2025 Criterion Challenge
51 movies 1 tv show
6/52
Original list and categories here:
https://letterboxd.com/benvsthemovies/list/the-criterion-challenge-2025/
- Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
- Watch a film from the year you were born
- Directed by Robert Altman
- Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
- Great Soundtracks
- John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
- 1920s
- Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
- 1930s
- Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
- 1940s
- Celine Song’s Top 10
- 1950s
- Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists
- 1960s
- Watch a film that is currently out of print from the physical collection
- 1970s
- William Friedkin’s Closet Picks
- 1980s
- Spine #451-499
- 1990s
- Documentary
- 2000s
- Janus Contemporaries
- 2010s
- Bill Hader’s Second Closet Picks
- 2020s
- Noir and Neonoir
- All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks
- Criterion Releases Never Picked in the Closet
- North American film
- Ayo Edebiri’s Closet Picks
- Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
- South American film
- 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.)
- AAPI Filmmakers
- Watch a film shorter than 80 minutes
- European film
- Cult Movies
- Isabella Rossellini’s Adventures in Moviegoing
- Winona Ryder’s Closet Picks
- African film
- John Carpenter’s Top 10
- Horror
- Asian film
- Dark Comedies
- Rachel Kushner’s Adventures in Moviegoing
- Australian film
- Female Filmmakers
- Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks
- A film by a director whose work you have not seen before
- Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist
Shoah (1985) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Eggplant.place TMDB Douban
Shoah
other title:
Shoah - Extermínio
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浩劫
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Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
Infernal Affairs (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge Douban
無間道
other title:
无间道
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無間道
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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.
Boyhood (2014) [Movie] Douban TMDB Min reol Eggplant.place IMDb WikiData
Boyhood
other title:
Boyhood: Momentos de Uma Vida
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Boyhood (Momentos de una vida)
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The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Five Easy Pieces (1970) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Five Easy Pieces
Farewell My Concubine (1993) [Movie] 女巫鎮WitchTown IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
霸王别姬
To Sleep with Anger (1990) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
To Sleep with Anger
other title:
带怒而眠
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愤怒睡眠
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Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the supernatural.
family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret past and present and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent spell, provoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving past hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness.
Glover delivers a career-topping performance as the garrulous family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath.
As ever, Burnett provides a wonderful music track featuring gospel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weatherspoon.
'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out
'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times
(from the description on the back cover of the DVD)
family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret past and present and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent spell, provoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving past hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness.
Glover delivers a career-topping performance as the garrulous family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath.
As ever, Burnett provides a wonderful music track featuring gospel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weatherspoon.
'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out
'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times
(from the description on the back cover of the DVD)
Black God, White Devil (1964) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Deus E o Diabo na Terra do Sol
other title:
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
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黒い神と白い悪魔
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Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.
Body and Soul (1925) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Body and Soul
director:
奥斯卡·米绍
actor:
Paul Robeson
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Mercedes Gilbert
…
other title:
灵与肉
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靈與肉
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A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
other title:
点心
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黑心
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San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors. A fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine's boyfriend lives in Los Angeles and she's not sure she's ready for marriage, nor does she want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law, Uncle Tam, tries to help out.
All Monsters Attack (1969) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃
other title:
哥斯拉·迷你拉·加巴拉：全体怪兽大进击
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ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃
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Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.
Repo Man (1984) [Movie] IMDb Douban Eggplant.place TMDB WikiData
Repo Man
other title:
리포 맨
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レポマン
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A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
