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2023 Film Challenge

Welcome everyone!

The 6th annual film challenge is here with old favorites returning and some new challenges set forth to shape your cinematic year. As always do let me know if any clarifications are necessary or if you see any mistakes.

Main Challenge

Nightmare Mode

Important Notes:

The challenge officially starts on January 1st 2023, so start updating your lists with films you watch after that date.
How you count films is up to you. This is not a contest and it is up to each and every one to decide how they want to do this. I would suggest going for one film per category either in the main challenge or in nightmare mode, preferably films you watched for the first time this year, but that's just me.
In order for everyone to be able to effortlessly scroll down the page, I would suggest wrapping your updates in collapsible text, like in this post.

Have fun watching films this year!

Relevant Lists
Below you will find some examples & ideas for certain categories.

Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project

Previously featured Cinematic Waves

Participant Recommendations

Re: 2023 Film Challenge

Will be putting my updates below:

Main Challenge: Completed

Nightmare Mode: Completed

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?
watch 10 foreign language films
[ Shaolin Soccer, EO, A Report on the Party and Guests, Beyond the Wall, The Clay Bird, The Parade, Raise the Red Lantern, Underground, Shoah, Rififi ]

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
watch 10 films from the same country (India)
[ Charulata, The Elephant God, An Enemy of the People, Like Stars on Earth, The Coward, The Goddess, A Wednesday, Paint it Saffron, The Holy Man, The Golden Fortress ]

Round up the usual suspects
watch 10 films from the same genre (Music)
[ High Fidelity, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Dirty Dancing, Nashville, Woodstock, Tar, Elvis, The Cotton Club, Straight Outta Compton, A Chorus Line ]

Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close up
watch 10 films featuring the same actor (Laurence Olivier)
[ Hamlet, 49th Parallel, The Boys from Brazil, The Entertainer, Dracula, Wuthering Heights, Q Planes, Henry V, The Divorce of Lady X, The Bounty ]

I have a vision...
watch 10 films from the same director (Jean-Pierre Melville)
[ The Samurai, The Silence of the Sea, Magnet of Doom, Second Wind, Leon Morin Priest, Two Men in Manhattan, The Red Circle, Army of Shadows, Bob the Gambler, The Finger Man ]

All the places you’ll go
watch 10 films, each from a different country that you’ve never watched a film from before
[ Stories from the Chestnut Woods (Slovenia), This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lesotho), The House at the End of Time (Venezuela), Tinpis Run (Papua New Guinea), The Right and the Wrong (Trinidad and Tobago), The Cup (Bhutan), Plaza Catedral (Panama), Donbass (Ukraine), The Sweetest Mango (Antigua and Barbuda), 2012: Curse of the Xtabai (Belize) ]

Breaking the waves
watch 10 films belonging to any of the cinematic movements covered in this challenge over the years
[ Putney Swope (Blaxploitation), The Parallax View, McCabe & Mrs Miller, The Last Picture Show, Midnight Express, A Child is Waiting, Cabaret, Blow Out, Slaughterhouse-Five (New Hollywood), Breathless (French New Wave) ]

Hallmost Famous
watch 10 films that have been nominated in any MoFo Hall of Fame but never won
[ Ordet, In the Mood for Love, Young Frankenstein, Time After Time, Naked, Blithe Spirit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Eyes Wide Shut, Suspiria (1977), Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring ]

The Sound of Silence
watch 10 silent films
[ The Last Laugh, The Man Who Laughs, Haxan, The Phantom Carriage, Within our Gates, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, The Sheik, Battling Butler, The Navigator, Napoleon (1926) ]

Free Samples
watch 1 film per decade for the last 100 hundred years
[ Son on Frankestein (1930s), Lifeboat (1940s), Thunder Bay (1950s), Children of the Damned (1960s), Savage (1970s), Witness (1980s), Crimson Tide (1990s), The Invention of Lying (2000s), The First Purge (2010s), The Banshees of Inisherin (2020s) ]

You MoFo I almost had you
Pick one of the lists featured in MoFo and watch 10 films in it (Top Films, pre 30s)
[ Steamboat Bill Jr, It, The Cameraman, The Unknown, Blackmail, Underworld, The Wind, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Way Down East, The Passion of Joan Arc ]

Leftovers: 47

Originally Posted by Siddon (Post 2358068)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter

not dead

Of course he's dead, why else hasn't he made anything since 2010?

Seriously though, Hanna Schygulla is also not dead.

Re: 2023 Film Challenge

I do have a history of killing off people in the challenge. Both fixed. Thank you.

Re: 2023 Film Challenge

Thanks, Jabs. However, I'd double-check all of them just to be sure because I just noticed that Vittorio Storaro is still alive as well.

Originally Posted by Iroquois (Post 2358076)

Thanks, Jabs. However, I'd double-check all of them just to be sure because I just noticed that Vittorio Storaro is still alive as well.

I suddenly have the impression that there is a good chance that I intended to change the category's description from deceased to something similar to legends and never got around to it.

Here we go:

Main Challenge

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I'm here for this.

Main Challenge

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Saved. Will start choosing my categories throughout the next hour.

Main Challenge

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My future updates:

Main Challenge [23/52]

Nightmare Mode [45/110]

Re: 2023 Film Challenge

@Iroquois I just want to clarify that Breaking the Waves can include as many different cinematic waves as you want, provided they belong to the ones we have covered throughout the years. You don't have to do all 10 from the same one.

Originally Posted by Jabs (Post 2358141)

Good to know. I think picking one movement helps to focus things a bit, but I'll use others if I need to.

Originally Posted by Jabs (Post 2358141)

I assumed the same as Iro. But I prefer your ida, as I was torn between Indian Parallell, Japanese New Wave and French New Wave.

Now I can mix and match. 😎

Re: 2023 Film Challenge

There's a couple of reasons for this. The first is clearly accessibility, as finding 10 films of a certain wave that you haven't seen might prove to be harder than expected. The second is that this should be treated as a last hoorah for cinematic waves, as we will be giving them a break after this year. It has been getting progressively harder to find new ones with enough prominence to justify covering them so it's either mostly repeats or give them a short break for a year or two.

Edit: Unless you guys have in mind 5-6 cinematic waves we haven't covered yet that fit the bill, in which case feel free to DM me.

Re: 2023 Film Challenge

Some suggestions for films to use:

Naked Lunch
The Last Emperor
Angel Heart
An Elephant Sitting Still
Who Killed Captain Alex
The Children of Paradise
The Sacrifice
Old Joy
Touki Bouki
The Proposition

Alternatively, you can just pick something off my Top 100.

My Recommendations:

The Thief (1997)
The Ox (1991)
La Leon (2007)
Witchhammer (1970)
The Whisperers (1967)
Dust in the Wind (1986)
In the Earth (2020)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Zero Effect (1998)

I’ll have to take a closer look at some of the countries to see both what I haven’t seen anything from, and also what is available from those countries.

For instance, I’m having a hard time thinking of a single movie from Finland that I’ve seen and I find that odd. Somehow sipped through the cracks, but it’s a perfect time to crack into Kaurismaki’s films.

saved for later

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