Thanks to revchu for setting this up again. Didn't finish it last year, as is usually the case, so there are some repeats from that list that I am hoping to catch this year, finally.
List of topics is below:
Week 1 - Critic List: The "Asian Cinema 100" from the 2025 Busan Film Festival
Week 2 - Asian Women Directors Top 100
Week 3 - Acting: Asian Film Award Nominations
Week 4 - Made in the Philippines / alt
Week 5 - Actor or Director: Sylvia Chang
Week 6 - Made in Korea / alt / alt
Week 7 - Anti-Bushido Samurai Films
Week 8 - Made in Taiwan / alt
Week 9 - Music!
Week 10 - Made…
Thanks to revchu for setting this up again. Didn't finish it last year, as is usually the case, so there are some repeats from that list that I am hoping to catch this year, finally.
List of topics is below:
Week 1 - Critic List: The "Asian Cinema 100" from the 2025 Busan Film Festival
Week 2 - Asian Women Directors Top 100
Week 3 - Acting: Asian Film Award Nominations
Week 4 - Made in the Philippines / alt
Week 5 - Actor or Director: Sylvia Chang
Week 6 - Made in Korea / alt / alt
Week 7 - Anti-Bushido Samurai Films
Week 8 - Made in Taiwan / alt
Week 9 - Music!
Week 10 - Made in Palestine
Week 11 - Cinema Judaica
Week 12 - Queer Asian Cinema
Week 13 - China's Sixth Generation Movement
Week 14 - Medium: Japanese OVA
Week 15 - Director: Yim Soon-rye
Week 16 - Hong Kong Film Archive's Must-See Hong Kong Films
Week 17 - Asian Cinema with Major International Award Recognition
Week 18 - Korean Queer Cinema
Week 19 - Director: Johnnie To
Week 20 - Japanese Experimental Film / alt
Week 21 - Crime!
Week 22 - Indian Women Directors
Week 23 - Post-Apocalyptic Asian Cinema
Week 24 - Banned in China
Week 25 - Made in the Middle East / alt
Week 26 - Chinese Diaspora Queer Cinema
Week 27 - Made in Singapore or Malaysia
Week 28 - Not Bollywood: Regional Indian Films
Week 29 - Actor: Song Kang-ho
Week 30 - For Your Consideration: Taiwan Post-New Wave
Week 31 - Made in India / alt
Week 32 - Auteur: Hideaki Anno
Week 33 - Trains!
Week 34 - India Adjacent: Watch a film from Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or Pakistan
Week 35 - Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Week 36 - Hong Kong Comedic Cinema
Week 37 - Japanese Women Directors
Week 38 - Made in Southeast Asia / alt
Week 39 - Sageuk: Korean Historical Dramas
Week 40 - Student Animation: Geidai
Week 41 - Pre-revolution (1979) Iranian Cinema
Week 42 - Chinese Women Directors
Week 43 - Asian Noir
Week 44 - Any Film Nominated for Asian Film Award
Week 45 - Sports!
Week 46 - Tokusatsu Films
Week 47 - Chinese New Documentary Movement
Week 48 - Asian Film in the Criterion Collection
Week 49 - For Your Consideration: Post-6th Generation Chinese Cinema
Week 50 - Japanese Ero-Guro Film
Week 51 - Cinema of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Week 52 - Asian Anthology Film
