Letterboxd — Your life in 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.

Together Together writer and director Nikole Beckwith talks to Ella Kemp about platonic love, pragmatic pregnancy, melancholic comedy and being inspired by Magnolia’s rain of frogs.

From Zola to Kajillionaire via a drink with Jim Cummings, Dominic Corry reports on five premieres at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

As the bonkers genre thrill-ride Shadow in the Cloud blasts into the new year, writer and director Roseanne Liang unpacks her love of Terminator 2, Chloë Grace Moretz’s face, and a life lesson learned from Cheng Pei-Pei.

The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra shares his five favorite Indian dramas, as his new film Photograph arrives in cinemas.

Filmmaker Kestrin Pantera talks to Letterboxd about family, karaoke, improvisation and her new film Mother’s Little Helpers.

With a new Céline Sciamma fairytale on the horizon, Sarah Williams highlights ten femmes de cinéma with new works due out in 2021, and suggests films from their back catalogs to watch now.

Emma Tammi tells Jack Moulton about her narrative debut The Wind, the cultural references infused in this haunting feminist chiller, and Westerns in the #MeToo era.

Documentarian Crystal Moselle on working with the Angulo brothers and running with The Wolfpack.

Writer-director Joanna Hogg tells Jack Moulton about working with the Swintons, Golden Age Hollywood musicals, and how her decades-old student film informed The Souvenir Part II.

For Noirvember, Marya E. Gates shines the spotlight on five underappreciated neo-noir films directed by women. 

Ella Kemp takes a deep-dive into our newest all-time stats addition—the top 100 films directed by women—and finds, to nobody’s surprise, that Agnès Varda is indisputably the GOAT.

Titane filmmaker Julia Ducournau speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about destroying societal expectations of gender, the unspoken nature of love, and finding art in a bunch of dancing firefighters.

Peerless American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt talks to Ella Kemp about her new film, First Cow, her favorite animal performers, and getting down to the nitty gritty of things.

Filmmaker and actor Lynn Shelton on the improvisational joy of her screwball comedy, Sword of Trust, the “mixed bag” of streaming services, and the power of Claire Denis.

West Coast editor Dominic Corry sits down with one of the leading women of Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Melissa McCarthy and Marielle Heller on bringing Lee Israel off the page in the acclaimed true story Can You Ever Forgive Me?

The Assistant writer and director Kitty Green talks about putting the audience in the shoes of the youngest woman in a toxic work environment.

Even a brief perusal of the Tribeca 2018 programme reveals an encouragingly high number of works from women directors.  Dominic Corry reports on five to watch out for.