As Toronto’s Paradise Theatre kicks off a John Waters retrospective, Adesola Thomas chats with the “Pope of Trash” about the language of the art world, rodent hijinks and why Pink Flamingos is the perfect first date movie.

Iranian filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht tells John Forde about his new documentary Celluloid Underground, the influence of Orson Welles and cinema as a revolutionary act.

Ahead of this year’s Cannes, Rafa Sales Ross highlights nine films playing at the Croisette, including a tropical noir, a Céline Sciamma script and new dramas starring Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan.

With Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist out in US cinemas, the filmmaker tells Rafa Sales Ross about his poetic observation of the rhythms of nature, the importance of engaging with other art forms and why it is so very tricky to work with deer.

A Sergio Leone classic, David Byrne’s miraculous movements, French vigilante thrills, undead romance and an Ousmane Sembène box set are among this month’s Shelf Life highlights.

From A Bug’s Life and Robert Altman to Amadeus and Jane Campion, father-daughter filmmaking duo Ethan and Maya Hawke reflect on the movies that have bonded them together throughout their lives.

As La Cinémathèque française opens the first major James Cameron retrospective exhibition, Ella Kemp sits down with the visionary filmmaker in Paris to retrace his footsteps and look into the future.

As audiences worldwide go wild for Andrew Scott as the latest incarnation, John Forde surveys the legacy of the talented Tom Ripley, cinema’s most enduring grifter.

With Challengers smashing into cinemas around the world, actors Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist take a minute off the court to tell Ella Kemp about chemistry, destiny and connecting over Ratatouille.

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, John Forde examines the deep impact of William Wyler’s Funny Girl, from the queer appeal of Barbra Streisand to the rise and fall of the Hollywood musical.

With Alex Garland’s Civil War in theaters worldwide now, Brian Formo sits down with stars Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny to examine their surprisingly symbiotic journeys that led them to this moment in time in America.

With a Metrograph retrospective celebrating several new 4K restorations of his films, director Lee Chang-dong reflects to Katie Rife about his literary background, desires to defy genre conventions and the tension of our daily lives. 

Fresh from serving as jury president at this year’s Niigata International Animation Film Festival, animator Nora Twomey talks to Alicia Haddick about directing The Breadwinner and The Secret of Kells, co-founding Cartoon Saloon and the uncertain future of indie animation.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes animated chicken, Iranian wrestling, Indigenous astronomy and girl-centric documentaries about American activism.

After Letterboxd reviews unleashed headlines about the use of generative A.I. in their spooky new feature, Late Night with the Devil writer-directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes open up about low-budget life, conjuring creativity and the fate of the accursed images in question. 

Alicia Haddick reports from the Niigata International Animation Film Festival on a celebratory retrospective of Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata, in all his tardy, budget-averse, deeply human glory. 

The People’s Joker director Vera Drew on her path from trans awakening via Nicole Kidman to improv to alt-comedy to the buzziest queer coming-of-age fair-use superhero parody of the year.

Writer-creator Mark Protosevich goes all in on film noir in his new Apple TV+ series Sugar, starring Colin Farrell as a cinema-obsessed private eye in contemporary Los Angeles.

Monkey Man writer-director-star Dev Patel shares the formative action movies, Korean vengeance thrillers and Bruce Lee biting techniques that helped shape his acclaimed debut feature.

As Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast arrives in US cinemas, the French filmmaker tells Rafa Sales Ross about his genre-bending love story, the anxiety and exaltation of being an artist today, and George MacKay’s very thorough emails.

With Housekeeping for Beginners releasing in select US cinemas, writer-director Goran Stolevski chats with John Forde about representing the reality of Macedonian and Romani queer families, unconventional mothering and his love of Robert Altman.

A Nancy Savoca double feature, Rinko Kikuchi with a rabbit, gritty Namsploitation and resplendent Russians make up our Shelf Life highlights this month.

With subtitles now regularly switched on for at-home viewing, Rafa Sales Ross meets experts of the captioning craft to find out what gets lost in translation between humans and machines, and how to keep making the big screen more accessible.

As his imaginative feature debut Problemista charms audiences, Julio Torres chats with Annie Lyons about questioning the labyrinth of bureaucracy, finding sincerity in egg paintings and basking in the perennial influence of The Brave Little Toaster.

Femme co-stars George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett speak with Ella Kemp about touchstone influences for their revenge thriller, and the intersection of intimacy and violence.

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, we’re examining the deep impact of Otto Preminger’s 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder, from busting through the Hays Code to influencing Justine Triet.

Startling home invasions, swooning stuntmen, boy band romances and a butt-kicking Dev Patel are among our team’s highlights of this year’s SXSW Film Festival.

On the red carpet for the SXSW premiere of The Fall Guy, Annie Lyons catches up with stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, director David Leitch and more about the practical stunts at the heart of their new romantic action-comedy.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pablo Berger tells Kambole Campbell about his first-time adventure in the world of animation with Robot Dreams, featuring ’80s New York, endless storyboarding and wordless connection.

As Love Lies Bleeding beautifully body slams audiences, writer-director Rose Glass chats to Katie Rife about the violent urges, visceral eroticism and tar-black slapstick comedy of her lethal love story—plus fantasy dream-casting Kristen Stewart.

As they embark on a 2024 tour to support new album Little Rope, Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker reflect on their 2024 Oscar faves, naming an album after Robert Redford and the many career peaks of Nicolas Cage.

At the world premiere of Dev Patel’s explosive directorial debut Monkey Man, SXSW correspondent Annie Lyons gets the lowdown from Patel and producer Jordan Peele about their firecracker feature.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes Elliot Page’s coming-of-age, an American odyssey in search of sperm, and literally hundreds of beavers.

As box-office surprise Anyone But You comes to Blu-ray and digital, director Will Gluck reflects on the goofiness of Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, Shakespeare as the original master of cringe, and his favorite films from 100 years of Columbia history. 

In an annual tradition, we round off awards season by crowning our Most Picture. Ella Kemp hears from many passionately addicted Letterboxd members, along with Oscar-winning songwriters Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, on the eternal rewatchability of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. 

With Origin in UK and Irish cinemas now and coming to VOD in the US, Adesola Thomas sits down with filmmaker Ava DuVernay for a wide-reaching conversation about collective grief and humanity.

Ahead of the 2024 edition of the SXSW Film Festival, Annie Lyons discovers early trends in this year’s program including time loops, societal collapse and—of course—the wildest parties.

Making a movie is complicated, full of dissociative highs and utterly humiliating lows, writes I Like Movies filmmaker Chandler Levack. So why does she subject herself to the rollercoaster of Letterboxd? Michael Mohan, Daniel Goldhaber and Sophy Romvari weigh in on ego, inspiration and community. 

Letterboxd lands on Arrakis to parse the community’s spiciest takes on Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated and highly rated Dune: Part Two.

With this year’s Academy Awards right around the corner, animation correspondent Kambole Campbell sifts through the last year (and the one to come!) of releases for animated gems to add to your watchlist to accompany the 2024 Oscar nominees.

In this month’s edition of Shelf Life, we journey from the West Indies to the Suzhou River, with stops in gun-crazed Texas, neo-Nazi dive bars and a party with Dracula and Frankenstein.

With his first five features streaming as part of a new Criterion Channel collection, filmmaker James Gray speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about life-risking car chases, ambiguous endings and the beauty in sadness across a career that avoids “homogenized pap.”

Having secured their second Oscar nomination for Original Song, siblings Billie Eilish and FINNEAS chat with Mia Lee Vicino about hiding secrets in their devastating-but-hopeful Barbie tune, their mutual love of Andrew Scott and Billie’s directing aspirations.

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, we’re examining the deep impact of the 1946 film noir Gilda and its sparkling star Rita Hayworth, from Shawshank to the Moulin Rouge.

The Taste of Things star Juliette Binoche and writer-director Tran Anh Hung chat with Brian Formo about cooking as a love language, embracing French culture and deploying art as a tool for peace.

Jason Schwartzman on thinking the most watched actor prize was a prank, swapping books and movies with Wes Anderson and what it means to play Stanley Tucci’s ancestor.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew reminisce on ten of our worst dates at the movies, from foot lotion mishaps to foot-long sandwich calamities, and wonder what kind of film could survive an awkward debut outing.

To celebrate the eternal appeal of French swooner Amélie, which recently entered the Letterboxd One Million Club, Iana Murray examines the deep impact of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 sweet slice of whimsy—manic pixie dream girls and all.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a Succession matriarch, a feverish coming-of-age in Florida, squicky stop-motion and Franz Rogowski in the French Foreign Legion. 

As two tales dissecting the Holocaust head to UK and Irish cinemas, Ella Kemp speaks to The Zone of Interest sound designer Johnnie Burn and Occupied City’s Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter about the relics of history we’ve tried to forget—and the dangers of letting them live on.