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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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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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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
7.5 (6 ratings) director: 利莫昂·杰里米·摩塞 actor: Jerry Mofokeng / Tseko Monaheng …
other title: 디스 이즈 낫 어 베리얼, 잇츠 어 레저렉션 / L’ Indomptable feu du printemps …
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
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Spellbound (1945) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData
Spellbound
8.0 (384 ratings) director: 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 actor: 英格丽·褒曼 / 格利高里·派克 …
other title: 爱德华大夫 / 意乱情迷 …
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
ゴジラ対ヘドラ
6.7 (6 ratings) director: 坂野义光 actor: 山内明 / 柴本俊夫 …
other title: 哥斯拉对黑多拉 / ゴジラ対ヘドラ …
An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Picnic at Hanging Rock
7.6 (111 ratings) director: 彼得·威尔 actor: 瑞秋·罗伯茨 / 威文·格雷 …
other title: 행잉록에서의 소풍 / ピクニックatハンギング・ロック …
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
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Adoption (1975) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Örökbefogadás
7.8 (24 ratings) director: 玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 卡塔琳·拜赖克 / Gyöngyvér Vigh …
other title: 领养 / Örökbefogadás …
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.
AtomicPwrdRobot: 51. A film by a director whose work you have not seen before
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Journey to Prehistory (1955) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cesta do praveku
6.3 (6 ratings) director: 卡尔·齐曼 actor: Vladimír Bejval / Petr Herrmann …
other title: 史前之旅 / Cesta do praveku …
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
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