Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou: ‘It’s a constant relationship’

By Hannah Strong

The co-writers of Kinds of Kindness reflect on their enduring partnership and putting their characters through the ringer.

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

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LWLies 103: The Kinds of Kindness issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

Yorgos Lanthimos is up to his old tricks with this delightfully mean allegorical anthology.

Kinds of Kindness – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another scorcher in this innovative and darkly comic trio of films about spiritual domination.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: the full line-up

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France's premiere film jamboree.

Poor Things review – Lanthimos at his most playful and comedic

By Savina Petkova

Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ opulent provocation about the human body as a nexus for pleasure and pain.

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Yorgos Lanthimos: ‘Why is sex such a taboo? I really don’t understand’

By Hannah Strong

Yorgos Lanthimos on the intricate cine-suture work that it took to make his magnificent new film, Poor Things.

The 30 best films of 2023

By Little White Lies

As we wave goodbye to another year at the movies, we reflect on the films that have stayed with us – from the plastic fantastic to tense courtroom dramas.

LWLies 101: The Poor Things issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

Join us on a jaunt across Europe in the wild and wonderful latest from Yorgos Lanthimos.

Poor Things – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with his Emma Stone for a lavish and lewd romp through a steampunk vision of Europe.

Croisette wishes: 20 films we’d like to see at Cannes in 2023

By Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Pedro Almodóvar number among the heavy hitters expected on the red carpet.

Yorgos Lanthimos is reworking Frankenstein with Emma Stone

By Charles Bramesco

The pair are set to adapt the novel ‘Poor Things’, about an undead woman pieced back together.

Nimic

By David Jenkins

Matt Dillon joins Yorgos Lanthimos for this bizarre short about a New York cellist whose life is usurped by a passer-by.

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The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 50-26

By Little White Lies

Our noughties ranking reaches the midway point, as Amélie, Oldboy and Spider-Man 2 all make the cut.

Yorgos Lanthimos is eyeing a gothic western for his next project

By Max Copeman

The director is reportedly close to signing on to adapt Richard Brautigan’s novel ‘The Hawkline Monster’.

The Favourite

By David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.

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Barry Keoghan: ‘Acting is therapeutic, but it also messes with your head’

By Hannah Strong

The Irish rising star talks American Animals, shoplifting and how playing a certain type of character can lead to having weird dreams on set.

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