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.