Little White Lies No. 107

In this issue:

Political Acts: The Cinema of Ryan Coogler
Leila Latif takes a trip from Fruitvale Station to Sinners to explore the work of this mainstream radical.

Black and Blues
Kambole Campbell talks to writer/director Ryan Coogler about his music-powered, IMAX-shot thriller, Sinners.

Twin Cinema
Michael B Jordan on his deep creative and personal connection to Sinners director, Ryan Coogler.

Roots
A look to the past and present at a rich history of Black excellence in genre filmmaking.

Saints on Sinners
Emma Fraser and David Jenkins talk shop with eight members of the cast and crew of Sinners.

Up Jumped the Devil
Jake Cole explores the abiding screen influence and interest in mythical bluesman, Robert Johnson.

Immortal Beloved
Jourdain Searles writes in praise of Bill Gunn’s seminal, experimental vampire allegory, Ganja and Hess.

On the Batwalk: A Vampire Fashion Survey
Soma Ghosh reports live from the catwalks of Transylvania on cinema’s most plushly-threaded vamps.

In the back section

Bong Joon Ho interview
We chat to the Oscar-winner on his big return to English-language filmmaking with the utterly goofy and charming Mickey 17.

Joshua Oppenheimer
Lucy Peters speaks to the writer-director of apocalyptic musical, The End, about his shift from documentary over to fiction.

Gints Zilbalodis
Fresh from his Oscar win for the breathtaking cat-based animation, Flow, the Latvian director explains how he made the miniature epic that could.

Kyoshi Kurosawa
Hannah Strong sits down with the Japanese genre maestro in Tokyo to talk about a raft of recent projects, including new UK release, Cloud.

David Lynch obituary
Hannah Strong on the influence and presence of the great experimental filmmaker who – for a time – found a place to play within the system.

Postcard: Rotterdam Film Festival
David Jenkins sends a missive back from this Dutch festival stalwart that offers divine esoterica, but sometimes a little less to write home about.

Sticky Gold Stars: In Praise of Marlon Riggs
Marina Ashioti looks back at the radical filmmaker’s searing and melancholy 1994 swansong, Black Is… Black Ain’t.

In review

Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17
Kevin MacDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ One to One: John & Yoko
Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian
Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow
Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons
Haroula Rose’s All Happy Families
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End
Alonso Ruizplacios’s La Cocina
Darren Thornton’s Four Mothers
Sasha Nathwani’s Last Swim
Manon Quimet and Jacob Perlmutter’s Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia
Karan Kandahari’s Sister Midnight
Gintz Zilbalodis’ Flow
Uberto Pasolini’s The Return
Steven Eastwood and Neurocultures Collective’s The Stimming Pool
Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
Sandhya Suri’s Santosh
Onti Timoner’s Dig! XX
Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell’s Direct Action
Jia Zhang-ke’s Caught By the Tides
Leonardo Van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet
Dea Kulumbegagashvili’s April
Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud