***2024 Challenge: The Big Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge for 2024***
Welcome to the first annual Long Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge! (Credit to Ben, whose Criterion Challenge inspired this idea.) There are two versions of the challenge: one for the whole year, and one for Noirvember only. Below are 52 categories. Note that the specific films listed are my personal picks. You should pick your own slate of films that match the categories!
Yearlong Goal: Watch one film noir from each category between 1/1/23 and 12/31/23.
Noirvember Only Goal: Watch one film from any 30 of these categories by the end of November 2023.
Challengers:
🕵🏼 illyanarasputin 🕵🏼 JoeRandazzo624 🕵🏼 Andrew Jarrett 🕵🏼 SavageBob 🕵🏼Brian Mac 🕵🏼David Diamond 🕵🏼Nick…
***2024 Challenge: The Big Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge for 2024***
Welcome to the first annual Long Noirvember: A Film Noir Challenge! (Credit to Ben, whose Criterion Challenge inspired this idea.) There are two versions of the challenge: one for the whole year, and one for Noirvember only. Below are 52 categories. Note that the specific films listed are my personal picks. You should pick your own slate of films that match the categories!
Yearlong Goal: Watch one film noir from each category between 1/1/23 and 12/31/23.
Noirvember Only Goal: Watch one film from any 30 of these categories by the end of November 2023.
Challengers:
🕵🏼 illyanarasputin 🕵🏼 JoeRandazzo624 🕵🏼 Andrew Jarrett 🕵🏼 SavageBob 🕵🏼Brian Mac 🕵🏼David Diamond 🕵🏼Nick Atkins 🕵🏼lonestarr357 🕵🏼Dan Hales 🕵🏼preisman 🕵🏼RFValhalla 🕵🏼Lavender Ayodi 🕵🏼F. Yescas 🕵🏼Streaming Skull 🕵🏼Florian2003 🕵🏼3500 🕵🏼 Obxeno 🕵🏼 TimSP1
Started: 1/2/23
Completed: 11/4/13
Current Progress: 52/52
Some of these categories will necessarily lend themselves to the classic film noir era (1941 to 1958), but feel free to mix in neo-noir where possible. I've included links on most categories to make things easier. But "film noir" is a fuzzy term; use your own judgment on what counts. Likewise, feel free to explore and go beyond these lists. The goal is to have fun and watch movies you might otherwise overlook.
Categories:
1. Random Letter Generator (Google random letter generator and generate a letter from A to Z. Watch a film noir starting with that letter, ignoring a, an, the, or foreign-language equivalents.)
2. Amnesia in film noir
3. Horses in film noir
4. Diners in film noir
5. Made by women
6. Black noir (alternate list)
7. Blacklisted noir
8. Studio: RKO (alternate list)
9. Studio: Eagle-Lion
10. Studio: MGM (alternate list)
11. Studio: PRC
12. Featured on Out of the Podcast: A Film Noir Podcast
13. Deadline's 50 Classic Noir Films
14. Yahoo! Entertainment’s 15 Best Film Noir Movies
15. BFI's 10 Essential Black Performances in Noir
16. 10 Essential Noirvember Double Bills - Film #1
17. 10 Essential Noirvember Double Bills - Film #2
18. Restored by the Film Noir Foundation
19. Noir in the Criterion Collection
20. Noir in the public domain
21. Runtime of 80 minutes or less
22. Runtime of 120 minutes or more
23. Letterboxd rating of 3.0 or lower
24. Directed by Jules Dassin
25. Directed by Billy Wilder
26. Directed by Ida Lupino
27. Starring Joan Crawford
28. Starring Vincent Price
29. Starring Evelyn Keyes
30. Starring José Ferrer
31. Music: Crime jazz
32. Music by Miklós Rózsa
33. Cinematography by John Alton
34. Made in France
35. Made in Japan (alternate list)
36. Made in Latin America (alternate list)
37. Made in India (or use IMDB's list)
38. Made in the UK (alternate list)
39. A proto-noir (alternate list)
40. LA noir (alternate list)
41. Rural noir (alternate list)
42. Neon noir (alternate list)
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s
51. 2020s
52. Any film noir on your watchlist
Helpful Links:
Wikipedia's film noir list
Wikipedia's neo-noir list
Please use the tags "tln2023" and “the long noirvember 2023”—and link your personal list in the comments below. See you in the shadows!
