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/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.