Letterboxd — Your life in film

The Green Knight director answers your questions about fox plushies, the magic sex belt, rewatching with edibles, and Dev Patel.

As his Tilda Swinton-starring film Memoria begins its infinite, one-cinema-at-a-time U.S. tour,  Apichatpong Weerasethakul wants us to stop obsessing about ourselves.

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

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 stop-motion to anime, and fantasy epics to family histories, Kambole Campbell presents our bumper 2022 animation preview (and recaps his 2021 favorites).

As Spider-Man: No Way Home swings into the top spot in our tenth annual Year in Review, we examine what your 2021 film watching patterns say about humanity, art and the pandemic-stricken film industry.  

From Studio Ghibli classics and stop-motion delights to Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, acting sisters Thomasin and Davida McKenzie share their family holiday film favorites—along with tales of trespassing, homeschooling and the small matter of life and death.

Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi on traversing murky moral territory in A Hero, writing characters one crisis at a time, and creating classical stories for modern audiences. 

As Netflix goes gothic with a new Rebecca adaptation, director Ben Wheatley tells Jack Moulton about his favorite Hitchcock film, the teenagers who will save cinema, and a memorable experience with The Thing.

The Nest writer-director Sean Durkin talks to Jack Moulton about creating atmosphere, watching films without judgment, and the best movies of 1986.

The Lion King director Jon Favreau and cast chat with us about the visually stunning new Disney 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.

Until recently, Polish-born Marcin Wichary could be found at Google, where he spent time in several of the company’s key product groups, and assisted in the creation of many of its best-loved interactive Google doodles. Next year he joins Code for America as a fellow, a position that we trust won’t diminish his capacity for thoughtful, nuanced writing about trips to the cinema.

Taron Egerton, star of the new musical biopic Rocketman, tells Letterboxd about having a takeaway curry with Sir Elton John and portraying the absolute pop icon on the big screen.

With her nineteenth-century American romance, The World to Come—starring Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby—screening now, director Mona Fastvold talks to Ella Kemp about the need to create images, striving for ASMR storytelling, and just how much we owe Terrence Malick.

For Japanuary, J-horror auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa talks to Aaron Yap about upending genre expectations with his dreamy new travelogue To the Ends of the Earth, the unconscious connections between his films, and how it’s time for a proper evaluation of Robert Zemeckis.

To celebrate The Black List’s annual survey for 2019, we put the Letterboxd Life in Film questionnaire to its visionary founder Franklin Leonard.

With her third feature, Lingua Franca, now on Netflix, Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval talks to Valerie Complex about undocumented immigrant workers, sensual cinematography, taking narrative risks and Steven Soderbergh’s sexiest film.

Taking on a rare leading role in his decades-spanning career, national treasure Tim Blake Nelson speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about demystifying heroes, reinventing genres and something called a quiche Western.