v essited to join in on the third annual Anti-Criterion Challenge, a companion to The Criterion Challenge 2023. this is my second year participating in this fun companion challenge 🥳 ➡️ The 2023 Challenge Rules and Prompts
Links
• challenge host T.H. Ponders’s acc lists: 2023 | 2022 | 2021
• my acc lists: 2023 | 2022
• my criterion challenge lists: 2023 | 2022 | 2021
• Sprudelheinz’s All the Movies (Sorted by movie posters)
• Documentary Now!
• Dark Feminist’s Dark Feminism
• ningsterrr’s 🏳️🌈 Love is an act of defiance.
• Nicole’s Deafness and Sign Language in Film
• my dear diary, my teen angst bs now has a body count
• Katie Mitchell’s The 50 Greatest Films EVER MADE!
•…
v essited to join in on the third annual Anti-Criterion Challenge, a companion to The Criterion Challenge 2023. this is my second year participating in this fun companion challenge 🥳 ➡️ The 2023 Challenge Rules and Prompts
Links
• challenge host T.H. Ponders’s acc lists: 2023 | 2022 | 2021
• my acc lists: 2023 | 2022
• my criterion challenge lists: 2023 | 2022 | 2021
• Sprudelheinz’s All the Movies (Sorted by movie posters)
• Documentary Now!
• Dark Feminist’s Dark Feminism
• ningsterrr’s 🏳️🌈 Love is an act of defiance.
• Nicole’s Deafness and Sign Language in Film
• my dear diary, my teen angst bs now has a body count
• Katie Mitchell’s The 50 Greatest Films EVER MADE!
• Frank Ocean’s 100 Favorite Films (List compiled by Jonathan Poritsky)
• my films that have adapted haruki murakami’s writing
• tan’s films inspired by Goncharov (1973)
Top 5
1. Stage Door (1937)
2. Theater Camp (2023)
3. Swallow (2019)
4. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
5. Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant + John Early (2022)
Personal Superlatives
Highlights: first year as a indie spirit awards voting jury member, sundance 2023
Most Beautiful: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), Swallow (2019), Brigadoon (1954)
Most Thought-Provoking: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), Swallow (2019), Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Made Me Feel The Most: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), Theater Camp (2023), Causeway (2022)
Made Me Cry: Theater Camp (2023), Causeway (2022), Show Me Love/Fucking Åmål (1998), Swarm (2023), Three Salons at the Seaside (1994)
Best Surprises: Theater Camp (2023), Stage Door (1937), Causeway (2022), Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant + John Early (2022), Sorry To Bother You (2018), The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023), Party Girl (1995), Tiong Bahru Social Club (2020), Three Salons at the Seaside (1994)
Biggest Letdowns: Corsage (2022), Student Bodies (1981)
Not My Vibe: Funny Pages (2022), Student Bodies (1981), Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Most Fun: Theater Camp (2023), M3GAN (2022), Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant + John Early (2022), Stage Door (1937), Sorry To Bother You (2018), Scream 2 (1997), The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023), Party Girl (1995), B.A.P.S. (1997)
Made Me Laugh The Most: Theater Camp (2023), Sorry To Bother You (2018), Scream 2 (1997), The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023), Party Girl (1995), B.A.P.S. (1997), Bratz (2007)
Most Recommend: Theater Camp (2023), Stage Door (1937), Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant + John Early (2022), Causeway (2022), Swallow (2019), Sorry To Bother You (2018), Show Me Love/Fucking Åmål (1998), Party Girl (1995), M3GAN (2022), The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023), Tiong Bahru Social Club (2020), Three Salons at the Seaside (1994)
Best Performances:
Started: 01/17/23; Completed:
Progress: 43/52
"A special thanks to Michelle Grondine, who I've been bouncing ideas off of for this year's categories, and who always makes me want to be the best steward of the medium I can be....And finally, thanks to all you wonderful Letterboxians, who make this community such a fun place." PONDERS !!! 🥲🥲🥲😭😭🫶🏻🫶🏻