Letterboxd — Your life in film

Goop and gore is on the menu this month, as we bring out the power drill, order a pizza and strap in for the latest edition of Shelf Life.

Party Girl’s writer-director and music supervisor share production memories, praise feminist librarians and give screenwriting advice while reading your Letterboxd reviews of their 1995 indie gem. 

As any community grows, its ability to remain on an even keel is likely to be challenged. And while the vast majority of interaction on Letterboxd is respectful and good-natured, we’re aware that from time to time, members have stepped over the line from voicing opinion to lodging personal attacks.

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.

From anarchists and adultery to milk baths and massacres, Matthew Turner shares five of the weirdest and wildest highlights of Hollywood’s pre-Code era, as Pre-Code April comes to a close.

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

It’s a banner year for physical media, and there has arguably never been a better time for film lovers to build their collections. Home video champion Justin LaLiberty welcomes the new golden age (while frantically finding extra shelf space). 

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

Un Certain Regard winner and soccer-mad striker Molly Manning Walker talks about crafting the perfect rave scene, blowing up the filmmaking hierarchy and the blurry lines of consent in How to Have Sex.

What can you expect from the most unexpected film festival event of the year? As our crew prepares to party with Park Chan-wook, we attempt to predict some highlights of Austin’s annual Fantastic Fest. 

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.

Horrorville editor Brett Petersel invites the Letterboxd crew to revisit their favorite classic and current first-time horror watches of 2022.

X writer-director Ti West discusses the palpable ingenuity of his A24 slasher and making movies about making movies.

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.

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah director Sammi Cohen talks the Sandler effect, ungendered b’nai mitzvahs, sweaty Jewish girls and why Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is a masterpiece.

John Woo, Parker Posey, Willem Dafoe and more are ready to line your shelves and repertory screens in the latest edition of Shelf Life.

Piggy filmmaker Carlota Pereda talks dark teenage fantasies, summer misery and her film’s empathetic star, Laura Galán.

Bong Joon-ho’s former assistant director makes his feature debut at Cannes—and our correspondent gets the mid-festival jolt she needs from Jason Yu’s taut thriller.

Oslo Trilogy actor Anders Danielsen Lie, screenwriter Eskil Vogt and film journalist Karsten Meinich take Ella Kemp on a tour of the Norwegian capital as the city wrestles with its sudden status as a cinephile destination.

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