Upon Saving Face’s twentieth anniversary, writer-director Alice Wu chats with Adesola Thomas about her history-making rom-com’s lesbian legacy, finding inspiration in Tootsie and why her film is ultimately a love letter to her mother.

As Killer of Sheep lands back in theaters with a new 4K restoration, Adesola Thomas speaks with filmmaker Charles Burnett about his six-decade long filmography and the deep impact of making films about Black domestic life in Southern California.

For Valentine’s Day, Letterboxd staff and contributors celebrate the cinematic couples who make us swoon, sigh and shout, “Love is real!”—from Jackie Brown and Max Cherry to Charles Grodin and Miss Piggy.

Invigorating documentaries, dreaming loggers, freaky fairy tales and the unraveling of many more than Two Women rank among our crew’s highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

From sinister popstars to a marriage frayed by cabbages, the Letterboxd crew shares fifteen titles to  watchlist from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. 

Operatic divas, kidnapped congressmen, Olympic boxers and beyond: all this and more in this year's cream of the crop, premiering across the 2024 fall film festival season. 

At BlackStar Film Festival, Seeking Mavis Beacon filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross discuss the woman at the heart of their new hybrid documentary, digital avatars and navigating the internet with agency.

Senegalese sci-fi, a dance-battle doc and a road-trip flick inspired by Paris, Texas: all these and more screened at the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, where Adesola Thomas selected the best of the Black artist-centered fest.

Sing Sing star Colman Domingo speaks to Adesola Thomas about rehabilitation through theater, the human vulnerability of acting and how the art you’re seeking is also seeking you.

With her directorial feature debut Janet Planet now in theaters, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-director Annie Baker and star Julianne Nicholson reflect with Adesola Thomas about the childhood nostalgia of hazy Massachusetts summers.

As Toronto’s Paradise Theatre kicks off a John Waters retrospective, Adesola Thomas chats with the “Pope of Trash” about the language of the art world, rodent hijinks and why Pink Flamingos is the perfect first date movie.

With Origin in UK and Irish cinemas now and coming to VOD in the US, Adesola Thomas sits down with filmmaker Ava DuVernay for a wide-reaching conversation about collective grief and humanity.