Latest posts tagged with #CriterionChallenge on Bluesky
#CriterionChallenge 11 was to pick something from the list I'm going to link in the next post. This led me to one of the few #WesAnderson films I had never seen, the magnificently bonkers Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. You either love him or you don't; I do.
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"This movie goes all out in creating a totally different kind of western than anyone had ever seen..."
My ★★★★★ review of MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971) directed by Robert Altman #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 13/52
CRITERIA: Criterion Double Features: Film #1
#CriterionChallenge #letterboxd
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#CriterionChallenge 10 was to watch a randomly generated spine number. 562 came up, which is Brian de Palma's 1981 paranoid thriller Blow Out. One of those films I probably watched while at university, although I only vaguely remember it; it was genuinely gripping.
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"An absolute masterclass in 'Show Don't Tell' storytelling and the use of silence that should be (and probably is) taught in film school."
My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 12/52
CRITERIA: Criterion Double Features: Film #2
#letterboxd #criterionchallenge
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"I appreciate the craft and it kept me interested but sadly I was expecting something more from a movie on so many greatest of all time lists."
My ★★★½ Letterboxd review of THE 400 BLOWS (1959) directed by François Truffaut #CriterionChallenge 📽️🎬
CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 11/52
CRITERIA: DIRECTOR APPROVED
OSCAR HISTORY CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 12/52
CRITERIA: A FILM NOMINATED AT THE 97TH ACADEMY AWARDS
#letterboxd #CriterionChallenge #OscarHistoryChallenge
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"This is tough, guys. I think today I finally have to admit something to myself and to the world: I don't think I like Wes Craven (as a filmmaker) very much."
My ★ Letterboxd review of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) directed by Wes Craven #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🔪🎬
"The relationship between faith and guilt is a long and complex one. Let's watch while Ingmar Bergman tackles it in under 90 minutes!"
My ★★★★½ Letterboxd review of THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960) directed by Ingmar Bergman #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
Latest #CriterionChallenge was 1990s. To avoid rewatches and also cross one off my other list, I chose #KiyoshiKurosawa's extraordinary, unsettling and 'Se7en'-inflected 'Cure'. Might be the best film I've watched this year; it's certainly still firmly in my head
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"Nobody does ghost stories like the Japanese but when it's a Nagisa Ōshima ghost story, hold onto your butts!"
My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of EMPIRE OF PASSION (1978) directed by Nagisa Ōshima #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️👻🎬
"As expected, this worked so much better for me the second time around, being better acquainted with Kelly Reichardt's oeuvre."
My ★★★★½ Letterboxd review of CERTAIN WOMEN (2016) directed by Kelly Reichardt #CriterionChallenge #Rewatch #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
"The way the entire story... is contained within the visual metaphor of these breathtaking liminal moments of Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan passing each other in the stairwell..."
My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) directed by Wong Kar-wai #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
Movie posters of Carlito’s Way, The Battle of Algiers, Assault on Precinct 13, and His Girl Friday
A little late for #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched but since I had a few flights and downtime this week I got in some decent movies and crossed off a few on my #CriterionChallenge list (9 down, 43 to go)
#CriterionChallenge 8 was 1930s. So, time to catch up with a classic I've never seen before, shockingly. What genre is it? Yes.
Delightful and everything everyone says it is, the whole thing passed in the blink of an eye. Sublimely English while being universal.
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"A terribly unflinching, uncompromising odyssey into the ugly, fetid, forgotten underbelly of rural America."
My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of GUMMO (1997) directed by Harmony Korine #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
#CriterionChallenge no.7 Queer Cinema. Lizzie Borden's explosive guerrila metafictional documentary #BornInFlames which is startlingly contemporary in places, and very much of its time in others. Striking post-punk soundtrack gives it energy and forward motion.
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Alongside the #CriterionChallenge (of which more later), I am starting the delightful task of watching the entirety of the #BBCTelevisionShakespeare in original broadcast order. Originally broadcast starting in 1978, I watched most of the early ones before heading off to university in Edinburgh 1/n
"Welcome to David Lynch's Hollywoodland, where dreams become reality becomes movies become dreams become movies become reality becomes dreams..."
My ★★★★★ @letterboxd.social review of INLAND EMPIRE (2006) directed by David Lynch #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️👻🎬
"A very simple rape revenge story elevated to incredible heights... by the lively, frantic authorial hand of Abel Ferrara and... Joe Delia's raucous jazzy score."
My ★★★★½ @letterboxd.social review of MS .45 (1981) directed by Abel Ferrara #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
Currently on a journey to watch all of PTA's movies and then rewatch One Battle After Another, and Dead Man was on my #criterionchallenge list! I'm at 7/52 on that :)
HAPPY JOE BOB DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!
It's "haunted house night"!
Darcy said they're showing one of her favs but she *might* like the remake better so that's gotta be THE HAUNTING.
Personally I really hope they show THE OTHERS since it's on my #CriterionChallenge #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam 🎥👻🎬
#CriterionChallenge No.6 was to pick one from the 20 least-watched titles in the Criterion catalogue. Plumped for this sobering, fatalistic view of the collapse of order and the hopelessness of men who only know war. Now want to watch Die Blechtrommel again.
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#CriterionChallenge film this week: the Nouvelle Vague classic #HiroshimaMonAmour, which had the added bonus of being on my 'films I really should have watched by now' list. Fascinating in many ways, not least the music.
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"Everything is nothing."
My ★★★★★ @letterboxd.social review of SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974) directed by John Coney #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
"I mean, yeah, sure, it's satire of the aristocracy... but I think Buñuel just has a little too much fun torturing rich people."
My ★★★★½ @letterboxd.social review of THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) directed by Luis Buñuel #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🔪🎬
"A brutally bleak and devastating World War II film with incredible performances and outstanding cinematography."
My ★★★★ @letterboxd.social review of THE ASCENT (1977) directed by Larisa Shipetko #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬
