Letterboxd — Your life in film

The tenth annual Letterboxd Year in Review is here! A decade on from its inception, our annual retrospective reflects the diverse tastes and passions of our more than five million members.

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 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!) 

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.

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.

As Parallel Mothers comes to US cinemas, Pedro Almodóvar fans Aaron Ruttenberg and Carlos Crespo chat about the Spanish filmmaker’s canon, queer misbehavior and cinematic debauchery.

In a Letterboxd first, we’re proud to present the debut director commentary for Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe’s Hollywood comedy-thriller, The Beta Test.

The Unforgivable director Nora Fingscheidt on celebrating wild children, remaking Titanic, and the force that is Sandra Bullock.

Silent Night filmmaker Camille Griffin leans into the messy excess of the season as her movie joins The Green Knight and Spencer in the canon of offbeat, ‘WTF’ Christmas movies.

The star of Sean Baker’s Red Rocket talks non-stop about rooting for the bad guy, learning how to listen, and the Letterboxd review that started it all.

The writer and director of C’mon C’mon on the beauty of therapy, grief as a superpower, and the maddening toxicity of “manspreading whiteness”. Plus: his film faves, from Lanthimos to Campion, Keaton to Wenders.

A conversation with filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi about emotional tidal waves, unique relationships, conversational car rides, and Cassavetes.

As The Green Knight returns to cinemas for a pre-Christmas theatrical run, writer and director David Lowery answers questions from Letterboxd members about fox plushies, the magic sex belt, rewatching his film with edibles, and Dev Patel.

Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) honors the 21st-century Natives taking on the film world in part two of our celebration of the rise of New Native Cinema.

In the first of a two-part celebration of Native cinema, Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) applauds the twentieth-century Native filmmakers who broke through to the big screen.

French animator Patrick Imbert on adapting The Summit of the Gods, the grandness of Everest, the parallels between climbing and art, and the influence of Emmanuel Lubezki.

tick, tick…BOOM! supporting standouts Robin de Jesús and Joshua Henry talk about discovering Jonathan Larson, their twenties, and how Spike Lee’s Crooklyn is due for the musical treatment.

Zeros and Ones writer-director Abel Ferrara opens up about images as weapons, fourth-wall breaker Ethan Hawke, and being an optimist in spite of it all.

As the Covid-era festival landscape shifts yet again, our Festiville team picks the best of the films that premiered at the major fall film festivals.

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

The Night Raiders writer-director speaks with Letterboxd about breaking new ground with her cross-hemispheric Indigenuous collaboration.