The Life Aquatic Issue<br>
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou: The movie review.<br>
New Age Dawning: LWLies selects some of the most influential directors of our generation, whose work is redefining and pushing the boundaries of movie culture.<br>
Sapphire And Cracked Emerald: Bowie through the looking glass.<br>
Aliens Of The Deep: Until as recently as 1860 it was thought that life could not exist below 1800 feet. The first telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean changed this. Dropped to a depth of 6000 ft, they were, when retrieved found to be covered with numerous types of marine life...<br>
Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Will the Real Steve Zissou Please Stand Up?

The Sin City Issue<br>
Sin City: The movie review.<br>
The Real Sin Cities: Wish you were here? LWLies braves some of the world's most dangerous cities.<br>
Hot Rod: Bright sun barely penetrates the room, unwelcome shafts of light that disturb the drinkers sipping tequilas...<br>
But Is It Art?: Chris King, illustrator and member of the multi disciplinary art collective Anti explains what he loves about comic book art.<br>
The Reality Man: Frank Miller's characters are fighting to reclaim lost turf. From the grim wastelands of Gotham, to the bars and broads of Sin City ' something's been taken away, and by God is it going to be gotten back...<br>
Comic Book Love: As comic-book movies grow and evolve, the bandwagon-jumping masses are already waiting with prefab opinions and tired prejudices. We're as tired of this as you are, so we went to the source.<br>
The Ultimates: You thought comic-books were for anoraks. Sin City proved you wrong. LWLies gives you the essential guide to the best of the rest...<br>
Holywood Hardcore: You've seen the whores of Old Town, check out the pimps of Hollywood.

The LAND OF THE DEAD Issue<br>
Land Of The Dead: The movie review.<br>
The Exorcist: Forget the headlines and ignore the hysteria, LWLies brings you the truth about London Voodoo - straight from the source.<br>
The Outsider: He's fought a 30-year battle against studio suits, but if George A. Romero is the winner, who are the real losers?<br>
Dead Reckoning: George Romero's Dead Trilogy is an icon of the horror genre. Why?<br>
Urban Zombie: Oh dear God save me from this melting carnage. I'm surrounded by the living dead. Was I not warned? I am turning into one. I am one. Please God help me...<br>
The Frighteners: George A. Romero isn't the only master of the genre whose movies you should be checking out.<br>
Rocky Horror: Buckle up for a whistle stop tour of horror's defining flicks; an ever changing story of vampires, aliens, and zombies that stretches from Germany to Japan via the good ol' US of A. Welcome to Horror History 101.<br>
Haiti: A History Of Violence: Hollywood has long been obsessed with Voodoo, zombies and the dark secrets of Haiti. But what is the truth of this shattered island's cultural heritage?<br>
The Zombie Survival Guide: It's finally happened: outbreak; war; defeat. Zombies control the earth, so what's next? Author Max Brooks has the answer...<br>
The Living Dead: Drugs, debauchery, ham sandwiches: all have their place in the raucous pantheon of rock casualties. But what about the guys who didn't make it - the luckless few who survived their decades of self-destruction? Shuffling, dead-eyed, unearthly... we salute rock's living dead. Musicians, man, they creep us out.<br>
Duck And Cover: Behind every zombie outbreak is a lab experiment gone wrong. But that hasn't stopped scientists creating some of the most dangerous substances ever devised. We take a sniff of some of the worst.

THE JARHEAD ISSUE<br>
Jarhead: The movie review.<br>
Soldiers' Stories: The truth about Iraq, Afghanistan and life in the armed forces from those who are still there.<br>
Intel Debrief: The first Gulf War by numbers.<br>
Boys' Toys: War: never been so much fun.<br>
Mills & Boom!: If Saddam Hussein's literary career proves one thing, it's that the pen really isn't mightier than the sword.<br>
Well Weapon: Is Hollywood's fixation with weaponry a fantasy fetish, or are movies arming the soldier of tomorrow?<br>
Fight Music: Off to war? Grab your iPod and take the defining music from over a century of conflict.<br>
Serbia Calling: During the bloody Bosnian conflict of the mid-'90s, Independent Serbian radio station, B92, took the chart war to a whole new level.<br>
Art Attack: Propaganda posters have played a crucial role in the world's most important conflicts... Didn't stop us taking the piss out of them, though.<br>
War Of The Words: Somebody once said that George Bush uses words like handgrenades - ones that might go off in his mouth at any minute.<br>
Talk The Talk: Want to make like a Marine with none of the effort? Dump the dhoby and dig out blind with our blagger's dictionary to being a bootneck.<br>
Sharp Shooter: Brent Stirton has seen some action in his time: Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Angola, and three tours of Iraq. But the South African born Stirton is no UN peace keeper or gun-for-hire mercenary. He's a photographer.<br>
Surgical Strike: Meet the transplant doctors who want to take your brain to another dimension.<br>
Acting Tough: When the bullets started flying, who were the real Hollywood war heroes?<br>
Sub-Marine?: What does Hollywood's fascination with the Marines tell us about the Corps?

The Romance & Cigarettes Issue
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman's cold-blooded Capote; Hark at that - Donnie Yen unsheathes Seven Swords; shock and awe - Lars Von Trier's controversial Manderlay; thug life South African-style in Tsotsi; Sundance cred for the indie kids in The Squid and the Whale; Clooney calls the shots in Syriana; kill or be killed is The Proposition.

The Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! Issue<p>
Brace for turbulence in United 93; take a leap of faith with District 13; no girls allowed for Offside; set an alarm for The Science of Sleep; start your engines for Pixar's Cars; answer the craving with Thank You For Smoking.

The Volver Issue<p>
Antonioni and co. get down with love in Eros; the US indie scene finds a ray of hope in Little Miss Sunshine; Gore goes Green with An Inconvenient Truth; knock and run from the Monster House; take a bite out of Nacho Libre; shed some light on A Scanner Darkly.

The Marie Antoinette Issue
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Russell and Ridley enjoy A Good Year; Jude Law gets caught Breaking and Entering; Guillermo del Toro picks a path through Pan's Labyrinth; Neil Young reveals a Heart of Gold; German exorcists hold a chilling Requiem.

The Babel Issue
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Clint Eastwood hoists the Flags Of Our Fathers; Will Ferrell learns that life is Stranger Than Fiction; Kevin Costner finds The Upside Of Anger; Paul Verhoeven opens his Black Book; Kevin Macdonald crowns The Last King of Scotland; Tom Tykwer wears a new Perfume.

The Chinese Cinema Special Issue<p>
Clint Eastwood posts Letters From Iwo Jima; Darren Aronofsky takes a draft from The Fountain; Clooney and Soderbergh hunt The Good German; David Lynch conquers an Inland Empire; Bill and Beyonce find their inner Dreamgirls; Richard Linklater gorges on Fast Food Nation; Sienna Miller gets her 15 minutes in Factory Girl.

The This Is England Issue<p>
Christina Ricci lets out a Black Snake Moan; Danny Boyle crews up for Sunshine; Rachid Bouchareb revisits Days of Glory; the stars align in David Fincher's Zodiac; Zhang Yimou suffers The Curse of the Golden Flower; Louis Garrel is down and out Dans Paris.

The Coen brothers find the lighter side of A Serious Man; Megan Fox devours Jennifer's Body; Jane Campion illuminates Bright Star; Richard Kelly thinks outside The Box; Steven Soderbergh rats on The Informant!; Paul Giamatti warms the cockles in Cold Souls; Michael Haneke unties The White Ribbon; Jordan Scott peers through the Cracks; Jim Jarmusch discovers The Limits of Control; and Michael Caine offers up vigilante vengeance in Harry Brown.</p>
<p><strong>Inspired by our feature film</strong>:
<br><strong>Into the Wild:</strong> Spike Jonze speaks. We listen.
<br><strong>My Name is Adam:</strong> Uncovering the many faces of Spike.
<br><strong>That's Entertainment:</strong> How Mother re-invented the ad agency.
<br><strong>Big Heir:</strong> Skate vid maestro Ty Evans is about to blow up.

<br><strong>Taking Over The Asylum:</strong> Tracking the rise of the fabled filmmaking class of '99.
<br><strong>Monsters, Ink:</strong> Nine artists plus one Surrealist parlour games equals 11 exquisite corpses.
<br><strong>The Wild Rumpus:</strong> Maurice Sendak's children's books are a window into a wild soul.
<br><strong>Trouble in Paradise:</strong> When a director's dream job turns into a nightmare.</p>
<p><strong>Plus exclusive interviews with:</strong>
<br>Richard Kelly
<br>Jason Schwartzman

<br>Ondi Timoner
<br>Paddy Considine
<br>Gael Garcia Bernal
<br>Sasha Gray
<br>Lynn Shelton
<br>Kelly Macdonald</p>

<p>Tom Ford makes eyes at 'A Single Man'; George Clooney jets off 'Up in the Air'; Jacques Audiard preaches the words of 'A Prophet'; Ray Winstone bares his '44 Inch Chest'; Andy Serkis goes wild with 'Sex &amp; Drugs &amp; Rock &amp; Roll'; Lee Daniels pines for his 'Precious'; Julien Temple lifts the lid on 'Oil City Confidential'; Michael Moore gets mushy in 'Capitalism: A Love Story'; Aaron Johnson finds himself in 'Nowhere Boy'; Jeff Bridges opens his 'Crazy Heart'; and Hayao Miyazaki returns with the painterly 'Ponyo'.</p>
<p><strong>Inspired by our feature film</strong>:
<br><strong>Man of the Moment:</strong> Hunkering in the bunker with Viggo Mortensen.
<br><strong>This Is How The World Ends:</strong> Filmmaking's finest predict the apocalypse.

<br><strong>Five Minutes To Midnight:</strong> James Martin defines the meaning of the twenty-first century before we study the ways in which it could all come crashing down.
<br><strong>Winter Songs:</strong> On set poetry and photography from Viggo Mortensen.
<br><strong>On The Road:</strong> Examining the savage landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.
<br><strong>Under Pressure:</strong> How John Hillcoat approached the toughest assignment of his life.
<br><strong>Let's Get Ready To Rapture:</strong> A personal guide through the Christian apocalypse.</p>
<p><strong>Plus exclusive interviews with:</strong>

<br>Jacques Audiard
<br>Andy Serkis
<br>Isabelle Huppert
<br>Cristian Mungiu
<br>Lee Daniels
<br>Malcolm Venville</p>

<p>LWLies 37 offers a nuts and bolts breakdown of Nicolas Winding Refn's uber-cool auto thriller Drive.</p>

<p>Overleaf there's candid interviews with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling, as well as composer Cliff Martinez and 'Drive' author James Sallis.</p>
<p>There's also an eye-opening look at the death-defying world of the Hollywood stunt driver, and an exclusive pair of poems from Sallis' unpublished volume 'Leaning into the Electric Day'. And, as an added treat, we speak exclusively to Sandra Hebron ahead of her last year as Artistic Director of the BFI London Film Festival.</p>

Michael Shannon decides to Take Shelter; Rod Lurie erects Straw Dogs; Terence Davies swims in The Deep Blue Sea; Miranda July predicts The Future; Errol Morris starts a Tabloid frenzy; Andrea Arnold shows no fear of Wuthering Heights; Andrea Riseborough leads a heroic Resistance; Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt go 50/50 on tragi-comedy; Gerard Butler seeks penance from a Machine Gun Preacher; and Brad Pitt knocks a Moneyball out of the park.</p>
<p><strong>Inspired by our feature film</strong>:
<br><strong>I'm Still Here:</strong>
<br>Another Earth director Mike Cahill keeps his feet on the ground.</p>
<p><strong>Open Your Mind:</strong>
<br>From Arnie to Descartes - the most thought-provoking sci-fi ever.</p>

<p><strong>Space Camp:</strong>
<br>NASA boffins plus fiction writers equals good times for sci-fi.</p>
<p><strong>Double Trouble:</strong>
<br>Why there's no such thing as another Earth.</p>
<p><strong>Bright Star:</strong>
<br>Brit Marling brings sass back to Hollywood.</p>
<p><strong>Apollo Prophets:</strong>
<br>A visual folio of the moon.</p>
<p><strong>Fly Me to the Moon:</strong>

<br>Hitching a ride on the private space initiatives taking man back to the stars.</p>
<p><strong>Plus exclusive interviews with</strong>:
<br>Michael Shannon, Joachim Trier, Philip Seymour Hoffman.</p>

Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio get to grips with J. Edgar; Meryl Streep sizes up The Iron Lady, David Fincher unleashes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Alexander Payne and George Clooney visit paradise in search of The Descendants; Woody Harrelson is Rampart; Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender ponder A Dangerous Method; Tom Cruise accepts Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol; and Steven Spielberg salutes War Horse.<br>
Heavyweight: Shame director Steve McQueen runs LWLies through the making of his sex-addiction drama.<br>
See No Evil: LWLies considers how cinema has historically dealt with taboo subjects.<br>
Celluloid Liberation: Three filmmakers reveal how they overcame personal anxieties through the healing power of cinema.<br>
Cruising: Michael Fassbender is the man giving Hollywood a hard-on.<br>
Eroticart: Five artists. Five poets. Five sets of impressions inspired by the smutty, the shameful and the sensual.<br>
Shadowland: Is Carey Mulligan ready to step out of the shadows and into the light of Hollywood's big league?<br>
Shooting sex: Capturing the act of sex on screen.<br>
Plus exclusive interviews with: Alexander Payne, Woody Harrelson, Sean Durkin.

Whit Stillman rescues Damsels in Distress; Werner Herzog ventures Into the Abyss; the Dardenne brothers train The Kid with a Bike; Nuri Bilge Ceylan dials murder Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Markus Schleinzer exposes Michael, Cameron Crowe and Matt Damon declare We Bought a Zoo, Sean Penn assumes This Must Be the Place; and Mark Wahlberg talks to criminals in Contraband.<br>

Inspired by our feature film: The English Way:<br>
LWLies sits down for a relaxing cuppa with Pirates! director - and Aardman hero - Peter Lord.<br>

Non-Stop Motion: LWLies gets the VIP tour of Aardman Animations' Bristol studio.<br>

Scopes and Tropes: We pay tribute to the pioneers of Victorian animation.<br>

A Series of Fortunate Events: Author Gideon Defoe tells LWLies how a pub bet accidentally became a series of novels and an animated big-screen adventure.<br>

The Good Pirate: Vessel extraction operative Max Hardberger (aka 'The Good Pirate') guides us through the murky waters of modern-day pirating.<br>

Slippery SOPA: LWLies takes to the high seas to find out if anything can be done to combat digital piracy.<br>
Plus exclusive interviews with:<br>
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Paolo Sorrentino, the Dardenne brothers.

<p>William Friedkin gets close to the bone with Killer Joe; Alejandro Brugues survives Juan of the Dead; Jason Statham is Safe; Mia Hansen-Lψve whispers Goodbye First Love; Tahar Rahim abets Free Men; Julie Delpy spends 2 Days in New York; Ken Loach divvies up The Angels' Share; Will Ferrell goes gringo in Casa di me Padre; Bela Tarr tames The Turin Horse; Aleksandr Sokurov interprets Faust; and Michel Ocelot brings Tales of the Night to life.</p>
<p><strong>Inspired by our feature films:</strong>
<br><strong>Director's commentary:</strong>
<br>Gareth Evans takes us through the movies and memories that inspired <em>The Raid</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Greatest Hits:</strong>
<br>Three of the world's top fight choreographer's discuss their favourite onscreen moments.</p>
<p><strong>Second opinion:</strong>
<br>A medical professional gives a prognosis on the real-life consequences of movie violence.</p>
<p><strong>The First Action Hero:</strong>
<br>We reveal the identity of the early pioneers of onscreen violence.</p>
<p><strong>Tainted Love:</strong>
<br>In an exclusive essay, Ti West recalls how he joined the ranks of horror auteurdom.</p>
<p><strong>The (Un)Making of Horror:</strong>
<br>Meet the directors who faced hell and high water to make their dream nightmare movies.</p>
<p><strong>Bonded by Blood:</strong>
<br>Inside the strange sodality of the horror fan.</p>
<p><strong>Here by Monsters:</strong>
<br>Writer and mythographer Marina Warner traces the cultural origins of our fears.</p>
<p><strong>Plus exclusive interviews with:</strong>
<br>Bela Tarr, Michel Ocelot, Ben Rivers and Mia Hansen-Lψve.</p>

Polite Society • Following the blast of sitcom joy that was We Are Lady Parts, writer/director Nida Manzoor takes a giant leap to the big screen with an in-your-face comedy about crane-kicking the face of traditional mores.
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THE BIG BOSS • A CONVERSATION WITH NIDA MANZOOR
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MAKE ’EM LAUGH • A SWIFT SURVEY OF THE SITCOM-TO-MOVIE PIPELINE (AND VICE VERSA!)
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FIST OF FURY • A CONVERSATION WITH PRIYA KANSARA
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WAY OF THE DRAGON • A CONVERATION WITH RITU ARYA
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THROWING PUNCHED • WE GO RINGSIDE WITH SELF-TAUGHT STUNTWOMAN, EXTRAORDINAIRE, SHAINA WEST
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PITCH PERFECT • THREE WRITERS CROWD THE BOX TO PICK APART THE LEGACY OF GURINDER CHADHA’S 2002 BANGER, BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM.
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THE WALKING OF PECKHAM 123 • A RYE LANE WALK-N-TALK WITH RAINE ALLEN-MILLER
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ON THE WALL • TEENAGE BEDROOM WALL ART REVISITED BY A ROGUES GALLERY OF LWLIES CONTRIBUTORS
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Mia Goth • With her everything-on-the-table turns in Infinity Pool and Pearl, Mia Goth has blossomed into one of the most exciting and intense actors on the scene.
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Infinity Pool
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Pearl
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Rye Lane
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The Five Devils
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Léa Mysius • The director of olefactory wonder, The Five Devils, on making a film about potions, memory and the sense of smell.
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Cairo Conspiracy
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The Night of the 12th
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Full Time
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Love According to Dalva
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The Beasts
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1976
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Godland
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Hlynur Pálmason • The Icelandic director of the ethnographic epic, Godland, on creating his own myths and how to properly record birdsong.
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Brainwashed: Sex-Power-Camera
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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Suzume
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Pacifiction
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Albert Serra • The loquatious Spanish maestro picks apart the process of his breakthrough feature of political malaise in the South Seas, Pacifiction.
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God’s Creatures
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The Blue Caftan
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The Eight Mountains
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Plan 75
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Return to Seoul
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Davy Chou • The writer/director of the magical Return to Seoul on drawing inspiration from eccentric friends.
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Leonor Will Never Die
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Please Baby Please
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One Fine Morning
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Riotsville, USA
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Rodeo
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Naked Lunch
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
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Kamikaze Hearts
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Thamp
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Wanda
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The Man on the Roof
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#1: The 2023 Berlin Film Festival • An innovative Woolf homage, an on-the-lam portarait of Black trans sex workers, and a restored queer gem from Brazil are covered in the first edition of this new column.