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Four Favorites with So Yun Um: Fellini, Wong Kar-Wai, Justin Lin and Keanu

Season 3, Episode 15

Filmmaker and Letterboxd member So Yun Um joins hosts Slim and Gemma for a chat about her new Tribeca sell-out documentary Liquor Store Dreams, and her four Letterboxd faves: Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love; Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow; Federico Fellini’s 8½ and the Wachowski Sisters’ The Matrix. Plus: throwing caution to the wind and becoming a filmmaker, the fleeting moments that give us life, getting around Netflix’s screenshot ban, sexy noodles, who we would date from the Better Luck Tomorrow cast, So’s Johnny Tran prequel pitch, making dads proud, neo-realism vs French New Wave, all our fave Keanu movies, neighborhoods, high grades, parents who just want you married off, how The Matrix broke down barriers at high school and the Danny-from-Liquor Store Dreams spinoff we want to see.

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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.

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We get the tee from the filmmakers behind The Phantom of the Open on their weirdly uplifting new film about a complete nobody who took on the golfing establishment—and lost (but also won).

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We speak to the Letterboxd member who watched Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople every day for a year to ask: what were they thinking?

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Kevin Doyle on making Downton Abbey’s resident cinephile Mr. Molesley last the distance, his character’s four Letterboxd favorites, the joys of Laurel and Hardy, and earning the moment.

Gemma Gracewood
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Vertical Limit.

Filmmaker, photographer and long-form conversationalist Sam Jones drops in for a chat about drones, daughters and his new documentary about a skateboarding legend, Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off.

Gemma Gracewood
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Best of SXSW 2022.

From road trips and space exploration to multiverse shenanigans and the contender for Paddington’s wholesome legend crown, our Festiville team highlights the most tantalizing titles from SXSW 2022.

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The Power of the Still.

The most iconic and lasting film images come from split-second decisions by unit stills photographers. Jane Campion and her photographer Kirsty Griffin, David Lowery and Eric Zachanowich, and Joachim Trier and Christian Belgaux open up about capturing the heart of a movie.

Gemma Gracewood
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We’ve partnered with Nanocrowd to bring the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of film watching together, and help you find thematic links between films more easily. We talk to the man behind the nanogenres, Roderic March, and suggest interesting uses for our newest enhancement.

Gemma Gracewood
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Best of Berlinale 2022.

Our highlights from the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival included new features from heavyweights Claire Denis and Peter Strickland, and striking debuts from Emma Kawawada, Natalia López Gallardo and Colm Bairéad.

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We talk to director Joe Wright and his Cyrano creative partners about hand flexes, thigh squeezes and open-hearted anti-cynicism—and share some Letterboxd love letters of our own.

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Fighting Spirit.

Catch the Fair One star and boxing champ Kali ‘KO Mequinonoag’ Reis and director Josef Kubota Wladyka talk about taking the punishment, art as activism, and the beautiful simplicity of Rocky.

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Traveling from bar mitzvahs and hotel rooms to volcanoes and haunted colleges, the Letterboxd crew highlights the Sundance premieres that made the biggest impact out of the year’s first major festival.

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