Where’s the Letterboxd of music? That’s an excellent idea. Because music collectors have the same mentality. The article also contains this quote about film buffs: “There’s still the delusion that you can see everything, that you can really have an encyclopedic knowledge of the entire expanse and breadth of the medium, which is not really on the table when it comes to literature or art.” Literature or art but not music. That paragraph could easily be talking about album collectors. “Social film discovery” is how the homepage labels it-a phrase that’s in keeping with the no-frills, unassuming nature of the site.ĭie-hard movie fans and fanatical music heads are similar. The common denominator among Letterboxd users tends to be a compulsion to log and order the things they’ve seen, which many of them were already doing using spreadsheets or pen and paper. Letterboxd is a social media site that opens up those habits to public scrutiny, but the trade-off is that it also functions as a vast warehouse of opinion and hard data, an opportunity both to survey reactions to popular films and head down various rabbit holes. The other word was “Lists.” Those were the building blocks of the service, and they’re almost embarrassingly true to how the cinephile mind works to compartmentalize the films that pass through it. “Diary” was one of the words Matthew Buchanan focused on when he and his cofounder, Karl von Randow, were conceiving Letterboxd in the years before it launched in 2011. (I’ve gone through my journal and back-tracked some movies I watched in the past year before I joined.) Now I’m starting to enjoy the platform’s social aspects and how it’s a powerful place for film discussion and discovery.įilm critic Scott Tobias wrote an informative article on Letterboxd and its culture for The Ringer. Here’s my profile. I’m logging the movies I watch and the ones I want to watch, which is my main reason for using Letterboxd. I joined this trendy film lover’s platform a few weeks ago, and - hey whaddaya know - I’m enjoying it.
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