Film taste, decoded
Essays on what your taste reveals, how recommendation engines actually work, and why the discipline of watching seriously changes what you see.
Intertitle tells you, in plain words, how close every film sits to your taste — Made for you, Great match, Good match, A bit different — built from your Letterboxd history or in-app ratings, across tonight's lineup and a filterable Discover catalog. Free on iPhone.
Intertitle's Friends tab is a feed of what the people you follow log, love and set as their Top Four — with replies on each watch, a public taste page for anyone who claims a username, and tonight's lineup ranked to your own taste. Free on iPhone.
Want a Spotify Wrapped for movies? Intertitle's free Wrapped reads your Letterboxd history or in-app ratings and gives you a film-taste archetype, your top director, a poster wall of everything you've watched and a story card to share — any time of year, on iPhone.
Yes — the Tonight lineup, Reely, Letterboxd import, diary, and Wrapped are all free today. Here's exactly what that includes, and why Pro isn't purchasable yet.
Intertitle's free Wrapped reads your whole Letterboxd history (or in-app ratings) any time of year, names one of 16 film-taste archetypes, and gives you a story card to share — a companion to Letterboxd's own Year in Review, not a copy.
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.
Step by step — turn your Letterboxd watch history into personalized film recommendations.
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.
A practical way to end the scroll-and-give-up loop — pick tonight's film from your real taste instead of the trending row.
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.
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.
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.
AI movie recommendations based on taste beat collaborative filtering by representing films as vectors. Here's how the math captures what genre tags miss.
13 essays — newest first