Plus: Elaine May’s Hollywood battles, everybody’s crush on Ewan McGregor, our severe screwball rom-com drought, stoner movies, handheld ’90s camcorder vibes, being gay and doing crime, Adam Brody with dreadlocks, getting a contact high from watching movies, feminist buzzkill vibes, ‘She Did That’ and ‘Good For Her’ cinema, and our pent-up excitement for The Northman.

This episode was recorded in Los Angeles, Auckland and Philadelphia, and edited by Slim. Facts by Jack. Booker: Linda Moulton. Transcript: Sophie Shin. Theme music: ‘Vampiros Dancoteque’ by Moniker.

• Mikey and Nicky
• Down with Love
• Smiley Face
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Smithereens
• Wanda
• House of Tolerance
• The Green Ray
• Smooth Talk
• The Batman

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For the full, Letterboxd exclusive conversation between the pair as they reflect on memories of childhood theater excursions, wisdom teeth recovery and making their new feature Wildcat, read our Journal story and watch the video on YouTube.

• A Bug's Life
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Iron Giant
• The NeverEnding Story
• The Goonies
• National Velvet
• The Outsiders
• Léon: The Professional
• Paper Moon
• Nashville

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. WALL·E
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Fantasia
4. A Quiet Place
5. Drive
6. PlayTime
7. Modern Times
8. Metropolis
9. The Artist
10. Under the Skin

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Thelma & Louise
2. Bottoms
3. Booksmart
4. Monsters, Inc.
5. RRR
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. Back to the Future
9. Superbad
10. Shaun of the Dead

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

See also: versions of this list for those with “he” or “ze/xe” as their pronoun, the highest ratio of fans to the number of members who’ve marked each film watched, the previous “She” results for 2022, 2019 and 2018, and the “four favorites” films that the Letterboxd editorial and social teams have collected from interviews (listified by André).

(Note: We elected not to publish a “they/them” list as this pronoun option is the site default and therefore not representative of our non-binary members.)

1. La La Land
2. Little Women
3. Dead Poets Society
4. Pride & Prejudice
5. 10 Things I Hate About You
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Interstellar
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Howl's Moving Castle
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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(Note: We elected not to publish a “they/them” list as this pronoun option is the site default and therefore not representative of our non-binary members.)

1. Interstellar
2. La La Land
3. Whiplash
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. The Dark Knight
6. Fight Club
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Parasite
10. The Shawshank Redemption

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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(Note: We elected not to publish a “they/them” list as this pronoun option is the site default and therefore not representative of our non-binary members.)

1. Interstellar
2. Fight Club
3. Whiplash
4. The Dark Knight
5. La La Land
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Pulp Fiction
8. GoodFellas
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. The Godfather

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

See also: versions of this list for those with “he”, “she” or “ze/xe” as their pronoun, the previous most fans per viewer results for 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2016, and the “four favorites” films that the Letterboxd editorial and social teams have collected from interviews (listified by André).

(Note: We elected not to publish a “they/them” list as this pronoun option is the site default and therefore not representative of our non-binary members.)

1. Revue Starlight: The Movie
2. All About Lily Chou-Chou
3. Ritual
4. Moral
5. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
6. Love Exposure
7. Kamikaze Girls
8. One Million Yen Girl
9. Kattradhu Thamizh
10. La Haine

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Poor Things
3. Kiki's Delivery Service
4. Groundhog Day
5. Minari
6. The Worst Person in the World
7. The Truman Show
8. Hot Fuzz
9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
10. Legally Blonde

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The first twenty films on this list represent the films officially on The Popcorn List that are still seeking distribution. For more recommendations, Meadow-Conner and Twist put together an additional group of films that were recommended by programmers which have already released in theaters or online—or are planning to soon. You can find these recommendations listed in the positions from 21 onward.

Read a statement from Meadow-Conner and Twist below:

We’re excited to introduce you to the first 20 films that make up the inaugural The Popcorn List!

As undying champions for the theatrical movie-going experience, we’re not willing to settle for a future where the only movies on the big screen are $200+ million dollar blockbusters written by a committee and geared towards no one.

As filmmakers ourselves, receiving theatrical distribution remains our ultimate dream. We don’t want our movies to die in the graveyard called algorithm. We want them to be celebrated, in person, on a giant screen, with tubs of popcorn and Sour Patch Kids and Buncha Crunch!

The Popcorn List is an annual survey of highly-enjoyed, independently-produced feature films that do not currently have domestic theatrical or digital distribution, that come recommended by film festival programmers from across the U.S.

Some of you might have heard of The Black List—a list of Hollywood’s top unproduced screenplays. You can think of us like that —only for movies that have played at film festivals—and have been seen by many of you—but are not yet available to watch in theaters, or stream online.

We created this list because these are movies that we think deserve to be seen by everyone. (You can read more about why we think this list is needed, here.)

The movies on this list come recommended to us by film festival programmers from across the country—folks—who watch thousands of hours of movies every year—to bring their audiences films they know they’ll love. They have won jury awards, audience awards and the majority of them are highly reviewed right here.

It was important to us that we reach out to a diverse group of programmers, so on this list you’ll find films from major market festivals like Sundance and Tribeca, to amazing filmmaker and community driven festivals like Seattle International Film Festival and Sidewalk Film Festival (and twenty others in between.)

We hope that movie theater programmers and even film distributors will take notice of these films, and that The Popcorn List can continue to provide more opportunities for independent filmmakers, as it grows. So please, check them out and add them to your own watchlist!

In late January, we emailed dozens of film festival programmers with the simple query: “What’s a film that you programmed at your 2023 festival that absolutely deserves distribution—preferably in a theater—and doesn’t yet have it?”

Special thanks to the following festival programmers who participated in this inaugural list: Carlos Corral (El Paso Film Festival), Tim Anderson (Florida Film Festival), Brian Hu (San Diego Asian Film Festival), Andrew Peterson (Provincetown Film Festival), Jason Carney (Phoenix Film Festival), Skye McLennan (San Luis Obispo Film Festival), Alan LaFave (Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival), Allegra Madsen (Frameline Film Festival), Linda Eaddy (Denton Black Film Festival), Tishon Pugh (New Orleans Film Festival), Sabrina Aviles (Cinefest Latino Boston), Julia Kipnis (Nashville Film Festival), Mallory Martin (Cleveland Intl. Film Festival), Beth Barrett (Seattle Intl. Film Festival), Zoe Elton (Mill Valley Film Festival), John Nein (Sundance Film Festival), Juliet Romeo (Slamdance Unstoppable), NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Programming Team, Nehad Kedar (BlackStar Film Festival), Malin Kan (AFI Fest), David Nugent (Hamptons Film Festival), Greg Sorvig (Heartland Film Festival), Austin Film Festival Programming Team, Rachel Morgan (Sidewalk Film Festival), Ida Theresa Myklebost (Anchorage Film Festival), Jim Brunzell (Sound Unseen Film Festival), Farrington (Out on Film Festival), Mike Dougherty (Programmer at Large, Los Angeles) Faridah Gbadamosi (Tribeca) Rachel Walker (Programmer at Large), and Nancy Campbell (Independent Film Festival Boston.)

You can follow The Popcorn List on Instagram here.

1. Ajoomma
2. American Pot Story: Oaksterdam
3. Art for Everybody
4. Asog
5. Blood, Sweat and Beers, or How the Sloppy Boys Made an Album on a Farm in West Texas
6. Caterpillar
7. Chasing Chasing Amy
8. Citizen Sleuth
9. City of Wind
10. Crows Are White

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Compiled by our lists editor Jack Moulton, with gratitude for Vanessa’s extensive list of films directed by women and thanks to Mihir Nanda for ongoing suggestions. To be included, films must have a minimum of 1,000 member ratings.

Eligibility Rules:
• Includes female directors of south, east and central Asian heritage, regardless of where they were born, or the country they make their films in.*
• Includes women co-directors, even if uncredited. For example, Slumdog Millionaire is included due to Loveleen Tandan’s co-director credit.
• Films must be feature-length (45+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and TV episodes are excluded.
• Films must have at least 1,000 ratings.

* Directors of west Asian heritage will be celebrated in an upcoming list. In the meantime, follow this list for films by Iranian women.

Statistics of Interest:
The countries with the greatest representation are Japan (seventeen directors), India (fourteen directors), and South Korea (fourteen directors). China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and Mongolia are all represented.

More Statistics
Top Decade: 2010s (50 films)
Top Years: 2019 (9 films, by premiere year)
Newest Film: Lost Ladies (2024)
Oldest Film: The Moon Has Risen (1955)
Longest Film: 0.5 mm (198 mins)
Shortest Film: Given (60 mins)
Oscar Nominations: 18 (between 4 films, Slumdog Millionaire, Nomadland and Salaam Bombay!)
Oscar Wins: 11 (between 2 films, Slumdog Millionaire and Nomadland)
Best Picture Nominees: 2 (Slumdog Millionaire and Nomadland, the only two Best Picture winners by Asian women)
Best Director Nominees: 1 (Chloé Zhao for Nomadland, as co-directors aren’t recognized by the Academy)
Films in the Letterboxd Top 250: 1
Films in the Female Top 250: 52
Animated Films: 11
English Language Films: 13

Male Co-Directors credited: 6 (Sean Baker for Take Out; Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire; Chih-yen Hsu for Dear Ex; Yutaro Kubo for The Girl from the Other Side; Pushkar for Vikram Vedha; Rich Williamson for Scarborough)

Directors tally:
• Naomi Kawase – 5 films
• Mira Nair – 4 films
• Naoko Ogigami – 4 films
• Naoko Yamada – 4 films
• Zoya Akhtar – 3 films
• Ann Hui – 3 films
• Kinuyo Tanaka – 3 films
• Chloé Zhao – 3 films
• Yasmin Ahmad – 2 films
• Yoon Ga-eun – 2 films
• Maghna Gulzar – 2 films
• Maïwenn – 2 films
• Mouly Surya – 2 films
• Yuki Tanada – 2 films

1. Past Lives
2. A Silent Voice
3. The Farewell
4. Forever a Woman
5. House of Hummingbird
6. Dou kyu sei – Classmates
7. K-On! The Movie
8. Us and Them
9. 0.5 mm
10. Little Forest

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Compiled by our lists editor Jack Moulton, with gratitude for Vanessa’s extensive list of films directed by women. To be included, films must have a minimum of 1,000 member views.

Eligibility Rules:
• Includes women co-directors, even if uncredited.
• Films must be feature-length (45+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release and/or release on a curated streaming service.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, straight-to-video, web videos, TV series or miniseries, and TV episodes are excluded. TV movies are included for this list. Anthology feature films are excluded unless the director team is majority female.
• Films must have at least 1,000 views.

Statistics of Interest:
Due to the larger size of director teams on animated films, 70 directors in total are represented among the 50 films, including 43 women and 28 men. The Swallows of Kabul is the only film with an all-female team when more than one director is credited.

Naoko Yamada leads the list with four films, all of which appear on our Asian Women Directors list, and the following directors have two films: Karen Disher, Emma De Swaef, Hélène Giraud, Nina Paley, Jonni Phillips, Nora Twomey, Signe Baumane and DK Welchman.

More Statistics
Top Decade: 2010s (23 films)
Top Year: 2019 (6 films, by premiere year)
Newest Film: Chicken for Linda! (2023)
Oldest Film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), one of four films from the 20th century.
Longest Film: A Silent Voice (130 minutes)
Shortest Film: This Magnificent Cake! (45 minutes)
Oscar Nominations: 12 (between 8 films; Encanto has three nominations, Shrek and The Prince of Egypt have two nominations)
Oscar Wins: 3 (between 3 films; Shrek and Encanto won for Best Animated Feature, The Prince of Egypt won for Best Original Song)
Films in the Female Top 250: 25
Films in the Female Asian Top 100: 11
Films in the Animated Top 100: 11
3D Computer-Generated Films: 6
Non-English Language Films: 32

1. Persepolis
2. A Silent Voice
3. The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia
4. Shrek
5. Dou kyu sei – Classmates
6. K-On! The Movie
7. The Breadwinner
8. Daria in 'Is It College Yet?'
9. The Prince of Egypt
10. Marona's Fantastic Tale

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Eve's Bayou
2. Daughters of the Dust
3. The Heartbreak Kid
4. Mississippi Masala
5. Working Girls
6. Harlan County U.S.A.
7. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
8. Smooth Talk
9. White Material
10. Clockwatchers

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Parasite
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Citizen Kane
4. The Godfather
5. GoodFellas
6. Rear Window
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Oppenheimer
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Note from Edgar, August 2016:

“This is a personal and subjective list of 1,000 favourite movies from 100 years of cinema. It’s not a set text or intended as any bible of ‘greatest’ films. I decided to put this together as a fluid list for my own enjoyment, amusement and reference. I hope it’s fun for you to pore over and dive into some of the films you haven’t seen or haven’t heard of.

Don’t get all riled up about omissions or which movies you think should be favourites of mine, the truth is I may very well like / not like or not have seen the movies you think are missing. In fact, I like way more than 1,000 movies, but any longer and this list would be really insane.

Thanks to Sam DiSalle for helping me put it together. If you feel so inspired, make your own list. Film watching is a life-time pursuit and there’s many more films out there for me to see. This site is a great place to start.”

Last updated in February 2024.

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Nosferatu
• Safety Last!
• Sherlock, Jr.
• The Gold Rush
• Faust
• The General
• Metropolis
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

...plus 990 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Whiplash
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Parasite
4. GoodFellas
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Raging Bull
8. Citizen Kane
9. Oppenheimer
10. Jaws

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spirited Away
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Ratatouille
5. WALL·E
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. The Incredibles
8. Finding Nemo
9. Up
10. Toy Story 3

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Note: the brief for this Showdown called for the best go-to movies to watch while up in the air. As such, we removed films that would not pass the in-flight entertainment test at most major airlines (including scenes involving plane crashes). For your favorite films set on a plane, see our Up in the Air Showdown.

1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Knives Out
3. Crazy Rich Asians
4. Top Gun
5. Porco Rosso
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
9. Inception
10. The Wind Rises

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Click the notes for information on which film each title was screened for.

For the full, Letterboxd exclusive conversation between the director and actor as they reflect on these features and their collaborations, read our Journal story and watch the video on YouTube.

• Barry Lyndon

  Screened for Gangs of New York

• His Girl Friday

  Screened for The Aviator

• Hell's Angels

  Screened for The Aviator

• Ashes and Diamonds

  Screened for Ashes and Diamonds

• Laura

  Screened for Shutter Island

• Out of the Past

  Screened for Shutter Island

• Crossfire

  Screened for Shutter Island

• Scarface

  Screened for The Wolf of Wall Street

• A Place in the Sun

  Screened for Killers of the Flower Moon

• The Heiress

  Screened for Killers of the Flower Moon

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1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Whiplash
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Incendies
5. A Separation
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8. The Father
9. Das Boot
10. The Lives of Others

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Anderson has been a long time champion of the shorts medium and has made over a dozen short films himself, including, Hotel Chevalier, Castello Cavalcanti, Bottle Rocket and others. Henry Sugar has been included on the Academy Awards Shortlist for Best Live-Action Short Film.

• Simon of the Desert
• The Postmaster
• Vive Le Tour
• The House Is Black
• The Gold of Naples

  Section: Pizza on Credit

• Christo's Valley Curtain
• The Girl Chewing Gum
• Ready.. Set.. Zoom!
• Rue Saint-Denis
• Powers of Ten

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Poor Things
3. Oppenheimer
4. Past Lives
5. The Holdovers
6. Monster
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. Perfect Days

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Barbie
2. Oppenheimer
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
5. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
6. Saltburn
7. Asteroid City
8. Bottoms
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pamela, A Love Story
2. STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
3. Pictures of Ghosts
4. The Deepest Breath
5. Wham!
6. The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker
7. Bama Rush
8. Louis Tomlinson: All of Those Voices
9. Take Care of Maya
10. The Eternal Memory

1. 20 Days in Mariupol
2. STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
3. Beyond Utopia
4. How to Save a Dead Friend
5. Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
6. The Stroll
7. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
8. Four Daughters
9. The Eternal Memory
10. Pictures of Ghosts

1. Past Lives
2. There’s Still Tomorrow
3. Rye Lane
4. Femme
5. Mars Express
6. Blue Jean
7. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
8. Scrapper
9. Theater Camp
10. A Thousand and One

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Blue Giant
4. Nimona
5. The Peasants
6. Mars Express
7. Robot Dreams
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
9. No Dogs or Italians Allowed
10. Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Jigarthanda DoubleX
5. Viduthalai: Part I
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
7. Sun and Concrete
8. Io Capitano
9. The Animal Kingdom
10. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

1. Poor Things
2. The Holdovers
3. There’s Still Tomorrow
4. Barbie
5. Bottoms
6. Rye Lane
7. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
8. Fallen Leaves
9. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
10. Yannick

1. Oppenheimer
2. Monster
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Perfect Days
6. The Iron Claw
7. Riceboy Sleeps
8. The Zone of Interest
9. Society of the Snow
10. 12th Fail

1. Poor Things
2. All of Us Strangers
3. Barbie
4. La Chimera
5. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam
6. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
7. The Civil Dead
8. Dream Scenario
9. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
10. Beau Is Afraid

1. Talk to Me
2. When Evil Lurks
3. Infested
4. Sleep
5. Romancham
6. Scream VI
7. Vincent Must Die
8. Birth/Rebirth
9. The Passenger
10. Huesera: The Bone Woman

1. Past Lives
2. All of Us Strangers
3. Rye Lane
4. The Taste of Things
5. Fallen Leaves
6. Soulmate
7. The Blue Caftan
8. Slow
9. Falling in Love Like in Movies
10. The Nature of Love

1. Poor Things
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. The Animal Kingdom
5. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
6. They Cloned Tyrone
7. Shin Kamen Rider
8. Asteroid City
9. Concrete Utopia
10. The Artifice Girl

1. Past Lives
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. There’s Still Tomorrow
4. All Your Faces
5. Barbie
6. Trenque Lauquen
7. La Chimera
8. Bottoms
9. The Peasants
10. Rye Lane

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
2. Beyond Utopia
3. How to Save a Dead Friend
4. The Stroll
5. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
6. Four Daughters
7. The Eternal Memory
8. Apolonia, Apolonia
9. Kokomo City
10. De Humani Corporis Fabrica

1. Barbie
2. Saltburn
3. Bottoms
4. Past Lives
5. Five Nights at Freddy's
6. Cocaine Bear
7. Priscilla
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. Totally Killer
10. Theater Camp

1. The Blue Caftan
2. Goodbye Julia
3. Voy! Voy! Voy!
4. Houria
5. Mami Wata
6. Omen
7. The Last Queen
8. The Damned Don't Cry
9. Hounds
10. All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

1. Monster
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Perfect Days
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. 12th Fail
6. Blue Giant
7. Jigarthanda DoubleX
8. Chithha
9. Viduthalai: Part I
10. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam

1. Poor Things
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. The Zone of Interest
4. All of Us Strangers
5. There’s Still Tomorrow
6. Society of the Snow
7. All Your Faces
8. Close Your Eyes
9. La Chimera
10. About Dry Grasses

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Oppenheimer
3. Past Lives
4. The Holdovers
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. The Iron Claw
7. Riceboy Sleeps
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. Nimona
10. Barbie

1. Of an Age
2. Shayda
3. Talk to Me
4. Uproar
5. Red, White & Brass
6. Sweet As
7. Loop Track
8. Monolith
9. Blaze
10. Limbo

1. Trenque Lauquen
2. Simón
3. Our Dream: A Rio De Janeiro Funk Story
4. When Evil Lurks
5. Toll
6. The Hijacking of Flight 375
7. The Settlers
8. Mussum, o Filmis
9. The Delinquents
10. About Thirty

1. Riceboy Sleeps
2. Red Rooms
3. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
4. BlackBerry
5. The Nature of Love
6. I Like Movies
7. Brother
8. The Maiden
9. You Can Live Forever
10. Solo

1. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2. 4: Clean Island
3. Godzilla Fest 4: Operation Jet Jaguar
4. Girl Blunt
5. Poison
6. The Swan
7. Godzilla vs. Megalon
8. When You Left Me on That Boulevard
9. The Daughters of Fire
10. Eye Two Times Mouth

1. Once Upon a Studio
2. Donks
3. The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
4. Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie
5. The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Silly
6. Mog's Christmas
7. 27
8. The Trident
9. Mickey and Friends: Trick or Treats
10. Carl's Date

1. Scavengers Reign
2. PLUTO
3. Moving
4. Twinkling Watermelon
5. BEEF
6. A Small Light
7. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
8. This World Can't Tear Me Down
9. Fellow Travelers
10. Daily Dose of Sunshine

1. The History of the Minnesota Vikings
2. Chimp Empire
3. SmartLess: On the Road
4. Beckham
5. Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All
6. Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story
7. Bill Russell: Legend
8. Telemarketers
9. The Romantics
10. Life on Our Planet

1. Joe Pera: Slow & Steady
2. Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool
3. Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs
4. John Early: Now More Than Ever
5. John Mulaney: Baby J
6. Louis C.K. at The Dolby
7. Nick Mullen: The Year of the Dragon
8. Nate Bargatze: Hello World
9. Deniz Göktaş: Selam Selam
10. Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark

1. Attack on Titan The Final Chapters: Special 2
2. Attack on Titan The Final Chapters: Special 1
3. The Owl House: Watching and Dreaming
4. The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
5. The Owl House: For The Future
6. Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder
7. Doctor Who: The Giggle
8. Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar
9. Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special
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Colin Farrell stars as a cinema-loving private detective in AppleTV's Sugar. Naturally, after getting his four favorite films, we asked Farrell, Kirby, and Amy Ryan to name his character's four favorite films.

Four their personal four favorites, Farrell and Kirby each chose an animated movie classic and a film that always makes them laugh. However, it was the four favorites for their series lead that showed the most camaraderie between them. For that, Kirby and Farrell each chose a film from John Huston's filmography. But Ryan, who gave us her four favorites on a separate occasion, had the biggest surprise in store after Farrell stole her noir pick, Sunset Boulevard, for Sugar.

Read up for more info on the streaming series in Dominic Corry's interview with the show's creator, Mark Protosevich.

Letterboxd is heading to Switzerland—introducing the inaugural Letterboxd Piazza Grande Award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. 

One of the biggest and most beautiful outdoor theaters in the world, Locarno Film Festival’s Piazza Grande is a town square most of the year, but transforms into an open-air moviegoing space every summer for 8,000 cinephiles under the stars.

This year, Letterboxd is taking over the Piazza Grande Award, celebrating cinema in one of Europe’s most beloved festivals on the world’s largest outdoor screen. 

Voted for by a jury of young cinephile critics and Letterboxd crew members, the award winner will be crowned from a highly anticipated lineup of films for its artistic qualities and potential for theatrical release.

The winning title will receive extensive editorial coverage on Letterboxd and the Locarno Film Festival’s channels—which may well include a round of Four Favorites—helping to build global awareness of a new film showing at the Festival. 

Matthew Buchanan, Co-Founder of Letterboxd, says of the award: “One of our guiding principles is to find ways to bring our audience of film lovers closer to the filmmakers operating at the forefront of the medium. We are thrilled to be working with the Locarno Film Festival in its 77th incarnation, to provide coverage, community reactions and filmmaker support in the most beautiful of outdoor settings.” 

Locarno’s Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro adds:  “Over the past decade, Letterboxd has become one of the essential sites for film fans to share the films they love. We are proud to be the first international festival to join with Letterboxd in giving an award to films in the official selection, in this case those shown at the real heart of our Festival: under the stars on the Piazza Grande.” 

The ceremony for the Letterboxd Piazza Grande Award will be held in the Piazza Grande on the evening of Saturday, August 17. Follow Locarn on Letterboxd here.

I Saw the TV Glow writer and director Jane Schoenbrun shares their four favorite films with Letterboxd.

“I’ve tried to curate a top four I can be proud of,” says Jane Schoenbrun, fully understanding the assignment. The writer-director of I Saw the TV Glow kicks off with a vampyr with a “Y”, nodding to a film with “weird analog horror” in its bones. 

Elsewhere, there’s space for “crisp, haunting, childlike” imagery a long way away from Hollywood work, as well as an underloved Coppola classic. “That is a man who’s done it all, right?” 

To watch the full four from Schoenbrun, watch the video above. I Saw the TV Glow is out in the US in limited theaters, and coming to the UK at Sundance London next month.

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.

Father-daughter duo Ethan and Maya Hawke head to the Letterboxd Screening Room to share a lifetime of movies loved and watched together with us. 

From Disney animation to Altman classics, the pair reflect on their shared education as family members but also as creative collaborators—as Maya stars in and Ethan directs their new film, Wildcat. 

Watch the pair’s conversation above, and read more detail in the Hawkes’ conversation with Mitchell Beaupre over on Journal.

The Oscar-winning director of some of the most beloved blockbusters looks back at his 1978 short-film, Xenogenesis, and how it put him on the path to Avatar.

Letterboxd's London Editor Ella Kemp pulled James Cameron‘s string and got him talking about his career. In the video above, the Titanic director sat in front of a mural for his lo-fi short-film that launched his career and naturally Kemp asked for him to take us from point A to B. Or more accurately, from point X to A, as the discussion of Xenogenesis most specifically took him to Pandora since his idea for Avatar was kicking around in his head around the same time that he was filming that short film with friends.

Watch the interview above and look for more in Kemp's writeup, dropping this week, that covers the entire experience of visiting The Art of James Cameron at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and additional soundbites from the press conference and red carpet. The museum display is the first major exhibition dedicated to Cameron in a complete retrospective of his work. It runs until January 5, 2025.

The star-director-co-writer of The People‘s Joker reads and reacts to Letterboxd reviews of her cult film, good and bad.

Vera Drew details her background on The Tim & Eric Show, her favorite parody film of all time, and her immense love and appreciation for Joel Schumacher. Drew also looks at a few members four favorites and says, ”oh my God, let‘s hang out!“ Watch the video above for a full array of opinions and reactions on the Letterboxd community. Memes and heartfelt writeu-ps.

Good reviews, bad reviews, Drew isn't phased. And why should she be? Just getting the film into theaters proved to be a two-year ordeal on top of the four-year process of making the film. Read more about the making of the film in Katie Rife‘s interview for Letterboxd.

The People‘s Joker is currently playing in North America. Go to the film‘s official website to see if it is playing in your area.

Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Raymond Cham Jr, Michael Showalter, and The Idea of You's producers, Gabrielle Union and Cathy Schulman, give us their four favorite films.

“This is the worst moment of my life and the best moment of my life,“ The Idea of You's Ella Rubin says when she encountered the Letterboxd mic on the SXSW red carpet. Anne Hathaway had a definitive top film, which she Cher-d all the reasons why, and Nicholas Galitzine is very passionate about what he considers to be “the greatest animated film ever.“

Director Michael Showalter chooses to go thematic with the film and selects his favorite four romantic comedies. One of which he credits as being an inspiration for every film he's ever directed. Producer Gabrielle Union almost went thematic with three Eddie Murphy picks and then a Murphy-less musical.

Watch the video above for everyone‘s full four. Despite how impossible the fourth selection is for Hathaway, it happened.

The Idea of You starts streaming on Amazon Prime on May 2.

Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor talk to Letterboxd about watching Ratatouille together, how Luca Guadagnino films bodies, and the kinship between this love triangle story and Past Lives. 

It is well documented at this point that the main trio of Challengers—Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor—bonded over a viewing of Ratatouille, one of O’Connor’s favorite movies.

This is, in fact, the only favorite movie discussed in the above video interview (sorry to disappoint) although Faist brings a beautiful anecdote of crossing paths and reading for Past Lives. Elsewhere, the actors reflect on their director Luca Guadagnino (“he has incredible taste”), and the bonding time they had on set. 

For the full interview watch the video above. More coming soon on Journal—Challengers is in theaters worldwide now.

Kathryn Newton, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, William Catlett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tayler Gillett, and Jean Dawson of Abigail give us their four favorite films. 

“I know what’s going to happen… I see them and I’m so impressed by people,” says Kathryn Newton upon seeing the Letterboxd microphone, knowing her four favorite movies are due. The Abigail star kicks things off with her favorite movie of all time, a Cameron Crowe classic.

Co-star Dan Stevens opts for a vampire-themed four, beginning with a 2000 independent movie, before going in with Werner Herzog’s take on a classic. Meanwhile, Newton is still “too embarrassed to confront her own four”. 

To see more from the pair, alongside co-stars Alisha Weir and William Catlett, as well as filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tayler Gillett and closing credit musician Jean Dawson, watch the video above.

Abigail is in theaters worldwide now courtesy of Universal Pictures.

We Grown Now stars Jurnee Smollett and Lil Rel Howery share their four favorite movies with Letterboxd. 

The stars of We Grown Now thank for us for our inimitable question, before knowing it’s only possible to name four each that come to mind today. Lil Rel Howery can indeed name the movie that was the first to ever make him cry, white Smollett shouts out a Spike Lee classic.

We move on to maybe the most named pick of all time (but deserved!) and a pick that “nobody will expect” for Howery in one of the most underrated sports movies of all time. “I didn’t realize I was going to love it as much as I did,” the actor says. 

For the full list of faves from both actors, watch the video above. We Grown Now, written and directed by Minhal Baig, was nominated for three Film Independent Spirit awards and is in US theaters nationwide now.

Sasquatch Sunset writer-directors David and Nathan Zellner share their four favorite movies with Letterboxd.

From Japanese documentaries to grimy medieval times, Sasquatch Sunset writer-directors David and Nathan Zellner are leaving no stone unturned in their respective lists of four favorite movies. 

Nathan goes for one “where the main character dies but you feel extremely hopeful”, somewhat speaking to the melancholy of their new silent movie. Just rabbits, instead of sasquatches. 

The pair’s picks cover animation (“so bleak and beautiful”) as well as Gene Wilder comedies and a historical adventure story that has “an existential fever dream quality to it”. Shoutout to Werner Herzog.

For the full list of picks from the pair, watch the video above. Sasquatch Sunset is in select US theaters now.

The star of Late Night with the Devil opens up about his early and favorite movie memories.

David Dastmalchian remembers being a child and seeing the Muppets on a big screen for the first time, transported to the point of believing they were in the room with him.

The Late Night with the Devil actor’s picks continue with some classic sci-fi Kubrick: “The movie did something to me in a way that messed my brain up in a wonderful way and made me look at the world in a different way.”

For the full list of picks, watch the video above. Read more on the movie with Dastmalchian’s directors in conversation with Gemma Gracewood over on Journal.

Receiving the Variety Creative Vanguard Award at the Miami Film Festival, Molly Ringwald checks in for a quick round of Four Favorites.

The iconic Ringwald kicks off her four favorites with a nod to a Fellini heroine that she calls “an ultimate optimist” who refuses to give up hope, before moving on to a French New Wave classic from Jean-Luc Godard.

“You just want to be in that place,” she says, before shouting out Stanley Donen and Audrey Hepburn for a third pick as the comfort movie slot. And taking us home, it’s Nicolas Roeg with a specific shoutout to “the beauty of the familiarity [of marriage]”. 

For the full rundown of titles and commentary, watch the video above. 

Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny reflect on their collaboration and parallel cinematic journeys.

Kirsten Dunst felt an immediate kinship to Cailee Spaeny on Civil War: without realising the pair would soon have one more director than Alex Garland in common. 

By the end of the shoot, Dunst had put in a good word with her longtime friend and collaborator Sofia Coppola, and on the last day of filming she greeted Spaeny with a flood of tears upon hearing she had been cast as Priscilla Presley in Coppola’s latest film. 

It was The Virgin Suicides that made Spaeny want to even become an actor, while Spider-Man is one of the actor’s first cinemagoing memories. “It’s a really rare career she’s had,” Spaeny says of Dunst’s work, which she admires endlessly. 

“I am very director-driven,” Dunst says, before discussing a Bergman classic that features in her four favorites while highlighting how well the Swedish filmmaker captures how “women are fascinating (...) and cinematic.” 

For the full interview with the two stars above, watch the full video above for more on how one Coppola muse passed the baton to the other.

Civil War is in theaters around the world now. For more, watch Dunst and Garland give their four favorites alongside co-star Wagner Moura.

Four Favorites with the lead actors of Civil War, Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura, and its writer/director Alex Garland.

Civil War writer and director Alex Garland acknowledges that Four Favorites may well be an on-the-spot thing, but he and his cast will give it a try anyway.

Kirsten Dunst kicks things off with a Wim Wenders all-timer and a Coppola classic, while Wagner Moura calls Italian neorealism “the best moment in the history of film”, dedicating two slots to Italian cinema. 

Garland nods to a recent Oscar winner as one of his favorites, as well as a recent rewatch nodding to the almighty Bob Fosse. Moura hops over to the mighty greats of Brazilian cinema and Dunst shares some Bergman love. 

The Civil War director rounds things off with what many have called the greatest anti-war film of all time, which he shared as homework for his cast. And if you’re wondering, we’ve got Cailee Spaeney’s four favorites right over here. 

Civil War is out in theaters around the world on April 12. 

The People’s Joker writer, director and star Vera Drew shares her four favorite films with Letterboxd.

Drew kicks things off with the first movie she remembers being obsessed with, a sci-fi classic. “The veil between fantasy and reality was so thin for me, but I knew I couldn’t build a time machine,” she says. “It made me so excited about the things you could do with movies.” 

Elsewhere, another mention in Drew’s four favorites prompts the filmmaker to declare David Lynch as a lesbian filmmaker (“The sapphic longing in it…”) and thank him for the “hot lesbian sex scene” she discovered at the age of fifteen. 

A Paul Verhoeven pick gets us to number three, while a horrifying sequel takes us home and points to an enormous influence on Drew’s own movie. 

The People’s Joker has begun its theatrical rollout across the US—find touring dates here and hear more from Drew in conversation with Katie Rife over on Journal.

Dev Patel walks us through the formative action movies he looked to when making his directorial debut with Monkey Man—while also detailing all the hurdles he had to overcome to release it. 

When Dev Patel was a kid, he snuck downstairs and watched a Bruce Lee movie from behind the bannister and it changed his life. The Monkey Man filmmaker tells us about the formative action movies that made him and his debut feature in the video above.

“My room, every inch of wall space, it became Bruce Lee,” Patel says. Another Gareth Evans title changed what the action genre could even mean for the filmmaker, while Korean cinema perfected the art of the revenge film, he says. 

In terms of Monkey Man, Patel explains how people’s roles had to change on set due to the pandemic. From production design to director of photography, the filmmaker was proud of how he got “an actual ninja” in one of his stunt crew to operate the camera. 

For more detail on visceral hand-to-hand and face-to-face combat, watch the full interview between Brian Formo and Dev Patel above. And you can head over to Journal for the full conversation in print as well.

Música's co-writer-director and star Rudy Mancuso gives his four favorites alongside his co-star Camila Mendes.

Música co-writer-director-star Rudy Mancuso and his co-star Camila Mendes, unofficial Letterboxd Brazil representatives, have been thinking long and hard about their four faves.

For Mancuso, it goes back to his roots between his Brazilian mother and Italian father with two Oscar nominees, as well as a classic Scorsese nod and a wildcard Disney pick.

Mendes announces her “most cliche” answer up top as she is a “musical theater kid at heart” before sharing the love for Paolo Sorrentino, who Mancuso also vouches for. Elsewhere, Elizabeth Taylor (“another theater kid”) and Regina Casé round things off.

To find out more about the “anti-musical musical” that is Música and the full rundown on the pair’s faves, watch the video above. 

From Indiana Jones to staples in Italian cinema, Alice Rohrwacher details the influences she drew from to make her fantasy-adventure La Chimera.

Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher nods to the titans of cinema who raised her: that is, as much Indiana Jones as the greats including Fellini and Rossellini (father of one of her actors, Isabella). 

“Of course, Indiana Jones is always an essential reference point,” Rohrwacher says of the impact of Raiders of the Lost Ark on La Chimera. “After watching that movie, we were taken over by the desire to go digging and searching.”

Elsewhere, the filmmaker encourages Letterboxd members to seek out Fellini’s Roma: “What I tried to do is present a scene [in my movie] about the unexpected discovery of a historical and mythological place.” 

For the full watchlist, watch the video above—and check out Isabella Rossellini’s four favorite films right here. 

As Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera arrives in US theater, star Isabella Rossellini shares her four favorite films. 

Charlie Chaplin fan Isabella Rossellini graced us with a round of four favorites ahead of the arrival of La Chimera, in which she stars opposite Josh O’Connor. The icon, naturally, names a classic movie from her father, Roberto Rossellini, among others. 

Elsewhere in her favorites, a movie about a journey to Naples—not unlike that of the protagonist in Rohrwacher’s latest—and an ode to the late, great Agnès Varda. 

For the full list of favorites, watch the video above. La Chimera is in US theaters now and comes to the UK and Ireland in May. 

With Immaculate rolling out wide, Michael Mohan and Sydney Sweeney share their four favorite horror films with Letterboxd. 

Sweeney goes for a classic immaculate conception picture that inspired her own Immaculate with Mohan, as well as Jordan Peele’s masterful direction of Lupita Nyong’o in her own identity crisis.

For director Mohan, there’s a bit of Michael Haneke (“he did not have my best intentions at heart”, and a recent classic that has stolen the filmmaker’s heart. For the full list of faves, watch the video above. Immaculate is out in US theaters now.

In the meantime, check out Letterboxd member Mohan's Immaculate watchlist here.