A pitch to Tribeca attendees, making their schedules: k6e2i

You're attending one of the greatest festivals in the world. Congrats! You being there, I can guarantee you'll be able to relate to a few of the journeys in/out of this film.

On the screen:
• Maybe it's Mags, an actor who found some early renown, but never quite broke into the mainstream and is chasing a second break.
• Merritt, who has something to say and is learning the creative outlets to express it, a little later in life.
• Dir. Taylor Betts, who used that early success and privilege to make bigger and bigger movies, but left behind the ones he took to the dance.
• The students, with a teacher who pushes them toward greatness and are trying to find their place in the word.

Behind the scenes:
• Once again, the actual students, who have a teacher who pushes them toward greatness, and gave them an opportunity for hands-on experience on a film set.
• Dir. Bryan Poyser, who wrote for every resource around him — his longtime collaborators as leads, the university he teaches at, the students/faculty there, and a fun cameo or two — to make his first feature in 10 years and once again make it into a globally recognized festival.

This movie is why you attend film festivals. A true indie that'll inspire you and make you laugh. Enjoy.

Watched: 3/28/2025
Added to Letterboxd: 5/23/2025

Work-in-Progress screening. Such a cool program for Austin Film Society projects to get the chance to do, especially when it's Ya'Ke Smith leading discussions.

Watched: 8/7/2024
Added to Letterboxd: 5/23/2025

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This really works for me in ways that Amziah King did not, but I can totally see how a directorial debut with this much style gets Andrew Patterson to take such a big swing in his sophomore outing.

Love how shots are either locked on stilts for 10 minutes, or whirl-and-twirl through a whole town. Love how conversations are either urgent and matter-of-fact or rambling over each other like a screwball comedy. When your leads are a switchboard operator and radio DJ, the importance of listening and storytelling make even the side conversations about the future years of 1990 and 2000 interesting.

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Showing up to Friendship alone. Dudes outside the theater are quoting ITYSL to each other. Oh no, am I in the movie? Is this a bit?

A24 are coward pigs for putting Conner O’Malley in 3 movies but never letting him fully do his thing.

One of the best coming-of-age movies I’ve ever seen, and a whole other movie about Mexico happening outside the car windows. Both synopses could start with “Tenoch, Zapata and the Spanish Cortés go on a road trip,” and include the punchline, “y tu mamá también.”

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Leaning peter of pasa.

After much (50 minutes) deliberation, I have decided to convert to Italianamerican. Workshopping a new name. Maybe Roberto Romagnoli. I’ll let yall know when I make Mean Streets.

Fewer than 400 views and 100 reviews, Sanzaru is an underseen gem. A surrealistic Texas gothic that could double-feature with Eggshells.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

It took a whole three days after this became widely available for foreign films to be called “a National Security threat.” Was it the anti-imperialism or the feminism that he found scarier?

Knowing what maturity and humanistic care these children (elders to me now) are capable of is equal parts hopeful and distressing. Revolution is marching hundred of miles against sultans and oil monopolies. It’s also building your friends shelter from the rain. We can learn a lot from these kids, and the adults who take their criticism attentively.

NINJAS! THE MOB! CHAINSAW! HOUSTON!

Not worth the sum of those parts, but still a decent time, and the Kosugi family rules.

There are very few decent places on Reddit, but r/criterion is one of them, and this is their favorite movie, and yeah, I get why. Each scene is like walking through an 18th century exhibit, knowing that the artist hated the aristocracy he painted. Interesting it came out at the tail end of the Vietnam War and just before the United States Bicentennial.

Can you have both a fate and an inconsequential life? Now playing: 21 Savage - A Lot

A great depiction of a rich-inner life growing into a rich outer-life. A lesser writer may have started Walter’s growth as a depressed office worker. 

Stiller might be one of the most interesting filmmakers out there. He gets bonus points for using real environments, Icelandic casting and complex stunt work.

Also, when he said, “severance package.” 😮👉🏽

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Super cool structure/concept. As I'm attempting to learn Spanish, the idea that you can only imagine a future in that language after you can speak in hypothetical and perfect future tenses makes total sense.

It would have been baller to write this review as my first in Spanish. Not there yet. Aspirational. El futuro perfecto.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

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Will God forgive us for destroying His creation?

Good Friday. Not writing the review (or year of diary entries) that’ll get me put on a watchlist.

I had in my mind that I’d be watching a cross between Satan’s Alley and Hereditary, with a heavy dose of Kierkegaardian angst. I only got the last part right, and I’m all the better for it. Spiritual and dreadful, First Reformed has more gravestones than attendees; with 5,000 filled seats, so does Abundant Life.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Capital-M Movie. Brutal, intense action and characters with depth. The pierce the vail scene, wow. These haunts will last.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

One filmed/animated-in-Texas feature a week.

Two years of lists and I STILL haven't seen many of the movies that inspired the challenge, so I'm running it back for Year 3 (and I already have a huge spillover for Years 4/5/Beyond).

Check the notes to see the planned week. There's a lot of timely touches for holidays, heritage months and ~*~seasonal vibes~*~. I'll try to follow it to a T, but I may rearrange depending on what’s programmed at Alamo Drafthouse, AFS or Hyperreal, and I'll have to get ahead or catch up the weeks around SXSW/AFF.

Robocop is how I start my year, but I put my most recent watches at the top (to change the backdrop in stats). Everything behind Robocop is what's coming next, chronologically. The notes distinguish between my original list and bonus additions I watch by happenstance (and also show how wildly out-of-order I get).

Year One | 2023
Year Two | 2024

• The Vast of Night

  33
  8/17/2025 — 8/23/2025

• Take It Away

  Bonus | Cine Las Americas

• Sanzaru

  Mother's Day | AAPI Month
  19
  5/11/2025 — 5/17/2025

• Pray for Death

  AAPI Month
  18
  5/4/2025 — 5/10/2025

• Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary

  17
  4/27/2025 — 5/3/2025

• SubUrbia

  Sunday April 20th 2025
  16
  4/20/2025 — 4/26/2025

• Caddo Lake

  26
  6/29/2025 — 7/5/2025

• No Country for Old Men

  Bonus. Programmed at Alamo Village.

• Apollo 13

  Apollo 13 Mission: Apr 11, 1970 – Apr 17, 1970
  14
  4/6/2025 — 4/12/2025

• Leads

  Bonus

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Keeping track of Iberian and American language movies I’ve seen.

• Oblivion Verses
• Chinese Take-Away
• Balomania
• Before the Body
• Beloved Tropic
• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
• Queens
• Undercover
• Y Tu Mamá También
• The Future Perfect

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

52 semanas, 52 películas en 2025.

• Oblivion Verses

  21
  5/25/2025 — 5/31/2025

• Chinese Take-Away

  18
  5/4/2025 — 5/10/2025

• Y Tu Mamá También

  26
  6/29/2025 — 7/5/2025

• The Future Perfect

  19
  5/11/2025 — 5/17/2025

• Amores Perros

  32
  8/10/2025 — 8/16/2025

• Duck Season

  28
  7/13/2025 — 7/19/2025

• Virus Tropical

  16
  4/20/2025 — 4/26/2025

• Jamon Jamon

  10
  3/9/2025 — 3/15/2025
  (replaced Tempestad, since I couldn't find it with English subtitles)

• Argentina 1985

  15
  4/13/2025 — 4/19/2025

• I Am Cuba

  14
  4/6/2025 — 4/12/2025

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Massacres, demons, aliens, ghosts and creatures haunting the Lone Star State.

Not a truly ranked list, but the numbers make shuffling the projects easier. This should be the most comprehensive list out there, but let me know what I miss. Only features for now.

1. Sugar Hill
2. Deadly Blessing
3. Cemetery of Terror
4. The Faculty
5. Friday the 13th
6. Iron Lung
7. Piranha
8. A Ghost Story
9. The Initiation
10. Frailty

...plus 308 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Watching at least 52 features directed by women, in 2025.

• A New Leaf
• Balomania
• Duranguito
• Before the Body
• Beloved Tropic
• Queens
• Undercover
• Take It Away
• The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
• The Future Perfect

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

1. Hereditary
2. The Green Knight
3. Ex Machina
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Past Lives
6. Lady Bird
7. Midsommar
8. First Reformed
9. The Witch
10. Sing Sing

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Dear filmmakers, whose movies I've added... Thanks for making movies. Please forgive any mistakes I've made and the information I've omitted. You can make changes and add additional details here: www.themoviedb.org.

• The Long Game
• Wild Eyed and Wicked
• The Verdict
• I'm Gonna Disappear
• Hail to the Breadsticks!
• The Dead of Night
• El Paso, Elsewhere
• Leads
• The Stars at Night
• ImPossible

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

*Feature-length movies filmed in Texas; Not necessarily about or taking place in Texas. Listed by average rating. About as close to an official Top Texas list as you'll find.

For all the Texas projects I've seen, including shorts and miniseries (since 2023), check my Texas tag here: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/robb_rh/tag/texas/films/

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Paris, Texas
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The Last Picture Show
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. For All Mankind
9. True Stories
10. JFK

...plus 197 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favorites from film festivals I’ve attended.

• Balomania

  Cine Las Americas 2025

• The Glassworker

  Indie Meme 2025

• Selena y Los Dinos

  SXSW 2025

• Rains Over Babel

  Sundance 2025 (online)

• Party People

  Austin Film Festival 2024

• Cryptic Triptych

  Lost River Film Festival 2024

• Good One

  Oak Cliff Film Festival 2024

• I'm Gonna Disappear

  Cine Las Americas 2024

• Terrestrial Verses

  Indie Meme 2024

• Civil War

  SXSW 2024

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Raised by DCOM and Starz, 290 and 525, babay

• 101 Dalmatians
• 1408
• 30 Days of Night
• 3 Ninjas
• 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
• 3 Ninjas Kick Back
• 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
• The 6th Day
• 8 Mile
• Accepted

...plus 497 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

TEXAS
•Features
•All (Features, Shorts, TV)
•Texas Weekly 2023
•Texas Weekly 2024
•Texas Weekly 2025
•Austin
•Dallas
•San Antonio
•Houston
•El Paso
check here for smaller cities/towns
•Tejano (focusing on Latin-American, Hispanic or Indigenous characters)
•Pride (focusing on queer characters)
•Horror
•A24
•International
•Criterion
•Oscars

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CHALLENGES
•Mi año de español 2025
•Criterion Challenge 2025
•My Year of Film School 2024
•My Year of Film School 2024 - Supplemental Material
•Directed by Women 2025
•Directed by Women 2024
•Hooptober 2024

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FAVORITES
•At 15
•At 30
•2021
•2022
•2023
•2024
•2025

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MOST ANTICIPATED
•2025
•2024

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RANKED
•Wes Anderson
•Ghibli
•A24
•Academy Awards 2025
•Academy Awards 2024
•Academy Awards 2023

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SHOWDOWNS
•Male Friendship
•This Must be the Place
•Multiplicity
•Movies on Movies

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FILM FESTIVALS
•Best of Fest
•Cine Las Americas 2025
•Indie Meme 2025
•SXSW 2025
•Sundance 2025 (online)
•Austin Film Festival 2024
•Lost River Film Festival 2024
•Oak Cliff Film Festival 2024
•Cine Las Americas 2024
•Indie Meme 2024
•SXSW 2024
•Sundance 2024
•Austin Film Festival 2023
•SXSW 2023

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COLLECTION
•Movies at Home
•Criterion
•CC40
•Rodriguez-Family DVDs (pre-2011)

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OTHER
•Premieres
•Hyperreal
•Gobelins
•Playing Silently on Bar TVs
•Iberian and American language movies I’ve seen
•Movies I added to Letterboxd
•Bill and Ted’s Cinematic Universe
•Every movie mentioned in Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids
•Wes Anderson's Texas Highways interview
•Ghost of Hooptober Yet to Come
•My Age Coming-of-Age
•Watched Forever Ago
•The Expendables Cinematic Universe

• The Sidewalk Artist

A horror watchlist, that may or may not fulfill future Hooptober criteria.

• Black Sabbath
• The Hitch-Hiker
• House on Haunted Hill
• Titane
• Near Dark
• Relic
• Helter Skelter
• Slash/Back
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Ravenous

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All four of The Expendables movies and one movie for every appearance an actor has in the franchise, with a preference for starring roles.
I.e. four Dolph Lundgren movies, three Jet Li, two Charisma Carpenter, one for every guest star, etc.

I started the list with every intention of watching them all, which is why they are all first time (or first time in over a decade) watches… but yeah, that’s not happening… unless…

• Death Race 2000

  Sylvester Stallone
  Barney Ross

• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

  Jason Statham
  Lee Christmas

• Masters of the Universe

  Dolph Lundgren
  Gunner Jensen

• Redbelt

  Randy Couture
  Toll Road

• Once Upon a Time in China

  Jet Li
  Yin Yang

• Baadasssss!

  Terry Crews
  Hale Caesar

• Conan the Barbarian

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Trent "Trench" Ma

• Haunted High

  Charisma Carpenter
  Lacy

• Die Hard With a Vengeance

  Bruce Willis
  Agent Church

• The Wrestler

  Mickey Rourke
  Tool

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. Paddington in Peru
3. Friendship
4. Rains Over Babel
5. Real Faces
6. Together
7. The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
8. The Glassworker
9. Good Boy
10. Thunderbolts*

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/the-nice-guys/
How would you like 200 friends?... just like this!

About to enter the theater for Friendship right now. I had to get this out before Robinson-Rudd take top spot, because I don't know which buds I'd cut.

• The Whole Shootin' Match
• The Sandlot
• Bottle Rocket
• The Last Picture Show
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• My Dinner with Andre
• Sing Sing
• Y Tu Mamá También
• mid90s
• Mikey and Nicky

Original challenge by Ben with additional links.

Criteria in the Notes.

It's probably unwise to add a fourth weekly challenge in 2025, but I managed to add 15 movies that were already on my Texas and Spanish-Language challenges, and a few others will work for Hooptober. Wish me luck.

22/52

1. Repo Man

   1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset

2. Naked

   2. Watch a film from the year you were born

3. 3 Women

   3. Directed by Robert Altman

4. Before Sunset

   ✅4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
   My first choice would be the Before Trilogy boxset I've never seen at B&N during the sale, represented here by Before Sunset, as I've already seen/loved Before Sunrise.

5. Amores Perros

   ✅5. Great Soundtracks

6. On the Waterfront

   6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing

7. Häxan

   7. 1920s

8. Thief

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

9. Two Monks

   9. 1930s

10. The Red Shoes

    10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks

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

All the movies I have at home, minus my Criterion Collection.

• Dune

  4K 2-Film Collection

• Dune: Part Two

  4K 2-Film Collection

• Inglourious Basterds

  Arrow 4K Limited Edition

• Paddington

  Blu Ray

• Paddington 2

  4K

• Paterson

  DVD

• The Patriot
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  Blu-Ray Extended Edition

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  Blu-Ray Extended Edition

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  Blu-Ray Extended Edition

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

Texas-made projects with queer stories or characters. 
Adding movies/miniseries/shorts as I see them, so not a comprehensive list.

• Rent Free
• 1985
• Boys Don't Cry
• Cassandro
• Pit Stop
• Three Headed Beast
• Hummingbirds
• Going Varsity in Mariachi
• Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
• Together Brothers

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

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/this-must-be-the-place/

• Paris, Texas
• Paterson
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Chile '76
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Prince of Egypt
• Mississippi Masala
• Train to Busan

• Beverly Hills Cop II

  Deep Eddy

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

  Kinda Tropical RIP David Lynch

• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

  Crickets

• Kingdom of Heaven

  Kinda Tropical

• Kill Bill: Vol. 1

  Kwan’s 

• Night of the Living Dead

  Busty’s

• Grease

  Busty’s

• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

  Workhorse

• Mad Max: Fury Road

  Kinda Tropical

• Gunsmoke

  Mama Dearest

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Don't tell Morgan I left off The Man in the Iron Mask.

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/showdown/multiplicity/

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Faculty
• Annihilation
• The Great Dictator
• Adaptation.
• Us
• The Monkey
• There Will Be Blood

Should Letterboxd ever add TV series, the first thing I’m doing is adding Mo (2022-2024) to this list.

Note: Iron Claw is an outlier in that takes place in Dallas, used archival footage of the skyline and premiered at The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff but filmed in Louisiana. The others filmed exclusively in the state.

• Oak Thorn & the Old Rose of Love

  Irving

• Boys State

  Austin

• A Ghost Story

  Dallas, Irving, Fort Worth

• Krisha

  Spring

• Never Goin' Back

  Fort Worth, Bedford, Dallas

• Red Rocket

  Galveston, Texas City, Groves

• The Iron Claw

1 –10: Best Picture nominees ranked.
10-19: nominees in other categories (see notes for individual category ranks).
20-22: nominated movies I haven't seen yet.

Not ranked: animated, documentary, shorts, international, editing, song.

Biggest snubs:
Sing Sing for Best Picture
Challengers in Score and Acting categories
The Last Showgirl in Acting categories and Song
Nickel Boys in Cinematography
Civil War in Sound

1. Dune: Part Two

   Best Picture: 1
   Cinematography: 1
   Production Design: 1
   Sound: 1
   VFX: 1

2. I'm Still Here

   Best Picture: 2
   Actress: 2

3. A Complete Unknown

   Best Picture: 3
   Director: 4
   ing Actress: 3
   Actor: 2
   ing Actor: 2
   Adapted Screenplay: 2
   Costume Design: 4
   Sound: 3

   *haven't seen I'm Still Here, The Apprentice

4. The Substance

   Best Picture: 4
   Director: 2
   Actress: 1
   Original Screenplay*: 4
   Makeup and Hairstyling: 1

   
   

   I have note seen September 5

5. Nickel Boys

   Best Picture: 5
   Adapted Screenplay: 4

6. The Brutalist

   Best Picture: 6
   Director: 1
   ing Actress: 4
   Actor*: 5
   ing Actor*: 1
   Original Screenplay*: 3
   Original Score: 1
   Cinematography: 2
   Production Design: 5

   *haven't seen The Apprentice, September 5

7. Conclave

   Best Picture: 7
   ing Actress: 5
   Actor*: 3
   Adapted Screenplay: 3
   Costume Design: 5
   Original Score: 2
   Production Design: 2

   *haven't seen The Apprentice

8. Anora

   Best Picture: 8
   Director: 3
   Actress: 3
   ing Actor*: 4
   Original Screenplay*: 2

   *haven't seen The Apprentice, September 5

9. Wicked

   Best Picture: 9
   Actress: 5
   ing Actress: 1
   Costume Design: 2
   Makeup and Hairstyling: 3
   Original Score: 5
   Production Design: 4
   Sound: 4
   VFX*: 3

   *haven't seen Better Man

10. Emilia Pérez

    Best Picture: 10
    Director: 5
    Actress<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">: 4</span>

    ing Actress: 2
    Adapted Screenplay: 5
    Makeup and Hairstyling: 5
    Original Score: 3
    Cinematography: 5
    Sound: 4

    *haven't seen I'm Still Here

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sing Sing
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Nosferatu
4. Perfect Days
5. Challengers
6. Exhibiting Forgiveness
7. A Different Man
8. Civil War
9. The First Omen
10. In the Summers

No hot-take predictions here. Just listing the 10 movies I’m most looking forward to this year. Might be fun to compare to my eventual end-of-the-year top 10.

Dec. 31, 2024 Note:
• My No. 1 & 2 most anticipated made it on my end-of-the-year top 10. Great flicks.
• 3 & 5 were pushed to 2025
• 9 was never even announced for 2024; its inclusion was just wishful thinking.
• 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 are all pretty far off the final top 10, but there’s not a bad movie in the bunch.

1. Nosferatu
2. Civil War
3. Mickey 17
4. Gladiator II
5. Paddington in Peru
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. Hit Man
8. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
9. Mother Mary
10. Sasquatch Sunset

Y’all, we’re in for a good year. Almost not even fair to every other year. Some of my favorite filmmakers have releases: PTA, Linklater, Reinhardt and GDT.

Others could cement themselves to that category with one more great movie: Boots, Song, either Safdie really (Bennie is barely off this list), Johnson and Coogler. 

And Booth has had some solid music videos/shorts that lead to his Texas debut feature, starring one of my my favorite songwriters.

No repeats from previous years, even if the movie got pushed —
Looking at you, Mickey 17 and Paddington in Peru.

1. One Battle After Another
2. Nouvelle Vague
3. The Mastermind
4. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
5. Marty Supreme
6. I Love Boosters
7. Materialists
8. Frankenstein
9. Sinners
10. Stages

My family never felt a high quite like a Hollywood Video 3-for-$12 Sale.

• Tears of the Sun
• National Treasure
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Chronicles of Riddick

  X2 in Riddick Trilogy

• The Mummy
• Watchmen
• The Boondock Saints

  Blu Ray Director’s Cut

• Under Siege
• Rush Hour 3
• Spider-Man

...plus 226 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Making it a priority to watch at least 52 features directed by women in 2024.

• Silent Night
• Nightbitch
• I'll Be Home for Christmas
• Family Portrait
• Wendy and Lucy
• Sweetie
• Salaam Bombay!
• Woman of the Hour
• A Christmas in New Hope
• Janet Planet

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ordered by spine #

• Lone Star

  “The Texas Haul II” | 11/03/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale 

  Spine #1202

• Local Hero

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #994

• True Stories

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #951

• The Tree of Life

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #942

• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #940

• Midnight Cowboy

  “The Texas Haul II” | 11/03/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale 

  Spine #925

• Boyhood

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #839

• Pan's Labyrinth

  Morgan Christmas | 12/21/2024
  
  Spine #838

• Blood Simple

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #834

• The Last Picture Show

  “The Texas Haul” | 6/26/24 | Barnes & Noble Sale
  
  Spine #549

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

Original List - My DIY Year of Film School
This supplemental material is for documentaries about the listed movies, filmmaking in general and other movies of historical importance outside of the original 52.

• Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
• Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain?
• Working with De Sica
• Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• The Traveler
• Close-Up Long Shot
• The Godfather Part II
• Life Itself
• My Dinner with Andre

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One filmed/animated-in-Texas feature a week.

I completed 2023's Texas Weekly Challenge, and I STILL haven't seen most of the movies that inspired the challenge, so I'm running it back for Year 2 (and I already have a huge spillover for future years).

Year 1 was freeform, but Year 2 is fully planned in advance with seasonal/timely touches throughout (check notes to see week date). I'll try to follow it to a T, but I may rearrange depending on what’s programmed via Alamo Drafthouse, AFS or Hyperreal, and I'll have to get ahead or catch up the weeks around SXSW/Sundance/AFF.

Everything above Wings is what I've watched in reverse-chronological order (most recent watches at top), everything below Wings is the queue in chronological watch order. The notes distinguish between my original list and bonus additions I watch by happenstance (and also show how wildly out-of-order I've gotten).

Year 3, let's go!

• The Tree of Life

  Dec. 29 | Resolutions

• Hip Hop Family Christmas

  Dec. 22 | Christmas

• Family Portrait

  Dec. 15 | Christmas

• Bomb City

  Dec. 8 | Theodore Deneke (March 9, 1978 – December 12, 1997)

• Pearl Harbor

  Dec. 1 | Pearl Harbor Dec. 7

• 1985

  Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving (oop, it was accidentally Christmas)

• A Christmas in New Hope

  Bonus

• JFK

  Nov. 17 | JFK (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

• The War at Home

  Nov. 10 | Veterans Day Nov. 11

• Kid Candidate

  Nov. 3 | Election Day Nov. 5

...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

52 weeks, 52 movies compiled from film school syllabi to increase my cinema literacy this year. I supplement each with online lectures, academic papers and YouTuber essays.

The first Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Wings (1927), starts my list as a major moment in film history which also fits nicely in my other 2024 challenge: watching a different filmed-in-Texas movie each week.

Everything above Wings is what I've watched chronologically, everything below Wings is in the queue by release date.

• Casablanca
• Cinema Paradiso
• Wings of Desire
• Sweetie
• Salaam Bombay!
• Close-Up
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Daughters of the Dust
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• Mirror

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

• 8½
• Tokyo Story
• All That Jazz
• Bicycle Thieves
• Repo Man
• Naked
• Jules and Jim
• Being There
• Weekend
• Yi Yi

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.