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This week ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Slim⁠ and Mia discuss their growing watchlists including Weekend Watchlist: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Past Lives and the Boogeyman. They also discuss not being NYC experts. After a quick ⁠⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists including one last look at their progress so far this year.

⁠⁠⁠Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list⁠⁠⁠ > movies mentioned in this episode.

Chapters:


Opening credits (00:00:00)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (00:02:20)
Past Lives (00:07:05)
The Boogeyman (00:11:08)
Last week (00:14:23)
Watchlists (00:20:09)
Letter time (00:28:03)

Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:


⁠Transcripts⁠⁠ of podcast episodes available
Jack Facts’ ⁠⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠⁠
Cinemonika & Casey Malone’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse reviews
Slim’s Past Lives review
Brian’s The Boogeyman review
Becky Rice’s You Hurt My Feelings review
Mike’s Down with Love review
Amanda’s In the Cut review
Robert’s On the Count of Three review
The Letterboxd Show Four Faves episode with Ariela Barer
The Letterboxd Show ‘Down with Love’ 20th Anniversary Special with Peyton Reed
The Letterboxd Show ‘In the Cut’ 20th Anniversary Special with Jane Campion

Credits:


This episode was recorded in Delaware and Philadelphia, and edited by Slim.
Facts by ⁠⁠Jack⁠⁠.
Transcript by ⁠⁠Sophie Shin⁠⁠.
Theme: ‘⁠⁠IZON’ by Trent Walton

Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion joins The Letterboxd Show for a very special episode, marking the 20th anniversary of one of Gemma Gracewood’s Four Favorites: In the Cut (2003). Campion’s erotic thriller stars height-of-her-fame box office darling Meg Ryan and pre-Hulk, pre-13 Going on 30 Mark Ruffalo as a literary professor and a detective, respectively, who dive headlong into a red-hot sexual romance, while a serial killer is on the loose in New York City.

In the Cut received an infamous CinemaScore ‘F’ grade on release, with many major critics panning the film. But the Letterboxd average rating has only grown over the years as the misunderstood noir masterpiece finds its audience at last. Now, with a new uncut director’s cut Blu-ray on the market, Gemma reads Campion some thirsty Letterboxd reviews and gets the goods from Jane about her favorite sex scenes, intimacy coordination, earning trust with actors, what it really means to win an Oscar, and why the structures of filmmaking need to change.

Credits: Recorded in New Zealand. Edited by Slim. Editorial producer: Brian Formo. Production manager: Sophie Shin. Special thanks to Stuart McKenzie. The Letterboxd Show and Weekend Watchlist are TAPEDECK productions.

The songs in this episode are from the soundtrack for In the Cut: Pink Martini’s cover of Que Sera Sera, and Betty Everett’s You’re No Good.

Lists & Links:

List of movies mentioned

In the Cut uncut director’s cut Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment.

Reviews of In the Cut by Jeffrey Chen, Jaime Rebenal, Mia Vicino, Kanane and Sophie Shin.

This week ⁠Slim⁠ and ⁠Mitchell discuss their growing watchlists including The Little Mermaid, Your Hurt My Feelings and Reality. They also discuss this show’s impending summer vacation. After a quick ⁠⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists including thinking your Jesus and also evil Sean Penn.

⁠⁠⁠Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list⁠⁠⁠ > movies mentioned in this episode.

Chapters:


Opening credits (00:00:00)
The Little Mermaid (00:02:50)
You Hurt My Feelings (00:06:08)
Reality (00:09:49)
Last week (00:12:54)
Top 50 of 2023 (00:15:03)
Watchlists (00:16:56)

Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:


⁠Transcripts⁠⁠ of podcast episodes available
Jack Facts’ ⁠⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠⁠
Zoe Rose Bryant & Jamie Jirak’s The Little Mermaid review
Jordan Raup’s You Hurt My Feelings review
Chris Evangelista & elif308’s Reality reviewAlexandria’s River’s Edge review
Alexandria’s River’s Edge review
Gary’s Targets review
Ben’s Out of Sight review
Mitchell’s conversation with Paul Shcrader
The Letterboxd Show Four Faves with David Ehrlich
The Letterboxd Show Four Faves with Ariela Barer

Credits:


This episode was recorded in Delaware and Philadelphia, and edited by Slim.
Facts by ⁠⁠Jack⁠⁠.
Transcript by ⁠⁠Sophie Shin⁠⁠.
Theme: ‘IZON’ by Trent Walton.

You don’t get to over 125,000 Letterboxd followers without making a few enemies… unless you’re David Ehrlich! IndieWire’s chief film critic joins Slim and Mitchell to discuss mortality across existential masterpieces and Apatow-produced rom-coms. As we make our way through his four favorite films (Ikiru, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Titanic) we hit a range of topics including: the pressure of David’s yearly video countdowns, how the canon has changed in “the age of Letterboxd”, stealing your mom’s credit card to buy movies, finding meaning in small and invisible acts, Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s controversial marketing campaign and how it’s more quotable than Casablanca, Paul Schrader’s hot dog stains, Mishima as “the most Schrader” movie, David’s alleged personal connection to Titanic and the meditative quality of the DVD menu. PLUS: Find out which of David’s children is his favorite!

Chapters:


Opening credits (00:00:00)
Ikiru (00:07:07)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (00:17:10)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (00:27:47)
Titanic (00:45:00)
Cannes 2023 talk (00:55:50)
Closing credits (00:59:58)

Credits: Recorded in Newark DE, Philadelphia PA and Brooklyn NY. Edited by Slim. Theme music: “Vampiros Danceoteque” by Moniker. Editorial producer: Brian Formo. Production manager: Sophie Shin. The Letterboxd Show and Weekend Watchlist are TAPEDECK productions.

Lists & Links:


List of movies mentioned
IndieWire’s Greatest Romantic Comedies of All-time
“Most Fans Per Viewer” Letterboxd list
“The Masculine Urge To Ruin Your Own Life” by Janice

Reviews mentioned:


George Carmi & Chris’s Ikiru reviews
Jake Cole & Joe’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters reviews
Wood’s Titanic review

This week ⁠⁠Slim and Mia discuss their growing watchlists including Fast X, Sanctuary and Master Gardener. They also discuss smuggling a baked potato into a movie theater. After a quick ⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and young Al vs young Robert.

⁠⁠Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list⁠⁠ > movies mentioned in this episode.



Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)

Fast X (00:01:01)

Sanctuary (00:08:12)

Master Gardener (00:11:41)

VOD (00:14:18)

Last week (00:15:17)

Watchlists (00:17:55)



Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:


Transcripts⁠ of podcast episodes available
Jack Facts’ ⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠
Slim & Lola Gumball & Javier’s Fast X reviews
Jay & Amanda The Jedi & Mitchell’s Sanctuary reviews
Soraya’s Master Gardener review
Becky’s Past Lives review
Calliope Keaton’s Hypnotic review
Jawsh’s Eve’s Bayou review
Sarah’s mid90s review
The Letterboxd Show’s ‘Down with Love’ 20th Anniversary Special
Director Matt Johnson Roasts Your Letterboxd Reviews of BlackBerry



Credits:


This episode was recorded in LA and Philadelphia, and edited by Slim.
Facts by ⁠Jack⁠.
Transcript by ⁠Sophie Shin⁠.
Theme: ‘⁠IZON’ by Trent Walton

In this very special episode of The Letterboxd Show, we ditch the watchlists and awards shows to talk to filmmaker Peyton Reed about directing one of Mia Lee Vicino’s Four Favorites: Down with Love (2003). That’s right; it’s the 20th anniversary of this Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor-starring ode to the Doris Day-Rock Hudson sex comedies of yore, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961).



Mia and Peyton chatted about the difference between Barbie and Barbara Novak shades of pink, which classic romances inspired screenwriters Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, the origin of that grand finale musical number and the belated cultural embrace of this misunderstood feminist masterpiece. Even if you haven’t seen it, if we did our jobs right, maybe you’ll end up adding it to your own watchlist. Cheers, here’s to twenty years of Down with Love!



Credits: Recorded in Los Angeles. Edited by Slim. Theme music: “Vampiros Danceoteque” by Moniker. Editorial producer: Brian Formo. Production manager: Sophie Shin. The Letterboxd Show and Weekend Watchlist are TAPEDECK productions.



Lists & Links: Lists of movies mentioned



Reviews: Sean Baker & Sree⁠ & Ayo Edebiri⁠'s Down with Love reviews