Check Me Out on Letterboxd!
I am nothing if not obsessive. I’m either into something one hundred percent, with my whole heart and soul, or I am out.
For a couple of years, I was all in on Letterboxd, the website that allows users to keep an ongoing diary of their film consumption and share their thoughts and experiences with other movie lovers.
As someone who watches a LOT of movies and writes about a LOT of movies I found Letterboxd to be incredibly useful. Also, because I am old and also smoke a lot of marijuana, I don’t always remember whether I’ve seen a film or not.
Heck, I don’t always remember whether I have written about a movie either. That’s one of the many places where Letterboxd serves a valuable purpose. I can look through my digital back pages and learn whether or not I’ve seen a particular film.
I started compulsively logging movies on Letterboxd when I was still writing for The Dissolve and kept doing so for four years.
I love ritual and traditions. I dug the ritual of watching a movie, recording my thoughts on Letterboxd then moving on to the next movie, and then seeing how many movies I’d seen over the course of a month or year.
I must have been pretty good at Letterboxd because I wracked up more than eight thousand followers who did not stop following me even after I abruptly stopped logging films into Letterboxd on August 18th, 2019.
Why? Like I wrote earlier, I tend to be all or nothing. So I guess I figured that I might as well not log any of the movies I watched if I wasn’t going to log all of them.
The last movie I logged, funnily enough, was Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman. I had written about if for The Fractured Mirror when it was still a column at TCM Backlot.
How appropriate that I would get back into Letterboxd in a big way in order to promote the upcoming The Fractured Mirror book as well as Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place, the Travolta/Cage podcast and Nathan Rabin’s Bad Ideas.
Another reason I abandoned Letterboxd is because of the nature of my career and my life I end up writing about every movie that I see so there’s an online record of movies I’ve watched without Letterboxd.
That record, however, is all over the place on a bunch of different modestly read sites and the great thing about Letterboxd is that it collects everything in one place and gives readers an ongoing look at what you’re watching and what you will be writing about.
My illustrator Felipe Sobreiro suggested I start engaging with my followers on Letterboxd again to promote my various projects and it made all the sense in the world.
I’ve been logging everything on Letterboxd again and it feels great. Also, like all reasonable people I see Twitter as a sinking ship without much of a future, or a future as anything that I would want to be part of.
So check me out at https://letterboxd.com/nathanrabin/ for sneak preview of what I will be writing about here or for my books or podcast or Substack newsletter or freelance assignments.
It’ll be fun! And informative! That’s the Nathan Rabin promise.
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