My attempt to pick up where Zā left off. I've created some new criteria and literally just copied and pasted some of their criteria from past challenges.
I've kept it to 40 criteria and many of them allow for (or require) short films so this should be a pretty doable year long challenge. I would love it if people created their own fun bonus criteria!
Tag all of your reviews with Queerchallenge20 so we can read each others reviews and post the link to your list in the comments below! I won't be creating a master list of participants just because I've already spent more time making this list than I should but we can all find and like each…
My attempt to pick up where Zā left off. I've created some new criteria and literally just copied and pasted some of their criteria from past challenges.
I've kept it to 40 criteria and many of them allow for (or require) short films so this should be a pretty doable year long challenge. I would love it if people created their own fun bonus criteria!
Tag all of your reviews with Queerchallenge20 so we can read each others reviews and post the link to your list in the comments below! I won't be creating a master list of participants just because I've already spent more time making this list than I should but we can all find and like each others' lists in the comments.
Here we go, the criteria for a 2020 Queer Films Challenge:
1. A film directed by Dee Rees
2. A film directed by Lee Daniels
3. A film written, directed, or based on a story by Clive Barker
4. A film directed by Tom Ford (yes there are only two, if you’ve seen both, watch a documentary he’s featured in)
5. A film written by or based on a play by Tennessee Williams
6. A film based on a story by Oscar Wilde
7. A film based on a story by or about Virginia Woolf
8. A film starring Gina Gershon
9. A film starring Cary Grant
10. A film starring Katharine Hepburn
11. A film starring Barbara Stanwyck
12. A film starring or directed by Kristen Stewart
13. A film starring or directed by Clea DuVall
14. A film starring or directed by Desiree Akhavan
15. A film directed by Rose Troche
16. A film directed by Jamie Babbit
17. A film directed by Gregg Araki
18. A film written or directed by Angela Robinson
19. A film directed by Kenneth Anger
20. A film directed by Barbara Hammer
21. A non Matrix film written or directed by the Wachowski sisters
22. A film starring, written, or directed by a trans person (not the Wachowskis)
23. A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a woman
24. A lesbian/WLW/sapphic film directed by a man
25. A gay/mlm film directed by a woman
26. A gay/mlm film directed by a man
27. A film featuring an asexual character, or one theorized to be asexual since it's not something that really gets as much identity in film. Lists to help:
letterboxd.com/windyblue/list/asexual/
letterboxd.com/vonnepat/list/asexuality-on-screen/
letterboxd.com/holdenreviews/list/asexuality-on-film/
28. A film featuring an actual bisexual character. A list to help:
letterboxd.com/gdw/list/films-with-actually-bisexual-characters/
29. Watch The Watermelon Woman, if you’ve already seen it watch another film directed by Cheryl Dunye
30. A Queercore film from Zā's list here letterboxd.com/cherprayers/list/queercore/
31. A controversial queer film/a film controversial for treatment of queer identity Zā's list here letterboxd.com/cherprayers/list/controversial-queer-films/
32. A film featured on TCM's Spotlight of Gay Hollywood or featured in the The Celluloid Closet
letterboxd.com/cherprayers/list/tcms-spotlight-on-gay-hollywood/
letterboxd.com/martin_swift/list/films-featured-in-the-celluloid-closet/
33. An African queer film
letterboxd.com/cherprayers/list/queer-african-films/
34. A Middle Eastern queer film
35. An Asian queer film
36. One of Vulture’s essential queer horror films
letterboxd.com/rayinbruges/list/55-essential-queer-horror-films-according/
37. A giallo featuring a queer character or gay panic.
This blog has a "gay character" check mark for any gialli with gay character, sadly there's not a tag so you have to look through some posts to find one with a gay character you're interested in. giallofiles.blogspot.com/
If you don't want to spend time looking just watch Knife+Heart.
38. An animated film on MundoF’s Opening the Vault list or something else you find featuring queer characters or subtext
letterboxd.com/mundof/list/opening-the-vault-a-chronological-history/genre/animation/
39 . A western (loosely defined) on MundoF’s Opening the Vault list or something else you find featuring queer characters or subtext
letterboxd.com/mundof/list/opening-the-vault-a-chronological-history/genre/western/
I think Desert Hearts & Brokeback Mountain also count as westerns.
40. A film referenced in Renegade Cut’s Queer theory in 80s and 90s action movies video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wsHjT8sPi4
The movies are:
Point Break, Tango & Cash, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Commando, Predator, Top Gun, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, American Ninja, The Last Boy Scout, Bloodsport