Actor, writer and director Jim Cummings joins Letterboxd’s editor-in-chief Gemma Gracewood to talk about his brand new film The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Robert Forster’s final role, toxic masculinity, tears, montages, werewolves, Fight Club, Fincher, turning shorts into features, his Letterboxd favorites, and the enduring emotional power of Inside Out’s Bing Bong.
Films and lists mentioned:
- Rope
- Rear Window
- Beast Beast
- Greener Grass
- The Social Network
- Zodiac
- Fight Club
- Thunder Road
- The Robbery (short)
- Blue Valentine
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Shithouse
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Napoleon Dynamite
- An American Werewolf in London
- The Howling
- Dirty Dancing
- Jamaica Inn
- The Great Dictator
- Inside Out
- Seduced and Abandoned
- Children of Men
- The ’Burbs
- Obvious Child (short) / Obvious Child
- Two Cars One Night (short) / Boy
- Whiplash (short) / Whiplash
- Lights Out (short) / Lights Out
- Saw (short) / Saw
- Brat Pitt’s review of Fight Club
- A list of films with men/boys crying
- Jim Cummings on Letterboxd
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