✅[52/52] I mean it's my own challenge, but I like to build a list as I go, in case I change my mind about what I want to see! Films we be added as I check them off. Original challenge here.

Categories:
1. A film from the year you were born that is NOT in the Criterion Collection- GoldenEye (Martin Campbell, 1995)
2. A film by a director whose work you haven’t seen before- Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
3. 1920s- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
4. 1930s- The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
5. 1940s- Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, 1943)
6. 1950s- Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
7. 1960s- Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
8. 1970s- Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
9. 1980s- Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)
10. 1990s- A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992)
11. 2000s- Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
12. 2010s- Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
13. An Anti-War, Protest, or Social Change Film- Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
14. A Science Fiction Exploitation film- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (Nathan H. Juran, 1958)
15. A Dance film- Step Up (Anne Fletcher, 2006)
16. Directed by Stephen Chow- Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001)
17. Directed by Naoko Yamada- A Silent Voice (Naoko Yamada, 2016)
18. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta- Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta, 2012)
19. Directed by Catherine Breillat- Romance (Catherine Breillat, 1999)
20. A film from Isabel Sandoval’s In the Mood for Sensual Cinema list- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
21. A film from Cole Thompson’s Candy Cinema list- Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
22. A film from Sarah’s Sarah’s great big somehow controversial lesbian cinema recommendation list- But I'm A Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999)
23. A film from Stephen Gillespie’s Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist and Anti-fascist ‘Canon’ list- A Dog’s Will (Guel Arraes, 2000)
24. A film from Leo Koziol’s 100 Native Directors, 100 Native Films list- Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998)
25. Made in Ukraine by a Ukrainian Director- Earth (Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
26. Made in Palestine by a Palestinian Director- Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2002)
27. Made in Africa by a Woman, Trans, or GNC Director- Lionheart (Genevieve Nnaji, 2018)
28. One of the films mentioned in Alonso Aguilar’s Shared Diaspora: The Faces of Identity in Central American Cinema- Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante, 2015)
29. A documentary about the making of a film- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, and Eleanor Coppola, 1991)
30. A film from a countercultural movement that is NOT the French New Wave or an American countercultural movement- Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
31. A film that won an Oscar in the first decade of the awards- Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)
32. A film whose plot prominently features a cult- The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia (Jonni Phillips, 2019)
33. A film by a Trans, Nonbinary, or GNC director whose work you haven’t seen before- Her Story (Sydney Freehand, 2016)
34. A 20th century film that was remade in the 21st century- The Evil Dead (Sam Rami, 1981)
35. A giallo horror (or other non-English thriller/horror film)- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)
36. A film that was later adapted into a play or musical- 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, 1933)
37. A film with a queer protagonist from before 1980- The Velvet Vampire (Stephanie Rothman, 1971)
38. A road trip film that is not set in America- Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Zoya Akhtar, 2011)
39. A Bollywood film- Queen (Vikas Bahl, 2013)
40. A film made with predominantly stop motion, puppetry, or rotoscoping- Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
41. Starring Machiko Kyō- Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
42. Starring Aïssa Maïga- Aya of Yop City (Marguerite Abouet, Clement Oubrerie, 2013)
43. Starring Rachel House- Cousins (Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith, 2021)
44. A film with a color in the title- The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
45. An American film from Tori🐛’s If you like (American film) watch (foreign film) list- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
46. That American film’s foreign film companion- Like Crazy (Drake Doremus, 2016)
47. A film from Black Directors: The Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films- The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dune, 1996)
48. An adaptation that changes the setting of the source material- Bridget Jones' Diary (Sharon Macguire, 2001)
49. A film from claira curtis’ ”Good for Her” Cinematic Universe list- Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009)
50. Random number generator for any list of films- Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
51. A film from JulieC’s Neverending Christmas movie list list- Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
52. Any film on your watchlist!- Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019)