Gemma Gracewood
Editor-in-Chief at Letterboxd
Co-Host at The Letterboxd Show
Freelance Writer and Producer at Freelance
Editor in Chief of @Letterboxd and its online magazine Journal. Co-host of the Letterboxd Show podcast. Happy shambles. She/her. Also tweet about NZ things.
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3 days ago |
letterboxd.com | Brandon Streussnig |Gemma Gracewood |Slumdog Millionaire
Few filmmakers have been as disparate and innovative as Danny Boyle over the past three decades. A major force in the ’90s indie boom, he announced himself (alongside pivotal collaborators John Hodge, Andrew Macdonald and, perhaps most importantly, Ewan McGregor) with stylish crime-thriller Shallow Gravein 1994. From there, it was off to the races—as anyone who’s seen his seminal classic Trainspotting, released just two years later,can attest.
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letterboxd.com | Ariel LeBeau |Brian Formo |Gemma Gracewood |May December
If Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and 2001: A Space Odyssey had a baby, it would be Todd Haynes’ Safe. The writer-director’s sophomore feature, which was theatrically released 30 years ago this week, combines the radical banality of Chantal Akerman’s slow cinema masterwork with the cold, futuristic austerity of Stanley Kubrick’s interstellar epic into its own vision of spiritual malady that feels as audacious, haunting and timeless as the two classics that influenced it.
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1 week ago |
letterboxd.com | Mia Lee Vicino |Gemma Gracewood |Howards End |Yi Yi
Just as Nora Ephron made films for New York in September, Celine Song makes them for New York in June. The Materialists writer-director and I first spoke almost exactly two years ago, for the release of her stunning debut, Past Lives.
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3 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Gemma Gracewood |Jeanne Dielman
If you had any doubt that the Talking Heads were foundational in the artistry of Mike Mills, look no further than his 2016 feature 20th Century Women. From the ‘Don’t Worry About the Government’ needle drop in the film’s opening to the Talking Heads: 77 shirt that leading character Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), who was based on Mills, wears and is subsequently beaten up for (a shirt Mills actually owns), the director’s appreciation of the band is all over his work.
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1 month ago |
letterboxd.com | Gemma Gracewood |Mitchell Beaupre
Joe Wright wasn’t intending to create one of the most obsessed-over period pictures of the 21st century. He tells us he merely wanted to be “at the service of Jane Austen and her story.” So how did a close-up of Matthew Macfadyen’s fingers become so distractingly important as to pack out theaters twenty years later?
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