From properly good Covid comedies to an epic folk-horror doc and an Indigenous feminist Western, the Letterboxd Festiville team reveals their ten best of SXSW Online.

Céline Sciamma does it again, a demented, anthropological A-to-Z of Romanian pornography takes the Golden Bear, and Indigenous sci-fi breaks new ground as Letterboxd’s Festiville team awards its Berlinale bouquets for 2021.

From a stinking Santa Claus to Cronenbergian practical effects, surrealist French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux reveals the movies that influenced his latest comedy, Keep An Eye Out.

From pandemic-era stories, via portraits of grief, to the serendipitous 1969 trilogy, the Letterboxd crew recaps our favorite films from the first major festival of the year.

As the 2021 film festival season kicks off, Sundance Film Festival alumni and this year’s newcomers share their best tips for at-home festival attendance.

As the bonkers genre thrill-ride Shadow in the Cloud blasts into the new year, writer and director Roseanne Liang unpacks her love of Terminator 2, Chloë Grace Moretz’s face, and a life lesson learned from Cheng Pei-Pei.

The Letterboxd crew celebrates the best bangers in 2020 films, from Birds of Prey to David Byrne’s American Utopia.

The singular creator of It’s Such a Beautiful Day and World of Tomorrow answers 57 questions put to him by the Letterboxd community about death, gills, snacks, back flips, the best time of day to watch a movie, and the sick pleasure of emotionally destroying people.

Chick Fight star and former competitive figure skater Malin Åkerman tells Gemma Gracewood about the meditative power of boxing, how Margot Robbie inspired her to become a producer, and her adoration for Tilda Swinton.

From seventeenth-century werewolves to WWII gremlins to present-day nomads, the stripped-back, mostly virtual 2020 fall festivals still managed to bring the goods. Our team rounds up the very best titles we saw at TIFF, NYFF, the BFI London Film Festival and beyond.

The rock doctor is in. From the Boss to The Bee Gees, The Go-Gos to MacGowan, EDM DJs to upstart Jamaican rappers, our editor-in-chief Gemma Gracewood has music movie prescriptions for whatever 2020 ill is ailing you.

The filmmakers behind new documentaries on American musicians Herb Alpert and Frank Zappa talk to Gemma Gracewood about mining for gold in the archives of music history.