āWrite your favorite movie that you havenāt seen.ā ā Jordan Peele
Agree to disagree - Lucas Shaw analyzes review data to see why film critics and audiences are more divided than ever. Cecile Borkhataria reviews a study that suggests audiences donāt even agree with each other about what they like.
Finding what you like - Go down a rabbit hole comparing movies on Flickchart to make your personal Top 20. Michael Walker collects the stories of 8 screenwriters on finding the films that inspire them.
Why taste matters - The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gathers a summary of how the concept of aesthetic taste developed. Amanda Shepard suggests you donāt need to know everything about art to learn to appreciate it.
Our algorithmic tastemakers - Marie Fatima IƱigo Gaw explains how Netflixās recommendation system prioritizes user behavior within the app and negates the userās expressed tastes. Niko Pajkovic shares his experiment mimicking user behavior to test if Netflix mirrors our taste back to us or directs it. Robin Sloan observes a strange quirk in Spotifyās recommendation algorithm.
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In case you missed it, in last issueās most clicked link Javier Grillo-Marxuach shares the time a mentor asked him to try pitching a story like telling a joke.
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