My first time for this one! Let's go! 31/52
Hello Everyone - đź‘‹
This is 8th year of the Film School Drop Outs challenge.
This weekly challenge will take place across all 52 weeks of 2024 Each week will address a new topic that will provide signposts through your journey. The goal is to watch at least one film each week that will expand your experience of film. 🎥
The syllabus can be found below. Each week's topic will be accompanied by a link to a list of suggested films but feel free to choose any film that you feel meets that week's subject. See the List notes for weekly dates and tags.
If you're new and curious - here…
My first time for this one! Let's go! 31/52
Hello Everyone - đź‘‹
This is 8th year of the Film School Drop Outs challenge.
This weekly challenge will take place across all 52 weeks of 2024 Each week will address a new topic that will provide signposts through your journey. The goal is to watch at least one film each week that will expand your experience of film. 🎥
The syllabus can be found below. Each week's topic will be accompanied by a link to a list of suggested films but feel free to choose any film that you feel meets that week's subject. See the List notes for weekly dates and tags.
If you're new and curious - here are the links to the 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 challenges. .
(Voluntary) Rules 📢
1. Each week you must watch the film that you have selected for that week's topic;
2. After having watched each film you should write and post a review of at least five sentences;
3. Ensure that you tag each film with the challenge tag FSDO2024. Also make sure you tag it with the weekly tag, for example, FSDO2024Week1. This will enable other students to find your reviews;
4. Read other student's reviews and share comments with one another.
Please Note ✏️
- All of these rules are voluntary;
- If you are unable to watch the listed movie in any given week you can skip it or watch it later;
- Feel free to make up your own topics for any given week if you don't like the existing topic or if you are unable to gain access to a movie that fits it;
- Feel free to change any movie on your list at any time. The availability of a film often makes this necessary;
- If you don't like writing reviews you don't have to. Maybe comment on other people's reviews so you can still be a part of the dialogue (although you don't have to do that either).
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2024 Syllabus
Week 1 - Actor - Edna Purviance ✅ - The Kid
Week 2 - Studio - Metro Pictures ✅ - Sherlock Jr.
Week 3 - Genre - Boxing ✅ - Rocco and His Brothers
Week 4 - Movement - Hollywood Blacklist / McCarthyism ✅ - The Naked City
Week 5 - List - Akira Kurosawa's Favorites ✅ - Lawrence of Arabia
Week 6 - Book - My Last Sigh, By Luis Buñuel ✅ - Persona
Week 7 - Genre - Oneiric Cinema ✅ - Black Moon
Week 8 - Auteur - Jack arnold ✅ - The Mouse That Roared
Week 9 - List - Rarefilmm.com
Week 10 - Genre - Anti Capitalist âś… - Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Week 11 - Actor - Elizabeth Taylor>âś… - A Place In the Sun
Week 12 - Writer - Paddy Chayefsky ✅ - Altered States
Week 13 - Production design - Bernard Evein ✅ Young Girls of Rochefort
Week 14 - List - Todd Haynes' top 50 for LaCinetek ✅ - All About Eve
Week 15 - Writer - Ilya Nusinov ✅ - Welcome, or No Trespassing
Week 16- Auteur - Elia Kazanâś… - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Week 17 - Award - Oscars - Best foreign/international film  ✅ - Nights of Cabiria
Week 18 - Genre - Social Realism
Week 19 - Actor - Eiji Okada
Week 20 - Cinematographer - Vilmos Zsigmond ✅ The Sugarland Express
Week 21 - Movement - Blaxploitation ✅ Wattstax
Week 22 - Auteur - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Week 23 - Cinematographer - Tonino Delli-Colli
Week 24 - Genre - Addiction
Week 25 - Studio - Famous players
Week 26 - Actor - Jean Pierre Leaud ✅ - Stolen Kissed
Week 27 - Book - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ’n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood ✅ - Five Easy Pieces
Week 28 - Auteur - Joan Micklin Silver
Week 29 - Cinematographer - Nestor Almendros
Week 30 - List- Episodes of The Rewatchables ✅ - The Verdict
Week 31 - Writer - Sam Sherpard
Week 32 - Auteur - Jim Jarmush
Week 33 - Cinematographer - Giorgos Arvanitis
Week 34 - List - John Grisham adaptations ✅ - The Rainmaker
Week 35 - Auteur - Kristoffer borgli
Week 36 - Book - In the blink of an eye, By Walter Murch
Week 37 - Genre - Beautiful Traditional animation ✅ - Perfect Blue
Week 38 - Award - Berlin Festival - Teddy award for LGBTQ+
Week 39 - Actor - Paul Giamatti
Week 40 - Auteur - Lee chang dong
Week 41 - Award - European Film Awards - Best European Film âś… Cold War
Week 42 - Genre - Body Horror âś… - Spring
Week 43 - Auteur - Hideaki Anno ✅ - Shin Godzilla
Week 44 - Genre - Bollywood Horror
Week 45 - Award - SXSW - Grand Jury Prize ✅ - Shithouse
Week 46 - Studio - Oscilloscope ✅ - Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
Week 47 - Actor - Moon So-ri
Week 48 - Studio - Pen Studios
Week 49 - Award - Sundance - Grand Jury Prize ✅ - What Happened Was…
Week 50 - Book - Trascendental Style in Film - Paul Schrader
Week 51 - Genre - Filipino coming of age
Week 52 - Cinematographer - Christopher Doyle ✅ - Hero
