I'll be using the FSDO 2019 challenge to catch a number of titles that have long languished on my watchlist and stumble upon a few films/movements I'd otherwise have ignored. Original rules and list found here.
Only additional rules I've added are
1) Film must be feature length
2) I must not have seen it prior
For four of the weeks, I have tweaked the prompt due to the original prompt having no titles that met my added rules. For that reason, I expanded the John Cassavetes options (week 30) to include his acting work and the John Carpenter options (week 38) to include his screenwriting. For weeks 47 and 52, I've already watched all features by Sophia Coppola and…
I'll be using the FSDO 2019 challenge to catch a number of titles that have long languished on my watchlist and stumble upon a few films/movements I'd otherwise have ignored. Original rules and list found here.
Only additional rules I've added are
1) Film must be feature length
2) I must not have seen it prior
For four of the weeks, I have tweaked the prompt due to the original prompt having no titles that met my added rules. For that reason, I expanded the John Cassavetes options (week 30) to include his acting work and the John Carpenter options (week 38) to include his screenwriting. For weeks 47 and 52, I've already watched all features by Sophia Coppola and Lynne Ramsey, so I've replaced them with Claire Denis and Kathryn Bigelow, respectively.
Week 1 - Actor - Louise Brooks or Clara Bow
Week 2 - Genre - Horror - Silent Horror (1913-1928)
Week 3 - Movement - French Impressionism (1918-1929)
Week 4 - Studio - Universal Pictures - Universal's Monsters
Week 5 - Auteur - Jean Renoir
Week 6 - Movement - German Weimar Cinema (1919-1933)
Week 7 - Composer - Alfred Newman
Week 8 - Genre - Western - The Dying Western (1930s)
Week 9 - Production Designer - Cedric Gibbons
Week 10 - Movement - Third Reich Cinema (1933-1945)
Week 11 - Actor - Humphrey Bogart
Week 12 - Auteur - Ernst Lubitsch
Week 13 - Editor - Daniel Mandell
Week 14 - Movement - British New Wave (1950-1969)
Week 15 - Composer - Dimitri Tiomkin
Week 16 - Genre - Documentary - Early Documentary (1922-1955)
Week 17 - Auteur - Yasujirō Ozu
Week 18 - Cinematographer - Boris Kaufman
Week 19 - Movement - Golden Age of Japanese Cinema (1950-1963)
Week 20 - Studio - RKO Radio Pictures
Week 21 - Writer - Ernest Lehman
Week 22 - Actor - Simone Signoret
Week 23 - Movement - Soviet New Wave
Week 24 - Auteur - Jacques Demy
Week 25 - Genre - Western - Acid Westerns
Week 26 - Costume Designer - Danilo Donati
Week 27 - Movement - New Chilean Cinema
Week 28 - Producer - Carlo Ponti
Week 29 - Writer - Robert Towne
Week 30 - Actor - John Cassavetes
Week 31 - Genre - Thriller - 70s Conspiracy Thrillers
Week 32 - Studio - American International Pictures
Week 33 - Auteur - Chantal Akerman
Week 34 - Cinematographer - Vittorio Storaro
Week 35 - Actor - Klaus Kinski
Week 36 - Genre - Horror - Giallo Horror
Week 37 - Movement - Chinese Fifth Generation
Week 38 - Writer - John Carpenter
Week 39 - Studio - Studio Ghibli
Week 40 - Genre - Crime - Neo-Noir
Week 41 - Production Designer - Richard Sylbert
Week 42 - Cinematographer - Robby Müller
Week 43 - Auteur - Wong Kar-Wai
Week 44 - Movement - New French Extremity (1991-2011)
Week 45 - Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Week 46 - Editor - Paul Hirsch
Week 47 - Auteur - Claire Denis
Week 48 - Genre - Horror - Korean Horror
Week 49 - Composer - Alexandre Desplat
Week 50 - Movement - Bollywood New Wave (1999-Present)
Week 51 - Genre - "Christmas" Movies
Week 52 - Auteur - Kathryn Bigelow