Danny Boyle lasts 127 Hours; David O Russell takes a swing at The Fighter; Alejandro González Iñárritu paints a bleak but Biutiful picture of Barcelona; David Michod surveys his Animal Kingdom; Peter Weir searches for The Way Back; Paul Haggis can’t see beyond The Next Three Days; Tom Hooper delivers The King’s Speech; Charles Ferguson pulls of an Inside Job; Mark Romanek clones Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go; and Ed Zwick experiments with Love and Other Drugs.

Inspired by our feature film:

Back to Black: Darren Aronofsky on the exquisite agony of filmmaking.
Easier with Practice: Going behind-the-scenes with the experts who make actors’ alchemical transformations possible.
The Shadow Self: Why do mirrors reflect our deepest psychological fears?
The Birds: A visual folio of our feathered friends.
Hot Like Me: Mila Kunis sets hearts on fire.
Swan Song: Composer Clint Mansell on his journey to greatness.
You Are What You Know: Donald Rumsefeld was right – there are known unknowns, and they really, really matter.

Plus exclusive interviews with:
Danny Boyle
Mark Romanek
Tobe Hooper
Paul Haggis
David Michod

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A Magazine Is Born – the making of Little White Lies

We wanted to make a short film that captured some of the love, care and hand-crafted passion that goes into the making of an issue of LWLies. We produce six issues each year, and for the two month period that we’re working on a particular issue, we totally immerse ourselves in the movie and in the production process. While we obviously embrace digital in all forms, first and foremost we’re makers of honest, tangible and fine-smelling objects, and we hope that comes across in some way here.

We filmed this ourselves over the course of November/December 2010, and the film was edited for us by our friends at production company Archer’s Mark.

Darren Aronofsky’s musical collaborator Clint Mansell kindly offered us use of the track ‘A Swan is Born’ from his Black Swan soundtrack, and so we’ve called our short film ‘A Magazine is Born’.