To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, we’re examining the deep impact of Otto Preminger’s 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder, from busting through the Hays Code to influencing Justine Triet.

With his first five features streaming as part of a new Criterion Channel collection, filmmaker James Gray speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about life-risking car chases, ambiguous endings and the beauty in sadness across a career that avoids “homogenized pap.”

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew reminisce on ten of our worst dates at the movies, from foot lotion mishaps to foot-long sandwich calamities, and wonder what kind of film could survive an awkward debut outing.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a Succession matriarch, a feverish coming-of-age in Florida, squicky stop-motion and Franz Rogowski in the French Foreign Legion. 

From charismatic criminals and green-hued Hulks to Apatow comedies and his first-ever sequel, Eric Bana takes Mitchell Beaupre on a tour through his versatile career.

Action grandmas, devoted daughters, cantors in crisis, Irish-language rappers, and Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in Sasquatch prosthetics rank among our crew’s highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

With the arrival of Lone Star on 4K Blu-ray from Criterion, independent-cinema icon John Sayles speaks to Mitchell Beaupre about political filmmaking, the difficulty of both making and distributing movies—and how we should all forget the Alamo.

As film fans board the free shuttles for the year’s first big festival, our Sundance 2024 correspondents set their sights on activist docs, queer romances, Norwegian zombies and more.

From Montgomery Clift morality plays to Kubrick masterpieces, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio recall the hard-boiled noir and fast-talkin’ film influences that have fed the six features they’ve made together so far. Plus: Leo introduces Marty to Miyazaki.

As our new showtimes feature goes wide, the Letterboxd crew share our favorite 2023 cinema experiences—from a no-seats Stop Making Sense dance party to a raucous Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging rep screening to a near-religious John Wick 4 multiplex return. 

Michael Mann pops open the hood to tell Mitchell Beaupre about his well-developed stubbornness, his favorite sequences from his career and how real-life crash footage influenced Ferrari’s racing scenes.

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