The Anti-Criterion Challenge 2023
Og.list: letterboxd.com/thponders/list/the-anti-criterion-challenge-2023/
Progress: 24/52 (8/52)
✔️=watched
Categories:
✔️1. 100 Years of Greats! Use a random number generator to pick a year between 1923 and 2023, sort by most popular, and pick a film from the top 10. (You can expand to Top 20 if you’ve seen them all, or roll for a different year!)
✔️2. 1920s
✔️3. 1930s
✔️4. 1940s
5. 1950s
✔️6. 1960s
✔️7. 1970s
8. 1980s
9. 1990s
10. 2000s
11. 2010s
✔️12. 2020s
13. Creature Feature or Creature Documentary
✔️14. Period Horror or Period Horror
✔️15. Water Sports. Just Water Sports.
16. Directed by Hong Sang-Soo
17. Directed by Raj Kapoor
18. Directed by Ida Lupino
19. Directed by an Indigenous director whose…
The Anti-Criterion Challenge 2023
Og.list: letterboxd.com/thponders/list/the-anti-criterion-challenge-2023/
Progress: 24/52 (8/52)
✔️=watched
Categories:
✔️1. 100 Years of Greats! Use a random number generator to pick a year between 1923 and 2023, sort by most popular, and pick a film from the top 10. (You can expand to Top 20 if you’ve seen them all, or roll for a different year!)
✔️2. 1920s
✔️3. 1930s
✔️4. 1940s
5. 1950s
✔️6. 1960s
✔️7. 1970s
8. 1980s
9. 1990s
10. 2000s
11. 2010s
✔️12. 2020s
13. Creature Feature or Creature Documentary
✔️14. Period Horror or Period Horror
✔️15. Water Sports. Just Water Sports.
16. Directed by Hong Sang-Soo
17. Directed by Raj Kapoor
18. Directed by Ida Lupino
19. Directed by an Indigenous director whose work you haven’t seen before
✔️20. A documentary parodied on Documentary Now!
✔️21. Dark Feminist’s Dark Feminism
✔️22. ningsterrr’s 🏳️🌈 Love is an act of defiance.
23. Nicole’s Deafness and Sign Language in Film
24. michelle grondine’s dear diary, my teen angst bs now has a body count
✔️25. Katie Mitchell’s The 50 Greatest Films EVER MADE!
✔️26. Frank Ocean’s 100 Favorite Films (List compiled by Jonathan Poritsky)
27. Made in Colombia by a Colombian director
28. Made in Pakistan by a Pakistani director
29. Made in an island nation by a director from that country
✔️30. Adapted from a toy or board game
31. Revisit your childhood- A film that you remember having watched as a child, but haven’t seen since and haven’t logged
✔️32. Directed by a Trans, Nonbinary, or GNC director whose work you haven’t seen before
33. Feature film originally released on YouTube (either in parts or as a whole)
34. TV Show Feature or Special (within the show cannon- no re-casted sequels or reboots)
35. Cinematography by Yu Lik-wai
36. Edited by Gloria Schoemann
✔️37. Costumes designed by Ruth E. Carter
38. Production design by Jeannine Oppewall
39. Adapted from the writing of Haruki Murakami
✔️40. The protagonist is a talking animal
41. The antagonist is a place, thing, or idea (i.e. NOT a person)
✔️42. Pre-Code romantic comedy
43. Mexican Luchador film
44. Marāṭhī as the primary language
✔️45. Latin listed as a spoken language
✔️46. How low can you go? (Rated lower than a 2.5)
47. Can you go down low? (Rated lower than a 2)
48. All the way to the floor? (Rated lower than a 1.5)
✔️49. Cha Cha Real Smooth (A film with a style of dance in the title.)
✔️50. A film that inspired Goncharov (1973)
51. A film inspired by Goncharov (1973)
✔️52. Any film from your watchlist!