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What this is

85 films I have rated, 55 of them five stars, 20 I liked without leaving a score, and 1 I wrote about without scoring at all. It is said that once a pilot has issued the MAYDAY distress signal three times, the probability of survival is almost zero.

A full-stack developer who happens to love film. Arthouse and auteur cinema is home base, the kind of movies that argue with you instead of explaining themselves, with a soft spot for anything carrying a social edge.

How a film gets in

  • I watched it and gave it a score, or liked it without one.
  • I can say in one sentence what it does to a person, and 19 of these I have.
  • I would still recommend it to someone who does not share my taste.

Everything on this site comes out of my own Letterboxd log, which is where the rest of what I have watched stays.

Reading it

  • the number — position on the list, highest rated first
  • the stars — my own score: ★★★★★, ★★★★½, ★★★★, ★★★½, ★★★
  • liked — liked on Letterboxd without giving it a score
  • the blue address on each line — that film's page on Letterboxd, spelled out

About the site

One column of type, no rules, no boxes, no images, and no colour except the links, which are blue because that is what links are. It is a static page built from a single JSON file and published on sourcehut pages. The fonts are served from this domain, so loading a page asks nobody else for anything.

Film metadata (director, country, length) is matched against Wikidata and left blank when there is no clean match, rather than guessed. The scores and the notes are mine, which is to say they are opinions, and you are allowed to disagree with them loudly. A few notes were written in Chinese and are translated here, with the originals kept in films.json.

Where to find things