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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

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What can I say, I just love hijinks!

This movie is just such a good time. Feels fully an hour shorter than it is.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Wyler is SO GOOD at blocking.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

PSH is a god-tier movie baddie in this. And he’s also one of the best in the franchise at doing “look I’m secretly Tom Cruise in a rubber face.” 

Also I loved the first season of ALIAS so I have no objections to watching Abrams reheat his leftovers here.

Proto Elizabeth Jennings!

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Remains a perfect movie.

Weird! He’s so weird! WEIRD!

All-timer lead performance.

Yikes

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

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Watched on Easter morning to receive the blessings of Father, Son and Hailee Steinfeld

(Father = Delroy, son = both Michaels B. Jordan)

This is such a banger.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

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Honestly better than I ed, and I loved it the first time.

WYLERRRRRRRR

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

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Progress: 16/31

Original list here, prompts in notes. Thanks to Chris for hosting! This is a very cool and silly theme.

I got very lucky in that I could justify picking a LOT of M:I movies for this month's prompts - trying to rewatch the series before the new (last) one comes out!

1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

   Watch a movie that grossed at least $200 million.

2. Mission: Impossible

   Watch a movie directed by Brian De Palma.

3. Total Recall

   Watch a film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, or any of the various sound categories over the years.

4. Freaky Friday

   Watch a movie based off a children's book.

5. Life, and Nothing More…

   Watch a movie from a Middle Eastern country.

6. From Dusk Till Dawn

   Watch a fall film 

7. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

   Watch a movie with a flower, tree, or any type of plant on the poster.

8. Brute Force

   Watch a prison movie

9. Sixteen Candles

   Watch a movie featuring students being educated.

10. Friendship

    Watch a movie about friends 

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Progress: 52/52! New goal: 68/100.

Original list here! Thanks to kynky for another great challenge. This was super fun last year - as I inevitably double up on years I’ll include my favorite from that year. Attempting to get to 100 but we’ll see - missed it by thismuch last year.

• The Symbol of the Unconquered
• The Gold Rush
• Baby Face
• Stagecoach
• Rebecca
• Ornamental Hairpin
• Gaslight
• Brute Force
• The Heiress
• The Asphalt Jungle

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list. Thank you to samuel_shovel for hosting!

Prompts in notes.

Progress: x/30

1. Only Lovers Left Alive

   Starring John Hurt

2. Fright Night

   Remake or reboot

3. Logan

   Death or mortality as central theme

4. Insomnia

   Filmed in Vancouver

5. Don't Look Up

   Includes a President or head of state (fictional or otherwise)

6. Devil in a Blue Dress

   Hats on the poster

7. Pandora's Box

   Mythology

8. The Blues Brothers

   SNL sketch

9. Aftersun

   Beach

10. Step Brothers

    Billy Joel on the soundtrack

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The most popular film from each of the last 100 years I haven’t seen. Will be updated to the next most popular once I’ve watched.

• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Anyone But You
• Aftersun
• Don't Look Up
• Tenet
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Beautiful Boy
• Logan
• The Nice Guys
• The Martian

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list here, thank you to allie u for hosting!

Progress: 30/30

Prompts:

1. Happy April Fools’ Day! Watch a movie centered on pranks, hijinks, or schemes.

2. Watch either a Universal monster movie or an Elvis movie.

3. Watch a movie you meant to see in theaters, but didn’t get around to it.

4. Watch a movie from one of the countries in EPCOT’s World Showcase (Mexico, Norway, China, , Italy, America, Japan, Morocco, , the United Kingdom, and Canada).

5. Watch a movie that heavily features aviation.

6. Watch a movie that prominently features a horse or pony.

7. Watch a movie that has been nominated for best costume design at the Oscars.

8. Find an actor that shares your birthday and watch one of their films.

9. Watch a movie featuring an iconic side character (or several).

10. Watch a movie with a brother and sister duo.

11. Watch a non-musician biopic.

12. Watch a movie with a specific location in the title.

13. Watch a movie starring one of the of the SNL Five Timers Club.

14. Watch a movie that has been used in a NYT Crossword puzzle.

15. Watch a movie that has either been adapted from a stage production or adapted into a stage production.

16. Watch a movie that you are embarrassed to it you haven’t seen yet.

17. Watch a movie centered around organized crime.

18. Watch a film you haven't yet seen from your most watched director.

19. In honor of her massive discography, watch a movie that has the same name as a Taylor Swift song.

20. Happy Easter! Watch a movie that is based on the Bible (either explicitly or through allegory/allusion).

21. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the 21st movie that pops up.

22. We have arrived at Earth Day! Watch a movie with a blue or green poster.

23. Today is World Book Day! Watch a movie based on a book you read for school (or at least one you were supposed to read in school).

24. Watch a movie featuring one of the cast from Arrested Development.

25. We have somehow made it to the halfway mark of the 2020s! Let's throw it back a bit and watch a movie set in the 1920s.

26. Watch a movie for free (could be from a free streaming service, a movie you already own, one you find on YouTube, etc.).

27. Watch a movie that was released in one of the years the Reds won a World Series (1919, 1940, 1975, 1976, or 1990).

28. Watch a movie that has been released so far in 2025 that you have yet to watch.

29. Watch a movie that has a sequel or remake coming out in 2025.

30. Use a random word generator to find a word, type that word into the search bar on Letterboxd, and find a movie with that word in the title.

1. Raising Arizona
2. The Incredible Shrinking Man
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. The Beast
5. Porco Rosso
6. Stagecoach
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
8. Paris, Texas
9. The Fifth Element
10. Logan Lucky

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Rules/original list here. Thanks to Ben for putting this together as always!

Category/criteria in notes. Got about halfway through my list last year before my brain rebelled against all things, so I'm going to try to fold some of the things I missed into this year's list where possible. No repeats. Sharing a list with my partner so we doubled up on birth year.

Started: 1/1/2025
Watched: 14/53
Completed:

1. In the Mood for Love

   Watch a film from the CC40 boxset

2. The Funeral

   Watch a film from the year you were born (me)

3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

   Directed by Robert Altman

4. Moonage Daydream

   Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet

5. Beau Travail

   Great Soundtracks list

6. Brute Force

   John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing

7. Safety Last!

   1920s

8. The Wages of Fear

   Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025

9. M

   1930s

10. Naked

    Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Second year doing this - I came so close to completing last year's list even though I basically stopped watching movies on my own for the last few months of the year. I was short by two and those films are both on the 2025 list.

Progress: 29/35

Thank you to Nina for hosting! Here's her original list.

Prompts
1. Watch the movie that was added first
2. Watch the movie that was added last
3. Watch the movie that is the longest
4. Watch the movie that is the shortest
5. Watch the movie that is rated highest
6. Watch the movie that is rated lowest
7. Watch a movie from the 1950s
8. Watch a movie from the 1960s
9. Watch a movie from the 1970s
10. Watch a movie from the 1980s
11. Watch a movie from the 1990s
12. Watch a movie from the 2000s
13. Watch a movie from the 2010s
14. Watch a movie from the 2020s
15. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
16. Watch a movie from a director you haven’t watched anything from
17. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actors
18. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actresses
19. Watch the movie that is the most popular
20. Watch the movie that is the least popular
21. Watch the movie that was released the earliest
22. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
23. Watch a movie from your favorite genre
24. Watch a movie from your least favorite genre
25. Watch the movie with the most beautiful poster
26. Watch the movie you have been anticipating watching most
27. Watch a movie from before you were born
28. Watch a movie recommended to you by someone
29. Watch a documentary
30. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears

Bonus
31. Watch a triple F-rated movie (directed by, written by, and led by a woman) (thank you kawada_kun for submitting this prompt!)
32. Watch a cult classic/movie that just seems bonkers (thank you Lisa for submitting this prompt!)
33. Watch a movie by (one of) your favorite director's that you haven't seen yet (thank you Ansem for submitting this prompt!)
34. Watch the movie at the halfway point of your watchlist. Round up or down if needed. (thank you Benjamin Baron for submitting this prompt!)
35. Watch a film from a country you've never seen films from (thank you kawada_kun for submitting this prompt!)

1. Beau Is Afraid

   Added first

2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

   Added last (as of 12/31/24)

3. A Brighter Summer Day

   Longest

4. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

   Shortest (excluding shorts)

5. Harakiri

   Rated highest

6. Jupiter Ascending

   Rated lowest

7. Le Plaisir

   1950s

8. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

   1960s

9. The Candidate
10. Crimes of ion

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Stuff I didn’t get to in the various dopamine-seeking Letterboxd challenges I’ve tackled. Someday!

• Horrors of Malformed Men
• Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
• Broker
• In the Realm of the Senses
• Burst City
• Fireworks
• Love Letter
• Night's Tightrope
• The Long Excuse
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list by kynky. Got very close to completing my list last year! No rewatches.

Progress: 39/52

1. The most popular horror film on your watchlist.
2. The lowest rated horror film on your watchlist.
3. BLINDSPOT: The most popular horror film you haven't seen that's not on your watchlist.
4. The horror film that's been on your watchlist the longest.
5. Released in 2025, theatrically if possible.
6. A short that was made into a feature film EXAMPLES 🔁
7. The feature that relates to the above pick 🔁
8. FREE pick #1 🔁
9. Happy Anniversary. A film released in 1975 🔁
10. ALTER short #1
11. Released in the 1950s
12. Non English language horror #1 🔁🌍
13. Made for TV EXAMPLES
14. Bubblegum Horror EXAMPLES
15. Ecological Horror EXAMPLES
16. FREE pick #2 🔁
17. Explore my collection
18. Happy Anniversary. A film released in 1985 🔁
19. Released in the 1960s
20. Any film screened at a Frightfest event. EXAMPLES
21. Video Store Rules #1. Pick a film solely on it's poster. 🔁 INSPIRATION
22. Original. 🔁
23. Remake. (of the movie above) 🔁
24.FREE pick #3 🔁
25. Released in the 1970s
26. VIVA PHYSICAL MEDIA. (Watch a horror on VHS/LaserDisc/DVD/BLU/4K) 🔁
27. Happy Anniversary. A film released in 1995 🔁
28. Non English language horror #2 🔁🌍
29. A horror film released in the year you were born. My pick is from my BYC.
30. ALTER short #2
31. A horror film released in the year you turned 8.
32. FREE pick #4 🔁
33. Released in the 1980s
34. Romance & Horror
35. Slasher: Classic era EXAMPLES
36. The female gaze. Directed by a woman. EXAMPLES
37. An Alien knock-off EXAMPLES
38. Non English language horror #3 🔁🌍
39. Released in the 1990s
40. FREE pick #5 🔁
41. KAIJU EXAMPLES 🔁
42. Documentary EXAMPLES
43. Slasher: Revival era EXAMPLES
44. Analog horror EXAMPLES
45. ALTER short #3
46. Released in the 2000s
47. Non English language horror #4 🔁🌍
48. FREE pick #6 🔁
49. Cults EXAMPLES 🔁
50. Video Store Rules #2. Pick a film from someone else's list, based solely by the poster.
51. Released in the 2010s
52. Horror adjacent EXAMPLES 🔁

1. The Substance

   Most popular on watchlist

2. XX

   Lowest rated on watchlist

3. Alien: Romulus

   BLINDSPOT: The most popular horror film you haven't seen that's not on your watchlist.

4. Infinity Pool

   Been on watchlist the longest

5. Companion

   Released in 2025

6. Creswick

   Short that was made into a feature (see #7)

7. Relic

   Feature of #6

8. The Monkey

   Free pick 

9. Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

   Released in 1975

10. Piggy

    ALTER short 1

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list here by kynky. Had a private list going but never made a public one, whoops.

Progress: 25/41

1. The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
2. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
3. After the Rehearsal
4. Amadeus
5. Another Country
6. Beverly Hills Cop
7. Blood Simple
8. Boy Meets Girl
9. The Company of Wolves
10. The Cotton Club

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Mulholland Drive
• Fargo
• Roman Holiday
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Jurassic Park
• The Florida Project
• Nashville
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Philadelphia Story

1. Before Sunset
2. Harakiri
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The Fall
5. Pickup on South Street
6. WALL·E
7. The Exorcist
8. Almost Famous
9. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
10. Take This Waltz

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list, thank you to imjusdrew!

Progress: 31/31 ✅

1. Take This Waltz
2. The Exorcist
3. Death Race 2000
4. Kingsman: The Secret Service
5. Death of a Unicorn
6. The Monkey
7. WALL·E
8. Jupiter Ascending
9. Poltergeist
10. Before Sunset

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Fargo
• To Be or Not to Be
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• To Die For
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Election
• The Death of Stalin
• Serial Mom
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Being John Malkovich

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Adaptation.
4. Us
5. Holy Motors
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
7. Vertigo
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Mary Poppins
10. Joe Versus the Volcano

1. In the Mood for Love
2. The Heiress
3. Where Is the Friend's House?
4. Daughters of the Dust
5. Rebecca
6. Nickel Boys
7. The Wolf House
8. Toni Erdmann
9. The Long Goodbye
10. Ball of Fire

• Kingsman: The Secret Service

Original list, thank you to Colin!

Progress: 28/28

Prompts:

1. Watch a film with a painted poster.
2. Watch a movie with an entirely black-and-white poster.
3. Watch any director's least popular or lowest rated film on Letterboxd.
4. Watch a movie about/set in the United States directed by a non-American.
5. Watch a movie known exclusively by a non-English title.
6. Watch a movie starring someone acting in a non-native language.
7. Watch a movie with at least three spoken languages.
8. Watch a film on the Ten-per-year, hundred+ year watchlist.
9. Watch a movie about an unlikely hero or an underdog.
10. Watch a film made before the first commercially successful personal computers were released in 1977.
11. Watch a movie set in any classic Resident Evil location: a creepy mansion, a police station, an orphanage, a sewer, a science lab, an island, or a small European village.
12. Watch a film from the list Experiments In Terror: Horror Films by Non-Horror Directors or any other movie you feel fits that category.
13. Watch a movie about a nun, a ballet dancer, or a sex worker.
14. Watch either an erotic thriller, a non-English movie musical, or a movie that could be considered an unconventional rom-com.
15. Watch a movie with a title that's five words or longer. The more it looks like a complete sentence, the better.
16. Watch a film you hadn't heard of before today.
17. Watch a movie on BFI's List of the 50 Films You Should See By the Age of 14. If you've seen them all, watch a children's/family movie made before 1980.
18. Watch a western or noir film made after 1956 (the year The Searchers came out), or Watch a science-fiction or action film made before 1968 (the year 2001: A Space Odyssey came out).
19. Watch a film with ten or fewer people listed in the cast on Letterboxd.
20. Watch a movie made by a director who was at least 65 years old when the film was released.
21. Björk released solo studio albums in 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, and 2022. Watch a film from one of those years, or watch The Juniper Tree, Dancer In the Dark, or The Northman.
22. Celebrate Black History Month and Watch a film from NPR & Slate's The New Black Film Canon, S. Torriano Berry & Venise T. Berry's The 50 Most Influential Black Films, or any film made by a Black director on either list.
23. Watch a movie on the list of lowest rated Best Picture nominees or on the list of least popular Best Picture nominees.
24. Watch a film starring a nepo baby.
25. Watch a pre-Code Hollywood film or a movie once rated X or NC-17 by the MPAA.
26. Watch a movie Charli XCX has marked watched on Letterboxd, or watch any movie with a hyperpop aesthetic (e.g. The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, Spring Breakers, Climax, etc.).
27. Watch a movie that you think epitomizes any of the qualities of shoegaze—dreamy, hypnagogic, slow, etc.—or watch either version of My Bloody Valentine.
28. Watch a movie by one of my favorite directors: Yasujirō Ozu, Mike Leigh, Abbas Kiarostami, Chantal Akerman, Robert Altman, Wong Kar-Wai, Éric Rohmer, Tsai Ming-Liang, Ingmar Bergman, or David Lynch (R.I.P.).

1. The Wolf House
2. Three Outlaw Samurai
3. Two Friends
4. Drive
5. Le Plaisir
6. Infinity Pool
7. The Brutalist
8. Toni Erdmann
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. Ball of Fire

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blue Velvet
2. I Saw the TV Glow
3. To Die For
4. Judgment at Nuremberg
5. Anora
6. The Asphalt Jungle
7. Hundreds of Beavers
8. The Substance
9. Ornamental Hairpin
10. Flow

Original list here, thank you to Ben!

Progress: 8/10

Japanuary 2025 Line-Up:

1. Shinya Tsukamoto (1/1/1960)
2. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
3. Koji Shiraishi
4. Takashi Miike
5. Hayao Miyazaki (1/5/1941)
6. Juzo Itami
7. Hideo Gosha
8. Koreyoshi Kurahara
9. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi (1/9/1938 — 4/10/2020)
10. Seijun Suzuki
11. Shōhei Imamura
12. Kinji Fukasaku (7/3/1930 — 1/12/2003)
13. Shinji Sōmai (1/13/1948 — 9/9/2001)
14. Masahiro Shinoda
15. Gakuryū Ishii (1/15/1957)
16. Nagisa Ōshima (3/31/1932 — 1/15/2013)
17. Toshiaki Toyoda
18. Takeshi Kitano (1/18/1947)
19. SABU
20. Hirokazu Koreeda
21. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
22. Naoko Ogigami
23. Yuki Tanada
24. Shunji Iwai (1/24/1963)
25. Yasujirō Ozu
26. Akira Kurosawa
27. Masaki Kobayashi
28. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1/28/1927 — 4/14/2001)
29. Hiroshi Shimizu
30. Kenji Mizoguchi
31. Mikio Naruse

Bonus categories:

32. Anime
33. Pinku/Pink Violence
34. Samurai
35. J-Horror
36. Directed by Women
37. Tokusatsu
38. Short film
39. Documentary
40. Cyberpunk
41. Yakuza
42. LGBTQIA+ Films
43. Recommendations from Ben

1. Kotoko
2. Pulse
3. Noroi: The Curse
4. The Happiness of the Katakuris
5. Ponyo
6. The Funeral
7. Three Outlaw Samurai
8. Intimidation
9. His Motorbike, Her Island
10. Kagero-za

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list by Hannah.

Progress: 29/31

The Prompts

1. In the spirit of January and the start of a new year, let’s work on some resolutions. How about we start by watching a movie you actually just really want to watch to get you going and start your stats off on the right track with a fun "first watch".

2. I know it’s January, but sometimes there just isn’t enough time to get in all of the holiday films you love. Go ahead and watch a holiday film you didn’t get a chance to see. (Could be any holiday, go wild, who am I to judge?)

3. I always say I’m going to finish my lists and only do it like 10% of the time. Watch a movie from your scavenger hunt graveyard, or if this is your first, check out the master list and pick a prompt.

4. Letteboxd is one of my favorite sites, and I am addicted to closing my rings. Watch a film from one of the rings you haven’t completed yet or use this as a spot to watch a movie from another challenge you might be doing this year. [check out your "stats" page].

5. I’m a kind of voracious reader. I always want to read more, so it's always my resolution to read an unattainable amount of books. Go ahead and watch a literary adaptation. (Here's a list to get you started, or this one.)

6. I struggle between wanting to always watch new movies and missing some of my favorites. Go ahead and watch a comfort movie, or one you think might become a comfort movie.

7. In the new year, I think it’s important we all work on educating ourselves. Go ahead and find a documentary that speaks to you. (You can start here if you can't think of one).

8. Who doesn’t have a resolution about their job? I work for a Tribe, and so I spend a lot of time catching up learning about Indigenous content. Watch a movie by a filmmaker from a marginalized community or starring a predominantly POC cast.

9. Forget work. Let’s talk about the fun stuff we’re looking forward to this year. Watch a film from a country you want to visit (or visit again if you already have).

10. Sometimes, I put off movies because they seem hard, or they’re long, or I just don’t feel like thinking. Watch a movie you’ve honestly been putting off for whatever reason.

11. I’m a big fan of going to the movies. Go see a movie in theaters, or stream a release from 2025 (or the end of 2024).

12. I like working through filmographies of actors and directors, but sometimes I struggle to complete them. Watch a movie from your favorite director or actor that you haven’t seen yet. If you’ve seen all of them, pick your second favorite, you mad lil lad.

13. It’s 2025, we don’t have time anymore. And frankly, I am a huge proponent of a tight 90. Watch a film under 100 minutes. (This might me by favorite list on this app tbh).

14. Let’s get to know each other, make some friends, find some common ground. Click around, find someone you either already follow or a review from a recent movie you watched that you found funny or insightful, and watch one of their four favorites.

15. We’re all trying to learn every film ever made and keep up on all the new ones, right? Go ahead and watch an old movie. I’ll let you define what old is to you, but it has to be before you were born at least.

16. Letterboxd is a very fun place to make very fun lists. I’ve found a ton that I love to revisit for these hunts. Go find a fun list and watch a movie you haven’t seen yet from it (maybe leave a comment and thank them for their dope list). Some of my faves include: 🌈Pride: A Chronological History of Queer Interest & LGBTQ+ Cinema, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films, Befriending the lyrical loneliness…, Where to Begin: Great Directors)

17. January is a fun month. We got a lot of sports popping off– NFL, WNBA, NBA, NHL, and CFB to name a few American classics. Watch a sports movie.

18. Last time I hosted, I made you watch a film from my favorite city and hometown, Pittsburgh. I also made you watch one from where I currently live, Miami. I’ve also lived in New York, Toronto, Brazil, California, and Virginia. Watch a movie set in any of those places.

19. A major resolution I have had for the past few years is to learn Spanish. Watch a movie in a language different from your own.

20. It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the US today. In the spirit of his work,watch a movie about the Civil Rights Movement, protesting, or civil disobedience.

21. Yesterday was also Inauguration Day, meaning the US has a new president and we all have feelings about it I’m sure. Go ahead and watch a movie with a president in it could be a biopic or just a fictional president.

22. My girlfriend started using Letterboxd when we started dating. She’s the true cinephile in our relationship. She definitely didn’t tell me to write this. Go ahead and watch a movie from her all time faves or from movies we’ve watched together

23. Enough about my super amazing wonderful partner. Ask your partner or best friend or sibling or whoever means a lot to you what movie you should watch for this prompt.

24. A good resolution I’ve tried to stick to is eating out less and cooking more. I love cooking, so it all works out. Watch a film about cooking, food, or restaurants.

25. New year means decluttering. Go ahead and clean out some of your watchlist by watching one here.

26. Oscar nominees are going to be announced this month. Watch a movie you think will be nominated in any category (or if you want to wait and watch one after the announcement, do that).

27. Speaking of Oscar nominations, go ahead and watch a movie or performance you think got snubbed, historically.

28. Maybe in the new year, you’ll want to spend more time with family. Watch a movie about family. Or, frankly, if you’re like me and don’t like your family, watch a movie about getting away from your family.

29. We all have gaps in our viewing, and that’s why we do these hunts. Watch a film from a genre that isn’t one of your favorites.

30. Every year, Steven Soderberg published his list of content he consumed. It usually publishes the first week of January, but if you don’t want to wait for the 2024 list, watch a movie from his 2023/4 list.

31. It’s the end of the month– you did it! We’re 8% done with 2025. Enjoy a free spot to get a jump on February.

1. Triangle of Sadness
2. Silent Night, Deadly Night
3. Okja
4. Chungking Express
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four
6. Labyrinth
7. Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
8. Fancy Dance
9. Emilia Pérez
10. Hundreds of Beavers

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Red Shoes
• The Innocents
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Zone of Interest
• Paddington 2
• The Favourite
• The River
• All of Us Strangers
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Under the Skin

Bring back the movie intermission you cowards. Top 10 with bonus MI: Dead Reckoning

1. Ran
2. Yi Yi
3. Seven Samurai
4. Céline and Julie Go Boating
5. Hoop Dreams
6. Zodiac
7. Nashville
8. Amadeus
9. RRR
10. Judgment at Nuremberg

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Back in April 2022, me, my partner and two of my BFFs (one of whom happens to live across the street) started doing a monthly movie night. We rotate picks every month and do extra movie nights for birthdays and Christmas. We try to choose something that most of us haven’t seen, usually focusing on filling gaps (our own or those of others). It rules.

• Vertigo

  Surprise for Tom’s 50th birthday, inaugural movie night  - April 2022

• Southland Tales

  Dom pick, May 2022

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Allison pick, June 2022

• GoodFellas

  Tom pick, July 2022

• The Age of Innocence

  Scottie pick, August 2022

• Synecdoche, New York

  Dom pick, Sept 2022

• The Queen

  Double feature with Paris is Burning 

  Allison pick, October 2022

• Paris Is Burning

  Allison pick, Oct 2022

• Yojimbo

  Tom pick, Nov 2022

• The General

  Double feature with The Kid

  Scottie pick, Dec 2022

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list and criteria here by kynky

Finished: 47/52

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1. Most popular horror film on your watchlist. 
2. Lowest rated horror film on your watchlist.
3. BLINDSPOT: Most popular horror film you haven't seen that's not on your watchlist.
4. Released in 2024
5. A horror film released in the year you were born. 
6. Recommended by friend. IRL/online. 
7. HORRORx52 REWIND. A film someone watched from 2021's rules. 🔁
8. ALTER short #1
9. A horror film released before 1950. 🔁
10. Horror Around The World: Austria
11. Directed By A Woman #1 🔁
12. Happy Anniversary! Watch a Horror released in 1974 🔁
13. Horror Around The World: Denmark
14. 1960's 🔁
15. Made for TV. 🔁
16. Directed By A Woman #2 🔁
17. Horror Around The World: United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland)
18. Video Store Rules #1. Pick a film solely on it's poster. 
19. 1970's 🔁
20. Cyber Horror 🔁
21. Horror Around The World: India
22. ALTER short #2
23. 1980's 🔁
24. A film released in the year you turned 7. 🔁
25. Gothic 🔁
26. Explore my Horror collection 🔁
27. Happy Anniversary! Watch a Horror released in 1984 🔁
28. Horror Around The World: Canada
29. A24 Horror (Produced or Distributed by) 🔁
30. 1990's 🔁
31. Micro Budget Horror 🔁
32. Cryptids 🔁
33. 2000's 🔁
34. Horror Around The World: Ireland
35. A horror available via rarefilmm 🔁
36. 2010's 🔁
37. War Is Hell 🔁
38. Deceased Director 🔁
39. The House That Blum Built. 🔁
40. Horror Around The World: Netherlands
41. A film screened at any of the Frightfest events. 🔁
42. Remake 🔁
43. Horror Around The World: Malaysia
44. Happy Anniversary! Watch a Horror released in 1994 🔁
45. End Of The World (In honour of the Fallout show!) 🔁
46. 2020's 🔁
47. B&W 🔁
48. Sequel/Prequel 🔁
49. HIDDEN GEM. A horror film with less than 35k views on letterboxd. 
50. LGBT HORROR 🔁
51. Horror Around The World: Free Pick (change *** to any country of your choosing other than USA or those already featured above)
52. Video Store Rules #2. Pick a film from someone else's HORRORx52 list, solely based on the poster!
BONUS 53: I Pick, You Watch. Only once you've finished all 52, if you want a final pick I will choose one from your watchlist, just leave a recommendation on my YPIW list and I'll return the favour! (Cut off date for bonus film, 10th December!)

SPECIAL CRITERIA: At least one title must be viewed via physical media. If possible see one of the films theatrically.

Don't forget to use the tag #horrorx524 and check out what others are watching.

1. American Psycho
2. Perpetrator
3. Train to Busan
4. Handling the Undead
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street
6. Shin Godzilla
7. Se7en
8. Requiem
9. The Curse of the Cat People
10. Funny Games

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For sure not gonna wait until the last minute to tackle this stuff, no sir, not this time, just you wait. Original list here via Ben.

Finished: 43/52

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Categories:

1. Spine #351-450
2. Spine #601-700
3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher
4. First film in your watchlist
5. Most recently added film in your watchlist
6. Longest runtime in your watchlist
7. Most popular film in your watchlist
8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
9. Criterion Staff Picks
10. New York Film Festival Favorites
11. Watch a film in the Saturday Matinee series "Observations on Film Art"
12. First Films - watch a directorial debut
13. Virtually Reality
14. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
15. Technicolor
16. Women Auteurs
17. Criterion Sight and Sound
18. Dreaming of a Holiday Movie Marathon
19. Watch a Netflix Original released by Criterion
20. 100 Years of Olympic Films
21. LGBTQ+
22. Directed by Luis Buñuel
23. Directed by Mai Zetterling
24. Starring Liv Ullmann
25. Italian Neorealism
26. Hong Kong Cinema
27. Made in Brazil
28. Ari Aster’s Closet Picks
29. Yo La Tengo’s Closet Picks
30. Charlie Day’s Closet Picks
31. Michael Shannon’s Closet Picks
32. Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10
33. Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10
34. Alan Arkin’s Top 10
35. Tunde Adebimpe’s Top 10
36. Genre: Made for TV
37. Genre: Family
38. Genre: Animation
39. Genre: History
40. Guillermo del Toro’s Twitter Film recommendations
41. 1920s
42. 1930s
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s
51. 2020s
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist

Helpful Links:
The Complete Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection by Spine Number
Every Film Available on The Criterion Channel

Please use the tags "cc2024" and “criterion challenge 2024” so that we can keep track of everything, and link your lists in the comments below. Have fun!

Started: 1/1/24
Completed:

1. Green for Danger
2. Blithe Spirit
3. La Haine
4. Blood Simple
5. One Night in Miami...
6. Shoah
7. WALL·E
8. Black Girl
9. Police Story
10. Sweetie

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list here via Nina. 

Finished: 33/35

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Prompts
1. Watch the movie that was added first
2. Watch the movie that was added last
3. Watch the movie that is the longest
4. Watch the movie that is the shortest
5. Watch the movie that is rated highest
6. Watch the movie that is rated lowest
7. Watch a movie from the 1950s
8. Watch a movie from the 1960s
9. Watch a movie from the 1970s
10. Watch a movie from the 1980s
11. Watch a movie from the 1990s
12. Watch a movie from the 2000s
13. Watch a movie from the 2010s
14. Watch a movie from the 2020s
15. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
16. Watch a movie from a director you haven’t watched anything from
17. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actors
18. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actresses
19. Watch the movie that is the most popular
20. Watch the movie that is the least popular
21. Watch the movie that was released the earliest
22. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
23. Watch a movie from your favorite genre
24. Watch a movie from your least favorite genre
25. Watch the movie with the most beautiful poster
26. Watch the movie you have been anticipating watching most
27. Watch a movie from before you were born
28. Watch a movie recommended to you by someone
29. Watch a documentary
30. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears

Bonus
31. Happy birthday! Shuffle your watchlist and pick the film the corresponds with you day, month or year of birth (thank you Graham for submitting this prompt!)
32. A film with a full sentence for a title or the longest title you can find on your watchlist (thank you Crawlspace Dweller Matt [♥] for submitting this prompt!)
33. Watch the oldest movie nominated for an Academy Award in any category (thank you Lawrence M for submitting this prompt!)
34. Watch a movie you want to watch in theaters (thank you Shachar for submitting this prompt!)
35. Watch a movie with a person's name in the title (thank you Jurassiarkour for submitting this prompt!)

1. Beau Is Afraid
2. Creature from the Black Lagoon
3. Shoah
4. A Day in the Country
5. Come and See
6. Wild Mountain Thyme
7. The Seventh Seal
8. The Manchurian Candidate
9. Mad Max
10. The Thing

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Help, I’m addicted to Letterboxd challenges. Original challenge here. Films will be added when watched. Not counting shorts or rewatches. ETA: Having Kevin Hart doing a boring plane heist sitting in that 2024 slot was driving me nuts so I’m now going to update continually so that the movie for each year is my fave I’ve watched from that year in 2024.

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Sherlock Jr.
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• Wings
• The Cameraman
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
• Freaks
• Design for Living
• The Man Who Knew Too Much

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list here by Henry

Progress: 1/31

1. Mysterious Skin
2. Pig
3. Challengers
4. Certain Women
5. Tristana
6. Down by Law
7. Hour of the Wolf
8. November
9. The Lighthouse
10. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list and criteria here. Starting very late because why the hell not. We love dopamine.

Progress: 29/33

1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Your Name.
3. The Last Unicorn

   
   

4. Brief Encounter
5. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
6. Screamplay
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles
8. Meatball Machine
9. Let Me In
10. Ida

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list and prompts here. Thank you to Caroline for hosting!

Progress: 29/30

Top 5:
1. The Remains of the Day
2. Malcolm X
3. Babette’s Feast
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night
5. La Haine

(Not including Shoah.)

Bottom 3 (no order):
Joker
Meatball Machine
The Ides of March 

New faves (outside of top 5):
School of Rock
The Mighty Quinn
The Quiet Girl
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

1. Flash Gordon
2. Babette's Feast
3. Shoah
4. A Scanner Darkly
5. The Mighty Quinn
6. The Quiet Girl
7. Loving Vincent
8. Dodsworth
9. Up
10. Meatball Machine

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list, rules and description here by Lise.

• Orlando

  UK

• The Nest

  Italy 

• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

  Japan 

• Society of the Snow

  Spain

• Stalker

  USSR

• Shivers

  Canada

• Bobi Wine: The People's President

  Uganda

• The Baker's Wife

• Daisies

  Czechoslovakia 

• The Babadook

  Australia 

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Scavenger hunt for March hosted by jaegerbaumz. God I love this silly shit, dopamine is amazing.

Progress: 31/31!

Top 5:
1. I’m Thinking of Ending Things 
2. Amadeus
3. In Cold Blood
4. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
5 and 5.5 (tie). But I’m a Cheerleader, Whisper of the Heart

1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. Dune
3. Moon
4. The Fabelmans
5. Kuroneko
6. Dune: Part Two
7. Stalker
8. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
9. The Murder of Fred Hampton
10. Society of the Snow

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My first one of these. ADHD brain thanks host Sean and his original list for the dopamine!

29/29!

1. Watch a movie from this list of weirdo movies for beginners. 
2. Watch a movie you didn't get to in a previous scavenger hunt, or watch a movie from my graveyard. 
3. Watch a movie that's less than 90 minutes.
4. Watch a movie that's 150+ minutes.
 5. Watch a movie that game designer and fellow film nerd Hideo Kojima mentioned on twitter!
6. Shuffle your watchlist and pick something from the first row.
7. Watcha movie with an actor who also has a music career. 
8. Watch a movie that uses things like the internet, television, phones, etc. as a narrative tool.
9. Watch a heist movie.
10. Watch a horror-comedy. 
11. Watch a film in The Criterion Collection. 
12. Watch a disgusting, gross, or an otherwise messed up movie
.13. Watch a Colin Farrell movie. 
14. Watch a movie recommended by a friend or family member. If this is not possible, then watch a movie from the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list. 
15. Watch a Hip-Hop or Punk film. 
16. Watch a movie with a number in the title, bonus points if it's not a sequel! 
17. Watch a coming-of-age film. 
18. Watch a movie that's better if you don't know anything about it. 
19. Watch one of Letterboxd's Top 250 International Films. 
20. Watch a movie featuring music from one of your favorite artists.
21. Watch a comic book movie or a movie about comic books. 
22. Watch a movie with an actor who is mnore known for their iconic role on a TV show. 
23. Watch one of Bill Hader's "200 Essential Movies Every Comedy Writer Should See". 
24. Shuffle the popular 'Random Movie Roulette' list and watch the first film that shows up.
25. Watch a movie from this list of 80s video store horror films.
26. Watch a body horror film, or watch a comfort movie :)
 27. Watch a "trash" movie, whatever that means to you. 
28. Watch a film where people play deadly games for survival and/or money.
29. Watch a movie referenced one way or another in the Scream franchise.

1. Peeping Tom
2. Looper
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Elvis
5. Death on the Nile
6. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
7. White Noise
8. Videodrome
9. The Killers
10. Totally Killer

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original challenge here via Ben. 

Progress:
16/10 (of 44)

1. Horrors of Malformed Men
2. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
3. Audition
4. Cure
5. Howl's Moving Castle
6. Ghost in the Shell
7. The Day of Destruction
8. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
9. House
10. Pale Flower

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Progress: 52/52!

Welcome to the third annual "The Criterion Challenge" where we celebrate The Criterion Collection. It's round three and I think there are some exciting categories this year!

There are 52 categories - one for each week. Watch any Criterion related film based on the categories below between 1/1/23-12/31/23. Your choices can be any films released by Criterion on Blu-ray, DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, or ones that have been featured on The Criterion Channel streaming service (although I'd prefer you choose films they've actually put out themselves).
The films can be watched daily, weekly, or monthly, and in any order! Watch them at your own pace, but you have to finish by 12/31/23.
I would like for all picks to be first time watches, but will leave that up to you.

Don't forget to visit The Criterion Collection for all your film needs, and they have a pretty sweet streaming service for endless options to choose from when you're struggling to find things to watch.

Now...what you all have been waiting for...

Categories:

1. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
2. Made in Belgium
3. Made in Taiwan
4. Made in Canada
5. Made in Portugal
6. Animals in the Collection
7. Films To Fall Asleep To
8. Black Music Films
9. Black Lives Collection
10. Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When You’re Questioning Love (and Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When You’re Questioning Love, Part II for more options)
11. Criterion Double Features - Film #1
12. Criterion Double Features - Film #2
13. Danny Peary’s “Guide for the Film Fanatic”
14. Sundance Hits
15. Early Women Filmmakers
16. Independent American Cinema
17. Dysfunctional Families
18. Food on Film
19. Faith on Film
20. Tearjerkers
21. British Realism
22. Wilco’s Closet Picks
23. Gaspar Noé’s Closet Picks
24. Alicia Malone’s Closet Picks
25. Laurie Anderson’s Closet Picks
26. Bong Joon-ho’s Top 10
27. Sonic Youth’s Top 10
28. Jane Campion’s Top 10
29. Allison Anders’s Top 10
30. Directed by Carl Dreyer
31. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles
32. Directed by Marlon Riggs
33. Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
34. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai
35. Genre: Fantasy
36. Genre: Action/Adventure
37. Genre: Crime
38. Watch a film with a spine #201-350
39. Watch a film with a spine #800-950
40. Watch a film with a rating 3.0 or lower
41. 1920s
42. 1930s
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s
51. 2020s
52. Any Criterion film on your watchlist

Helpful Links:
The Complete Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection by Spine Number
Every Film Available on The Criterion Channel

Please use the tags "cc2023" and “criterion challenge 2023” so that we can keep track of everything, and link your lists in the comments below. Have fun!

Started: 1/1/23
Completed: 12/31/23

1. Alphaville
2. Rosetta
3. Yi Yi
4. Exotica
5. Ossos
6. Cat People
7. The Double Life of Véronique
8. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
9. Walk for Me
10. The Earrings of Madame de...

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Tough choices. Details here.

• Mulholland Drive
• Ran
• Fargo
• All About Eve
• Rear Window
• Phantom Thread
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• 12 Angry Men
• Parasite
• Roman Holiday

• Children of Men
• Jaws
• Aliens
• The Red Shoes
• Parasite
• Hoop Dreams
• The Social Network
• Cabaret
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Zoe give us more, you have such a great face for bonnets and anxiety!

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Meek's Cutoff

From my couch, it’s the future baby

• Sugarcane
• Sujo
• Every Little Thing
• Good One
• Seeking Mavis Beacon
• Malu
• Queens
• Daughters
• Suncoast
• Ama Gloria

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Still tweaking, and the list of things that almost made it in is LONG. Movies!

1. The Zone of Interest
2. May December
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Poor Things
5. All of Us Strangers
6. Past Lives
7. Barbie
8. Priscilla
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. Perfect Days

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.