The Letterboxd Show

Give us a cuddle, Maurice! Letterboxd head of platform content Jack Moulton, the man behind The Letterboxd Show’s “Jack’s Facts”, joins hosts Slim and Gemma for a chat about our favorites of the Top 25 films of 2022 so far and Jack’s four Letterboxd faves: Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon, Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies, Matthieu Kassovitz’s La Haine, and the movie that did not win the 2017 Oscar for Best Picture, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land.

Plus: attractive sweaty Al Pacino, how lockdown helped Jack complete several film circles, long film runtimes, heist movies, what our hostage demands would be (fried chicken all the way), the healing power of a cup of tea, the “Mike Leigh Phase” of every British boy, can La Haine’s Hubert be our boyfriend, Amelie’s boyfriend’s directorial career, love across an ocean, queuing for a movie with a small bladder, musicals for people who don’t like musicals, why everyone should see Blinded by the Light, and could “It was fine” be the worst movie-critic burn ever? Here’s to the ones who dream!

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Tsai’s Films I would like to show to my mom, Steve G’s movies where a family gathering starts with subtle tension and then everything goes completely to shit, Tori’s If you like (American film) watch (foreign film) and Sour Dee’s films that are even more damaging to think of than to actually see.

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This week Mitchell and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Minions: The Rise of Gru, The Forgiven and Clara Sola. There is also talk about trademarking “Simmering Cinema” just FYI. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss questionable deaths in 4K UHD.

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This week Mia and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Elvis, The Black Phone and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Mia also shares details of her Tribeca trip and finally reveals her fear of seeing bike rides in film. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss direct-to-video ninja movies.

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Filmmaker and Letterboxd member So Yun Um joins hosts Slim and Gemma for a chat about her new Tribeca sell-out documentary Liquor Store Dreams, and her four Letterboxd faves: Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love; Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow; Federico Fellini’s 8½ and the Wachowski Sisters’ The Matrix.

Plus: throwing caution to the wind and becoming a filmmaker, the fleeting moments that give us life, getting around Netflix’s screenshot ban, sexy noodles, who we would date from the Better Luck Tomorrow cast, So’s Johnny Tran prequel pitch (are you listening, Justin Lin?), making dads proud, neo-realism vs French New Wave, all our fave Keanu movies, small businesses, neighborhoods, high grades, parents who just want you married off, how The Matrix broke down barriers at high school and the Danny-from-Liquor Store Dreams spinoff we want to see.

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This week Mitchell and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Lightyear, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Mad God. Can Kosinski save cinema again with Spiderhead? The answer may surprise you. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss Sly Stallone hanging above dangerous-looking cliffs for our enjoyment.

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Film historian and Letterboxd “adult task force” member Elizabeth Purchell joins hosts Slim and Gemma to unearth four absolutely under-seen historic favorites on The Letterboxd Show for Pride Month: Rosa Von Praunheim’s City of Lost Souls, Jack Deveau’s Drive, Stephen Winter’s Chocolate Babies and Juliet Bashore’s Kamikaze Hearts, along with a chat about her Ask Any Buddy film and podcast.

Plus: radical cinema, radical portraits, radical activism, the prolific Rosa Von Praunheim, the best mullet ever seen on film, wangs in jars, trans icons, adult films about Jesus, the endless joys of Jess Franco movies, and the film that has just one fan on Letterboxd. This episode contains plentiful discussion of adult cinema. P.S. “Watch Lady Terminator as fast as you can.”

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Bruno Araujo on Letterboxd (the one fan of Drive); Austin Film Society; Interview magazine feature on Stephen Winter and Lee Daniels

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This week Mia and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Jurassic World Dominion, Hustle and The Janes. We are living in Pratt-aissance whether we like it or not. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and drift into Dave’s Letterboxd Top 250 for the first time. Also ninjas.

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Video editor, writer and Letterboxd member Lucy May joins hosts Gemma and Slim for a MegaSound 8000 influencer session on her four favorite films: Amélie; It Follows; Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Josie and the Pussycats.

Plus: Why Lucy’s dad is the best Letterboxd dad. Glass men and brittle bones. Getting serious about It Follows, for once. Opinions about elevated horror. Slim’s boys’ night out at Portrait. The power of Parker Posey. The best present Lucy ever received. The best band managers in movies. Modern Archie comics. Why Saw V is saw-ly underrated. An apology to the Letterboxd moderators. Does Slim even know what Björk looks like? And Lucy’s top five lesbian film hits for Pride month.

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Reviews of Amélie by Lucy, Vee, Lily, Dirk, Issy. Reviews of It Follows by Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, and Slim. Reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Todd, Stephanie and James. Josie and the Pussycats reviews by Muriel, Joe Lynch and Gemma. Lucy’s Dad’s Parasite and Tenet reviews.

Lucy’s Dad’s LB profile, Lucy’s niece’s profile, Lucy on Vimeo, Lucy’s 90s teen movie video retrospective, Dominic Corry’s Céline Sciamma Q&A.

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This week Mia and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Crimes of the Future, Watcher and Fire Island. Special shout-out to all the Cronen-babes out there. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and drift into potential cannibalism.

This episode is brought to you by Kino Lorber’s Neptune Frost; in theaters this weekend and expanding wide next week.

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Get the Letterboxd Show disease in you as film quiz queen, gritty essay king, Letterboxd Journal senior editor and Weekend Watchlist co-host Mitchell Beaupre joins hosts Gemma and Slim for a conversation about their favorite films: Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur.

Plus: missing the pre-Covid days of all-night wacky shenanigans, gritty New York films, life below 14th Street, the family viewing potential of Blue Velvet (hear us out), video-store nostalgia, dad films, men movies, the joys of pants-down noodling, The Slumber Party Massacre, and why Hot Tub Time Machine has a very, very special place in Mitchell’s heart and the rest of us are all going to Letterboxd jail. “This is a cocaine-free podcast.”

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Reviews of After Hours by Amaya; Blue Velvet by Colin the dude; The Conversation by Slim and Mia; Le Bonheur by Jack, Raul, Kambole and theriverjordan.

Acting Out Podcast, Mitchell’s Paste Magazine story on Dennis Hopper, Inside The Actors Studio—Dennis Hopper; The B-Side – Gene Hackman episode (with Mitchell Beaupre); Mitchell’s interview with Céline Sciamma; Jenni Olson’s Four Faves episode

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