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The "one-inch barrier" that Bong Joon Ho spoke of in 2019 still exists – and it's not always audiences who are to blame for subtitles being inaccessible

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The "one-inch barrier" that Bong Joon Ho spoke of in 2019 still exists – and it's not always audiences who are to blame for subtitles being inaccessible

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Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 drama finds its way to the Royal Opera House courtesy of an elaborate new reimagining – but how on earth do you adapt a Dogme 95 film into an opera?

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Taking cues from Ridley Scott's juggernaut, Mouthwashing is a fascinating game about worker exploitation and the violence of the patriarchy

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An often-terrifying, overwhelming, intense, combustible screen presence like no other; an auteur-actor par excellence. RIP Gene Hackman.

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Just watched Grand Theft Hamlet on MUBI - wonderful, uplifting and weirdly life affirming. Also an absolute hoot.

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mickey 17: lwlies.com/reviews/mick... a really fun time imo!!!

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The sounds of David Lynch – a supercut edited by Luís Azevedo Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/GvZ6hZJrx6o?...

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As WWE enters its Netflix Era, there's an awful lot of "brand synergy" – and it's becoming a distraction

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was such a pleasure to write about the BFI's sidney poitier season for my fave @lwlies.com last month 🤓 lwlies.com/articles/the...

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Grand Theft Hamlet is now streaming on MUBI, but if you've hankering for more GTA-set cinema, allow Olivia Popp to guide you... lwlies.com/articles/gra...

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Hamlet has entered the chat. Two out-of-work actors take Shakespeare into the digital wilds of Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Hamlet is now streaming on MUBI. Try 30 days free to watch the film and more hand-picked cinema: https://buff.ly/41sqHn7

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for @lwlies.com i wrote about chantal akerman and trying to make sense of losing someone to suicide. the way we look through the things left behind like clues, to try and tell a story that makes sense of the senseless, one that we can never quite find. lwlies.com/articles/mak...

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I’m Still Here triumphs in pairing Walter Salles’s intrinsic understanding of the emotional potential of realism with two brilliant performers in Selton Mello and Fernanda Torres, writes @rafiews.com

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As Chantal Akerman receives a long overdue retrospective via the BFI, Esmé Holden reflects on a personal connection to her work, and the spectre of suicide in conversations around Akerman lwlies.com/articles/mak...

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If Longlegs was a study in pervasive dread, The Monkey opts for quick fire thrills and spills

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After a cruel break-up, a writer finds comfort and relief in Michel Gondry's offbeat 2004 romantic drama

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not accepting any 'monkeys and apes are different' comments at this time lwlies.com/reviews/the-...

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Edward Yang's 2000 masterpiece about a middle-class family in Taipei might be the defining film of the millennium

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How to style your home like a romantic comedy... Watch our latest video essay in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMY...

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Renée Zellweger dons her big knickers again as the frazzled heroine, this time getting her groove back after her husband's death

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Join one of LWL's long-time writers and @animusmagazine.bsky.social for what is destined to be a cult classic - it'll be bananas 🐒

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We finish our 2-week David Lynch tribute today with a love letter from Twin Peaks local @badideas.bsky.social ft. Illustration by Maddi Gonzalez lwlies.com/articles/in-...

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A special discount for you movie lovers out there 💘 👉 lwlies.imbmsubscriptions.com/lwlfeb10/ 👈

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HEART EYES is out tomorrow and I urge you to spend Valentines day doing anything else. My review is now live on @lwlies.com : lwlies.com/reviews/hear...

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In the penultimate essay of our David Lynch tribute In Heaven Everything Is Fine, @hannahstrong.co.uk reflects on The Straight Story lwlies.com/articles/ful...

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Nostalgia folding in upon itself: A visit to Wong Kar-wai’s Bangkok

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Today's Lynch essay: @judysquirrels.bsky.social reflects on the power dynamics at play in David Lynch's seductive 1986 thriller, Blue Velvet Illustration by @samgilbey.bsky.social

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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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Today's Lynch essay: @christinalefou.bsky.social on The Elephant Man. Illustration by @joehumphrey.bsky.social

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A joy to be on the @lwlies.com podcast this week talking figs, sheep, and boiled potatoes (Seed of the Sacred Fig, Bring Them Down and Jeanne Dielman) 🥔 shows.acast.com/truthandmovi...

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In an age of Walk Hard knock-offs, why are the biopics that continue to play it safe the biggest success stories?

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For today’s Lynch tribute essay, Mark Asch recalls the sultry summer of 2017, when Dale Cooper returned to television and the world was forever changed. Illustration by Stephanie Monohan

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Join us for a trip down the Lost Highway in today's In Heaven Everything Is Fine essay, courtesy of Sophie Monks Kaufman with illustration by @tomhumberstone.com lwlies.com/articles/dre...

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"In an age when violence surrounds us at every turn, let us all remember Albert Rosenfield’s fight against that very violence by instead focusing on love" @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social on love in the land of Twin Peaks:

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Today's David Lynch essay: Marina Ashioti on Dune, ft. illustration by Jake Alexander lwlies.com/articles/lig...

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Today for 'In Heaven Everything Is Fine', @capybaroness.bsky.social on Inland Empire with art by Jules Scheele 🐰 lwlies.com/articles/wom...

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For today's In Heaven Everything Is Fine read: Esmé Holden pens an ode to one of David Lynch's lesser known – but no less marvellous – works: DumbLand. Ft. an original comic by @hausofdecline.bsky.social 🤪 lwlies.com/articles/a-t...

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So pleased to have been able to contribute to the ongoing LWL David Lynch tribute!

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A tendency in male-directed Iranian cinema to focus on violence against women leaves female audiences out in the cold.

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Continuing our David Lynch tribute, @kathryn42.bsky.social on Nic Cage's snakeskin jacket as a totemic talisman of wild freedom in Wild at Heart Illustration by @alexxkittle.bsky.social

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Today's Lynch essay: @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social on the love that fuels Twin Peaks, with art by @briannaduggan.bsky.social ❤️ lwlies.com/articles/lov...

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This @lwlies.com essay series on David Lynch is wonderful. Have a read & do subscribe if you can: when the world's richest film studios are devolving their artwork to pixelsick, we're so lucky to have writers & artists of this calibre producing such profoundly human work. lwlies.com/tags/in-heav...

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Is there anything Cate Blanchett can’t do? We interviewed her alongside director Matty Sidle at the Rotterdam Film Festival to discuss her mad role in the surreal, AI-satirising short, Bozo Over Roses. *Includes some lovely thoughts on the late, great David Lynch. lwlies.com/festivals/in...

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In our third essay of our David Lynch tribute 'In Heaven Everything Is Fine', @willowcatelyn.bsky.social reflects on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with illustration by @meghyland.bsky.social lwlies.com/articles/twi...

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