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Prompts:
✅ 1. Watch something from the All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks list.
✅ 2. Watch one of Oscar Micheaux’s movies.
✅ 3. Go to your own watchlist and sort by ‘when added, earliest first,’ or just watch something you’ve been meaning to watch for years.
✅ 4. Watch a 3+ hour movie.
✅ 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.
✅ 6. Watch something from Bill Hader’s “200 Essential Movies Every Comedy Writer Should See."
✅ 7. Watch any film from the BBC’s 100 greatest films directed by women list.
✅ 8. Watch an American movie directed by an immigrant.
✅ 9. Watch a film featured in one of Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies" essays.
✅ 10. Watch the most popular film you haven’t seen from the year you were born.
✅ 11. Watch an Amanda Seyfried movie.
✅ 12. Watch one of Cinemonster’s faves.
✅ 13. Watch some classic-era noir.
✅ 14. Watch an adaptation of a classic novel, or do one better and pick something that’s also a frequently banned book.
✅ 15. Watch a movie written or directed by someone from the Hollywood Blacklist.
✅ 16. Watch something from Emma Tolkin’s absolutely vital list, BE GAY DO CRIME 🌈🔪.
✅ 17. Watch a movie made by or featuring the work of someone who died in 2025.
✅ 18. Watch a movie featuring one of the actors from your pick for prompt #17.
✅ 19. Watch a movie directed by an actor, or which stars someone best known as a director. I made what is almost certainly a dreadfully incomplete list to get you started.
✅ 20. Watch a film that won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.
✅ 21. Watch an Oscar-nominated debut performance.
✅ 22. Watch something you think will be nominated for this year’s Oscars.
✅ 23. Watch a movie with a one-word title.
✅ 24. Watch a movie with at least six words in the title. Here’s a handy list of some of them.
✅ 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. (If you choose documentary, use this list instead.)
✅ 26. Watch a movie from one of these niche categories: magical realism, cosmic horror, or anthology.
✅ 27. Pick a movie from one of Noel Kirkpatrick’s Letterboxd lists.
✅ 28. Watch a movie with great contemporary costume design.
✅ 29. Watch (or rewatch) something screened for the Rosemont Ave Commune Movie Night.
✅ 30. Rewatch something you loved from a previous scavenger hunt.
✅ 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.

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