Katie Rife
@rifewithkatie.bsky.social
You’ve seen me around. Writing all over: Letterboxd, Indiewire, AV Club, Vulture, Ebert, etc.
Hi friends. 414 short films were submitted to Overlook Film Festival this year. Humans watched every single one of them, and I personally watched 256. In the end, I selected 22 films from four countries, seven of which are world premieres:
March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hi friends. 414 short films were submitted to Overlook Film Festival this year. Humans watched every single one of them, and I personally watched 256. In the end, I selected 22 films from four countries, seven of which are world premieres:
Hong Kong horror forever (the movie is Ghost Eyes)
March 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hong Kong horror forever (the movie is Ghost Eyes)
You guys have money to buy stuff every day?
February 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You guys have money to buy stuff every day?
If queer country puts your soul at ease like it does mine, consider subscribing! Rachel is doing great work, all the money goes to her and the writers:
February 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If queer country puts your soul at ease like it does mine, consider subscribing! Rachel is doing great work, all the money goes to her and the writers:
Movies that explicitly link femininity and grotesque transformation, even when they're just okay:
January 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Movies that explicitly link femininity and grotesque transformation, even when they're just okay:
Odd-looking salute!
January 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Odd-looking salute!
He was fond of the nightmare as well.
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
He was fond of the nightmare as well.
At the beginning of Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts walks out of LAX and into the brightest, whitest, most optimistic sunlight I've ever seen. I hope David Lynch saw that light again, one last time.
January 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
At the beginning of Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts walks out of LAX and into the brightest, whitest, most optimistic sunlight I've ever seen. I hope David Lynch saw that light again, one last time.
I might actually cry. An American genius, who took us by the hand and led us into the grotesque, the terrifying, and the heartbreakingly pure.
January 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I might actually cry. An American genius, who took us by the hand and led us into the grotesque, the terrifying, and the heartbreakingly pure.
I added to my most bitter Letterboxd list today.
January 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I added to my most bitter Letterboxd list today.
Don't mind me, just thinking about how visionary genius Amanda Kramer predicted the rise (or, in Demi's case, the return) of Cole Escola and Demi Moore by casting them in Please Baby Please (2022)
January 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Don't mind me, just thinking about how visionary genius Amanda Kramer predicted the rise (or, in Demi's case, the return) of Cole Escola and Demi Moore by casting them in Please Baby Please (2022)
I wrote about “the summer of Farley” (who still isn’t on Bluesky as far as I know!) and Local Legends for @letterboxd.social
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letterboxd.com/journal/favo...
December 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I wrote about “the summer of Farley” (who still isn’t on Bluesky as far as I know!) and Local Legends for @letterboxd.social
letterboxd.com/journal/favo...
letterboxd.com/journal/favo...
You might not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like. (WWDITS series finale recap going up later today.)
December 17, 2024 at 5:41 PM
You might not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like. (WWDITS series finale recap going up later today.)
Decided to switch out the Letterboxd top four, just for fun. Meiko Kaji has a permanent spot, only the titles change.
December 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Decided to switch out the Letterboxd top four, just for fun. Meiko Kaji has a permanent spot, only the titles change.
A few of my contributions are yet to come, but here’s my top 10 of 2024 for the curious:
December 13, 2024 at 4:46 PM
A few of my contributions are yet to come, but here’s my top 10 of 2024 for the curious:
The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Dir. Elaine May)
November 24, 2024 at 12:31 AM
The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Dir. Elaine May)
The Rock DJ number…
November 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM
The Rock DJ number…
Sorry to Wicked but I have already pledged my loyalty to a movie musical this season
November 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Sorry to Wicked but I have already pledged my loyalty to a movie musical this season
I took a vaccine sick day yesterday (side effects weren't so bad this time, but whatever I needed the break), which means I got to watch WHATEVER I WANTED. I was just in Japan, so we made it a Japanese horror/ish triple:
November 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I took a vaccine sick day yesterday (side effects weren't so bad this time, but whatever I needed the break), which means I got to watch WHATEVER I WANTED. I was just in Japan, so we made it a Japanese horror/ish triple:
Tiny little place, you can fit MAYBE a dozen people in there. Mostly foreign clientele, but I’m foreign so I can’t complain. All drinks ¥666, which makes change complicated but Go-San commits to the bit.
November 15, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Tiny little place, you can fit MAYBE a dozen people in there. Mostly foreign clientele, but I’m foreign so I can’t complain. All drinks ¥666, which makes change complicated but Go-San commits to the bit.
I hear we are being cool and normal, so here’s some photos I took at the horror bar Deathmatch in Hell in Tokyo. The guy in the Wayne’s World hat is Go-San, the owner. We watched Terrifier.
November 15, 2024 at 12:03 AM
I hear we are being cool and normal, so here’s some photos I took at the horror bar Deathmatch in Hell in Tokyo. The guy in the Wayne’s World hat is Go-San, the owner. We watched Terrifier.
Very excited for this 469-page Meiji era novel told from the perspective of a cat.
July 2, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Very excited for this 469-page Meiji era novel told from the perspective of a cat.