We are Boonsong and Flynn Slicker is our Monkey Ghost. Letterboxd’s elusive social media manager joins hosts Gemma and Slim from the seaside for a deep chat about her four favorite films: Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, John Carney’s Sing Street and René Liu’s Us And Them. We celebrate siblings and hot people, commiserate about how hard it is to be alive, calculate how long Raphina and Cosmo would have taken to get to Wales in that tiny boat, normalize hanging out with ghosts and marvel at the genius of running other people’s businesses at night. Plus! Read Flynn’s Q&A with John Carney on Journal.

Sponsor: mubi.com/letterboxd

Credits: Recorded in Nantucket MA, Philadelphia PA and Auckland NZ. Edited by Slim. Theme music: “Vampiros Danceoteque” by Moniker. Editorial producer: Brian Formo. Production manager: Sophie Shin. The Letterboxd Show is a TAPEDECK production.

Chapters:

Sponsored by MUBI (00:00:00)
Opening credits (00:01:10)
Fallen Angels (00:10:12)
Uncle Boonmee (00:23:29)
Sing Street (00:40:15)
Us and Them (00:54:45)
Closing credits (01:12:19)

Links:

List of movies mentioned

Flynn’s Letterboxd profile

Letterboxd Visits the Criterion Closet

Gemma’s interview with Kamila Andini on Journal

Apichatpong Weerasethakul profile in The New Yorker

Lists mentioned:

When You’re Young, Vibrant, and Lost in This World by hungcat

Letterboxd 100: Chinese Cinema by Rahat Ahmad

Reviews mentioned:

Flynn & Josh Lewis’s Fallen Angels reviews

Carol Grant’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives review

Jae’s Us and Them review

Four Favorites with Flynn Slicker: Wong Kar-wai, Weerasethakul, Sing Street and lost love