From father-daughter mortality dramas and empathetic docs to psychological thrillers and gibberish comedies, here are Letterboxd’s ten best from this year’s Tribeca fest.
As Sundance 2022 favorite Good Luck to You, Leo Grande arrives on Hulu, Ella Kemp speaks to the writer and director behind the “Emma Thompson sex comedy”.
Kambole Campbell enjoys the jovial expletives, shambling strangeness and really quiet moments of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio preview at Annecy.
Kambole Campbell is caught in the web of excitement at Sony’s 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival preview of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Julia Davis, the English queen of weird comedy, on translating a gibberish sex farce, the oddness of New Zealand humor and why nudity made her cry.
Letterboxd’s Cannes correspondent Ella Kemp takes in the bright lights and glittering rhinestones of the fest’s hot-ticket Elvis premiere.
Letterboxd correspondents Ella Kemp and Isaac Feldberg take a breath between screenings to share their Cannes experiences and demystify the standing ovation.
As AAPI Heritage Month kicks off, so too does the 38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, highlighting the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema from May 5—13, 2022.
Actor Casey Thomas Brown shares ten of his favorite conversational character studies as his latest film, Megan Griffiths’ I’ll Show You Mine, premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival.
The Festiville team’s top picks from the 21st Tribeca Film Festival, as selected by our Tribeca correspondents Mitchell, Isaac, Annie,…
The Festiville team’s top picks from the 75th Cannes Film Festival, as selected by our Cannes correspondents Ella and Isaac.…
With thanks to Denis Eremeev for compiling this list and description:
The 21st Tribeca Film Festival: June 8 – 19,…
The feature lineup of the 2022 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, running from May 5—13, 2022. With thanks to…
Our thanks to Sean Liu for compiling the list and keeping it updated.
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The Festiville team's top picks from the 29th SXSW Film Festival, as selected by our SXSW correspondents Annie, Isaac, Leo…
Sean Liu 136 films
Denis Eremeev 185 films
Denis Eremeev 292 films
Leo Koziol 18 films
ChiFilmFest 87 films
British Film Institute 238 films
A gorgeously directed and beautifully written film about an immigrant Nanny finding the power to take back her life. The drive of the movie is watching Aisha, the main character trying to bring her son to America from Senegal. We watch as her job slowly takes up her entire life but she never, EVER, loses sight of her mission. It’s such a beautiful story because it’s so often that immigrant mothers move to America to live the “American Dream”, working…
There’s a lingering effect happening here that I’m calling “After After Yang.” Kogonada opened a door to some of my most repressed fears in a way that has left me feeling curious, patient, and in this moment, a little less afraid.
This is a stellar tell-most study. It would be nice if the reporting and editing here got some awards love.
Naturally the recollections and footage alike are disquieting and sometimes harrowing. But the arc of the slow, mostly fruitless attempts at progress and real rehabilitation is so gripping that this is a quite easy watch for me.
There's material for more hours, I'm sure, but the firm two hours makes it leave packing a punch given what's contained in the…
Attica is a gut wrenching examination of the uprising at Attica Prison and the massacre committed by law enforcement. It only happened fifty years ago.
I don’t normally give trigger warnings but the last half hour of this is horrific. It’s hell on earth. It reminded me of footage I’ve seen from the concentration camps from World War II. Yet this happened here in the supposed land of the free. It didn’t happen during a war or in formerly confederate…
This documentary is an absolute delight. Her story is already pretty interesting and they do a great job of covering most of the important details in what felt like a very comprehensive package (I knew very little about Julia going into this). It was also great (and extremely hunger-inducing) how they intercut modern footage using extreme closeups of delicious looking food from her recipes in slow motion with the older footage.
The real surprise here was how unexpectedly funny Julia…
Scad Fest #1
Did not expect one of the most moving scenes of 2021 to be Julia Child taking a pan off its hanger
A concentrated dose of wholesome food porn
I loved Free Solo so much it basically reinvigorated my interest in documentaries, so it's no surprise that I loved The Rescue, in which directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin deliver 114 minutes of PURE STRESS as they chronicle the Thai cave rescue from 2018. Unlike Free Solo and Meru, however, they weren't shooting the action as it occurred, but a treasure trove of footage from inside the cave combined with skillfully integrated reenactments—by the real-life participants—presumably shot by…
