Our London correspondent Ella Kemp joins Letterboxd’s editor-in-chief Gemma Gracewood to talk about their highlights from the fall festival season. Later they’re joined by actor, writer and first-time feature director Cooper Raiff and his Shithouse co-star Dylan Gelula to talk college, crying, comfort films, and Dylan’s Letterboxd habits.

Films and links mentioned:

Synchronic
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Lovers Rock
I Carry You With Me
Shiva Baby
Shithouse
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Kajillionaire
I Used to Go Here
Revenge of the Nerds
St Elmo’s Fire
Right Now, Wrong Then
Lost in Translation
On the Rocks
Vanya on 42nd Street
Bridge to Terabithia
13 Going on 30
Wolfwalkers
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Paprika
Inside Out
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
The Red Shoes
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Social Dilemma
The work of Jay Duplass. TV shows mentioned: Togetherness, Love on the Spectrum, Normal People (specifically, episode 5).
Dylan’s podcast, Lecture Hall, with her friend Broti Gupta.

This episode recorded in London, Los Angeles and Dunedin and edited by Morgan Avery. Podcast artwork by Ann Davenport. Our theme music is ‘Hitchcock’ by The Phoenix Foundation. Our next episode features Wolfwalkers co-director Tomm Moore, and animation fans Kambole Campbell and Toussaint Egan. To be in to win a Pro membership, leave us a voice message about your favorite animated film or sequence of all time.

12: Shithouse, Fall Festival Roundup