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2025 Criterion Challenge

51 movies   1 tv show  

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Original list and categories here:

https://letterboxd.com/benvsthemovies/list/the-criterion-challenge-2025/

  1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
  2. Watch a film from the year you were born
  3. Directed by Robert Altman
  4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
  5. Great Soundtracks
  6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
  7. 1920s
  8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
  9. 1930s
  10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
  11. 1940s
  12. Celine Song’s Top 10
  13. 1950s
  14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists
  15. 1960s
  16. Watch a film that is currently out of print from the physical collection
  17. 1970s
  18. William Friedkin’s Closet Picks
  19. 1980s
  20. Spine #451-499
  21. 1990s
  22. Documentary
  23. 2000s
  24. Janus Contemporaries
  25. 2010s
  26. Bill Hader’s Second Closet Picks
  27. 2020s
  28. Noir and Neonoir
  29. All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks
  30. Criterion Releases Never Picked in the Closet
  31. North American film
  32. Ayo Edebiri’s Closet Picks
  33. Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
  34. South American film
  35. Random Number Generator (Google 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 movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
  36. AAPI Filmmakers
  37. Watch a film shorter than 80 minutes
  38. European film
  39. Cult Movies
  40. Isabella Rossellini’s Adventures in Moviegoing
  41. Winona Ryder’s Closet Picks
  42. African film
  43. John Carpenter’s Top 10
  44. Horror
  45. Asian film
  46. Dark Comedies
  47. Rachel Kushner’s Adventures in Moviegoing
  48. Australian film
  49. Female Filmmakers
  50. Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks
  51. A film by a director whose work you have not seen before
  52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist
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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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Yojimbo (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
用心棒
8.7 (403 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 요짐보 / 用心棒 …
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
AtomicPwrdRobot: 4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
悪は存在しない
7.0 (129 ratings) director: 滨口龙介 actor: 大美贺均 / 西川玲 …
other title: 邪恶不存在 / 悪は存在しない …
A Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo were Takumi and his daughter Hana lived. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi's house, offers a city resident and its affects Takumi's life.
AtomicPwrdRobot: 8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
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The Game (1997) [Movie] Douban Min reol TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
The Game
7.1 (364 ratings) director: 大卫·芬奇 actor: 迈克尔·道格拉斯 / 西恩·潘 …
other title: 心理游戏 / 致命游戏(台) …
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
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Miracle in Milan (1951) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Miracolo a Milano
7.5 (37 ratings) director: 维托里奥·德西卡 actor: 埃玛·格拉马蒂卡 / Francesco Golisano …
other title: 米兰的奇迹 / Miracolo a Milano …
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
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Sanjuro (1962) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
椿三十郎
8.7 (250 ratings) director: 黑泽明 actor: 三船敏郎 / 仲代达矢 …
other title: 츠바키 산주로 / 椿三十郎 …
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
7.6 (33 ratings) director: 约翰·卡萨维蒂 actor: 本·戈扎那 / 蒂莫西·凯瑞 …
other title: 谋杀地下老板 / 暗杀中国赌徒事件 …
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
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Dekalog (1989) [TV] Douban TMDB
Dekalog Season 1 part of TV Series: Dekalog
9.4 (223 ratings) director: 克日什托夫·基耶斯洛夫斯基 actor: 阿图尔·巴奇斯 / 昂里克·巴兰诺斯基 …
按照《圣经》“出埃及记”的记载，《十诫》是十条上帝对人类的戒律。而基氏所讲述的是十个现代版离经叛道的警世恒言。十段短片都是普通人在平凡生活中发生的故事，却向我们提出了有关道德人性、宗教伦理、科学理性等诸多人类精神世界的问题。第一诫中葬身湖底的小巴博，都是因为父亲一味迷信 电子技术的结果；第二戒里的女人在两难中做出选择；第三戒是有关婚姻的困境；第四戒讲述有关家庭伦理的问题……第十戒以两兄弟间的猜忌而告终。基式向我们赤裸裸的解剖着这古老的十诫，永恒的人性难题又一次遭受现代社会里种种有关精神戒律的挑战与质疑。
导演克日什托夫·基耶斯洛夫斯基荣1989年威尼斯电影节 Children and Cinema Award等诸多奖项。
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Dodesukaden (1970) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
どですかでん
7.1 (70 ratings) director: 黑泽明 actor: 头师佳孝 / 菅井琴 …
other title: 电车狂 / どですかでん …
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
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