As TIFF 2022 opens, our editor-in-chief Gemma Gracewood gets the lowdown from Cameron Bailey and Robyn Citizen on this year’s gems and surprises—and Glass Onion filmmaker Rian Johnson phones in for a chat about his hero, Weird Al. 

Returning to cinemas with Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham chats about grappling with the internet’s attention and filming sex from a feminist viewpoint (and the husband gets a word in about soundtracks). 

We comb through the prestige names and indie sleepers coming to the Venice, Toronto, London, New York Film Festivals and Austin’s Fantastic Fest to present our most-anticipated of the festival season.

Anonymous Club director Danny Cohen on mental health, green rooms, 16mm film, collecting movie posters and how he got musician Courtney Barnett to open up.

The filmmaker behind Zoey Deutch influencer satire Not Okay on cinematic tragedies, cringe comedies and great films for Jersey girls and queer folk. 

The Letterboxd counter has ticked over to a billion films watched. That’s right, folks: as a movie-loving community, we have collectively recorded one billion films watched since Letterboxd became a reality.

Director Dean Fleischer-Camp on the tiny cinema hero of the hour, the Paddington crossover we’d love to see and the films that charm and calm him in the way that Marcel the Shell with Shoes On delights others.  

World cinema and A24 dominate the Letterboxd Top 25 at the 2022 halfway point, as movie lovers make their way back to cinemas and festivals. Jack Moulton and Gemma Gracewood report. 

Julia Davis, the English queen of weird comedy, on translating a gibberish sex farce, the oddness of New Zealand humor and why nudity made her cry.

We get the tee from the filmmakers behind The Phantom of the Open on their weirdly uplifting new film about a complete nobody who took on the golfing establishment—and lost (but also won).

We speak to the Letterboxd member who watched Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople every day for a year to ask: what were they thinking?

Kevin Doyle on making Downton Abbey’s resident cinephile Mr. Molesley last the distance, his character’s four Letterboxd favorites, the joys of Laurel and Hardy, and earning the moment.