2025 IN FILM
This best picture runner-up is Letterboxd’s most popular film of 2025, with over 4.7 million watches logged
What is Sinners?
This Italian film composer finally won a competitive Oscar for his work in 2015’s The Hateful Eight
Who is Ennio Morricone?
"Watched this for the first time as GOD intended, on two VHS tapes." (1997)
What is Titanic?
In it, Groucho pointed out a contract's sanity clause to Chico who said, "There ain't no Sanity Claus"
What is A Night at the Opera?
This 2019 romantic drama received 22 five-star reviews during its week, more than any other movie we’ve selected
What is Portrait of a Lady on Fire?
Sentimental Value won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, the first from this country to do so
What is Norway?
He has scored all five of Ryan Coogler’s films; The Odyssey will mark his third time scoring a film of Christopher Nolan’s
Who is Ludwig Göransson?
“at one point christian bale as frank starts having a panic attack because he wants to go to the movies and i fear i’ve never related to anything more in my life” (2026)
What is The Bride!
At a June 1995 auction, the white suit John Travolta wore in this film sold for $145,500
What is Saturday Night Fever?
The first movie selected for the watch club was this 2017 film from Coralie Fargeat, whose title straightforwardly describes the movie
What is Revenge?
DAILY DOUBLE! Bad Bunny appeared in two films that year: Happy Gilmore 2, and this crime thriller
What is Caught Stealing?
Randy Newman has scored ten films for Pixar, and won his first Oscar for “If I Didn’t Have You” from this film
What is Monsters, Inc?
"Corey Feldman talking in a deep adult voice for the whole movie is such a choice" (1987)
What is The Lost Boys?
In this 1934 classic, Alan Hale was the driver who stopped at the sight of Claudette Colbert's leg
What is It Happened One Night?
Tosia won the first Power Pick week, and with it, nominated this Dreamworks Animation classic
You like jazz?
Disney had the copyright on cymbals, so this titular object from Osgood Perkins instead plays a drum
What is The Monkey?
Pinar Toprak was the first woman to compose the score for a Marvel movie, which was released in 2019
What is Captain Marvel?
“there’s just no way antonio banderas is that bad in bed” (2024)
What is Babygirl?
George Romero shot this 1968 horror classic for under $150,000
What is Night of the Living Dead?
The oldest WWC pick, released in 1948
What is The Red Shoes?
Besides Blue Moon, Richard Linklater also directed Nouvelle Vague, about the making of this Jean-Luc Godard film
What is Breathless?
Anton Karas was known for his soundtrack for 1949’s The Third Man, where he primarily played this instrument
What is a zither?
“found a version without subtitles, to get the full arthur experience” (2023)
What is Past Lives?
Truffaut's 1973 movie about making movies
What is Day for Night?
One of the two movies selected for the WWC that have an exclamation point in the title
What are Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You! & Repo! The Genetic Opera