Four Favorites: Gemma Gracewood & Slim on Strictly Ballroom, Robocop and human nipples

A podcast hosted in fear is a podcast half-hosted—so now we have two hosts! Slim and Gemma introduce a new format, in which we interrogate a guest about their four Letterboxd favorites. First in the hot seat: the hosts themselves. Slim makes Gemma watch Vanilla Sky, while Gemma puts Slim through his bago-pago with Strictly Ballroom. Plus: Daniel Day-Lewis’s most surprising role, Paul Verhoeven’s normalization of the nipple, and Mark Ruffalo can be anything you want. Finally, the pressing question: are you Team Tom or Team Nicole?

Related links:
The Letterboxd list of films mentioned in this episode
The Official Letterboxd Top 250
Edgar Wright’s 100 Favorite Comedies
“Being tasteless paid off”: the Mank couple in Slate
Gemma’s A Room with a View review
Slim’s Robocop review and North by Northwest review
70mm Podcast
Slim’s stats
Gemma’s stats
Slim’s Man Ass list
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible—the documentary about Australia’s legendary film editor
Lockdown Thirst: Letterboxd Show episode 4, featuring In the Cut
Letterboxd Q&A with Paddington writer-director Paul King
Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown’s favorite shots (including Casino’s counting room)

Credits: This episode was recorded in Philadelphia and Auckland and edited by Slim. Theme music: ‘Vampiros Danceoteque’ by Moniker. Transcript by Sophie Shin.