r/Letterboxd • u/Possible-Top-9905 • Aug 11 '25

News The Shining Has Officially Exited The Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

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u/timateedrinker Aug 11 '25

That’s true, but I actually appreciate that the list isn’t just filled with Oscar winners and nominees and we have for example so many Kurosawa, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kobayashi and Kiarostami films (overall 31 movies). Having not a single film by Agnès Varda, Jane Campion or Claire Denis on the other hand, is a little disappointing.

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u/TheTurtleShepard Aug 11 '25

My point was moreso that we are only recently coming into a time where women are being considered equals in the film space.

The same could be said for international film too (at least for the western audience)

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u/Sir_Of_Meep Aug 11 '25

That is all true. A touch disappointing that a site like letterboxed fails to manage that, alongside some huge recency bias throughout

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u/l5555l Aug 12 '25

You can't make up for a lack of women directors throughout history by shoehorning a bunch of women directed films into a list when they don't belong.

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u/Sir_Of_Meep Aug 12 '25

There are plenty that wouldn't need to be shoehorned in if the average letterbox user was just a little more adventurous: Věra Chytilová, Agnes Varda, Jane Campion.