Here’s my list for the 2024 Anti-Criterion Challenge! View notes for details and full description of the challenge can be found here.
Lot of blindspots I’m looking to fix this year!
Started: 1/17/24
Watched: 16/52
Completed:
Click here for my 2024 Criterion Challenge list.
1. A film whose world premiere coincides with your star sign.
I'm a Leo ♌️ and this film premiered 08/14/1975
2. Watch a film from the 1920s
3. Watch a film from the 1930s
4. Watch a film from the 1940s
5. Watch a film from the 1950s
6. Watch a film from the 1960s
13. Made in a country with land South of the Tropic of Capricorn by a director from that country
New Zealand -- director/location
14. Made in a country with land between the Tropic of Capricorn and the equator by a director from that country
Samoa -- director/location
15. Buddy film, but the buddies aren’t cops
NOTE: I know this seems like a stretch, but Slate, AV Club, and Refinery29 all say it’s a buddy film, so it stays!!! Plus I really want to finally see this :')
16. Slow cinema, but it’s 95 minutes or less
19. Directed by Kasi Lemmons
20. Directed by Ann Hui On-wah
21. Directed by a director with three or less feature films
David Robert Mitchell has 3 feature films as of January 2024
22. Andy Young’s “That shot” of someone in a theater watching a movie
26. Made in a country with a border that crosses the equator by a director from that country
Brazil -- director/location
27. A director's highest rated film (BONUS CHALLENGE: 3.7 or higher)
28. That same director's lowest rated film (BONUS CHALLENGE: 2.6 or lower)
30. A character that has more than 4 limbs (BONUS CHALLENGE: The character must have more than 6 limbs.)
31. Superhero movie that's not a DC, Marvel, Disney or Darkhorse property
33. Directed by a trans or nonbinary director whose work you haven’t seen before
34. Animated film from a country that is not the US or Japan
Made in Ireland
35. Music documentary from a genre that isn't modern pop or classic rock
36. Documentary about Africa by an African director
38. Music by A.R. Rahman
39. Cinematography by Theo van de Sande
40. Made in a country with land between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer by a director from that country (BONUS CHALLENGE: Country must be completely between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer.)
Costa Rican film/director
41. Made in a country with land north of the Tropic of Cancer by a director from that country (BONUS CHALLENGE: Country must be completely north of the Tropic of Cancer.)
Made in Italy
42. A titular character
43. Title formatted as X vs. X
46. Kyle Turner’s The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories
47. Screenplay adapted from a work of nonfiction (BONUS CHALLENGE: At least a decade between the publication of the source material and the adaptation.)
Based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book
48. Made in Georgia (Country)
50. Holiday horror for any holiday
51. Someone holds a cat