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10 to 1 Challenge 2026: The Return

Well, turns out watching 55 films from my watchlist did not in fact make a dent. Only one way to remedy that, we run it back. I invite you to join along. 45 Features, 10 shorts in 52 weeks. This, is the 10 to 1 Challenge.

Guidelines
10. Petite Cinema: Watch 10 films that are under an hour long. (3/10)
9. Every Frame A Painting: Watch 9 films that won best Cinematography at the Oscars. 1 film per decade. (3/9) 
8. Globe Trotting: Watch 8 films made in another country. No duplicate nations (3/8)
7. Necrogenrecon: Lets celebrate a once powerhouse genre, the musical. Watch 7 musicals. (3/7)
6. They Draw Pictures, Don't They?: Watch 6 animated films, not duplicate…

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  • Fail Safe
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Flow
  • Memories of Murder
  • Laura
  • Pixote
  • On Dangerous Ground
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Millennium Actress
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • The Misfits
  • Outrage
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • Cry-Baby
  • The Red Balloon
  • Better Man
  • Rashomon
  • The Freshman
  • Cigarette Burns
  • Monkey Business
  • When Evil Lurks
  • The Autopsy
  • The Pied Piper
  • Casting the Runes
  • Firebase
  • Four Women
  • Carrotblanca
  • The Fall
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Legends of the Fall
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Shanghai Express
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Sisu
  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  • RRR
  • Fitzcarraldo
  • 42nd Street
  • The Saddest Music in the World
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • Tommy
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Angel's Egg
  • Mirai
  • Some Like It Hot
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • Don't Bother to Knock
  • Wild Strawberries
  • Ordet
  • The Hitch-Hiker
  • A Page of Madness
  • Cherry Falls