Film taste, decoded

The Intertitle
Journal.

Essays on what your taste reveals, how recommendation engines actually work, and why the discipline of watching seriously changes what you see.

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Watch Guide

The Movie Recommendation App That Doesn't Need Letterboxd

You don't need a Letterboxd account to get taste-based film recommendations — rate a few films in Intertitle and the engine warms up the same way.

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Taste Identity

Rarity Score: What It Means If Your Taste Is in the Top 5%

Rarity is the obscurity percentile of your film taste — how far off the beaten path you watch. Here's how Intertitle reads it, and why it only means something with enough signal.

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Watch Guide

How to Get Movie Recommendations From Your Letterboxd

Step by step — turn your Letterboxd watch history into personalized film recommendations.

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Taste Science

The Match Score, Explained

Intertitle's match score is 1 minus the cosine distance between a film and your taste vector. Here's what that means, why it isn't popularity, and where it breaks.

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Watch Guide

How to Decide What to Watch Tonight (Based on Your Actual Taste)

A practical way to end the scroll-and-give-up loop — pick tonight's film from your real taste instead of the trending row.

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Letterboxd Enhancement

Your Letterboxd Ratings Are Worth More Than Letterboxd Knows

Each Letterboxd star is considered opinion — high-signal taste data. Here's what your ratings can do once a recommender reads them as a taste profile, not a diary.

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Taste Identity

The 6 Film Taste Archetypes: Which One Are You?

Every serious filmgoer falls into one of six taste archetypes. Discover yours — and what your favorite films quietly reveal about how you see the world.

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Film Journal

Why a Film Diary Changes How You Watch Movies

Keeping a film diary transforms passive viewing into active attention. Here's what the practice does to your memory, taste, and how you move through a story.

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Taste Science

How Embedding-Based Recommendations Read Your Film Taste

AI movie recommendations based on taste beat collaborative filtering by representing films as vectors. Here's how the math captures what genre tags miss.

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