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update! My progress so far!
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Main Challenge
A. Get lost in the movement:
[Watch one film belonging to each of the following cinematic movements]
1. French New Wave
State of Siege
2. Cinema of Transgression
3. Italian Neorealism
Shoeshine
4. Indian Parallel Cinema
5. German Expressionism
6. Surrealist Cinema
Perfect Blue
7. Yugoslav Black Wave
B. Times are a-changing
[Watch one film from each of these iconic decade-genre combinations]
1. 1930s gangster film
Dead end
2. 1940s noir film
The Stranger
3. 1950s western
The Big Country
4. 1960s science fiction
5. 1970s horror
Zombi 2
C. I coulda been a contender:
[Watch a film that has won the following awards]
1. Palme d'Or.
Tree of Life
2. Academy Award (any category)
The Brave one
3. BAFTA Best Film.
Room at the Top
4. Independent Spirit (any category)
Blood Simple
D. I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way:
[Watch an animated film from each of the animation styles/production companies listed below]
1. Classic Disney
101 Dalmations
2. Studio Ghibli
KiKi's delivery Service
3. Stop-motion animation
Chicken Run
4. Hand-drawn animation
Grave of the FireFlies
E. It's a big world out there:
[Watch a film from the following regions]
1. North America.
Young Adult
2. South America
Camila
3. Europe
The Ox
4. Asia.
Ip Man
5. Africa
6. Oceania
F. I see dead people:
[Watch one film from each group of deceased directors and actors]
1. David Lean/Alfred Hitchcock/John Ford/Frank Capra
2. François Truffaut/Franco Zeffirelli/Yasujirō Ozu/Ousmane Sembène
Otello
3. Grace Kelly/Marlene Dietrich/Sophia Loren/Ingrid Bergman.
Spellbound
4. Marcello Mastroianni/Yves Montand/Paul Newman/Toshiro Mifune
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
Adaptation
2. National Society of Film Critics' Essential Films
3. AFI's top 100 (any category)
Wizard of Oz
4. IMDb's top 250 (2019 finalized edition).
The Hunt
5. Steven Jay Schneider's 1001 movies
The Asphalt Jungle
6. Criterion Collection.
I, Daniel Blake
7. MoFo Hall of Fame (any category)
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
2. a novel adaptation
Pet Semetary (1989)
3. a film adapted to or from a TV series
The Fugitive
4. a theatrical play adaptation.
The Dresser
I. Show me the money:
[Watch one film with each of the financial details listed below]
1. topped the weekly box office within 2019.
Aquaman
2. box office flop (made less money that it cost)
3. box office wonder (made at least 3 times as much as it cost)
Knives Out
4. budget lower than 1 million*
Blue Ruin
J. Are we there yet?
[Watch one film for each of the miscellaneous challenges listed below]
1. a film more than 160 minutes long
Kwaidan
2. a foreign language film
Thelma
3. a black and white film.
The Southerner
4. a silent film
Steamboat Bill Jr
5. a film directed by a woman.*
Meeks Cutoff
6. a 2020 release
Birds of Prey
7. a film in theaters
[Watch one film belonging to each of the following cinematic movements]
1. French New Wave
State of Siege
2. Cinema of Transgression
3. Italian Neorealism
Shoeshine
4. Indian Parallel Cinema
5. German Expressionism
6. Surrealist Cinema
Perfect Blue
7. Yugoslav Black Wave
B. Times are a-changing
[Watch one film from each of these iconic decade-genre combinations]
1. 1930s gangster film
Dead end
2. 1940s noir film
The Stranger
3. 1950s western
The Big Country
4. 1960s science fiction
5. 1970s horror
Zombi 2
C. I coulda been a contender:
[Watch a film that has won the following awards]
1. Palme d'Or.
Tree of Life
2. Academy Award (any category)
The Brave one
3. BAFTA Best Film.
Room at the Top
4. Independent Spirit (any category)
Blood Simple
D. I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way:
[Watch an animated film from each of the animation styles/production companies listed below]
1. Classic Disney
101 Dalmations
2. Studio Ghibli
KiKi's delivery Service
3. Stop-motion animation
Chicken Run
4. Hand-drawn animation
Grave of the FireFlies
E. It's a big world out there:
[Watch a film from the following regions]
1. North America.
Young Adult
2. South America
Camila
3. Europe
The Ox
4. Asia.
Ip Man
5. Africa
6. Oceania
F. I see dead people:
[Watch one film from each group of deceased directors and actors]
1. David Lean/Alfred Hitchcock/John Ford/Frank Capra
2. François Truffaut/Franco Zeffirelli/Yasujirō Ozu/Ousmane Sembène
Otello
3. Grace Kelly/Marlene Dietrich/Sophia Loren/Ingrid Bergman.
Spellbound
4. Marcello Mastroianni/Yves Montand/Paul Newman/Toshiro Mifune
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
Adaptation
2. National Society of Film Critics' Essential Films
3. AFI's top 100 (any category)
Wizard of Oz
4. IMDb's top 250 (2019 finalized edition).
The Hunt
5. Steven Jay Schneider's 1001 movies
The Asphalt Jungle
6. Criterion Collection.
I, Daniel Blake
7. MoFo Hall of Fame (any category)
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
2. a novel adaptation
Pet Semetary (1989)
3. a film adapted to or from a TV series
The Fugitive
4. a theatrical play adaptation.
The Dresser
I. Show me the money:
[Watch one film with each of the financial details listed below]
1. topped the weekly box office within 2019.
Aquaman
2. box office flop (made less money that it cost)
3. box office wonder (made at least 3 times as much as it cost)
Knives Out
4. budget lower than 1 million*
Blue Ruin
J. Are we there yet?
[Watch one film for each of the miscellaneous challenges listed below]
1. a film more than 160 minutes long
Kwaidan
2. a foreign language film
Thelma
3. a black and white film.
The Southerner
4. a silent film
Steamboat Bill Jr
5. a film directed by a woman.*
Meeks Cutoff
6. a 2020 release
Birds of Prey
7. a film in theaters
Nightmare Mode
You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?
watch 10 foreign language films
1 Queen of Hearts
2 The Thief
3 That Obscure Object of Desire
4 Let the Sunshine in
5 y Tu Mama Tambien
6 The Grandmaster
7 3 Brothers
8 2.0
9 The Viral Factor
10 The Bullet Vanishes
Live from the Dolby Theater!
watch every film nominated in 2019 for the Academy Award for Best Picture
The Irishman, The Joker, 1917,Parasite
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!
watch 10 films released in the same decade (1940’s)
1 Murder My Sweet
2 Le Corbeau
3 Crossfire
4 Sullivan’s Travels
5 Mildred Pierce
6 The Shop Around the Corner
7 Lady of Burlesque
8 Our town
9 Ossessione
10 Smashup! the Story of a Woman
Documentary, my dear Watson
watch 10 documentaries
1 Life Itself
2 Life Animated
3 Hale County This Morning this Evening
4 Streetfight
5 Off the Edge
6 The Man Who Skiied Down Everest
..and the Oscar goes to...
watch 10 films that have won an Academy Award in any category
1 Free Solo
2 Driving Miss Daisy
3 Sayonara
4 The Madness of King George
5Howard’s End
6 Road to Perdition
7 Arthur
8 Marty
9 The Help
10The Hours
Roger says...
watch 10 films from Roger Ebert’s great movies list
1 Being There
2 Say Anything
3 Detour
4 Groundhog Day
5 Double Indemnity
6 Johnny Guitar
7 The Big Heat
8 Dog Day Afternoon
9 Peeping Tom
10 Rashomon
Chekhov, Method or Meisner?
watch 10 films featuring the same actor John Wayne*
1 The Cowboys
2 Rio Bravo
3 Flying Tigers
4 Angel and the Badman
I have a vision...
watch 10 films from the same director
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
watch 10 films from the same country South Korea
1 Train to Busan
2 The Good, The Bad and The Weird,
3 Oldboy
4 Sympathy for Mr Veangence
5 Lady Veangence
6 The Villainess
7 The Wailing
8 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Round up the usual suspects
watch 10 films from the same genre western
1 The Shooting
2 The Salvation
3 The Great Silence
4 The Scalphunters
5 Bone Tomahawk
6 Madron
7 If you meet Sartana, pray for Death
8. I am Sartana, your Angel of Death
9 Sartana's here, Trade your Pistol for a Coffin
10
How soon is now?
watch 10 films released in 2020
watch 10 foreign language films
1 Queen of Hearts
2 The Thief
3 That Obscure Object of Desire
4 Let the Sunshine in
5 y Tu Mama Tambien
6 The Grandmaster
7 3 Brothers
8 2.0
9 The Viral Factor
10 The Bullet Vanishes
Live from the Dolby Theater!
watch every film nominated in 2019 for the Academy Award for Best Picture
The Irishman, The Joker, 1917,Parasite
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!
watch 10 films released in the same decade (1940’s)
1 Murder My Sweet
2 Le Corbeau
3 Crossfire
4 Sullivan’s Travels
5 Mildred Pierce
6 The Shop Around the Corner
7 Lady of Burlesque
8 Our town
9 Ossessione
10 Smashup! the Story of a Woman
Documentary, my dear Watson
watch 10 documentaries
1 Life Itself
2 Life Animated
3 Hale County This Morning this Evening
4 Streetfight
5 Off the Edge
6 The Man Who Skiied Down Everest
..and the Oscar goes to...
watch 10 films that have won an Academy Award in any category
1 Free Solo
2 Driving Miss Daisy
3 Sayonara
4 The Madness of King George
5Howard’s End
6 Road to Perdition
7 Arthur
8 Marty
9 The Help
10The Hours
Roger says...
watch 10 films from Roger Ebert’s great movies list
1 Being There
2 Say Anything
3 Detour
4 Groundhog Day
5 Double Indemnity
6 Johnny Guitar
7 The Big Heat
8 Dog Day Afternoon
9 Peeping Tom
10 Rashomon
Chekhov, Method or Meisner?
watch 10 films featuring the same actor John Wayne*
1 The Cowboys
2 Rio Bravo
3 Flying Tigers
4 Angel and the Badman
I have a vision...
watch 10 films from the same director
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
watch 10 films from the same country South Korea
1 Train to Busan
2 The Good, The Bad and The Weird,
3 Oldboy
4 Sympathy for Mr Veangence
5 Lady Veangence
6 The Villainess
7 The Wailing
8 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Round up the usual suspects
watch 10 films from the same genre western
1 The Shooting
2 The Salvation
3 The Great Silence
4 The Scalphunters
5 Bone Tomahawk
6 Madron
7 If you meet Sartana, pray for Death
8. I am Sartana, your Angel of Death
9 Sartana's here, Trade your Pistol for a Coffin
10
How soon is now?
watch 10 films released in 2020