Letterboxd — Your life in film

What can you expect from the most unexpected film festival event of the year? As our crew prepares to party with Park Chan-wook, we attempt to predict some highlights of Austin’s annual Fantastic Fest. 

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew and filmmakers reminisce about the movie characters that first gave them funny feelings.

It’s a banner year for physical media, and there has arguably never been a better time for film lovers to build their collections. Home video champion Justin LaLiberty welcomes the new golden age (while frantically finding extra shelf space). 

The Green Knight director answers your questions about fox plushies, the magic sex belt, rewatching with edibles, and Dev Patel.

From Studio Ghibli classics and stop-motion delights to Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, acting sisters Thomasin and Davida McKenzie share their family holiday film favorites—along with tales of trespassing, homeschooling and the small matter of life and death.

As his Tilda Swinton-starring film Memoria begins its infinite, one-cinema-at-a-time U.S. tour,  Apichatpong Weerasethakul wants us to stop obsessing about ourselves.

As we launch the first of our monthly dates-in-film lists, creator Laura E. Hall explains her nerdy passion for calendaring.

Letterboxd officially turned ten this past October. We asked ten members to tell us what a decade of tracking films has meant to them. (It’s meant the world to us!)

As Netflix goes gothic with a new Rebecca adaptation, director Ben Wheatley tells Jack Moulton about his favorite Hitchcock film, the teenagers who will save cinema, and a memorable experience with The Thing.

Fresh from the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her debut feature film, Master writer-director Mariama Diallo discusses the raw realities of campus racism, the draw of dream logic, and academia’s monstrous unconscious.

We talk nineties movies, leaving Hawai’i, and human-cat rivalry with the team who brought the hazy skateboard indie Every Day in Kaimukī to Sundance.

The Nest writer-director Sean Durkin talks to Jack Moulton about creating atmosphere, watching films without judgment, and the best movies of 1986.

The Lion King director Jon Favreau and cast chat with us about the visually stunning new Disney film.

In ten recent coming-of-age films, Ella Kemp finds the genre thriving—and looking very different than the 1980s might have predicted. Film directors and Letterboxd members weigh in on the specific satisfactions of the genre, especially in a pandemic.

Dominic Corry has an audience with filmmaker Claire Denis and star Robert Pattinson as High Life premieres at the New York Film Festival.

Until recently, Polish-born Marcin Wichary could be found at Google, where he spent time in several of the company’s key product groups, and assisted in the creation of many of its best-loved interactive Google doodles. Next year he joins Code for America as a fellow, a position that we trust won’t diminish his capacity for thoughtful, nuanced writing about trips to the cinema.

Taron Egerton, star of the new musical biopic Rocketman, tells Letterboxd about having a takeaway curry with Sir Elton John and portraying the absolute pop icon on the big screen.

French animator Patrick Imbert on adapting The Summit of the Gods, the grandness of Everest, the parallels between climbing and art, and the influence of Emmanuel Lubezki.

Gotham Awards acting nominee Michael Greyeyes and director-to-watch Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. on atrocious Native tropes, modernizing myths, and finally getting to work together on Wild Indian.

With her nineteenth-century American romance, The World to Come—starring Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby—screening now, director Mona Fastvold talks to Ella Kemp about the need to create images, striving for ASMR storytelling, and just how much we owe Terrence Malick.