letterboxd, the vexing and sometimes OK film logging website

In the 70's and 80's, Mark Frost was just one writer in an ocean of people trying to keep that same employment, with his earliest attempts vague towards his actual involvement and primarily eaten up by his involvement Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater as a literary assistant.

riveting, go on

hey, I only made it maybe 200 words in, but this led me to wiki Frost and learn that his nephew Lucas Giolito pitches for the White Sox and his father played the father of George's fiancée, Susan, on Seinfeld (and also was in Slaughterhouse-Five (& obv. Twin Peaks)).

and thanks, Flappy, for the good recommendations. I like finding people whose favorites include a couple of mine and the one film I absolutely hate.

xxp because a diary is useless without dates?

and his father played the father of George's fiancée, Susan, on Seinfeld

ha i'd never realized this, even tho i recently realized who played her mother.

i like letterboxd a lot. my main gripe is that i wish more of my friends were on it and i wish there was an ability to find your friends or have recommendations for people to follow based on your connections like every other social media app. basically it's hard to find people you know to connect with. i'm also confused by the various ways to log movies, some of which lead to them showing up in your diary and some of which don't. but i enjoy going on there and seeing what people are watching and what they're saying about it. the core concept is good.

― na (NA), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Otm

i like that letterboxd is fairly unaggressive about pushing you onto more "friends"!
it's bad enough that every other social network has to pull your real name/data to sell to our evil overlords

FYI for list dorks like me, they've updated the app sometime in the past week (for Apple, at least) with functionality to add a movie to multiple lists at once while greying out any lists that already include the movie in question. I tend to get stupidly granular with my lists (such that I can, for instance, see at a glance all of the post-apocalyptic movies I own) so this is a lifesaver. Literally, my life has been saved. It was almost over and done.

Feed clogged up with ppl logging fucking Wandavision, hope you include TV ppl are happy :(

man there's a lot of stuff that's not even vaguely edge-case-y:
https://letterboxd.com/eddiebergman/list/tv-shows-that-are-on-letterboxd-for-some/

they should definitely have the option to "hide" anything that's regular serial television!

every episode of Black Mirror is on there? individually? (with fan art for posters?!) look out if anyone ever tells them about Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Letterboxd Top 100 Documentary Miniseries

Letterboxd 50 Anime Miniseries

The Letterboxd Top 100 TV Narrative Miniseries, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users, excluding documentaries, and cutting everything with under 250 views logged

if the New York Post's youtube dis track about the Pussy Posse's improvised and suppressed movie Don's Plum is cinema, why not include every single "here's what's WRONG with The Last Jedi (PS it's women)" video

https://boxd.it/1Isi7p

I recommend nathaxnne's review of Transformers: The Movie, which I read the other day and which is very good.

ok, which ilxor is that

hell yeah

I enjoyed nathaxnne's takedown of richard stanley

very much appreciate the change from "no likes" to "no likes yet", let us down easy letterboxd

I've started compiling an 'Acid Horror' film list for my own amusement/reference. Any additional suggestions would be welcome - you'll see the kind of thing I'm after:

https://letterboxd.com/wardfowler/list/acid-horror/

Neat list!

Hausu feels like it should fit. I'm not well versed in psych-horror but House seems kind of ultimate

https://letterboxd.com/film/house/

xpost!

God Told Me To? Death Bed? Hausu? Feel like I need a bigger sample size to know what fits and what don't.

So clearly Hausu, then.

The Virgin Sacrifice (J.X. Williams)

would Alucarda count?

Don't know how strictly you're hewing to that particular early-to-mid-'70s era but Possession (1981), perhaps?

If we're allowing more modern, Mandy and Black Rainbow seem like good ones. Possessor from last year has a similar vibe.

Thank you for all your suggestion - I will update! Other contenders: El Topo (though that could fit on an Acid Western list), I Drink Your Blood. I don't especially want to set limits, but I guess I'm particularly looking for films where the overall vibe is that the cast and crew could well have been tripping while they made it.

It's still sitting in my ever-growing stack of unwatched movies but Simon King of the Witches seems like a contender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fax1uhZxvEA

Do you have a copy of Nightmare USA, Ward? I'm sure that's filled to the brim with what you're looking for.

Thanks OL, I do indeed. Still waiting on the second volume!

A Field In England? Or is that aping the aesthetic too self-consciously?

there's only one scene that really qualifies but it's so good i gotta recommend house on sorority row for this list

I think Field in England is more folk-horror-revivalism, tho obviously there is crossover here - Blood on Satan's Claw in particular has some fairly trippy stuff near the end, though that feels more like the work of canny exploitation opportunists rather than mind-expanding tru believers.

Another one - Last House on Dead End Street

Field in England is Mushroom Horror obv.

Blue Sunshine! Even though it's kind of lousy imo

it really is lol

I recommend nathaxnne's review of Transformers: The Movie, which I read the other day and which is very good.

― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:13 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow

As to Ward's query, perhaps these would qualify:

Messiah of Evil (1973)
A Name for Evil (1973
Eden and After (France, 1970)

Jean Rollin's entire oeuvre..?

xp to davey:
It Follows?
Happiness of the Katakuris?

hmm, It Follows is paranoid as heck but IDK if it's has the psychedelia quotient. Haven't seen Happiness of the Kakutanis but that looks like a fit. That one's going on the watch list. I'm wracking my brain for more titles but coming up blank. I'll ask Jasmine, she's more of a horror buff.

You've got a couple of Rollins' in there already but I'd definitely recommend The Iron Rose. What else are you gonna do after imbibing quantities than hang around a graveyard?

Also Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints on the Moon (Le Orme), 1978

altered states (and probably lair of the white worm too, though i haven't seen it)

Probably worth scouring 366 Weird Movies for nominees.

Lair of the White Worm is definitely trippy but also intentionally goofy and camped-up. I watched it not that long ago, don't remember most of it, and yet feel like I'd enjoy watching it again.

just saw a comedy so brilliant and ahead of its time i was moved to finally write more than a one-liner in a letterb*xd review.

pls like and subscribe.

https://letterboxd.com/daveyshindig/film/mystery-team/

h8 to self-promote but i think this movie broke my brain, it was on another level

i'm sincerely confused about whether you liked it or not

perfect ;p

(i did not)

fr i find it a little depressing to see how many people give 4- and 5-star ratings to so many movies that are objectively terrible