Letterboxd — Your life in film

The production designer of All Quiet on the Western Front details the “machinery of war” at work in the film’s opening sequence.

London correspondent Ella Kemp talks to The French Dispatch and No Time to Die star Léa Seydoux about being part of Wes Anderson’s “little troupe”, the best Parisian films, and baring it all.

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.

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.

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

We talk to filmmaker Salvador Simó about goat violence, winning the lottery, friendship and Surrealism.

Valerie Complex probes the intersection of Greco-Roman mythology and queer experience in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Neon Demon, Jumbo and Midsommar.

To understand better why Letterboxd members set out on quests to watch specific actors’ entire filmographies, we invited Tim Rod to describe their dangerous and seductive journey through John Malkovich’s screen history.

Hong Kong action legend John Woo on his inspirations, filmmaking philosophy and the most dangerous stunt of his career. 

Willem Dafoe takes us Inside his deep appreciation for his devoted fans, the thrill of pouring himself physically into every character and how art continues to feed him.

From pandemic-era stories, via portraits of grief, to the serendipitous 1969 trilogy, the Letterboxd crew recaps our favorite films from the first major festival of the year.

Vampires? Check. Zombies? Check. Female neuroses? Check. For the spooky season, Shelf Life selects the best of the horror goods in theaters and on disc.

Film sociologist Erika Amaral on the blossoming of Brazil’s women filmmakers, the joys of queuing for the movies, the on-fire Brazilian Letterboxd community, and the sentimental attachment of her entire nation to A Dog’s Will.

As Pig snuffles its way up Letterboxd’s best of 2021 ranks, Mitchell Beaupre hunts down writer-director Michael Sarnoski for a chat about some of the finer creative points of his Nicolas Cage-starring meditation on cookery and grief.

Juliette Binoche on collaborating with Claire Denis for Both Sides of the Blade, her passion project Between Two Worlds and reflections on Three Colors: Blue.

The director of all the John Wicks tells us about the movies—from The Grandmaster to The Warriors to Amélie—that influenced Chapter 4.

From seventeenth-century werewolves to WWII gremlins to present-day nomads, the stripped-back, mostly virtual 2020 fall festivals still managed to bring the goods. Our team rounds up the very best titles we saw at TIFF, NYFF, the BFI London Film Festival and beyond.

On the twentieth anniversary of its explosion onto big screens, Ella Kemp high-kicks into the Moulin Rouge! once again, accompanied by screenwriter Craig Pearce and a chorus line of jukebox-musical academics and swoony Letterboxd fans.

As a new Space Jam film beams down to Earth, Kambole Campbell argues that a commitment to silliness and a sincere love for the medium is what it takes to make a great live-action/animation hybrid.

The Letterboxd team selects the fifteen titles we’re most excited to see at this year’s all-virtual Sundance Film Festival.