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Rafael Barbosa
Escritor de artigos no âmbito de cinema e televisão. Escrita criativa e de guião. Olhar atento que esmiúça a importância de um só plano.
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Luiz Eduardo Kogut
Mestrando em História e graduando em Cinema e Audiovisual. Escrevo sobre filmes, cultura e música. Trabalho também com Cinema Experimental e edição de vídeos.
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Jacob Beard
After earning my bachelor's degree in political science and women's and gender studies, I decided to pursue a career in digital marketing and the gaming industry at large. I am …
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Emmett Watkins Jr
Writer, Podcaster, and Video Producer for nearly a decade. Video games, movies, and music critique is my specialty. Looking for work in writing, video production, or podcast creation.(email, CV, and …
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Paradise Found: Paul Williams on bringing the sounds and Swan to Phantom of the Paradise
For the 50th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s madcap rock musical Phantom of the Paradise, Aimee Knight speaks with Paul Williams, the man behind its sensational symphonies and sinister Swan.
A ★★★★ review of Canary Black (2024)
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I decided to watch Canary Black. I'm not a big fan of Kate Beckinsale. I did enjoy her in Serendipity, and that movie was a romantic comedy. Canary Black is far from that. CIA agent Avery Graves (Beckinsale) must find a …
The Brady Rave: taking in the rapturous first reactions to Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Corbet’s first feature film since 2018’s Vox Lux spans 30 years in the life of Adrien Brody’s László Tóth, a Jewish architect who left his native Hungary for the United States to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. The Brutalist chronicles Tóth’s quest to reunite with his beloved wife Erzsébet …
Eye of the Storm: why we love the peak disaster movies of the 1990s • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Twisters swirls its way into theaters, Matt Goldberg explores three different eras of disaster movies and why the 1990s hit the sweet spot between the star-studded mayhem of the 1970s and the CGI-drenched chaos of the post-2000s.
Mac Wagstaff’s profile
A bit convoluted at the end and I could have done with less flash backs reminding you of earlier foreshadowing but dude was this movie fun
A ★★★★★ review of An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
Fracture puntuates industrial China and sorrow its residents in Hu Bo's An Elephant Sitting Still. Melancholy seeps through the crevices and goes unnoticed as a slumber plagues the toxic society Bo's protagonists wish to escape. In an effort to explore the surrender of identities, Bo manages to miraculously craft an …
Romeo AI Juliet: Bertrand Bonello on the beauty in The Beast • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
It’s 2044 and society has found a nifty solution to stop human emotions from leading to conflict and lack of productivity: to eliminate them altogether. For those willing to conform to the rules of this frigid world, all it takes is to step into a bathtub full of a black …
Caption This: the subtitling champions working to make festivals, screenings and global cinema more accessible • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Sundance’s first entirely virtual edition in 2021 awarded Siân Heder’s CODA with the US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic plus accolades for Directing, Audience and the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble cast. The coming-of-age film about the only hearing member of a deaf family began its groundbreaking run during the festival, …
A ★★★★★ review of The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Please consider upgrading to a Pro account—for less than a couple bucks a month, you’ll get cool additional features like all-time and annual stats …
A ★★★★★ review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Blade Runner 2049 is a great followup and sequel to the original Blade Runner. Ryan Gosling's character is well rounded and there are so many questions that need answers, which are not all addressed by the end of the movie. This seems like a good way to further the next …
A ★★★★★ review of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 was a movie that was deep and interesting. The story was really good, and the nod to The Shaw Brothers was cool. The bride, played by Uma Thurman, is a great protagonist. Revenge, revenge, revenge. That about sums up the plot of the movie. First, the …
Fantastique Cinematheque: Kleber Mendonça Filho on preserving Brazilian movie-palace memories with Pictures of Ghosts • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Brazilian filmmaker (and Letterboxd member) Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest is a moving ode to his hometown of Recife—not to mention the third most popular documentary of our 2023 Year in Review. Split into three chapters, Pictures of Ghosts follows Filho’s formative years in the family apartment that would come to …
A ★★★★★ review of Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunrise is a film that brings two lost souls together for just one night. Ethan Hawke plays Jesse, a drifter who is traveling around Europe. Julie Delpy is Celine, a woman who is also traveling. Both meet on the train going to Vienna. They connect while on the train, …
A ★★★½ review of Mulholland Drive (2001)
This review may contain spoilers. the drawn out dialogue and the camera used to film this make it feel like a dream as intended. I think my favorite scene besides the “this is the girl” scene would be the diner scene. the way the detectives converse and the way the …
A ★★★★½ review of Elvis (2022)
good movie and really highlights the points of Elvis’ career. at times the visual effects and story transitions felt congested but it was engaging enough to not be bothersome. an over the top style was also very appropriate considering who the subject of this film was. He’s a crazy ass …
A ★★★★★ review of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
A great movie with a message that emphasizes the importance of family and the benefits of having ones you love. This film also successfully depicts greed as an unstoppable force of destruction. The visuals were beyond stunning and even found myself encapsulated in a world beyond my time and beyond …
Katie of the Night’s profile
I came home from a wild two weeks - Thanksgiving followed by a week-long work conference. I missed movies during that time. The night I came home, I purposefully and intentionally sat down to a giallo as a special homecoming, with the intention of returning to myself. My selection for …
A ★★★★ review of When Evil Lurks (2023)
I slowly chipped away at this film over the course of several terrible days, and finished it off on a headache day. It was kind of interesting making my way through a stressful and upsetting film during a time I wasn't very happy myself. In some ways, it brought comfort, …
A ★★★★½ review of To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
This review may contain spoilers. This is the first movie I chose out of a stupendous stack of DVDs from my pal Brian. I don't know why, I just thought it sounded promising. Child sacrifice maybe? Satan? Sounds good to me! To the Devil a Daughter follows an author, John, …
A ★★★★ review of Talk to Me (2022)
This review may contain spoilers. I was interested in this film because I LOVE parlour games. Bloody Mary, Ouija boards, seances, stuff like that. Talk To Me centers around a loosely-connected group of teens who have come into possession of an artifact which facilitates a mediumistic experience. Overall, I really …
A ★★★ review of The Hazing (1977)
The title grabbed me. I love sorority and fraternity movies, and I am fascinated with the subject of hazing. I watched this under its alternate and kind of RUDE title, "The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse". Craig is a nice little blonde boy who goes to college with a …
A ★★★★ review of When Evil Lurks (2023)
I slowly chipped away at this film over the course of several terrible days, and finished it off on a headache day. It was kind of interesting making my way through a stressful and upsetting film during a time I wasn't very happy myself. In some ways, it brought comfort, …
A ★★ review of No One Will Save You (2023)
This review may contain spoilers. Since this was a “straight to video” release (yes that’s the term I’m going to use), I guess I had this unconscious belief that this was going to be a more simplistic, and FUN, modern horror release as opposed to an overly-deep Elevated Horror situation. …
A ★★★★★ review of Close-Up (1990)
after finishing abbas kiarostami's legendary koker trilogy, i convinced myself that close-up would never come close to surpass the same level as the trilogy. yet, it ends up to be one of my very favorite film that hits me personally. close-up is a docu-fiction film by abbas kiarostami based on …
A ★★★★★ review of Satantango (1994)
This review may contain spoilers. satantango commences by introducing its audience to a desolate hungarian rural village with mud-covered ground, as far as the eye can see. it's a long, rainy fall, abandoned buildings, and the livestock that seems to exist - instantly conveys a sense of emptiness. satantango doesn't …