Link to T.H.'s Original Anti-Criterion Challenge List.

Progress: 12/52 (23%)

This list is a companion to The Criterion Challenge

1. 100 Years of Greats: Psycho (1960)
2. 1920s: Metropolis (1927)
3. 1930s: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. 1940s: The Big Sleep (1946)
5. 1950s: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
6. 1960s: Yellow Submarine (1968)
7. 1970s: Star Wars (1977)
8. 1980s: Dead Poets Society (1989) ✓
9. 1990s: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) ✓
10. 2000s: Brick (2005) ✓
11. 2010s: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) ✓
12. 2020s: Falcon Lake (2022) ✓
13. Creature Feature or Creature Documentary: Under the Skin (2013) ✓
14. Period Horror or Period Horror: Suspiria (2018)
15. Water Sports. Just Water Sports.: The Swimmers (2022) ✓
16. Directed by Hong Sang-Soo: On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
17. Directed by Raj Kapoor: Mera Naam Joker (1970)
18. Directed by Ida Lupino: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
19. Directed by an Indigenous director whose work you haven’t seen before: Waru (2017)
20. A documentary parodied on Documentary Now!: My Octopus Teacher (2020)
21. Guromancer ♏'s Dark Feminism: Bound (1996)
22. ningsterrr’s 🏳️‍🌈Love is an act of defiance.: Laurence Anyways (2012) ✓
23. Nicole’s Nicole’s Deafness and Sign Language in Film: In the Land of the Deaf (1992)
24. michelle grondine’s dear diary, my teen angst bs now has a body count: Atonement (2007) ✓
25. Katie Mitchell’s The 50 Greatest Films EVER MADE!.: The Big Lebowski (1998)
26. Frank Ocean’s 100 Favorite Films (List compiled by Jonathan Poritsky): There Will Be Blood (2007)
27. Made in Colombia by a Colombian director: Birds of Passage (2018)
28. Made in Pakistan by a Pakistani director: Joyland (2022)
29. Made in an island nation by a director from that country: The Quiet Girl (2022) ✓
30. Adapted from a toy or board game: Clue (1985)
31. Revisit your childhood- A film that you remember having watched as a child, but haven’t seen since and haven’t logged: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
32. Directed by a Trans, Nonbinary, or GNC director whose work you haven’t seen before: We're all Going to the World's Fair (2021)
33. Feature film originally released on YouTube (either in parts or as a whole): Wasteland (2019)
34. TV Show Feature or Special: The Third Day: Autumn (2020)
35. Cinematography by Yu Lik-wai: Still Life (2016)
36. Edited by Gloria Schoemann: Macario (1960)
37. Costumes designed by Ruth E. Carter: Summer of Sam (1999)
38. Production design by Jeannine Oppewall: Catch Me If You Can (2002)
39. Adapted from the writing of Haruki Murakami: Burning (2018) ✓
40. The protagonist is a talking animal: Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
41. The antagonist is a place, thing, or idea (i.e. NOT a person): Moon (2009)
42. Pre-Code romantic comedy: Female (1933)
43. Mexican Luchador film: Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters (1970)
44. Marāṭhī as the primary language: The Disciple (2020)
45. Latin listed as a spoken language: Tabula Rasa (1989)
46. How low can you go? (Rated lower than a 2.5): The Adderall Diaries (2015)
47. Can you go down low? (Rated lower than a 2): Pan 699 (1974)
48. All the way to the floor? (Rated lower than a 1.5): Are you lost in the world like me? (2016)
49. Cha Cha Real Smooth (A film with a style of dance in the title.): Ballet (1995)
50. A film that inspired Goncharov (1973): Mean Streets (1973)
51. A film inspired by Goncharov (1973): Goodfellas (1990) ✓
52. Any film from your watchlist!: Paint Drying (2016)

Started: 01/06/2023
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