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My attempts at the 6th annual Film School Drop Outs Challenge
Rules
1. Each week you must watch the film that you have selected for that week's topic;
2. After having watched each film you should write and post a review of at least five sentences;
3. Ensure that you tag each film with the challenge tag FSDO2022. Also make sure you tag it with the weekly tag, for example, FSDO2022Week1. This will enable other students to find your reviews;
4. Read other student's reviews and share comments with one another.
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Week 1 - Actor - Olivia de Havilland or Joan Fontaine
Week 2 - Auteur - Heinosuke Gosho
Week 3 - Cinematographer - Georges Périnal
Week 4…
***Completed***
My attempts at the 6th annual Film School Drop Outs Challenge
Rules
1. Each week you must watch the film that you have selected for that week's topic;
2. After having watched each film you should write and post a review of at least five sentences;
3. Ensure that you tag each film with the challenge tag FSDO2022. Also make sure you tag it with the weekly tag, for example, FSDO2022Week1. This will enable other students to find your reviews;
4. Read other student's reviews and share comments with one another.
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Week 1 - Actor - Olivia de Havilland or Joan Fontaine
Week 2 - Auteur - Heinosuke Gosho
Week 3 - Cinematographer - Georges Périnal
Week 4 - Genre - Silent Science Fiction
Week 5- Actor - Penélope Cruz or Javier Bardem
Week 6 - Genre - Afrofuturism
Week 7 - Auteur - Glauber Rocha
Week 8 - Screenwriter - Cesare Zavattini
Week 9 - Movement - New Korean Cinema
Week 10 - Actor - Hanna Schygulla
Week 11 - Genre - Shakespeare Adaptations
Week 12 - Auteur - Ritwik Ghatak
Week 13 - Award - Academy Award for Best Actress
Week 14 - Auteur - Luchino Visconti
Week 15 - Genre - Political Cinema: Dictatorship in Argentina
Week 16 - Screenwriter - Jean-Claude Carrière
Week 17 - Auteur - Nagisa Oshima
Week 18 - Genre - Political Cinema: Organized Labour in Film
Week 19 - Movement - Post Soviet Cinema
Week 20 - Genre - Courtroom Dramas
Week 21 - Composer - Jerry Goldsmith
Week 22 - Actor - Haruko Sugimura
Week 23 - Auteur - Aki Kaurismäki
Week 24 - Award - Teddy Award
Week 25 - Genre - Heroic Bloodshed
Week 26 - Auteur - Věra Chytilová
Week 27 - Genre - Sports Films
Week 28 - Auteur - William Wyler
Week 29 - Genre - Bondsploitation & Eurospy
Week 30 - Actor - Soumitra Chatterjee
Week 31 - Costume Designer - Milena Canonero
Week 32 - Genre - 50's and 60's Melodrama
Week 33 - Art Direction & Production Design - William Cameron Menzies
Week 34 - Auteur - Lotte Reiniger
Week 35 - Movement - Direct Cinema
Week 36 - Auteur - Dziga Vertov
Week 37 - Composer - Toshirō Mayuzumi
Week 38 - Auteur - Jane Campion
Week 39 - Movement - Chinese Sixth Generation
Week 40 - Editor - Anne V. Coates
Week 41 - Award - Ariel Award for Best Picture
Week 42 - Actor - Takashi Shimura
Week 43 - Genre - Feminine Grotesque
Week 44 - Genre - Gothic Horror
Week 45 - Award - Golden Leopard
Week 46 - Cinematographer - Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Week 47 - Studio - Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century Fox
Week 48 - Production Design - Dante Ferretti
Week 49 - Auteur - Jafar Panahi
Week 50 - Auteur - Max Ophüls
Week 51 - Actor - Laurel and Hardy
Week 52 - Genre - 90's Thrillers
Bonus (1) - Auteur - Petra Costa
Bonus (2) - Genre - Senegalese Golden Years
Progress: 52/52 + 2/2
This challenge took from January 8, 2022 to December 6, 2022. The average score I gave for this challenge was a 3.6
The biggest surprise was Werckmeister Harmonies. To be sure, I interpreted it completely differently than what the director actually intended but I was surprised by the fact that I was able to interpret it the way I did and thus I enjoyed it as a deeply moving film about finding hope in the worst of times despite how it was intended to be something brooding and nihilistic. The biggest disappointment was Hard to be a God. It sounded so good. It sounded so good. But the actual execution is terrible. It’s this disgusting and meaningless exercise in boredom. I was hoping for something grand and epic and exciting. Instead I got one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. It’s not just the biggest disappointment of this challenge, it may be one of the biggest disappointments I’ve ever seen.
Top Three:
1. Silence
2. Werckmeister Harmonies
3. The Slender Thread
Bottom Three:
1. Hard to be a God
2. Vitalina Varela
3. Subarnarekha
Other Superlatives:
Best Performances: Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue/Andrew Garfield in Silence
Worst Performances: Madge Bellamy in White Zombie/Laurence Harvey in A Dandy in Aspic
Most Beautiful: Silence
Most Thought-Provoking: Werckmeister Harmonies
Made Me Cry: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Most Fun: Office Space
