Letterboxd — Your life in film

Letterboxd officially turned ten this past October. We asked ten members to tell us what a decade of tracking films has meant to them. (It’s meant the world to us!)

From Istanbul to Chicago, and C.R.A.Z.Y. to Spirited Away, Letterboxd member, writer and film programmer Emre Eminoğlu explores the films that drove his gay awakening.

With two of the pop star’s films on the horizon, we appointed a Senior Harry Styles Correspondent. Several exhausting months later, Sacha Judd concludes it’s time for Hollywood to get to grips with online conspiracies—and audiences to find new ways to approach films soaked in manufactured scandal.

The Legend of Molly Johnson filmmaker and star Leah Purcell tells Indigenous editor Leo Koziol about re-envisioning a literary classic, honoring our storytelling mothers and finding out exactly what an “octoroon” is. 

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

The Justice of Bunny King star Essie Davis writes about the power of a wronged woman, the impact of Peter Weir and the importance of play.

After the transformative experience of watching every spine number in the Criterion Collection, Letterboxd member Adam Davie pens a letter of gratitude—and one small film request—to the storied video distribution company.

The Inspection writer-director Elegance Bratton gets candid with Adesola Thomas about the making of his semi-autobiographical drama, the misconceptions surrounding his Marine Corps experience and New York punk rock.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew and filmmakers reminisce about the movie characters that first gave them funny feelings.

Cinephile: A Card Game creator Cory Everett chats about the noir, Giallo and French New Wave films that inspired his new children’s book series, and a fateful Quentin Tarantino book signing. 

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

Céline Sciamma on processing grief through Petite Maman, feeling seen by Turning Red and David Lynch, and the line that wasn’t supposed to be in Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

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

Actress, musician and now documentarian Charlotte Gainsbourg on filming her mom, watching films with her dad, and being filmed by Agnès Varda.

From The Day After Tomorrow to Moonlight, Letterboxd member and sometime-cultural writer Bintang Lestada writes from Indonesia about ten films that helped them see a better world.

As the phantasmagoric Florida retiree documentary Some Kind of Heaven lands on Hulu, Gemma Gracewood checks in with our new favorite B-grade-movie-loving retiree and future horror-film star, Barbara Stanton.

High fives to Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier not only for getting through most of the more than 400 questions you submitted, but for taking the time to really consider his answers.

The Innocents filmmaker Eskil Vogt discusses the disturbing magic of childhood, shooting seagulls, eating scabs and making a horror film in the Scandinavian daylight.

God’s Time writer-director Daniel Antebi talks mask discipline, breaking the fourth wall and the movies that capture real magic.

Filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira on the restoration and reemergence of Alma’s Rainbow, flamingo figurines and the importance of dance and music in her life and art.