Little White Lies Weekender

Opening the Little White Lies Weekender will be a UK theatrical preview, the title of which will remain a secret up until the very moment of its projection.

Co-written by another LWLies favourite, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic follows the underwater adventures of the eponymous oceanographer (Bill Murray), on the hunt for the mythical 'Jaguar shark' that killed his partner on a filmmaking expedition.

Before Adam Sandler disappeared into misjudged comic obscurity he found his most perfect role as Barry Egan in Paul Thomas Anderson’s heartbreaking fourth feature: the blue-suited, coupon-collecting small businessman with anger issues is both a wretched and hilarious creation.

This critically-acclaimed, impenetrably dense LA odyssey from 2001 sees a bright-eyed young actress (a career-best Naomi Watts) travel to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving an amnesia-suffering woman with a mysterious past.

Here, for one night only, we present Francis Megahy's 1988 film Taffin in all its glorious awfulness. See Pierce Brosnan as a face-pummelling loan shark as he takes care of business in the mean (and green) streets of Thatcher-era Wicklow County.

One of Japan’s greatest living directors, Hirokazu Kore-eda, stunned us with this hushed and intensely lyrical sojourn into the leafy Tokyo suburbs where we are invited to attend a bustling family banquet.

Wanda explores the tragic life and times of an itinerant Pennsylvanian wife and mother who decides to ditch everything and hook up with an abusive petty criminal.

We Are The Best! speaks the passionate language of young blood with immersive dexterity, plunging the audience into a world where PE lessons are deemed horrendous enough to inspire lyrical revenge.

Combining a bracing, combative form of naturalism with grotesque Midwestern gothic, Gummo is a compendium of tall tales about the screw-loose inhabitants of tornado-lashed nowhere town, Xenia, Ohio.