Letterboxd

[wba]

how do they know? do relatives do this level of account closure when someone dies? who would you even contact at letterboxd to inform them?

"schneeland" was an acquaintance of mine and of many of my friends and their acquaintances, and it was quite a shock for many when he died (also quite young). So I'm sure there were many people who took care that his websites and podcasts on film remain online (and thus, also, his letterboxd account). He was a well-loved and known cinephile in Germany, and I used to meet him frequently at many different film festivals throughout the country. He also travelled a lot and visited quite a number of film festivals abroad.

His last big project before his death was doing a podcast episode on every single film by Keisuke Kinoshita in chronological order (it's currently being continued by his collaborators): https://keisuke-kinoshita.de

[sally]

ah, that's sad wba....i had just never seen anything like this on letterboxd before...to have the last iteration of the four favorite films stand as testament forever....

[rischka]

i think the first one was for eli hayes

didn't know abt schneeland, i've followed them a long time :'(

RIP

[greennui]

Thought that was Carolee Schneemann at first and was confused

[cinesmith]

pro users are allowed to clone lists. it is annoying

Yet you can't sort through members except by popularity.
It'd be nice if you could sort users by country of origin (or *gasp* translate reviews in foreign languages) of various members.
Perhaps just to eliminate all the reviews that are less than forty characters long?
I'd love to be able to specify whose followers aren't just logs of twitter followers but actual people on LBX.

I'm a pro user as well which had more to do with the ad blocking than the supposed perks
The sorted annual hours watched or actor who appeared in the most films viewed has got to be some of the most useless stats provided.
Anyone who watches more than just Hollywood drivel isn't going to give a damn.

Now that they've made a monthly newsletter and a podcast I'm even less inclined to bother.
They just keep modifying all the wrong stuff.

[Lencho of the Apes]

ah, that's sad

A deeply marginalized but quite brilliant writer named Nathaxnne disappeared from the site and I was all distraught, assuming that the long-feared worst had actually happened. All that marvelous prose apparently lost forever.

[rischka]

nathaxnne ♥♥♥ i checked periodically; when did they disappear? what a shame

they're still listed in google

[greennui]

https://twitter.com/swen_ryan/status/16 ... 0287380480

[greennui]

Tons of Eadweard Muybridge entries deleted, wonder if it was because of the nudity, that they weren't deemed films or both.

[sally]

ah, so that's what it was, my count went down and i was bamboozled

[greennui]

#justice4eddy

[sally]

lol!

[Zynab]

just wanted to say i'm so glad nathaxnne is back. i love her reviews; seriously the best. i'm flattered she followed me back and interacts w me lol. even before i joined letterboxd i would lurk her profile from time to time as my ex bf had enthusiastically showed me some of her reviews. i hope she is healthy and happy / is doing as well as possible and that she stays on the site and keeps writing (as long as it serves her, of course. i know she got a lot of hate on many of her popular reviews which makes me sad...pearls before swine)!

[greennui]

https://twitter.com/letterboxd/status/1 ... 7455149524

[rischka]

xD i watched the godzilla and zatoichi series

[greennui]

Don't recognize Robertson and Ström at all lol.

Not sure if it's a bug but if you click the in depth statistics you can see your all time stats as well.

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me stats




but here is my fav part of my yir. i am very proud of this. didn't watch any other movie more than once

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Someone directed me to this list on letterboxd today.


I never followed Zahler much. I saw Bone Tomohawk and found it reasonably entertaining, but not particularly exciting. All I know is that he's considered sort of a MAGA filmmaker by many people I interact with.

So I was kind of surprised his list was largely comprised of:

-Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were War Crimes
-Rebuke of fascism being treated as normal.
-Story of gay children
-Anarchist eco terrorists as the good guys heist movie
-American Colonialism is our country's original sin.

Couldn't help but read this as an overtly leftist list. Wonder if that was intended as some sort of provocation in and of itself.

[nrh]

still haven't seen godzilla minus one, and i know plenty of people who adored it, but the director is best known for the eternal zero, a weepy lost cause movie glorifying kamikaze pilots, based on a book by a war crimes denier...abe (rip, lol) and his wife attended and wept...not to mention great war of archimedes, an origin story of a ww2 battleship that is an icon to certain parts of the japanese far right...

the more interesting zahler lists was his grouping of favorite comics of the year, submitted as a comment on the comics journal's great as always best of the year article -

Baby Boom (Yokoyama) was my favorite and an all-time great manga/use of the medium. This book contains the most exciting daily chores in history (and might have come out very late 2022 in some markets).
The Gull Yettin (Kessler), Monica (Clowes), Life Under Tension (Harkness), I Wish I Was Stupid (Ebisu), Werewolf Jones & Sons (Hanselmann & Pettinger), Michael Mouse (Lohmeier), Tombs (Ito), Three Rocks (Griffith), and Night of the Ghoul (Snyder & Francavilla) are also special books.

which is high on formalism and artists who are pretty explicitly leftist/countercultural in their sensibilities (and the hacky snyder book, but whatever).

haven't seen any of his movies (only so much time in the day etc) but i do think that a lot of modern critics are fairly unequipped to read the various contradictions of the genres zahler works in, not to mention the fairly weird politics that a lot of americans of a certain age carry.

[rischka]

yeah godzilla minus zero can be read as reclaiming their lost honor -- the hero is a failed kamikaze pilot

big contrast to someone like obayashi who was trying to exorcise demons of militarism

i saw zahler's cellblock 99 movie and it seemed like a MAGA wet dream to me - vince vaughn fighting off hordes of minorities who hate him for his whiteness

but i already hate vince vaughn so could be biased haven't seen a kore-eda in years, just can't get into it

[Monsieur Arkadin]

haven't seen a kore-eda in years, just can't get into it

Monster is not going to convert anyone. But I thought it was very sweet. Other than Shoplifters I find all his films charming, sweet, and kind of forgettable.

[cinesmith]

2023 stats

367
DIARY ENTRIES
147
REVIEWS
649.3
HOURS

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me lil movies are up on lboxd btw ((:



https://letterboxd.com/film/red-hughes-brothers/
https://vimeo.com/729820585

https://letterboxd.com/film/halloween-alberta/
https://vimeo.com/900686759

[cinesmith]

2024 stats

434
Diary Entries
25
Reviews
745.2
Hours

[cinesmith]

I finally found a few details per the website ranking data. These stats appear to be current

As of June 2024 they claimed to have 17 million users.

Global Ranking of website #861
US Rank of website #505
Category Rank #17 (Per Arts & Entertainment)
Total visits to website: 38.8 million (This is confusing as I can't discern distinct new visits vs. total visits which seems low
(This also doesn't note if it was a monthly or annual total)
Avg Pages Per Visit: 11.5
Avg Visit Duration: 8 minutes

Percentage of users by country: US 33.8% UK 9.77% CAN 5.93% BRA 4.77% FRA 4.32% Other 41.41%
( You have to pay to get access to the other individual countries.)

Reddit has an LB group that has 282K users who post but it's a distinctly younger audience.

The only other interesting detail was the idea that anyone who watches more than 200 films a year would more likely be considered a 'power' user.

Also the person with the highest total of films seen is this guy; https://letterboxd.com/acervofilmico/ and flip follows him (?)

[flip]

Also the person with the highest total of films seen is this guy; https://letterboxd.com/acervofilmico/ and flip follows him (?)

no idea who that is, but the person follows me, so i'm guessing i just looked at the profile and followed back... weird to have checked 111,000 films, but only 6 last year?

that person looks serious about film, but i'm surprised there isn't some 14 year old somewhere who has just rated literally everything on the site to try to set a record

[Lencho of the Apes]

acervofilmico is a person or persons who represents an archive in Mexico. They worked tirelessly to catalog Mexican films on LB from a bunch of different angles (decade, genre, etc) and didn't/doesn't interact much with anybody. I v much doubt they've seen all those movies, the fact of logging them must mean something else.

[flip]

oh that's cool to know, i don't speak the language well enough to understand that person's profile

[cinesmith]

no idea who that is, but the person follows me, so i'm guessing i just looked at the profile and followed back... weird to have checked 111,000 films, but only 6 last year?

I figured as much. There's such a disconnect with any other user unless you know them from some other place.

[cinesmith]

i'm surprised there isn't some 14 year old somewhere who has just rated literally everything on the site to try to set a record

I suspect even a 14 year old would tire of this exercise even in jest. I certainly see plenty of folks who attempt to follow almost everyone and adding likes to as many posts as possible in hopes of catapulting themselves to a more noticeable stat on the members board but that rarely does much for anyone.

I just wish I could dive into the real stats of these 5,746,000 accounts in the U.S.