LITTLE WHITE LIES 7-8月號/2020 第85期

Issue 85 - Food & Film Special

Producing an issue of Little White Lies under lockdown conditions has been a challenging and exciting task, a little like completing a Rubix cube against the clock while blindfolded and whistling ‘Frère Jacques’ on a loop. Okay, maybe not that tough. With cinemas closed, release schedules obliterated, the film industry on furlough and most people rightly squirrelling away in their homes to safeguard from viral infection, it meant that the option of making what you might see as a “regular” issue of the magazine was not there to be taken.

Yet necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention, and so the LWLies brain trust rubbed their heads together over a video conferencing platform and came up with something a little different: an issue dedicated to the intersections between the worlds of food and the worlds of film.

This idea was born from the fact that, during those early months of COVID lockdown, most of the world were in social unison and conversations that people were having tended to be about films and TV shows they had streamed, or recipes that they had tried with varying degrees of success. It was as if, when the taken-for-granted luxury of human contact was violently removed from the equation of how we live our daily lives, all that was left was food and film.

This issue is a celebration of how food is depicted on screen, how food can be used as a storytelling device in narrative cinema, it’s about cookbooks written by movie folk, and the eating habits of movie folk, and how food is prepared, photographed and served on movie sets, and of course, an answer to that eternal question: why does Brad Pitt spend so much time eating in his movies? It’s a way for readers to experience the vicarious pleasures of a hearty meal with friends, but also a look at how one of the most popular artforms of the modern age deals with a ritual that is vital to existence, but is so often taken for granted.

On the cover

This special cover was created by LWLies’ own art director Laurène Boglio and it depicts the interior of a fictional Little White Lies restaurant, whose walls are bedecked with secret clues as to the content inside. Dining at the centre of the image are our star interviewees Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, and Lulu Wang, director of The Farewell.

作者簡介：

本刊是專門報導電影的雙月刊，以深入的筆觸探討電影與觀眾之間的微妙互動。其中包括影評、文化探討以及電影人的動態時事。本刊曾經榮獲雜誌設計大獎，無論排版或美編都屬上乘，是喜歡電影的影迷不可或缺的讀物。

退換貨說明：

雜誌商品，恕不提供10天猶豫期退貨。