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Letterboxd lists

Get specific with them! I like subdividing all of the media I enjoy because it makes me feel in control of my life and makes the movie easier to find. LIST TITLES: -good movies about love -bad movies about love -ironic -sports movies -movies I saw in the theater -top 100 -horror -comedy -classics -nostalgia -douchey film bro -animation -associated with good memories -movies I’ve seen with my best friend -foreign -starring women -movies about children/teenagers -my dad’s favorites Maybe this makes me weird and obsessive, but it fills my time. My real life may be a mess but my digital profiles will not. I apply similar methods with music, saved posts on social media, and my camera roll. Can you tell I love Pinterest???

@mia_ldim

Mar 4, 2024

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following people on letterboxd

I love watching a movie, logging it, leaving my little review, and then reading what my follows thought. Did they like it? Did they hate it? Are there funny quips? Thoughtful essays? It's the one site were I'm rather indiscriminate with my follows. If the top four is interesting, I want to know what they think of the movies.

@lucius

Jan 13, 2025

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Movies as a portal

It's like a choose your own adventure for emotions. Feeling down and don't feel like hitting the theater/restaurant combo? Put on your A24 hat and sign into your Criterion account. See y'all on Letterboxd :)

@allie_g

Jun 17, 2024

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Late night iTunes carooming.

I call it "carooming" because one ball hits another which leads to another... .  It starts simply: "If you like x, perhaps you'll like y." So off you go deep into the night bouncing from one song recommendation to the next. Hours pass and and, if you're lucky, you own three or four news songs you would not have otherwise found.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

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Wondering

 I spend an inappropriate amount of time wondering why NYC scaffolding goes up but never comes down

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

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Collecting Modern Firsts.

I've always had collections--cigar bands, stamps, lead pennies--what kid doesn't? I collected basketball cards when that was my son's interest. I collected photography and art but quickly ran out of wall space. Then I realized I could collect something I really treasured and which occupied only bookshelf space: Modern Firsts, which are defined as first edition books starting with the desk jacket era (aprox 1920). The jackets, because of their fragility, are in fact more valuable than the books themselves. So I sit in my nook surrounded by treasured old friends. These are not reading copies--God forbid--these are objects d'art.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024