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A. Get lost in the movement:
[Watch one film belonging to each of the following cinematic movements]
1. French Impressionism The Fall of the House of Usher
2. Polish Film School Ashes and Diamonds
3. Dogme 95 Kamera
4. New Hollywood (1968-1980) Network
5. Mumblecore Daddy Longlegs
B. Times are a-changing
[Watch one film from each of these iconic decade-genre combinations]
1. 1930s Musical Top Hat
2. 1940s War film The Great Dictator
3. 1970s Apocalyptic film Stalker
4. 1980s Coming-of-age film Cinema Paradiso
5. 1990s Courtroom Drama JFK
C. I coulda been a contender:
[Watch a film that has won the following awards in any category]
1. Cannes Film Festival Punch Drunk Love
2. Academy Award It Happened One Night
3. BAFTA The Elephant Man
4. Independent Spirit Awards Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. Sundance Film Festival Once
6. Venice International Film Festival Nomadland
7. Locarno Film Festival Right Now, Wrong Then
D. Lets break this down, shall we?
[Pick one of the following genres and watch one film from each of its subgenres list below]
1. [Science Fiction: Cyberpunk]**Tetsuo: The Iron Man
2. [Science Fiction: Alien Invasion] The Thing
3. [Science Fiction: Dystopian] Brazil
4. [Science Fiction: Time Travel] About Time
E. It's a big world out there:
[Watch a film from the following regions]
1. North America Arsenic and Old Lace
2. South America Burden of Dreams
3. Europe Come and See
4. Asia Seven Samurai
5. Africa The Battle of Algiers
6. Oceania What We Do In the Shadows
F. I see dead people:
[Watch one film from each group of deceased directors, actors & cinematographers]
1. Anthony Mann/Dennis Hopper/Elia Kazan/Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Robert Bresson/Akira Kurosawa/Fritz Lang/Pier Paolo Pasolini Ran
3. Yul Brynner/Sean Connery/Bruce Lee/Ricardo Montalban West World
4. Hannelore Elsner/Janet Leigh/Katina Paxinou/Romy Schneider Touch of Evil
5. Néstor Almendros/Jack Cardiff/Sven Nykvist/Gordon Willis Days of Heaven
G. I have always depended on the lists of strangers:
[Watch one film featured in each of the following prominent lists]
1. Roger Ebert's Great Films Badlands
2. Sight & Sound's top 100 (any category) Modern Times
3. AFI's top 100 (any category) The Graduate
4. IMDb's top 250 (2020 finalized edition) It Happened One Night
5. Steven Jay Schneider's 1001 movies The Color Purple
6. Criterion Collection The Big Country
H. We've met before, haven't we?
[Watch a film that migrated to cinematic form from another medium]
1. a franchise with 5 or more sequels/remakes/reboots The Tale of Zatoichi
2. a novel adaptation I Married a Witch
3. a film adapted to or from a TV series Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Here Rabbit
4. a theatrical play adaptation Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
I. War, what is it good for?
[Watch one film centered around each of the war themes below]
1. World War I Paths of Glory
2. World War II The Thin Red Line
3. Cold War North by Northwest
4. Vietnam War Platoon
J. Are we there yet?
[Watch one film for each of the miscellaneous challenges listed below]
1. a film more than 160 minutes long Gone With The Wind
2. a film with a budget lower than 1 million The Gold Rush
3. a silent film The Kid
4. a film directed by a woman Nomadland
5. a 2021 release Judas and the Black Messiah
6. a film suggested by another participant of this challengeWatership Down
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