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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 my 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 my 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.
✅ 16. Watch a film you hadn't heard of before today. Replaced with ⇄ My Top 500
✅ 17. Watch a movie on BFI's List of the 50 Films You Should See By the Age of 14.
✅ 18. Watch a western or noir film made after 1956, or Watch a science-fiction or action film made before 1968.
✅ 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. Watch a film from 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, or 2022, or watch The Juniper Tree, Dancer In the Dark, or The Northman.
✅ 22. 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.
✅ 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.).

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