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Criterion Challenge 2026

52 movies  

https://letterboxd.com/benvsthemovies/list/the-criterion-challenge-2026/

  1. 20th Anniversary Releases
  2. Watch a film not on your watchlist
  3. Watch a film with a color in the title
  4. 2020s or an upcoming release
  5. Romance
  6. The Twenty Least Watched Films
  7. Queer Cinema
  8. 1930s
  9. 1990s
  10. Random Number Generator (Set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever film corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
  11. King Princess’s Top 10
  12. Judge a film by its cover
  13. Song and Dance
  14. 2000s
  15. Director Approved
  16. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Closet Picks
  17. Prequel/Sequel/Remake/Reimagining
  18. 1980s
  19. Watch a film that starts with the first letter of your name
  20. Kathryn Bigelow’s Closet Picks
  21. 1940s
  22. Watch a film rated 2.0-2.9 stars
  23. Pick any category from a past Criterion Challenge year
  24. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
  25. “Good For Her” Cinematic Universe
  26. Guy Maddin’s Top 10
  27. 1960s
  28. Directed by Satyajit Ray
  29. Watch a film from any box set release
  30. Black Lives
  31. Watch a film rated 3.7 stars
  32. Elle Fanning’s Closet Picks
  33. War
  34. 2010s
  35. 1950s
  36. Glorious Restorations
  37. Must see Criterion released films as featured on Danny Peary’s “Guide for the Film Fanatic” (1986)
  38. Random Letter Generator - Watch a film that starts with the letter randomly generated
  39. The Best Movies of the 21st Century
  40. Directed by Mira Nair
  41. Spine #701-750
  42. 1970s
  43. Letterboxd Top 250
  44. Watch a film you haven’t seen that someone else watched as part of last year’s challenge
  45. Novels on the Big Screen
  46. Random Year Generator - Set values from 1915 to 2024 and watch a film from whatever year is randomly generated
  47. Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films
  48. David Byrne’s Closet Picks
  49. Criterion Double Features: Film #1
  50. Criterion Double Features: Film #2
  51. 1920s
  52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist
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I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult
6.2 (8 ratings) director: 维尔戈特·斯耶曼 actor: 莱娜·尼曼 / 维尔戈特·斯耶曼 …
other title: 나는 궁금하다 / Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult …
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
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Brief Encounters (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Короткие встречи
director: 琪拉·穆拉托娃 actor: Nina Ruslanova / Vladimir Vysotsky
other title: 萍水相逢 / Короткие встречи …
Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetings with Maskim. These flashbacks occur throughout the film and both Valentina and Nadia have them. Finally news arrives of Maskim's return to Valentina. On the day of his return Nadia cooks a meal for them both and leaves before they arrive, Valentina never knew of Nadia's encounters with Maskim, and Maskim will never know of Nadia's time with Valentina.
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Kalpana (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kalpana
director: उदय शंकर actor: Amala Shankar / Lakshmi Kanta …
other title: 칼파나 / 卡尔帕娜 …
1948 film by Uday Shankar
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After Life (1998) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
ワンダフルライフ
8.0 (204 ratings) director: 是枝裕和 actor: 井浦新 / 小田绘梨花 …
other title: 원더풀 라이프 / ワンダフルライフ …
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
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Chan Is Missing (1982) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Chan Is Missing
7.2 (10 ratings) director: 王颖 actor: 王正方 / Wood Moy …
other title: 寻人 / 陈先生失踪 …
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984) [Movie] Douban TMDB Min reol IMDb WikiData
This Is Spinal Tap
7.3 (42 ratings) director: 罗伯·莱纳 actor: 克里斯托弗·盖斯特 / 迈克尔·麦基恩 …
other title: 이것이 스파이널 탭이다 / Spinal Tap …
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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A Hard Day's Night (1964) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
A Hard Day's Night
8.1 (88 ratings) director: 理查德·莱斯特 actor: 约翰·列侬 / 保罗·麦卡特尼 …
other title: 一夜狂欢 / 艰难时光 …
1963年秋天，为了从红透半边天的甲壳虫身上赚笔钱，美国的United Artists和甲壳虫签约拍摄一部电影，目的是得以在美国推出电影的原声唱片。他们找到Walter Shenson做制片，Richard Lester导演，在1964年拍摄了电影A Hard Day's Night。
Shenson在1963年秋甲壳虫前往美国前与他们接触，要求他们为电影创作6首歌——题材不限，但要有两首抒情歌曲，两首快节奏的舞曲等等。在加勒比海度假期间，他们创作了八九首歌，Dick Lester从中选出了六首用于电影中，这些歌曲是：You Can't Do That、And I Love Her、I Should Have Known Better、Tell Me Why、If I Fell、I'm Happy Just to Dance with You。3月2日拍摄开始前，甲壳虫在伦敦EMI录音室里录制了这些歌曲。其中演奏You Can't Do That的部分在电影推出时被剪辑掉了，但之前就做为Can't Buy Me Love单曲的B面发行，也仍然出现在美国版的原声唱片上。
电影拍摄从3月2日开始，至4月24日结束。影片用夸张的手法描述甲壳虫一天的生活，其主题来自John Lennon说过的一句话。当Lester问John他们的瑞典之行如何时，John答道：“It was a room and a car and a car and a room and a room and a car.”这句话稍加变动后被用在电影里，变成了“Paul的爷爷”的台词。
Shenson原先以为他可以随便找一首新歌的歌名作为电影题目，但这六首新歌都不太合适。拍摄期间，大家绞尽脑汁为电影找一个合适的名字。最后有一天，John和他聊天时提起Ringo有趣的语言，并举出“A hard day's night”为例。John自己在刚出版的《In His Own Write》也曾经使用过这个短语。大家一致同意它可以作为电影题目。于是John按Shenson的嘱咐，以此为题创作了电影的主题歌，并在4月16日拍摄电影期间把它录制下来。
美国出版的电影原声唱片只包括这七首新歌，但为了Parlophone的英国唱片，他们在6月回到录音室，又录制了5首新歌: I'll Cry Instead、I'll be Back、Any Time At all、Things We Said Today和 When I Get Home。加上电影里使用的他们之前发行过的单曲Can't Buy Me Love，英国的专辑唱片里一共有13首歌，全部是甲壳虫的原创歌曲。这是他们第一次能够推出一张全部原创的专辑。
这一成就主要应归功于John Lennon当时旺盛的创作力。在这13首歌里，9首都是他主笔创作的。Paul主笔创作了3首歌，并和John合作为George创作了I'm Happy Just to Dance With You。当然，按照主创者主唱的原则，John在这张专辑中的主唱也远远超过其他三人，甚至没有给Ringo一个表现的机会。
A Hard Day's Night的电影成为摇滚电影的经典，教给整整一代年轻人反叛的原则，而这张专辑标志着甲壳虫的创作进入了一个新的阶段，我们可以把它叫做“早期阶段的中期”吧？
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Infernal Affairs (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge Douban
無間道
9.1 (2249 ratings) director: 刘伟强 / 麦兆辉 actor: 刘德华 / 梁朝伟 …
other title: 无间道 / 無間道 …
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
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The Funeral (1984) [Movie] IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
お葬式
8.4 (56 ratings) director: 伊丹十三 actor: 山崎努 / 宫本信子 …
other title: 장례식 / お葬式 …
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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Jabberwocky (1977) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jabberwocky
6.6 (5 ratings) director: 特瑞·吉列姆 actor: 迈克尔·帕林 / 哈里·H·考伯特 …
other title: 莫名其妙 / 巨龍怪譚 …
After the death of his father the young cooper 'Dennis Cooper' goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster? A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour.
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The Battle of Algiers (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
La battaglia di Algeri
8.6 (122 ratings) director: 吉洛·彭泰科沃 actor: 卜拉欣·哈贾季 / 让·马丹 …
other title: 알제리 전투 / La battaglia di Algeri …
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
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