This month’s round-up of some of the best under-the-radar releases includes full-frontal meta comedy, lycanthrope love and a fashion doc on the icon Bethann Hardison.

Mitchell Beaupre dives into the world of tags, which can help you spice up your Letterboxd life, save money, discover new film friends and get deeply nostalgic.

Letterboxd correspondents sift through the prestige pictures (Michael Mann!) and indie gems (Kitty Green!) coming to the Venice, Toronto, London and New York Film Festivals to present our most-anticipated of the upcoming festival season.

Introducing our round-up of the best of the month’s new under-the-radar releases. This edition includes uncanny aliens, Neutral Milk Hotel and the neurodivergent teens staging a John Farnham musical. 

As Oldboy heads back to theaters with a 4K restoration from NEON, director Park Chan-wook discusses hammer-wielding autograph hounds, complicated villains and the emptiness of revenge.

With a new 4K release from Criterion, Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson share stories about the enduring anxieties of After Hours, small moments of magic and giving up sex for Martin Scorsese.

With a new Criterion Channel collection, a Sundance London retrospective and several restorations hitting theaters, Gregg Araki talks us through his favorite films—from Barbara Stanwyck to Pedro Almodóvar.

The Queer Film Guide author Kyle Turner takes us on a journey from S&M bars and murderous mansions to Greta Gerwig’s apartment and Korean spas, all in the search for queer-cinema nirvana.

Master Gardener filmmaker Paul Schrader on finding roses among the thorns, fixing the film heirarchy, the importance of having final cut—and that Pickpocket ending.

Actor and director Emilio Estevez discusses immortalizing yourself on film, lessons learned from his mother, riding in cars with Harry Dean Stanton and being polite to his dad, Martin Sheen.

The Letterboxd crew celebrates Mother’s Day 2023 by asking our own moms about their favorite films.

Gregg Araki discusses the nourishing process of restoring his 1995 cult classic The Doom Generation, fostering queer community and how the film reflects on America then and now.