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I DIYed a short film challenge all by my lonesome a few years back and it was a good time. It opened my eyes to the almost unfathomable wealth of talent and vision and creativity hidden behind the ubiquitous feature-length form with which most of us primarily engage. Well, it's time to have another go, and this year I'm happy to have stumbled across the Short Attention Span Challenge. Now I can explore some more great shorts and do it alongside the ever-fabulous Letterboxd community. us here!

Progress: 51/52 ❌

Top 5:
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1) Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
2) Jabberwocky
3) Requiem
4) Play It Safe
5) The Queen

1. The Above

   1. A - Title begins with the letter A

2. Requiem

   2. ALTER - Featured on ALTER YouTube channel

3. The Bewitched House

   3. B - Title begins with the letter B

4. Cold Tropics

   4. Brazil - Produced in Brazil

5. The Cameraman's Revenge

   5. C - Title begins with the letter C

6. Pay Day

   6. Chaplin - Directed by Charlie Chaplin

7. Dead End.

   7. D - Title begins with the letter D

8. Janine

   8. Documentary - Genre listed as Documentary

9. 'E'

   9. E - Title begins with the letter E

10. Balance

    10. Eighties - Released in the 1980s

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

It's old school (circa mid-12th century), it's bold and in your face, and yet it can be pleasingly, almost delicately calligraphic. Hooray for English Blackletter!

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
• Maharaj
• The Underdoggs
• Realm of Satan
• Symphony of Suffering
• Dragons on the Hill
• The Shade
• The Book of Clarence
• El Conde
• Saltburn

...plus 422 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Is there a cult comprised of people who religiously make lists for Letterboxd challenges and then watch ALL the films on those lists IN the time allotted because doing otherwise is incomprehensible? If so, I'm in a cult. That's my cult.

It seems fitting, then, that I should a challenge with the word "cult" in the title. It's my first year tackling the Cult Movie Challenge, and like everything else I undertake, I'll watch every title here.

Maybe you'd like to , too? It's probably not a cult, I promise!

Progress: 24/52 ❌

Top 5:
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1) Cash on Demand
2) Upgrade
3) The Hidden
4) The Big Steal
5) The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1. Robot Carnival

   Week 1: Anime Week (Jan. 1-Jan. 7)

   Japanese animation has exerted a significant impact on a wide variety of genres, shaping the landscape of entertainment for the past century.

   List: anime by laserviettedu

2. Earthquake

   Week 2: Reb Brown Week (Jan. 8-Jan. 14)

   If Reb Brown steps on your throat and starts asking you questions, you better answer cause believe me, he does not fuck around.

   List: Reb Brown filmography

3. Rolling Thunder

   Week 3: Vestron Video Week (Jan. 15-Jan. 21)

   Vestron distributed a plethora of iconic cult classics on VHS throughout the 1980s.

   List: Vestron Video Releases

4. The Big Steal

   Week 4: 80s Teen Comedy Week (Jan. 22-Jan. 28)

   The 1980s was the peak of teenage comedy films.

   List: 80s Teen Comedies by Justin Hullinger

5. Cockfighter

   Week 5: Roger Corman Week (Jan. 29-Feb. 4)

   RIP to a legend of cinema.

   List: Roger Corman filmography

6. Coffy

   Week 6: Blaxploitation Week (Feb. 5-Feb. 11)

   The best way to start Black History Month in February is with some kick-ass blaxploitation cinema.

   List: Blaxploitation: Soul Sisters, Badass Brothers, Tough Twisters & Mean Muthers—Can you dig it? by Hank_Chinaski

7. Cash on Demand

   Week 7: Hammer Films Week (Feb. 12-Feb. 18)

   The studio that reinvigorated gothic cinema.

   List: Films produced by Hammer Films

8. Cyborg

   Week 8: Albert Pyun Week (Feb. 19-Feb. 25)

   If you visited a video store in the 1980s and 1990s, you probably saw one of his films.

   List: Albert Pyun filmography

9. Reality Bites

   Week 9: Keith David Week (Feb. 26-Mar. 4)

   Keith David's commanding voice and captivating presence on screen establish him as a legendary figure in the entertainment industry.

   List: Keith David filmography

10. Avenging Force

    Week 10: Cannon Group Week (Mar. 5-Mar. 11)

    The Cannon Group pumped out so many entertaining movies with B-movie plots and B+ movie budgets.

    List: Films produced by The Cannon Group

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

My watchlist is overstuffed, and plucking out a single title to watch is paralyzing. So, I've fallen into the habit of ing movie challenges to help whittle the field and ease the crippling indecision that results from an inordinately bounteous cinematic selection. This list—in constant flux but always containing less than 100 titles—heralds the movies I'll watch in the days ahead.

1. The Square
2. The Night Of
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Splendor in the Grass
5. The Bottom of the Sea
6. Manderlay
7. The Lost Daughter
8. Everybody Knows
9. Nazi Concentration Camps
10. I Am Evidence

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I love the idea of the Directors League (Graham J, originator). It combines three of my favorite things: movies, numbers, and heaps of data!

Here's how it works:

To be included, a director must have a least five feature-length (40+ min. per AMPAS, AFI, and BFI) non-anthology films to his/her/their name. I must have seen and rated at least 5 of these films. The film on the list is my favorite from that director. In the notes are the following:

• The director's name
• The director's mean (or average) score out of five stars
• A percentage score using Darren Carver-Balsiger's scoring method (all films rated five stars = 100%, all films rated ½ star = 0%)
• The five (or more) titles I've seen with a ⭐ representing rated films
• Ties are broken by the number of films rated, then by however I damn well feel like it 😄.

Additionally, a link to a ranked list of some of my favorite directors is included.

My league is a long way from being as comprehensive as it could be. Over 230 directors are eligible under the five-films-seen rule, yet only about 60% have five or more rated 😞.

Many thanks to Darren Carver-Balsiger, Matthew B., Michael's Cinema Paradiso, and TajLV for their impressive lists. All four helped inform the structure of my list.

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

   Alejandro González Iñárritu

   Mean Stars: 4.20
   Percentage: 82.22%
   Number Watched: 6
   Number Rated: 5

   Films Seen:
   • Amores Perros (2000) ⭐
   • 21 Grams (2003)
   • Babel (2006) ⭐
   • Biutiful (2010) ⭐
   • Birdman (2014) ⭐
   • The Revenant (2015) ⭐

   My Ranked: Alejandro González Iñárritu list.

2. The Incredibles

   Brad Bird

   Mean Stars: 4.17
   Percentage: 81.48%
   Number Watched: 6
   Number Rated: 6

   Films Seen:
   • The Iron Giant (1999) ⭐
   • The Incredibles (2004) ⭐
   • Ratatouille (2007) ⭐
   • Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) ⭐
   • Tomorrowland (2015) ⭐
   • Incredibles 2 (2018) ⭐

   My Ranked: Brad Bird list.

3. The Station Agent

   Tom McCarthy

   Mean Stars: 4.10
   Percentage: 80.00%
   Number Watched: 6
   Number Rated: 5

   Films Seen:
   • The Station Agent (2003) ⭐
   • The Visitor (2007)
   • Win Win (2011) ⭐
   • Spotlight (2015) ⭐
   • The Cobbler (2015) ⭐
   • Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020) ⭐

   My Ranked: Tom McCarthy list.

4. Requiem for a Dream

   Darren Aronofsky

   Mean: 4.08
   Percentage: 79.63%
   Number Watched: 7
   Number Rated: 6

   Films Seen:
   • Pi (1998) ⭐
   • Requiem for a Dream (2000) ⭐
   • The Fountain (2006)
   • The Wrestler (2008) ⭐
   • Black Swan (2010) ⭐
   • Noah (2014) ⭐
   • mother! (2017) ⭐

   My Ranked: Darren Aronofsky list.

5. Silver Linings Playbook

   David O. Russell

   Mean Stars: 4.08
   Percentage: 79.63%
   Number Watched: 7
   Number Rated: 6

   Films Seen:
   • Flirting with Disaster (1996)
   • Three Kings (1999) ⭐
   • I Heart Huckabees (2004) ⭐
   • The Fighter (2010) ⭐
   • Silver Linings Playbook (2012) ⭐
   • American Hustle (2013) ⭐
   • Joy (2015) ⭐

   My Ranked: David O. Russell list.

6. Away We Go

   Sam Mendes

   Mean Stars: 4.08
   Percentage: 79.63%
   Number Watched: 8
   Number Rated: 6

   Films Seen:
   • American Beauty (1999) ⭐
   • Road to Perdition (2002)
   • Jarhead (2005)
   • Revolutionary Road (2008) ⭐
   • Away We Go (2009) ⭐
   • Skyfall (2012) ⭐
   • Spectre (2015) ⭐
   • 1917 (2019) ⭐

   My Ranked: Sam Mendes list.

7. The Holdovers

   Alexander Payne

   Mean Stars: 4.08
   Percentage: 79.63%
   Number Watched: 8
   Number Rated: 6

   Films Seen:
   • Citizen Ruth (1996)
   • Election (1999) ⭐
   • About Schmidt (2002)
   • Sideways (2004) ⭐
   • The Descendants (2011) ⭐
   • Nebraska (2013) ⭐
   • Downsizing (2017) ⭐
   • The Holdovers (2023) ⭐

   My Ranked: Alexander Payne list.

8. A Separation

   Asghar Farhadi

   Mean Stars: 4.07
   Percentage: 79.37%
   Number Watched: 7
   Number Rated: 7

   Films Seen:
   • Dancing in the Dust (2003) ⭐
   • Beautiful City (2004) ⭐
   • Fireworks Wednesday (2006) ⭐
   • A Separation (2011) ⭐
   • The Past (2013) ⭐
   • About Elly (2015) ⭐
   • The Salesman (2016) ⭐

   My Ranked: Asghar Farhadi list.

9. Punch-Drunk Love

   Paul Thomas Anderson

   Mean Stars: 4.06
   Percentage: 79.17%
   Number Watched: 9
   Number Rated: 8

   Films Seen:
   • Hard Eight (1996)
   • Boogie Nights (1997) ⭐
   • Magnolia (1999) ⭐
   • Punch-Drunk Love (2002) ⭐
   • There Will Be Blood (2007) ⭐
   • The Master (2012) ⭐
   • Inherent Vice (2014) ⭐
   • Phantom Thread (2017) ⭐
   • Licorice Pizza (2021) ⭐

   My Ranked: Paul Thomas Anderson list.

10. Take Shelter

    Jeff Nichols

    Mean Stars: 4.00
    Percentage: 77.78%
    Number Watched: 5
    Number Rated: 5

    Films Seen:
    • Shotgun Stories (2007) ⭐
    • Take Shelter (2011) ⭐
    • Mud (2012) ⭐
    • Midnight Special (2016) ⭐
    • Loving (2016) ⭐

    My Ranked: Jeff Nichols list.

...plus 153 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

[I've got a lot of lists. This list helps me not lose them.]

🚧 = private

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I Got 99 Favorites But “The Beach” Ain’t One
Music to My Ears: My Favorite Soundtracks and Scores
The Worst: My Least Favorite Films of All-Time
A Selection of Highly Regarded Films for Which I Don't Much Care
Children of a Lesser Movie God
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My Wife's Favorite Films
My Mom's Favorite Films

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2025:
The 2025 Cult Movie Challenge ❌
Short Attention Span Challenge 2025 ❌
Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2025 ❌
DOCx52 2025 ❌
52 Films by Women: 2025 ✔️
March Around the World 2025 ✔️

2024:
Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2024 ✔️
52 Films by Women: 2024 ✔️
March Around the World 2024 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge 2024 ✔️
The 10th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2024-25 ✔️
Hooptober 11: The Body, the Mind, and the Soul ✔️

2023:
Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2023 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge: 2023 ✔️
The 9th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2023-24 ✔️
The (Official) 9th Annual Letterboxed Season Challenge: 2023-24

2022:
Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2022 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge: 2022 ✔️
The 8th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2022-23 ✔️

2021:
52 Years in 52 Weeks: 2021 Edition ✔️
Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2021 ✔️
The 7th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2021-22 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge: 2021 ✔️

2020:
52 Years in 52 Weeks: 2020 Edition ✔️
52 Films by Women: 2020 ✔️
Coming Up Short Challenge: 2020 ✔️
The 6th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2020-21 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge: 2020 ✔️

2019:
The 5th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2019-20 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge: 2019 ✔️

2018:
Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2018-19 ✔️
Autumn Rewatch Challenge: 2018 ✔️

Unbound by Time:
Reliving the Past ❌
A Reevaluation ❌
Birth Year Challenge: Part 1 ✔️
Birth Year Challenge: Part 2 ✔️
Birth Year Challenge: Part 3 ✔️
31 Days of the Algorithm: Stage I (2015-2019) ✔️
31 Days of the Algorithm: Stage II (2020-2024) ❌
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 1 ✔️
 ▸ (Cassavetes/Malle/Varda/von Sternberg/Haneke)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 2 ✔️
 ▸ (A. Kurosawa/Bergman/Tarkovsky/Fassbinder/Bresson)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 3 ✔️
 ▸ (Jarmusch/Carpenter/S. Lee/W. Allen/Curtiz)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 4 ✔️
 ▸ (Dolan/Campion/Mankiewicz/Frankenheimer/Lumet)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 5 ✔️
 ▸ (Demme/Sayles/Miyazaki/Altman/Ashby)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 6 ✔️
 ▸ (Tarr/Kobayashi/Mizoguchi/Ozu/Denis)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 7 ✔️
 ▸ (Godard/Wiseman/Tati/Melville/S. Ray)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 8 ✔️
 ▸ (Fellini/Kazan/Dreyer/Ophüls/Costa-Gavras)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 9 ✔️
 ▸ (Miike/Swanberg/Dardenne/von Trier/N. Ray)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 10 ✔️
 ▸ (Arzner/Ivory/Kore-eda/Preminger/Kaurismäki)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 11 ✔️
 ▸ (Sono/Ryazanov/Mészáros/Almodóvar/A. Mann)
5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 12 ❌
 ▸ (Hitchcock/Lang/Cukor/Ford/The Archers)

Coming Soon:
🚧 Early Exposure: A Pre-Code Primer
🚧 5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 13
🚧 5 Directors x 5 Unseen Films: Round 14
🚧 stats challenge

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🚧 1985   –   🚧 1986   –   🚧 1987   –   🚧 1988   –   1989

1990   –   🚧 1991   –   1992   –   1993   –   1994
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2000   –   2001   –   2002   –   2003   –   2004
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2010   –   2011   –   2012   –   2013   –   2014
2015   –   2016   –   2017   –   2018   –   2019

2020   –   2021   –   2022   –   🚧 2023   –   🚧 2024

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1950s   –   1960s   –   1970s   –   1980s   –   1990s
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2010   –   2011   –   2012   –   2013   –   2014
2015   –   2016   –   2017   –   2018   –   2019
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It Came to a Theater Near Me...
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2010   –   2011   –   2012   –   2013   –   2014
2015   –   2016   –   2017   –   2018   –   2019
2020   –   2021   –   2022   –   2023   –   2024

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Directors:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Brad Bird
Jane Campion
The Coen Brothers
Sofia Coppola
Alfonso Cuarón
Daniels
The Dardenne Brothers
Xavier Dolan
Asghar Farhadi
David Fincher
Greta Gerwig
Michel Gondry
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Rian Johnson
Stanley Kubrick
Yorgos Lanthimos
Spike Lee
Sidney Lumet
James Mangold
Tom McCarthy
Sam Mendes
Jeff Nichols
Christopher Nolan
Alexander Payne
Kelly Reichardt
David O. Russell
Lynn Shelton
🚧 Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Denis Villeneuve
Taika Waititi
Frederick Wiseman
Edgar Wright
S. Craig Zahler
Chloé Zhao

Franchises:
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Star Wars

Studios:
Pixar

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2020 Nominations

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Electric Dreams
Love Serenade
Up Periscope
Cheap Thrills
The Sound of Music
Weird Science
Robbed!
Comic Book
Outer Space
True Story
Back Again

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Jason Statham ✔️
Meryl Streep ✔️
Bette Davis ✔️
🚧 Barbara Stanwyck

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Film Junkies

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Directors League
Needs a Backdrop!
Now with 100% Backdrops!
Movies I’ve Added to Letterboxd
List of Shame: The Most Popular Film I Haven’t Seen from Each of the Last 100+ Years
List of Obscurity: The Least Popular Film I Have Seen from Each of the Last 70+ Years
99 minutes ⏲️ No more, no less
Women with the Potential to Appear on My Stats Page Among My Most Watched Stars
A Comprehensive and Utterly Exhaustive List of the Movies I Watch When I am Sick
Love Letter to the Volvo Wagon
Somnus Interruptus: The Menace of the Bedside Telephone
Choosing Sides: She's Right
Choosing Sides: He's Right
The Fat Suit Cinematic Universe
Trajan: The Typeface That Took Over Movie Posters
Gothic Script
[Noun] 2000
[Blank] in the [blank]
[Blank] on the [blank]
[Blank] of the [blank]
Movies with E.T. on the Poster
Mmm... Bacon
Celestial Bodies
Overshadowed AKA No, Not That One, the Other, Less Well-Known One
How Long Do They Dream?
Cult Cinema: An Introduction
Mr. Bookworm (or How I Learned to Stop Watching Movies and Read a Damn Book)
Laughin' Around the World 🤣🌏
The Long and Short of It: Films that Made the Leap from Short to Feature
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Pick five directors, pick five of their movies, and watch them. That’s what this challenge—created by Mr. DuLac—is all about. It’s a tidy, approachable way of dipping my feet in a meaningful (if not comprehensive) selection of work from filmdom’s wide-ranging directorial pool, from the celebrated to the obscure, the auteur to the journeyman.

My choices and progress:

Alfred Hitchcock: ❎❎❎❎❎
Fritz Lang: ❎❎❎❎❎
George Cukor: ❎❎❎❎❎
John Ford: ❎❎❎❎❎
The Archers: ✔️❎❎❎❎

My other Directors 5x5 lists can be found here.

• Sabotage
• Foreign Correspondent
• Suspicion
• Saboteur
• Frenzy
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• The Woman in the Window
• Scarlet Street
• Rancho Notorious

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

I've had a sudden, uncontrollable urge to watch some documentaries. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I've only seen 19% of the films on the Official Top 250 Documentary Films list, by far my least complete (percentage-wise) of all the stats lists. Or perhaps it's the discovery that the genre is my highest-rated at a 3.63 average, and who doesn't love to settle in for a film they're almost sure to love? Whatever the reason, I had to act. Luckily, a quick search of Letterboxd turned up AngelMonkey's DOCx52 2025 challenge. I love structure, so I'm happy to jump on the bandwagon, meticulously build my list, and placate this sudden hankering.

Progress: 34/52 ❌

Top 5:
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1) Our Daily Bread
2) Flamenco at 5:15
3) Which Way Home
4) 20 Days in Mariupol
5) Chop & Steele

1. Nazi Concentration Camps

   1. On a subject that interests you greatly

2. Live from the Space Stage: A HALYX Story

   2. On a subject that is not of particular interest to you

3. I Am Evidence

   3. On a subject that makes you uncomfortable or upset

4. Baraka

   4. The most popular documentary that you haven't seen from any year

5. Buster Keaton Rides Again

   5. About a specific filmmaker or actor

6. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

   6. About a specific film or TV show

7. Dawson City: Frozen Time

   7. About films, either in general or of a specific theme/genre

8. Sisters with Transistors

   8. Having to do with music or a music icon

9. Chop & Steele

   9. Having to do with comedy or a comedian

10. Jiro Dreams of Sushi

    10. Having to do with food

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

⟻ 1930s   –   1940s   –   1950s ⟼

• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Ball of Fire
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Bishop's Wife
• Brief Encounter
• Casablanca
• Come to the Stable
• Double Indemnity
• Gentleman's Agreement
• The Heiress

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

Update: Completed on 6/2/25. Let's go for double!

Gotta make sure at least 52 films directed (or co-directed) by one or more women before my eyes in 2025. Inspired by the #52filmsbywomen challenge over at Women in Film.

Progress: 54/52 ✔️

Top 5:
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5) Four Daughters
2) Meek's Cutoff (rewatch)
3) Flamenco at 5:15
4) Which Way Home
5) Fire of Love

• Girlhood
• Robot Carnival
• The Above
• The Beaches of Agnès
• Nightbitch
• Aftersun
• Past Lives
• Requiem
• Shiva Baby
• The Big Steal

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

The antithesis to my List of Shame. I'm disinclined to go earlier than 1950 because potential representative titles in those decades are not all that obscure owing to my limited exposure.

Rules: no shorts or live shows.

• Least obscure: 1963's Lilies of the Field (13.5k views)
• Most obscure: 2003's Wash Dry and Spin Out (5 views)

• Secrets of the Octopus
• Flyways
• Mama Bears
• Peace by Chocolate
• The Rose Maker
• Demon Squad
• Broken Mirrors
• 44 Pages
• A Big Lego Christmas
• Inside Lego at Christmas

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

Perhaps "shame" isn't quite the right word, but it'll do.

Some of the films here will never go away (I couldn't care less about the MCU, for example), but the others, when and if I watch them, will be replaced with the next most popular title I haven't seen from that year. Those lucky titles that I've gotten around to watching can be found here.

Rules: No shorts, no live shows.

Curious about what the flip side looks like? My List of Obscurity documents the least popular films I've seen across the years.

• Sinners
• The Substance
• Poor Things
• Nope
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• The Queen's Gambit
• Avengers: Endgame
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Captain America: Civil War

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sometimes 90 minutes just won't cut it. After all, your sprawling epic needs room to breathe, time to develop, and space to spread out. You've got big dreams, and the straightjacket of time will not bind you, nor will the whims of the studio system. Containing a story this vast in a comfortably-sized package, a general-audience-friendly presentation, is not only an affront to your vision but also categorically unfeasible. Go forth; shoot footage! How long do you dream?

These are the longest (3+ hours) movies and miniseries I've watched, sorted in descending order of length.

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz
2. Band of Brothers
3. Shoah
4. Station Eleven
5. The Looming Tower
6. Midnight Mass
7. The Keepers
8. Satantango
9. Lonesome Dove
10. LIGHT & MAGIC

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a snootily-titled hidden gems list. Some are more hidden than others, but it's all good-to-great stuff that deserves more love. I arbitrarily settled on a cap of 15k views for inclusion, and appointments are of the lifetime variety—nothing gets kicked out!

• Pieces of April
• Neighbours
• Hit & Run
• The Extra Man
• The Phenom
• After Everything
• Redbelt
• Band Aid
• Last Cab to Darwin
• Too Late

...plus 235 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are the most precious gems I first watched in 2025.

⟻ 2024   –   2025   –   2026 ⟼

• Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
• Our Daily Bread
• Four Daughters
• Let the Fire Burn

I have an inexplicable fascination with gender-normative couples and the side of the bed on which they choose to sleep. This list (and its twin, linked below) is testimony to this. Who makes the choice? The director? The actors? A coin toss? I MUST KNOW.

I add titles as I watch them. Check the notes for details. Sides are from the couple's point of view in bed.

TMI: I'm a left-sider myself, and my wife is on the right.

The other half of this list can be found here: Choosing Sides: She's Right.

• Paterson

  Paterson on the right, Laura on the left.

• A Woman Is a Woman

  Émile on the right, Angela on the left.

• Leap Year

  I'm assuming Declan (on the right) and Anna (on the left) keep the sides they chose when they were forced to share the bed.

• What They Had

  Ed on the right, Bridget "Bitty" on the left.

• Sorry to Bother You

  Cassius on the right, Detroit on the left.

• Mudbound

  Henry on the right, Laura on the left.
  Ronsel on the right, Resl on the left.

• After Everything

  Elliot on the right, Mia on the left.

• The Neighbors' Window

  Jacob on the right, Alli on the left.

• Woodshock

  Nick on the right, Theresa on the left.

• Berlin Alexanderplatz

  Franz on the right, Cilly on the left.

...plus 111 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Let's face the facts: My watchlist is unshrinkable. It just isn't possible. And while I've reluctantly come to accept this reality, I still have to at least try to stem the tide. After all, the tide waits for no man. Plus, you miss 100% of the movies you don't watch. So I'm thrilled once again to tackle Nina's perennially welcome Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge. Ain't no shrinking gonna happen, but at least I can say I checked off a few titles and hindered my watchlist's expansion rate. As in previous years, I've added a couple more bonus slots to cover all the decades in my watchlist. For 2025, it's the 1930s and '40s.

Progress: 29/37

Top 5:
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1) Joyland
2) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
3) The Rainmaker
4) Shiva Baby
5) I Am Not Your Negro

1. The Square

   Watch the movie that was added first

2. The Pied Piper

   Watch the movie that was added last

3. The Night Of

   Watch the movie that is the longest (525 min)

4. A Night at the Garden

   Watch the movie that is the shortest (7 min)

5. O.J.: Made in America

   Watch the movie that is rated highest (4.46)

6. Proximity

   Watch the movie that is rated lowest (2.15)

7. Sudden Fear

   Watch a movie from the 1950s

8. Splendor in the Grass

   Watch a movie from the 1960s

9. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

   Watch a movie from the 1970s

10. Throw Momma from the Train

    Watch a movie from the 1980s

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

...and Letterboxd has nullified the reason for this list. Now, most watched cast stats go deep, real deep. No longer limited to 20 stars, you can punch the "see more" button until the sun implodes and see how many films every actor you've ever seen has been in. Oh well, I'm still gonna give special attention to these women and ensure they ascend the now bottomless ranks to claim their rightful places high up on the acting mountaintop alongside Queen Meryl and Goddess Bette.

• Nightbitch

  Amy Adams (27)

• Japanese Story

  Toni Collette (24)

• Friends with Money

  Joan Cusack (30)

• Dark Victory

  Bette Davis (37) 👑

• The Tale

  Laura Dern (25)

• Marie Antoinette

  Kirsten Dunst (30)

• Blues for Willadean

  Beth Grant (25)

• Good Boy

  Judy Greer (25)

• Mrs. Fletcher

  Kathryn Hahn (27)

• Breaking News in Yuba County

  Allison Janney (28)

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

These movies need backdrops. Slowly but surely, they are getting them.

See also:

• My Now with 100% Backdrops! list
• aobh's Backdrops Added list
• DungeonSkramz' Films That Had Backdrops Added After I Requested It list
• 🩸 c h r i s 🩸's backdrops i’ve ed ✨ list
• arytaco's Tracker: Backdrops Requested list
• Drew's Letterboxd Backdrops list

1. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
2. The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
3. Adventures in Public School
4. Paint It Black
5. The Confirmation
6. Hunter Gatherer
7. Operator
8. Carnage Park
9. Retribution
10. Last Cab to Darwin

...plus 233 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

⟻ 2012   –   2013   –   2014 ⟼

Related: Top 25 of the 2010s

1. Gravity
2. Captain Phillips
3. The Lunchbox
4. Prisoners
5. Enough Said
6. Coherence
7. Short Term 12
8. About Time
9. Side Effects
10. Fruitvale Station