Last week, Sarah and I received the unexpected but very welcome news that our movie You Can Live Forever was going to be released on American Netflix today, June 4. Indeed, our film, which the New York Times called “a sweet coming-of-age film bathed in grunge hues,” and which Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian compared to Jeannette Winterson (!) is now available to watch on the streaming giant in the U.S. of A.

But it has been available online for longer—indeed, dating back to the very week after the movie premiered at Tribeca in 2022. As recounted here, the movie was swiftly pirated, ripped from the festival’s allegedly very secure online screening room, posted in clips to TikTok, fan-translated and subtitled into Portuguese, Hungarian, Chinese and other languages, and shared around the world. It was a bewildering experience, but one we couldn’t help but appreciate, as fans around the world got to see the film and react to it, creating fan art and video edits, a trend that still continues to this today.

Another trend that has continued is that of posting magnificently overheated reviews of You Can Live Forever to Letterboxd, along the lines of “10/10 movie, I hate it so much, watch it right now,” or “I WANT TO KILL MYSELF, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”. We get it and we love it. To celebrate our Netflix premiere, Sarah and I have gathered some of our favourites.

You Can Live Forever is now streaming on U.S. Netflix and, in Canada, Crave. It’s also on Tubi. If you live elsewhere, it’s probably available on a digital storefront near you, and if you need to find it somewhere else… we won’t tell.

This week’s #nojacketsrequired comes via friend-of-the-newsletter Rollie Pemberton, aka Cadence Weapon. This wonderful new book about music and our relationship to it is both out now and does not have a dust jacket by design. We applaud this. Look for a conversation and newsletter crossover with the author in the next Something Good!

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