Original list https://boxd.it/Q6dTk
A somewhat random and diverse film challenge for 2026. Let's get weird!
Started: 1/17/2026
Progress: 29/52
Personal stipulations:
-I will not be going in exact order, as my brain doesn't work that way.
-All films are first time watches with the exception of 36 which requires a rewatch of a film I liked when I was younger
-Doing this for fun and variety! May switch out some entries depending on availability of the film but working to watch all I have laid out.
✅ 1. Debut film from a favorite director. (Finally a reason to watch Piranha II by James Cameron!)
✅ 2. Recommended by a friend - Senia Recommend Candyman (2021)
3. IN SERVICE OF A…
Original list https://boxd.it/Q6dTk
A somewhat random and diverse film challenge for 2026. Let's get weird!
Started: 1/17/2026
Progress: 29/52
Personal stipulations:
-I will not be going in exact order, as my brain doesn't work that way.
-All films are first time watches with the exception of 36 which requires a rewatch of a film I liked when I was younger
-Doing this for fun and variety! May switch out some entries depending on availability of the film but working to watch all I have laid out.
✅ 1. Debut film from a favorite director. (Finally a reason to watch Piranha II by James Cameron!)
✅ 2. Recommended by a friend - Senia Recommend Candyman (2021)
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 – boxd.it/gH7Z2 (Thomas Flight) boxd.it/wTPhG (Anti_Climacus)
16. Avant Gardener: watch a film by Jonas Mekas
17. Doubling: doppelgangers & 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 - a movie theater
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 (Wes Anderson)
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 - I wouldn’t have put it this way but I watch fewer documentaries than any other type of film including westerns. Reality as of late has been not great…
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)