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Criterion Challenge prompt 22: Documentary.
Koyaanisqatsi
Fell out of the habit of this challenge for a bit, but I'm getting back on track! This film was not one I would have chosen to watch outside of this challenge, but the combination of the time lapse footage and music was surprisingly fascinating
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📽️ Letterbox Criterion Challenge: Watch a film from the 1960s.
PLAYTIME (1967; dir. Jaques Tati)
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CW: small amount of artistic nudity
Criterion Challenge prompt 3: directed by Robert Altman. Short Cuts
This was a really good movie, although I feel like I ought to have made a chart to keep track of all the different characters. I love any piece of media that has multiple unrelated but intersecting storylines, or characters who only briefly meet but have a huge impact on each other's lives without ever knowing it, and that is precisely what this movie is.
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Criterion Challenge prompt 1: Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset. The Night of the Hunter.
I love a good thriller, and this was no exception. I particularly enjoyed the way music was used throughout, and I now have "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" stuck in my head. It was also a fun challenge to do my illustrations in black and white, matching the movie.
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2025's Criterion Challenge is going pretty well so far (ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS; BIRTH; WALKER). Today's challenge was a bit of a conundrum: "Your first pick in the Criterion Closet," but the challenge requires unseen films. I chanced PAPER MOON (1973; dir. Peter Bogdanovich). It was a good gamble; I'm 3/3 on Bogdanovich films now.
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Also in case anyone was curious, here's my full #CriterionChallenge 2025 list: https://boxd.it/Bt12Y/detail
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Criterion Challenge prompt 49: female filmmakers. (as you can tell, I'm not doing the prompts in order.) Anatomy of a Fall, directed by Justine Triet.
This one hit close to home, since I have a family member who died in a similar manner, though under very different circumstances. I appreciated how this film captures the ambiguity that can surround a sudden death. In some deaths, you really can't arrive at a 100% certain understanding of exactly how it happened, and I liked that this movie didn't shy away from that.
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I've decided to participate in the #criterionChallenge this year, mainly to reduce my indecision when looking for a movie to watch. I also am adding an additional challenge on top of it, to do some drawings inspired by each film I watch for the challenge, since I haven't done much drawing in a long time and I'd like to pick it back up again.
The first film I watched was Festen (The Celebration). This was for prompt 2, "Watch a film from the year you were born"- 1998. I can't say I enjoyed the film (it's a very grim movie) but I had fun drawing some of the scenes and characters.
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📽️ CRITERION CHALLENGE 2024: LGBTQ+. Watched my first John Waters movie: FEMALE TROUBLE (1974). Biggest surprise? How compelling I found Mink Stole as a performer, she was really great.
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📽️ CRITERION CHALLENGE 2024: Watch one of Yo La Tengo's closet picks. I'm so glad I picked THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (1956; dir. Frank Tashlin). It genuinely made me laugh so many times. The musical sequences in it were incredible, and Jayne Mansfield really sparkled in this. To top it all off, in a movie from an era of great title sequences, this has one of the best I've ever seen:
https://youtu.be/9zNq-ZSpxWE?si=3LOrqvIc9Mh51-0C
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6 movies watched in the last week. These ratings are an average of mine and my husband's. Usually we're fairly close, but we split widely on 2 of these movies. For Weekend, I rated 4 to his 1. For O Brother, I rated 2 to his 4.5.
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3 movies watched in the last week. Movie viewing really slows down during the summer when we'd rather be outside biking, doing yard work, or just sitting on the patio drinking wine.
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I made some QoL improvements to my Closet Picks account. Improved list notes are condensed to visitor names, which now link to their individual pick lists. I also refactored all my code and generated a new list for all of the Criterion movies that have never been picked in the closet. https://boxd.it/sUD2g
I’m continuing to add tags and more detail to each list’s description and fix mistakes where I see them. #Letterboxd #Criterion #criterioncollection #CriterionChallenge #film
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When I’m feeling down, I find sorting things out quite soothing. As a result of a particularly bad month, I’ve created a #Letterboxd account that houses lists for every #Criterion Closet visit as well as a complete collation of them, sorted in order of how often it’s been picked (and by whom).
It took a few weeks.
More to come on this. I would greatly appreciate shares to justify the hours spent on this insanity.
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