supernatural cinema and its lasting cultural impact.

10.26

Little White LiesCinemaLee Chang-dong: ‘Am I worthy of telling their story?’ The Korean maestro returns with a sumptuous survey of class, capitalism and what it means to love someone in Possible Love.

10.22

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo