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Four Favorites with David Ehrlich: Letterboxd popularity, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the meaning of life May 23, 2023

Show notes

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

Weekend Watchlist: Fast X, Sanctuary and Master Gardener May 18, 2023

Show notes

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

‘Down with Love’ 20th Anniversary Special with Peyton Reed May 16, 2023

Show notes

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

Weekend Watchlist: BlackBerry, Fool’s Paradise and The Starling Girl May 11, 2023

Show notes

This week ⁠⁠Slim and Mitchell discuss their growing watchlists including BlackBerry, Fool’s Paradise and The Starling Girl. What Blackberry did Mitchell own as a kid? The answer make shock you. After a quick ⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and the greatness of Kathleen Turner.

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

Sponsor:

This episode was brought to your by Bleecker Street and The Starling Girl, see it in theaters!

Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)
Blackberry (00:02:38)
Fool’s Paradise (00:06:54)
The Starling (00:010:52)
Last week (00:13:06)
Top 50 of 2023 (00:18:33)
Watchlists (00:19:40)

Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:

⁠Transcripts⁠ of podcast episodes available
Jack Facts’ ⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠
Bre & Abigail & Gemma’s The Starling Girl reviews
Luca & Zach BlackBerry reviews
Occams Chainsaw’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 review
Aeon’s The Pope’s Exorcist review
Tripp’s Single White Female review
Angela-JoeReed’s Evil Dead Rise review
Robert’s After Hours review
Matt Johnson reading Letterboxd reviews
Pounding Hearts: Films that influenced Laurel Parmet’s ‘The Starling Girl’
Emilio Estevez on The Letterboxd Show
Mitchell’s interview with Aubrey Plaza

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

Four Favorites with Emilio Estevez: Apocalypse Now, Shawshank, walking in Spain with his dad May 09, 2023

Show notes

Actor and director Emilio Estevez joins Gemma and Mitchell to talk through his four favorite films (Apocalypse Now, Shawshank Redemption, No Country for Old Men and Pulp Fiction), respond to thirsty Letterboxd reviews about The Breakfast Club, and answer many of our burning questions. Like: what was Emilio like at sixteen? Why is he uncredited in Mission: Impossible? Is his favorite movie hair the Young Guns sideburns or the Stakeout pornstache? What was it like riding around with Harry Dean Stanton in Repo Man? What is wrong with Freejack? What’s the movie he missed a flight so he could keep watching? And why is The Way—the film he wrote and directed starring his own dad Martin Sheen as a bereaved father walking the Camino—back in cinemas for one day only, May 16, 2023?

Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)
Apocalypse Now (00:04:43)
The Way (00:17:41)
Shawshank Redemption (00:28:56)
The Way (00:37:14)
No Country For Old Men/Pulp Fiction (00:45:33)
Closing credits (00:50:50)

Credits: Recorded in Newark DE, Cincinnati OH and Auckland NZ. 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.

Links:

List of movies mentioned

Reviews mentioned:

Cody Cannon’s The Breakfast Club review

lexieluvsdb’s The Way review

The Big Large’s Young Guns review

Thotty without Organs’s Repo Man review

Michael Vazquez’s The Public review

TorinM’s The Way review

Lists mentioned:

"I'm 16 and this is the greatest movie ever made" by coffee

"My comfort movies" by Mitchell Beaupre

Weekend Watchlist: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, What’s Love Got to Do With It? and Chile ’76 May 04, 2023

Show notes

This week ⁠⁠Slim and Mia discuss their growing watchlists including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, What’s Love Got to Do With It? and Chile ’76. Maybe even a movie where a Texas Ranger goes to London, too. After a quick ⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and how Bull Durham isn’t even Kevin Costner’s name in that movie. #traumaracoon

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

Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (00:01:06)

What’s Love Got to Do With It? (00:06:06)

Chile ’76 (00:07:52)

One Ranger + Love Again (00:09:24)

VOD (00:12:14)

Last week (00:13:19)

Top 50 of 2023 (00:15:54)

Watchlists (00:17:15)

Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:

⁠Transcripts⁠ of podcast episodes available

Jack Facts’ ⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠

tyler & Matt Singer’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 reviews

CB & yasmin’s What’s Love Got To Do With It? reviews

Silya’s Chile ‘76 review

demi’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. review

Brenna’s Peter Pan & Wendy review

Robert’s Contact review

Zac’s The Rover review

Emma’s A Knight’s Tale review

Albertico’s Polite Society review

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

Weekend Watchlist: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Peter Pan & Wendy and Sisu Apr 27, 2023

Show notes

This week ⁠⁠Slim and ⁠Mitchell⁠ discuss their growing watchlists including Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Peter Pan & Wendy and Sisu. Maybe even Polite Society, too. After a quick ⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and Dennis Hopper being everywhere. RIP bluecheck.

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

Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (00:01:34)
Peter Pan & Wendy (00:05:34)
Sisu (00:9:24)
Polite Society (00:11:11)
Last week (00:13:32)
Top 50 of 2023 (00:17:51)
Watchlists (00:18:49)

Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:

⁠Transcripts⁠ of podcast episodes available
Jack Facts’ ⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠
Rachel & Emma’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. reviews
Maggie & Gil’s Peter Pan & Wendy reviews
Cammalot & Justin’s Sisu reviews
Abby & rcurrey Polite Society reviews
Jawsh’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 review
BeckyRice’s The Town review
Korny Caswell’s Dead Ringers review
Jakob’s Ghosted review
Brett Petersel’s interview with Lee Cronin

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

Four Favorites with Ariela Barer: Blade Runner, conformists, pipelines and Almodóvar Apr 25, 2023

Show notes

We’re crying tears in the rain! The Letterboxd Show returns with actress and screenwriter Ariela Barer, star of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, whose faves include Blade Runner, The Conformist, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! In a shocking twist, Ariela makes hosts Gemma and Slim watch four hours of Love Exposure for nothing as she dramatically pivots live on air to Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days for her fourth fave!

We also praise film school nerds, discuss consent among movie characters, Ariela’s mom’s and sister’s important roles in her film education, remembers watching Blade Runner on a teenage date, and unpacks Pipeline director Daniel Goldhaber’s Letterboxd addiction: “He sends us reviews daily, we had to beg him to stop!” And! Blade Runner joins the one-million-watched club as the show is recorded.

Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)
Blade Runner (00:04:43)
The Conformist (00:17:41)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (00:29:11)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (00:42:05)
Strange Days (00:59:27)
Closing credits (01:05:16)

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

Links:

Letterboxd list of movies mentioned

Ariela Barer's Letterboxd profile

Daniel Goldhaber’s Letterboxd profile

Reviews Mentioned:

Ariela & Daniel & Karsten & Maddy & Nick & slim's How to Blow Up a Pipeline reviews

JXvriel’s Blade Runner review

Erin Harrington & scottzelligan & Proto’s The Conformist reviews

ReCreation & Eden & CinemaVoid’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! reviews

Lists mentioned:

“Most fans on Letterboxd” by Letterboxd

Letterboxd lists based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

“Horniest Movies” by Brianna

“The Degenerates: Horror Movies by Gay Directors” by Liz

“Black Comedy” by Mario

“Love Melancholy” by Ivan

Weekend Watchlist: Beau is Afraid, Evil Dead Rise and Chevalier Apr 20, 2023

Show notes

This week ⁠⁠Slim and ⁠Mia discuss their growing watchlists including Beau if Afraid, Evil Dead Rise and Chevalier. Mia also talks about her love of gore. After a quick ⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and watching Batman for the first time.

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

Chapters:

Opening credits (00:00:00)
Beau is Afraid (00:01:14)
Evil Dead Rise (00:09:07)
Chevalier (00:13:42)
Last week (00:16:452)
Top 50 of 2023 (00:19:13)
Watchlists (00:20:23)

Letterboxd reviews and links mentioned:

⁠Transcripts⁠ of podcast episodes available
Jack Facts’ ⁠Top 50 of 2023⁠
jstoobs & RossBratin’s Beau is Afraid reviews
Joe Canas & Ashley’s Evil Dead Rise reviews
Bon Morrison & Phoebe’s Chevalier reviews
JoeJazzy’s Catch Me If You Can review
Marina Carlson’s Snakes on a Plane review
Groogruxdave’s Showing Up review

Credits:

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

Weekend Watchlist: Renfield, The Pope’s Exorcist and Suzume Apr 13, 2023

Show notes

This week ⁠⁠Slim and ⁠Mitchell⁠ discuss their growing watchlists including Renfield, The Pope’s Exorcist and Suzume. (Maybe Mafia Mamma, too.) Mitchell also finally watched 65 and their thoughts may shock you. After a quick ⁠⁠look back at recent releases⁠⁠ and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and creepy Kiefer Sutherland.

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

Chapters: