Second time doing this challenge! This list is a companion to the Criterion Challenge.

The original list from T.H. Ponders can be found here.

Just aiming for cum laude.

Progress: 52/52
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Categories:
1. A film whose world premier coincides with your star sign ✅
2. 1920's ✅
3. 1930's ✅
4. 1940's ✅
5. 1950's ✅
6. 1960's ✅
7. 1970's✅
8. 1980's ✅
9. 1990's ✅
10. 2000's ✅
11. 2010's ✅
12. 2020's ✅
13. Made in a country with land South of the Tropic of Capricorn by a director from that country ✅
14. Made in a country with land between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator by a director from that country ✅
15. Buddy film, but the buddies aren’t cops ✅
16. Slow cinema, but it’s 95 minutes or less✅
17. Heist film, but the thing being stolen is someone’s heart✅
18. Directed by Lois Weber✅
19. Directed by Kasi Lemmons✅
20. Directed by Ann Hui On-wah✅
21. Directed by a director with three or less feature films ✅
22. Andy Young’s “That” shot of someone in a theater watching a movie ✅
23. annie’s b-movies for the GIRLS ✅
24. evilbjork’s Avant-Garde Underground✅
25. rafael 🍊’s lonely people in neon cities ✅
26. Made in a country with a border that crosses the Equator by a director from that country ✅
27. A director's highest rated film ✅
28. That same director's lowest rated film ✅
29. A karaoke scene ✅
30. A character that has more than 4 limbs ✅
31. Directed by an indigenous director whose work you haven’t seen before ✅
32. Directed by a trans or nonbinary director whose work you haven’t seen before ✅
33. Superhero movie that's not a DC, Marvel, Disney or Darkhorse property (Suggested by kevsaund!) ✅
34. Animated film from a country that is not the US or Japan ✅
35. Music documentary from a genre that isn't modern pop or classic rock ✅
36. Documentary about Africa by an African director✅
37. Edited by Terilyn A. Shropshire ✅
38. Music by A.R. Rahman✅
39. Cinematography by Theo van de Sande ✅
40. Made in a country with land between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer by a director from that country ✅
41. Made in a country with land north of the Tropic of Cancer by a director from that country ✅
42. A titular character (Suggested by Neil Johnson!) ✅
43. Title formatted as X vs. X ✅
44. Arab Film & Media Institute’s Cinema of Palestine ✅
45. Korean Screen’s 100 Greatest Korean Films ✅
46. Kyle Turner’s The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories ✅
47. Screenplay adapted from a work of nonfiction ✅
48. Made in Georgia (Country) ✅
49. Made in Georgia (U.S. State) ✅
50. Holiday horror for any holiday ✅
51. Someone holds a cat ✅
52. Any film from your watchlist! ✅