The Original Challenge

Started: 01/09/2026
Finished:

Progress: 4/52
Rainy Dog
Monster
The Dirties
Charisma

~ ~ ~ Le Prompts ~ ~ ~

1. Debut film from a favorite director.
2. Recommended by a friend
3. IN SERVICE OF A MAD GOD: nightmare film shoots
4. give me BONKERS
5. Screwball Comedy
6. Space Western
7. Splatstick
8. Playing with Swords: Wuxia
9. Martial Arts film featuring Michelle Yeoh
10. Queer Rom-Com
11. Southern Gothic
12. Folklore: Japan
13. Queer Horror
14. 70's Animation
15. Experimental documentary
16. Avant Gardener: watch a film by Jonas Mekas
17. Doubling: dopplegangers & twins & clones
18. A "Spring" movie
19. An "Autumn" movie
20. From the Doc: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
21. a Ghost story
22. Directed by: Dorothy Arzner
23. Directed by: Elia Suleiman
24. Passport: a movie from IRAN
25. Passport: a movie from CHINA
26. featuring: Anna Magnani
27. featuring: Saleh Bakri
28. 28,000 Weeks Later: Far Future Post-Apocalypse
29. Ancestors: pick a film based in where your family comes from
30. Setting: in the mountains
31. Setting: ocean
32. Setting: underground
33. Setting: a place/space that you love
34. Soundtrakt: composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto
35. Soundtrakt: composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir
36. Double Take: rewatch a film that you loved growing up that may or may not hold up
37. Funny People: film from your favorite laughter dealer
38. Legendary Collaborators: watch a movie from your favorite Director/Actor duo
39. featuring: Koji Yakusho
40. featuring: Pam Grier
41. Cinematography: Sven Nykist
42. Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa
43. Scaredy Cat's Cradle: watch that scary movie you've been putting off
44. Watch a film from your least favorite genre
45. Disability on Film
46. Released the year you turned 13
47. Released by ARROW VIDEO
48. Programmed at FANTASIA Fest
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 participants or last year's Roulette Challenge)