
A cinema publication about human complexity, curiosity, and the questions films make us ask about our own lives.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly | |
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| Issues | 76 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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When we think about loneliness in films, there’s very specific image that comes to mind, like someone eating dinner alone, or someone staring through a window, or even someone walking through a city while everybody else appears to be having...
Cinema was never supposed to have a scoreboard. We built one anyway.
Letterboxd has made some of us worse at watching films.
We love the idea of starting over.
A new city, a new job, a new relationship. Maybe a new haircut if things have really gone to shit. There’s comforting about imagining a clean line between the person you were yesterday and whoever you’re...
A small guide.
The mistake is thinking taste means knowing which films are good, but really, taste is much more personal and messier. It’s the pattern underneath your reactions. Like for example, the films you admire but never want to see...
We like to think toxic love is easy to recognise. Two people screaming at each other, breaking things, cheating, lying, making everyone around them uncomfortable. The kind of relation where your friends eventually stops asking questions bec...
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You come for the films. You leave thinking about your own life.
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