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Party hats and streamers at the ready as we celebrate our bumper birthday edition – with four stunning covers up for grabs.

In the issue

Lead review: Kinds of Kindness
David Jenkins praises the sprawling and spry new feature from the mischievous Greek auteur, Yorgos Lanthimos.

Little Babies
A conversation on the god-like qualities of directing and writing with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou.

Summer Camp
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons attempt to decipher the codes and meanings in Kinds of Kindness.

God’s Away on Business
Charles Bramesco explores the various strange and symbolic screen depictions of the big guy upstairs.

White Knuckle
Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau lay out the particulars of Yorgos Lanthimos’ method with actors.

Trigger Warnings
A compendium of confessions from LWLies writers on the moments that have caused them to physically look away from the cinema screen.

In the back section

Jeff Nichols
The American director details the circuitous route he took to finally arrive at his elegiac new film, The Bikeriders.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Turkish maestro unpicks the secrets of his screenwriting and how he created such rich and abrasive characters for new film, About Dry Grasses.

Marie Amachoukeli
The decision to write a film from the perspective of a six-year-old was a no-brainer for the director of the wonderful Ama Gloria.

Bertrand Bonello
The French veteran and provocateur on the modern resonances of Henry James and being the total filmmaker for his new film, The Beast.