This was my first attempt at the Letterboxd Season Challenge. A really great experience, and a good prompt to exploring some material I probably otherwise wouldn’t have checked out, scattered among stuff I almost certainly would. Notably, I don’t think I’d ever have seen Camera Buff, Kansas City or the oddly obscure …tick…tick…tick… without this challenge - three films I enjoyed an awful lot.
Here are my top five of the challenge:
1. The Wrestler
2. Battle Royale
3. Nightcrawler
4. Being John Malkovich
5. You Were Never Really Here
The list below follows the prompts from the original list hosted by 𝖘𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖎𝖓.
Prompts and Choices:
✓- 1. 99 Minutes Week (4th Sept): Dreamscape - ★★★
✓- 2. Lo-Fi Week (11th Sept): The Man From Earth…
This was my first attempt at the Letterboxd Season Challenge. A really great experience, and a good prompt to exploring some material I probably otherwise wouldn’t have checked out, scattered among stuff I almost certainly would. Notably, I don’t think I’d ever have seen Camera Buff, Kansas City or the oddly obscure …tick…tick…tick… without this challenge - three films I enjoyed an awful lot.
Here are my top five of the challenge:
1. The Wrestler
2. Battle Royale
3. Nightcrawler
4. Being John Malkovich
5. You Were Never Really Here
The list below follows the prompts from the original list hosted by 𝖘𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖎𝖓.
Prompts and Choices:
✓- 1. 99 Minutes Week (4th Sept): Dreamscape - ★★★
✓- 2. Lo-Fi Week (11th Sept): The Man From Earth - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 3. Letterboxd List Battles! Litterboxd vs. Letterbarkd (18th Sept): Venom - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 4. Palme d'Or Week (25th Sept): Triangle of Sadness - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 5. Visual Insanity Week (2nd Oct): Legend - ★★★
✓- 6. Art Horror Week (9th Oct): Skinamarink - ★
✓- 7. Hammer Horror Week (16th Oct): Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter - ★★
✓- 8. Body Horror Week (23rd Oct): Return of the Living Dead 3 - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 9. Horror Revival Week (30th Oct): Friday the 13th (2009) - ★★★
✓- 10. Nun for You Week (6th Nov): Howling III: The Marsupials - ★★★★
✓- 11. Hidden Indies: levelFILM Week (13th Nov): Antibirth - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 12. Career Killers Week (20th Nov): Fear X - ★★ 1/2
✓- 13. Breaking News Week (27th Nov): Nightcrawler - ★★★★ 1/2
✓- 14. Living in Obscurity Week (4th Dec): VFW - ★★★★
✓- 15. Condemned! Week (11th Dec): The Northman - ★★★★
- Mid-Season Break -
✓- 16. Lin, Lyne, Lynn, Lynn, or Lynne Week (1st Jan): You Were Never Really Here - ★★★★ - (Review)
✓- 17. Cream of the Grindhouse Crop Week (8th Jan): The Beyond - ★★ 1/2 - (Review)
✓- 18. Golden Brick Week (15th Jan): We're All Going To The World's Fair - ★★ 1/2 - (Review)
✓- 19. Contemporary Performers (22nd Jan): Michelle Yeoh Week: Police Story 3: Super Cop - ★★★ 1/2 - (Review)
✓- 20. The Female Gaze Week (29th Jan): The Wrestler - ★★★★ 1/2 - (Review)
✓- 21. Afrofuturism Week (5th Feb): Space Is the Place - ★★★ - (Review)
✓- 22. Time Out for Romance Week (12th Feb): Breathless - ★★★★
✓- 23. New Black Film Canon Week (19th Feb): Nope - ★★★★
✓- 24. The Disabled Experience Week (26th Feb): Run - ★★★
✓- 25. Good for Her Week (4th Mar): Battle Royale - ★★★★ 1/2
✓- 26. Scored No Oscar: Carter Burwell Week (11th Mar): Being John Malkovich - ★★★★ 1/2
✓- 27. Morally Anxious Week (18th Mar): Camera Buff - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 28. World Cinema Project Week (25th Mar): The Color of Pomegranates - NR
✓- 29. "We Come to This Place for Magic" Week (1st Apr): The Last Matinee - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 30. Classic Performers: Frederic March Week (8th Apr): ...tick...tick...tick... - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 31. Cut to the Chase Week (15th Apr): Magnum Force - ★★★
✓- 32. Remembering Belafonte Week (22nd Apr): Kansas City - ★★★ 1/2
✓- 33. Party Like It's 1999 Week (29th Apr): End of Days - ★★★
