Cheerfully following zsally_llama, who writes about this delightful challenge for 2026:

"Welcome to the 2nd year of Roulette Challenge! Where the challenge is genre-fluid and the roulette spins for discovery!

- the time frame is January 1st to December 31st -

Have fun and interpret the prompts as broadly as you like. Tag your lists and reviews with roulettechallenge2026 & rc2026

take a chance -- undress your twinhibitions -- give a second chance -- pluck a whisper from your field of vision and let's make the unknown EFFABLE **"

I shall strive in the coming year to make my picks as revealing and swoon-worthy as those words encourage. And who knows what double shall manifest to aid the choices.

~ ~ ~ Les Prompts ~ ~ ~

1. Debut film from a favorite director - The Hearts of Age
2. Recommended by a friend - Rogue
3. IN SERVICE OF A MAD GOD: nightmare film shoots - Megadoc
4. give me BONKERS - Blowing Wild
5. Screwball Comedy - The Milky Way (1936)
6. Space Western - Battle Beyond the Stars
7. Splatstick - Demons 2
8. Playing with Swords: Wuxia
9. Martial Arts film featuring Michelle Yeoh
10. Queer Rom-Com - My Father Is Coming
11. Southern Gothic - Southern Comfort
12. Folklore: Japan
13. Queer Horror - I Saw The TV Glow
14. 70's Animation
15. Experimental documentary - My Winnipeg
16. Avant Gardener: watch a film by Jonas Mekas - Self-Portrait
17. Doubling: dopplegangers & twins & clones
18. A "Spring" movie - Showdown in Little Tokyo
19. An "Autumn" movie
20. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched - A Warning to the Curious
21. a Ghost story
22. Directed by: Dorothy Arzner
23. Directed by: Elia Suleiman
24. Passport: a movie from IRAN - The Experience
25. Passport: a movie from CHINA - Resurrection
26. featuring: Anna Magnani
27. featuring: Saleh Bakri
28. 28,000 Weeks Later: Far Future Post-Apocalypse - Battle Beyond the Sun
29. Ancestors: pick a film based in where your family comes from
30. Setting: in the mountains - Snowbeast
31. Setting: ocean - Send Help
32. Setting: underground - Death Line
33. Setting: a place/space that you love
34. Soundtrakt: composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto - Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto
35. Soundtrakt: composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
36. Double Take: rewatch a film that you loved growing up that may or may not hold up - Scavenger Hunt
37. Funny People: film from your favorite laughter dealer - Awesometown
38. Legendary Collaborators: watch a movie from your favorite Director/Actor duo - Messenger of Death
39. featuring: Koji Yakusho
40. featuring: Pam Grier - Class of 1999
41. Cinematography: Sven Nykist
42. Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa
43. Scaredy Cat's Cradle: watch that scary movie you've been putting off - The Ninth Gate
44. Watch a film from your least favorite genre - Oh Yeah!
45. Disability on Film - Acción Mutante
46. Released the year you turned 13
47. Released by ARROW VIDEO - The Stendhal Syndrome
48. Programmed at FANTASIA Fest - Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
49. En Memorium: watch a film featuring Tatsuya Nakadai
50. En Memorium: watch a film featuring Graham Greene
51. Let Me Live: a film that you would live in
52. Pick from someone else’s 4 Favorites (fellow particpants or last year's Roulette Challenge)