I’m jumping in for the 11th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge - a challenge running 33 weeks from September 1, 2025 through May 3, 2026 (with a 2 week winter break).

PROGRESS: 33/33 (as of
May 3, 2026)

Each week has a theme, and the goal is to watch and review at least one new-to-you film every week that fits these themes (can watch in any order and at any time though):

✅ 1. These Go To 11 - watch a film from Dozzyrok's Maximalist Cinema list (8 1/2)

✅ 2. Lesser-Known Labels - watch a film released by Indicator

✅ 3. Erotic 80s - watch a movie that was featured on the You Must Remember This season Erotic 80s with this list from Gentry

✅ 4. Young Guns - watch a film from slinkyman's Films Made By 80+ Year Old Directors

✅ 5. This Is a Disaster - watch a disaster film from the 1970s. This list is a good source

✅ 6. The First Talkies - watch one of the first talkies ever created - a helpful list from Zach

✅ 7. Multiple Roles - watch a movie featuring an actor playing multiple roles. Here is a list from Antoine Cournoyer to help

✅ 8. Bleeding Skull! - watch an 80s trash-horror movie from Bleeding Skull's BLEEDING SKULL! A 1980s TRASH-HORROR ODYSSEY list

✅ 9. A24 Horror - watch a horror film by A24

✅ 10. Fringe Cinema - watch a film from ElNapalmo's Fringe & Outsider Cinema list

✅ 11. You Don’t Know Jack - watch a film shot by cinematographer Jack Cardiff

✅ 12. Direct Cinema documentary. This list has examples

✅ 13. Family Business - watch a film directed by a pair of siblings

✅ 14. We Love Docs - watch one of the documentaries that won Best Feature at the IDA Awards as compiled in this list from Y2K

✅ 15. Underseen Excellence - watch one of the top 100 films under 15,000 ratings

✅ 16. Beach - watch a Beach Party movie from the 60s! Here’s a good list from lmgiannone

✅ 17. Great Literature - watch a film adapted from a classic novel

✅ 18. Demi, Demme, Demy

✅ 19. Social Conscience - watch a film awarded the grand prize by the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights for either documentary from this list here or fiction from this list here

✅ 20. The Sundance Kids - watch a film that won either the Grand Jury Prize or the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance

✅ 21. Regeneration - watch a film from bobbiana's handily compiled list of all the titles featured in the Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 exhibit

✅ 22. Lessons in Chemistry - watch a film with acting chemistry or a film about science

✅ 23. Bill Hader’s Essential Comedies - watch a film from Bill Hader’s Essential Comedies list

✅ 24. It’s a Woman’s World - a film with an all-female cast from Ian Casocot's The Women [or Films with an All- or Predominantly Female Cast] list

✅ 25. Won Once - Best International Feature - watch one of the movies from a country that has only won Best International Feature once, which can be found in this list

✅ 26. Hungary for Cinema - watch a Hungarian New Wave film or any Hungarian film prior to the turn of the century

✅ 27. Lucha Libre - watch a film from Paul D's Mucho Lucha Libre: Mexican Wrestling Movies

✅ 28. Uncharted Lands - watch a film from a country from which you haven't seen any films

✅ 29. Classic Performers - Mary Pickford

✅ 30. Everything is Connected - watch a hyperlink film. This list is a good place to start

✅ 31. The Roger Corman Film School - the first movie one of his collaborators, who would later become famous, worked with him on from this list here

✅ 32. Nature - a movie that features nature as a major theme with this list from MorganLightle or this list from rscusick and after maybe go for a walk in the woods

✅ 33. Contemporary Performers - Willem Dafoe