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.

From Ocean’s Eleven to Twilight, few pieces of music are as ubiquitous in cinema as Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’. Fran Hoepfner dances in the moonlight of movies past and present to understand the emotional connection.

From The Wizard of Oz to Wayne’s World to BlackBerry, Art of the Title’s Lola Landekić examines the connection between viewer, art and history when a film drops a reference to another movie. 

Ella Kemp talks to designers, archivists and publicists (and her own parents!) about creating and preserving original film posters in the age of streaming.

Hair-and-makeup department head Tracey Henton is on a mission to demystify movie locks, with help from leading Hollywood hair designers, a star wigmaker and an Oscar-winning wig wearer.

On the first anniversary of adult films on Letterboxd, Charles Bramesco looks at the variable results when Hollywood turns its lens on the other LA film industry. 

As My Best Friend’s Wedding turns 25, Emily Maskell looks at the problematic legacy, influential gear shifts and evolving future of rom-com cinema’s Gay Best Friend.

The most iconic and lasting film images come from split-second decisions by unit stills photographers. Jane Campion and her photographer Kirsty Griffin, David Lowery and Eric Zachanowich, and Joachim Trier and Christian Belgaux open up about capturing the heart of a movie.

When Kate Hagen’s mission to curate a cinematic canon for fat girls came up short, she searched out films that best transcend ‘fat girl’ tropes, and suggests how Hollywood can serve an audience neglected by decades of poorly drawn caricatures. 

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.

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