Letterboxd — Your life in film

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.

As Mission: Impossible – Fallout opens, we undertake our own mission to identify the community’s favorite M:I movie to date 

Oppenheimer writer and director Christopher Nolan praises projectionists, charms cinema owners and compliments audiences during his CinemaCon appearance. 

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

French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez reminisces about the 1990s straight-porn goddesses who helped him unleash his queer teen passions.

We celebrate the explosion in Studio Ghibli activity on Letterboxd with Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham from the Ghibliotheque podcast.

Filmmaking power-couple Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz talk to Jack Moulton about exploring untouched female perspectives in genre films, a fateful viewing of Michael Mann’s Thief, the humbling magic of babies on set, and Letterboxd’s small role in their filmmaking process.

Long-term Saw apprentice Mia Lee Vicino picks Saw X director and editor Kevin Greutert’s brain about New French Extremity, whether or not he could survive a torture trap and if Jigsaw’s claims of “never having killed anyone” are credible, or just delusional.

Writer Jeremy O. Harris and writer-director Janicza Bravo tell Selome Hailu about how they conceptualized sex work, Black womanhood and truth-telling in Zola, their film adaptation of one of the most iconic internet moments of all time.

Valerie Complex explores the perverse joys of genre-fluid horror films, signing off Hallowe’en 2020 for us with a terror-ific selection of recent horror-hybrids for your ongoing scream needs.

Angelina Jolie goes head-to-head with Michelle Pfeiffer in the Maleficent sequel, Mistress of Evil. The megastars talk to Letterboxd about their new Disney blockbuster, their favorite villains, and learning to let go of your children.

Hooptober’s head honcho opens up to Jack Moulton about his love for Texas-born horror director Tobe Hooper, the joys of running Letterboxd’s most beloved Hallowe’en community challenge, and the “terrifying, magical” experience of seeing Frankenstein at the age of four.

With Letterboxd members in Japan among the first Studio Ghibli fans in the world to see Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, we look for clues to the mysterious new film from the master storyteller.

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.

As Top Gun: Maverick enters box-office record books and the Letterboxd Top 250, aerial coordinator Kevin LaRosa II takes us into the cockpit for insights into pulling those eight-G stunts.

The Eternal Daughter’s filmmaker Joanna Hogg on collaborating with two Tildas and one Scorsese, her hunt for the perfect haunted hotel and why a flute is the best instrument for a ghost.

Editor-at-large Dominic Corry introduces an exclusive excerpt from Gavin Edwards’ new book about the life and work of our most-watched actor, and the Samuel L. Jackson films we never got to see.

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

Gemma Gracewood looks at the most-antipated 2019 films for Letterboxd members, as well as what’s ahead for the most-watched actors in our Year in Review.

Inspired by Letterboxd data that revealed it to be a lockdown favorite, editor-at-large Dominic Corry looks at the ever-evolving importance of contemporary masterpiece The Truman Show.