Do not, my friends, become addicted to Letterboxd challenges. They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence!
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 || Daisies
✅5. Screwball Comedy || Seven Chances
✅6. Space Western || Stalker
✅7. Splatstick || Jennifer’s Body
8. Playing with Swords: Wuxia
9. Martial Arts film featuring Michelle Yeoh
✅10. Queer Rom-Com || Saving Face
11. Southern Gothic
✅12. Folklore: Japan || Pom Poko
✅13. Queer Horror || Raw
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
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to Letterboxd challenges. They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence!
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 || Daisies
✅5. Screwball Comedy || Seven Chances
✅6. Space Western || Stalker
✅7. Splatstick || Jennifer’s Body
8. Playing with Swords: Wuxia
9. Martial Arts film featuring Michelle Yeoh
✅10. Queer Rom-Com || Saving Face
11. Southern Gothic
✅12. Folklore: Japan || Pom Poko
✅13. Queer Horror || Raw
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: dopplegangers & twins & clones || Persona
✅18. A "Spring" movie || Emma.
✅19. An "Autumn" movie || The Craft
✅20. From the Doc: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror || Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
21. a Ghost story
✅22. Directed by: Dorothy Arzner || Merrily We Go to Hell
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 || Dark City
29. Ancestors: pick a film based in where your family comes from
✅30. Setting: in the mountains || Sirāt
✅31. Setting: ocean || Portrait of a Lady on Fire
✅32. Setting: underground || Save the Green Planet!
✅33. Setting: a place/space that you love || Greener Grass (insane unsettling otherwordly articial space just out of bound of reality; creepy closed community)
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 || Sherlock Jr.
✅38. Legendary Collaborators: watch a movie from your favorite Director/Actor duo || Band of Outsiders (Karina - Godard)
✅39. featuring: Koji Yakusho || Under the Open Sky
40. featuring: Pam Grier
✅41. Cinematography: Sven Nykist || The Sacrifice
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 || Mikey and Nicky (gangster movie)
✅45. Disability on Film || The Drama
46. Released the year you turned 13
✅47. Released by ARROW VIDEO || Audition
✅48. Programmed at FANTASIA Fest || Aachi and Ssipak
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 particpants or last year's Roulette Challenge) || Marty Supreme
✨ Review links in notes ✨
Original List by zsally_llama