Four Favorites with Jay Bennett: Face/Off, The Lighthouse, sweater weather and movie posters

Get out the knitwear, it’s When Harry Met Sally… season. Movie-poster designer and Londoner Jay Bennett joins hosts Gemma and Slim to discuss his four Letterboxd favorites: Saw ; The Lighthouse ; Face/Off and Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron’s iconic rom-com . Plus: Jay’s very specific Letterboxd lists, why he holds right back on five-star ratings, why Danny Glover is a terrible detective in Saw , the power of negative space on a film poster, the scourge of floating heads, getting DMs from A24, was 2019 the greatest year in cinema ever?, The Lighthouse as a lockdown favorite, how bad posters happen, how Jay designed The Cow ’s key art, John Woo and his doves, why Joan Allen is the real MVP of Face/Off , the Letterboxd members who defend Billy Crystal as Harry, justice for Hannah Montana: The Musical , and Clippy from Microsoft makes a brief appearance. Lists and links : The Letterboxd list of films mentioned; Jay’s lists: Tom Hardy invents an accent , Mac and Cheese , Cannes you believe it , Who let Matt Damon into the studio , Saw ranked based on how morally right the jigsaw killer is , My parents reviewing films , Film Posters Don’t Feel So Good ; IndieWire’s 25 Best Movie Performances of the ’90s Reviews of Saw by Amaya , The Lighthouse by Esther Rosenfield , When Harry Met Sally… by Amanda , Sophie and Olivia Credits : This episode was recorded in Auckland, London and Pennsylvania, and edited by Slim. Facts by Jack . Booker: Brian Formo . Transcript by Sophie Shin . Theme: ‘Vampiros Dancoteque’ by Moniker .