Letterboxd — Your life in film

Today we added a new pronoun feature to members’ profiles. Until now, for the purpose of ease and inclusion, everyone was referred to using the singular “they/their” in the Activity feed, e.g. “Gemma added Paris is Burning to their watchlist”.

Which 100 films have the most fans on Letterboxd—and what happens when we sort by member pronouns, and by fan-to-viewer ratio? Nerds, gather.

Another superhero film starring a lady, another round of mass-downvoting from a small, grumpy corner of the internet. Happy International Women’s Day, everyone!

In which we go hunting for the most divisive films on Letterboxd, and find cool cats, Justin Bieber, Tommy Wiseau and the High School Musical franchise.

Inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar placing high across three notable Letterboxd metrics, Dominic Corry reflects on how the film successfully hung its messaging around the concept of love—and what pandemic responses worldwide could learn from its wholehearted embrace of empathetic science.

Eliza Ruiz on cinema as self-actualizing thesis, experienced through the Wachowski sisters’ iconic sci-fi game-changer, The Matrix.

As 10 Things I Hate About You leaps up the Letterboxd rankings, scriptwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith shares precious memories and personal photographs with super-fan Marcie Neubert. 

The writer and director of C’mon C’mon on the beauty of therapy, grief as a superpower, and the maddening toxicity of “manspreading whiteness”. Plus: his film faves, from Lanthimos to Campion, Keaton to Wenders.