HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! I am obviously excited by this new year but also and more importantly by this New scavenger hunt list made by our January host !!

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Top five:

1. Hamnet 
2. Ratatouille 
3. The matrix 
4. Erin Brockovitch
5. The ascent

Bottom three:

1. The housemaid 
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: on stranger tides 
3. Citizen Kane



Prompts:

1. Watch something from the All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks list, which includes everything everyone has ever picked in the Criterion Closet.✅ (Harakiri)
2. Watch one of Oscar Michaux movies, or pick something from Slate’s The New Black Film Canon: The 75 Greatest Movies by Black Directors.✅ (12 years a slave) 
3. watching the movie that’s been in your to-be-watched pile the longest.✅ (The matrix)
4. Watch a 3+ hour movie.✅ (Lawrence of Arabia)
5. watch a film featuring one of the stars of Rashomon – that’s Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura – or pay tribute to the late, great Tatsuya Nakadai by watching something from his nearly 70-year career.✅ (Rashomon)
6. Watch something from Bill Hader’s “200 Essential Movies Every Comedy Writer Should See."✅ (Rushmore) 
7. Watch any film from the BBC’s 100 greatest films directed by women list.✅ (The ascent)
8. Watch an American movie directed by an immigrant.✅ (Hamnet) 
9. watch a film featured in one of Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies" essays. ✅ (Bicycle thieves)
10. watch the most popular film you haven’t seen from the year you were born. (Replaced by watching a movie on the big screen) ✅ (La venue de l’avenir)
11. Watch an Amanda Seyfried movie, or watch something from Stephen Gillespie’s list of the Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist and Anti-fascist ‘Canon’. ✅ (The housemaid)
12. Watch one of Cinemonster’s faves.✅ (The vanishing)
13. watch some classic-era noir, or instead pick something off Marya’s Film Noir Directed by Women Starter Pack.✅ (Double indemnity)
14. Watch an adaptation of a classic novel.✅ (Alice in Wonderland)
15. Watch a movie written or directed by someone from the Hollywood Blacklist. ✅ (Roman holiday)
16. Watch something from Emma Tolkin’s absolutely vital list, BE GAY DO CRIME 🌈🔪.✅ (Bones and All)
17. watch a movie made by or featuring the work of someone who died in 2025.✅ (Inland empire)
18. Watch a movie featuring one of the actors from your pick for prompt #17.✅ (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice)
19. watch a movie directed by an actor, or which stars someone best known as a director.✅ (Woman of the hour)
20. Watch a film that won the Oscar for Best Cinematography. ✅ (Black Narcissus)
21. Watch an Oscar-nominated debut performance.✅ (Citizen Kane)
22. Watch something you think will be nominated for this year’s Oscars.✅ (Late shift)
23. Watch a movie with a one-word title.✅ (House)
24. Watch a movie with at least six words in the title.✅ (Pirates of the Caribbeans: on stranger tides) 
25. go to the Letterboxd Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films, filter down to a genre you don’t watch all that often, then watch one of the highest-ranking films in that genre.✅ (Princess Mononoke)
26. Watch a movie from one of these niche categories: magical realism, cosmic horror, or anthology. ✅ (Prometheus) 
27. pick a movie from one of Noel Kirkpatrick’s Letterboxd lists.✅ (Tampopo)
28. watch a movie with great contemporary costume design.✅ (Erin Brockovich)
29. Watch (or rewatch) something screened for the Rosemont Ave Commune Movie Night.✅ (Do the right thing)
30. rewatch something you loved from a previous scavenger hunt. ✅ (Ratatouille) 
31. watch a movie featuring one of these icons of cinema: Peter Lorre, Tantoo Cardinal, John Amos, Thelma Ritter, Joan Cusack, Elisha Cook Jr., James Hong, Graham Greene, Lorraine Toussaint, and of course, Character Actress Margo Martindale.✅ (Wind river)


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