The Legacy of Pop Star Cinema Lives On

Between her auteur-friendly video screenings and recent visit to the Criterion Closet—where she name-checked David Cronenberg and waxed rhapsodic about the beguiling, late-stylin’ brilliance of The Shrouds—it would seem that [extreme Lonely Island voice] Charli xcx is a major cinephile. She is, at least, probably the most world-famous person whose Letterboxd is actually worth following; her top four on the site currently includes titles by Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara, and Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as Jacques Rivette’s exhilarating, labyrinthine 1973 masterpiece, Celine and Julie Go Boating, which Charli has described as taking place in a “Through the Looking Glass–type world.”