a perfect challenge since i need to diversify my watches and bone up a bit on westerns!

this year's rules

1 Anthony Mann film
- He Walked by Night (1948)

1 Melvin van Peebles or Mario van Peebles film
- Watermelon Man (1970)

1 Black western
- Posse (1993)

4 decades (western)
- The Ranchman's Vengeance (1911)
- The Mark of Zorro (1920)
- Man of the West (1958)
- Zorro (1975)

5 films by Black directors
- Body and Soul (1925)
- Ganja & Hess (1973)
- A Dry White Season (1989)
- One False Move (1992)
- The Harder They Fall (2021)

3 westerns by Corbucci, Daves, Martino, Peckinpah, or Boetticher
- Broken Arrow (1950)
- The Tall T (1957)
- Django (1966)

4 decades (noir)
- Little Caesar (1931)
- The Great Flamarion (1945)
- Diabolique (1955)
- Hard Luck (2006)

4 noir films by Siodmak, Dahl, Lang, Ray, or Franklin
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

extra credit!
- Penitentiary (1979)
- Miami Blues (1990)