Letterboxd
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Review This: Letterboxd and Independent Film Marketing
There are no silver bullets for solving the crisis in independent film distribution, but there are a lot of industry professionals looking to Letterboxd—and its opinionated and rapidly growing 15 million–strong community of cinephiles—as an important new tool for their survival. Most crucially, as one distributor put it, “They’ve opened up a new channel of communication between filmmakers and their audiences, both actual and potential.” And, unlike other major industry disrupters, from Netflix to Rotten Tomatoes before it, Letterboxd appears to be embracing independent films as a distinct part of its identity. Matthew Buchanan, Letterboxd’s New Zealand–based co-founder, told Filmmaker, […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Sep 18, 2024 -
Letterboxd, the Social Network for Cinephiles, Finally Has an iPhone App
Film fans, film journalists and all varieties of film lovers post reviews and get into passionate debates about their favorite films on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. But Letterboxd is the only social network exclusively for sharing film reviews and recommendations. With the introduction of an iPhone app, the popular social network from New Zealand has just become an even more essential resource. For newbies, when you log into the free service, you’ll be asked “what are you watching?” and then invited to keep a film diary and create and share lists of your favorite films. Follow people and you can see which films […]
by Paula Bernstein on Mar 16, 2016
