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MSPIFF44 #4

I hate one sided documentaries. If your case is strong, present both sides of the argument and let it speak for itself. While this documentary does a great job at presenting the facts that they want to show, it also ignores many others. 

The fact that the director said during the Q+A that they didn’t want to talk to anyone for the film who presented a point that they (as in crew involved with the film) disagreed with should cause alarm. You cannot talk about silencing others who you are also silencing people.

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3. I absolutely love going to see movies in theaters! However, I am not always the best about actually seeing my anticipated releases when they are in theaters. Watch a movie you meant to see in theaters, but didn’t get around to it.

Mia Goth proved that she could command the screen back with A Cure for Wellness and she continues to prove it with every film she is in. She clearly is a star, even if some of the films she is in doesn't deserve the performance that she gives. Just watch her performance during the end credits scene. Truly haunting stuff.

While this film is a love letter to early technicolor films, mainly The Wizard of Oz, it doesn't do enough during the film itself to deserve this film style. Visually, I love it but when I find myself asking why these choices are being made, it pulls me out and makes me realize that I'm watching a movie.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

MSPIFF44 #3

The premise of the film had me greatly intrigued. I walked in expecting a modern day Before Sunset type of film. What I ended up getting was a rambling of these culture war topics that are destroying our society. Sure, the conversations need to be had but the end of the film undercuts any of the choices or discussions had by one of the characters. The two actors were charming and personable during the Q+A after the film but I didn't feel that spark while watching the film. I found them to both be rather cardboard cutouts of characters instead of fully fleshed out people.

MSPIFF44 #2

Incredibly funny movie that keeps you on your toes for the next exciting joke. As a huge fan of dark humor, this one really tickled my funny bone. Fantastic cast and a great time at the movies.

MSPIFF44 #1

Every single day it feels like hope is being taken away and being replaced by repression and fear. While I do like some of the reporting that comes from The New York Times, this film does highlight some of the huge problematic issues occurring at the publisher. The damage has been done and it cannot be reversed. Do I completely devalue all of the other work the publisher has done because of the transphobic views they have? I'm still struggling with this. Those who are uninformed and doing this "for the children" are winning the culture wars that they are making. Hope seems to be in small supply.

While I found this film moving and the work that Chase is doing to be inspiring and challenging, how does this film reach the people who need to see it? Most of that cult are currently review bombing Snow White. Clearly that is the bigger issue. I found myself in tears at the end because the work that this community is doing, all of this hard and hopeful work is being killed before it has time to grow.

Trans rights are human rights.

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5. I grew up near Dayton, Ohio, aka the birthplace of aviation! In honor of my hometown, watch a movie that heavily features aviation.

I had to change my mindset while watching this film. I normally expect a higher level of story when it comes to a Miyazaki film but the moment I told myself this has the bones of a Saturday morning cartoon, I found myself enjoying it a lot more. That isn't to say that the film isn't better than most animated films released in the early 1990s, because it is. It's just that expectation game got in the way and this film doesn't deliver on those classic moments and characters that we have grown to love from Studio Ghibli.

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26. Today marks the most important holiday of the month: the anniversary of the release of Charli XCX's 2016 Vroom Vroom EP (prod. Sophie). Watch a movie Charli XCX has marked watched on Letterboxd, or watch any movie with a hyperpop aesthetic (e.g. The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, Spring Breakers, Climax, etc.).

While I personally rather see Taron Egerton in more interesting projects, he was perfectly adequate in this mindless turn your brain off action flick. Nothing wrong with that especially with how stressful like can be right now. Might add this into my Christmas movie rotation...

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A fun heist film. Once again not trying to reinvent the wheel. Just trying to jazz that wheel up a bit to make you enjoy looking at it more. I personally have a lot of fun with the shrinking elements of the film. RIP Ant-thony

While it might have been a bit of of let down when it first came out, it’s sad to see how strong this film is compared to some of the newer MCU films.  Fun action, good chemistry from all the actors.  Over all a fun watch.

Peak MCU. It's actually freighting how the plot of this film feels more real in 2025 than it did back in 2014. Still a captivating film that should please anyone who is bored of the generic superhero films.

As someone who finds theology and dogmatic behavior to be fascinating, I have always been enamored with Se7en.  Obviously John Doe goes way too far with his ideology but you have to ire the dedication and when he explains the reasoning behind it, I couldn’t help but sit back in my seat and think he might be right.  This isn’t Brad Pitt’s finest hour as an actor but he was believable enough.  Great thriller, even after watching it years ago I’m still captivating by everything on display.

I've got no problem saying that this is a fun and entertaining movie. Does it bring anything else to the table? No. But let us all be honest, this is a hulk movie! Especially after the previous adaptation which took everything too seriously and made the story way too dark for general audiences, the film feels like a fun video game movie brought to life. It's not trying to be anything else.

Fun set pieces, overall good acting. Wish we could have seen a true sequel to this film.

Thank you to samuel_shovel for hosting!

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Prompt 1:

601 Area Code - Central & Southern Mississippi

Delta blues music has been on my mind a lot with the release of "Sinners" recently. One of my favorite delta blues musicians is Mississippi John Hurt (not to be confused with English actor Sir John Hurt).

Watch a film featuring the same named English actor John Hurt.

Prompt 2:

602 Area Code - Phoenix, Arizona

The phoenix is a mythical bird that has the ability to be born out of its own ashes after burning, symbolizing renewal and rebirth.

Watch a remake or reboot of a movie or franchise.

Prompt 3:

603 Area Code - The entire state of New Hampshire

New Hampshire's state motto is "Live Free or Die".

Watch a movie that deals with death or mortality as a central theme.

Prompt 4:

604 Area Code - Southwest British Columbia (Vancouver area)

Over the years, Vancouver has been a hotspot for filming movies & TV due to generous tax breaks. Often times, the movie isn't even set in Vancouver, as it's made to represent another location.

Watch a movie filmed in Vancouver.

Prompt 5:

Area Code 605 - The entire state of South Dakota

South Dakota is probably most famous for the Mt. Rushmore monument of 4 former U.S. presidents sculpted into a mountain. Kind of a bummer in my opinion, but anyways...

Watch a film with a president (real or fictional) or head of state character (doesn't have to be the U.S.). Ruling royalty is okay too!

Prompt 6:

Area Code 606 - Eastern Kentucky

The Kentucky Derby was a few weeks ago. Both men and women love to wear some sort of overly complicated hat as a fashion statement when attending the event.

Watch a film where the characters are wearing hats on the poster.

Prompt 7:

Area Code 607 - Southern Tier region of New York (Ithaca)

The town of Ithaca, New York was named after the Greek Island, a location mentioned in the Odyssey.

Watch a film either directly or indirectly based off of a Greek myth or figure.

Prompt 8:

Area Code 608 - Southwestern, Wisconsin (Madison)

Madison, WI is the hometown of the departed Chris Farley, an SNL cast member from 1990-1995.

Watch a movie based off an SNL skit. See the full list here. I know there aren't a ton of options so, if none of those tickle your fancy or are unavailable to you, watch a film with multiple SNL alums in the cast.

Prompt 9:

609 Area Code - Central & Southeastern New Jersey (Atlantic City)

Atlantic City is a town famous for it's casinos and beaches. It's kind of considered a little rundown from it's heyday during Prohibition when it was basically what Las Vegas is now (see Boardwalk Empire). Normally, I would do a casino prompt here but I feel like we've had some of those recently so I'm going to focus on the beach aspect.

Watch a film that takes place primarily at the beach or a beachside town.

Prompt 10:

610 Area Code - Southeastern Pennsylvania (Allentown)

I've never been to this part of Pennsylvania. The main thing I really know about it is the old steel mills and the Billy Joel song "Allentown".

Watch a film with a Billy Joel song on the soundtrack.

Prompt 11:

611 Area Code - Special service code used for general customer service related to telecommunications

Watch a film where the protagonist works in some sort of customer-facing service role. This could be a waiter, cashier, a salesperson (my movie is a cleaning person). This prompt's pretty wide open for creativity so do with it what you wish.

Prompt 12:

612 Area Code - Minneapolis, Minnesota

As I write this, we're in the middle of the NBA playoffs. One of the final 4 teams competing will be the Minnesota Timberwolves. Let's take a look at some timber.

Watch a film that takes primarily in the woods or jungle.

Prompt 13:

613 Area Code - Eastern Ontario, Canada (Ottawa)

I know Montreal is the Canadian city known for primarily speaking French. However, I've heard Ottawa has it's fair share of Francophones as well.

Watch a French New Wave film.

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614 Area Code - Central Ohio (Columbus)

"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" is a poem every American kid learns in elementary school. What they don't tell you about, at least when I was in school, is the awful truth about colonization.

Watch a film about an invasion of some kind. It could be colonization, it could be an alien invasion, a home invasion; this is completely up to personal interpretation.

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615 Area Code - Central Tennessee (Nashville)

Nashville is the home of country music here in the U.S. Giddy up, cowboy.

Watch a western film.

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616 Area Code - Southwestern Michigan (Grand Rapids)

Grand Rapids, MI is famous for being the childhood home of Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States who took over the role after Richard Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal. Ford was a one-term president (or partial term, I guess) and lost re-election to Jimmy Carter (RIP).

Watch a film released during the Ford istration (August 9th, 1974 to January 20th, 1977).

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617 Area Code - Boston, Massachusetts

Using some more elementary school history lessons here, one famous event of colonial times is the Boston Tea Party of 1773 in which protesters dumped tea into the harbor. Spilling tea has a different connotation in modern times, meaning to gossip or reveal a secret.

Watch a film that revolves around some sort of secret! It can be as a widespread as a full blown conspiracy or as personal as an affair. This is another one open to interpretation. (My pick just happens to star Boston's own Matt Damon!)

Prompt 18:

618 Area Code - Southern Illinois

Apparently, southern Illinois has long held the nickname "Little Egypt". There's no definitive proof of the origin but the consensus is that the name stems from a period in the 1830's when central & northern Illinois had poor harvests and were forced to travel south and buy grain from a more bountiful southern Illinois crop. A similar situation is written in the Bible where ancient people had to travel to Egypt to buy grain, hence the name.

This prompt is a bit of a stretch: watch a film that performed well in the overseas box office that did poorly in the U.S. (or vice versa).

Prompt 19:

619 Area Code - San Diego

San Diego is the home of everyone's favorite fictional news anchor, Ron Burgundy.

Watch a film about the news media. It can be about print journalism, TV journalism, documentary directors, whatever.

Prompt 20:

620 Area Code - Southern Kansas (Holcomb)

Holcomb, KS is famous for the events that take place in "In Cold Blood", the non-fiction true crime novel written by Truman Capote that is a bit of a progenitor for that subgenre. This book was later turned into a movie and this period of Capote's life is the basis for the "Capote" biopic.

Watch a movie involving Truman Capote (he wrote a few screenplays as well) or watch a film starring one of the actors from the "Capote" biopic.

Prompt 21:

621 Area Code - Houston, Texas

Houston, TX is the headquarters of NASA.

Watch a film that features some kind of space ship. This can be a sci-fi movie or a film about astronauts (or whatever else you can creatively come up with).

Prompt 22:

622 Area Code - Northern Mississippi (Tupelo)

Tupelo, MS is the birthplace of Elvis Presley. Besides being a musician, Elvis starred in 31 films over his lifetime.

Watch a movie starring Elvis or a biopic about him (we got two in the last few years). "Bubba Ho-tep" also totally counts.

Prompt 23:

623 Area Code - Phoenix, AZ

Just like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a second Phoenix, AZ area code has risen on this list.

Watch a film starring one of the Phoenix siblings. While Joaquin and the departed River Phoenix are the most famous, they have 3 actress sisters as well: Rain, Liberty, & Summer Phoenix.

Prompt 24:

624 Area Code - Western New York (Niagara Falls)

Niagara Falls was once nicknamed the "Honeymoon Capital of the World". If you watch older movies, you'll see characters talking about going there for their honeymoon all the time.

Watch a movie about a wedding or honeymoon. Bonus points if you can find a movie that goes to or talks about going to Niagara Falls for the honeymoon.

Prompt 25:

625 Area Code - Marshall Islands

This area code's not technically in use but is assigned to the Marshall Islands if it's ever needed.

Watch a film directed by, written by, and/or starring Penny Marshall or her brother Garry Marshall.

Prompt 26:

626 Area Code - San Gabriel Valley, California

The San Gabriel Valley is named after the archangel Gabriel. Apparently, he's the patron saint of postal workers, telecommunication employees, and pretty much anything to do with sending messages.

Watch a film about mail!

Prompt 27:

627 Area Code - Napa & Sonoma, California

So this area code was setup for Napa and Sonoma but never ended up coming to fruition due to successful number pooling (I don't know what this means). Napa & Sonoma are famous areas for winemaking.

Watch a film about alcohol or drinking culture.

Prompt 28:

628 Area Code - San Francisco, CA

I used to live in SF and it's a city still near and dear to my heart. I hosted a scavenger hunt years ago and did an SF prompt. I wasn't planning on repeating it but the area codes had other plans. SF has such a rich history of movies that I don't feel too bad repeating.

Watch a film that takes place in San Francisco.

Prompt 29:

629 Area Code - Nashville, TN

Another repeat! Besides country music, Nashville is probably most famous for hot chicken.

Watch a film that has a chicken in it! This list has a pretty extensive list of movies featuring chickens (and other fowl) but feel free to find your movie elsewhere too.

Prompt 30:

630 - Western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois

How fitting that we started this list with Mississippi and are ending it with Chicago as they are home to the two biggest blues music subgenres: delta blues and Chicago blues. The "father" of Chicago blues is Muddy Waters.

Watch a film with water on the poster (or in the name). The muddier the better.

• 12 Angry Men
• Meet Joe Black
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder
• Dave
• Bone Tomahawk
• Jason and the Argonauts
• MacGruber
• The Beach
• Game Night

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sinners
• Companion
• Thunderbolts*
• Snow White
• Heightened Scrutiny
• Heart Eyes
• The Monkey
• Paddington in Peru
• Drop
• Mickey 17

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thanks to allie u for hosting this month!

Top 5:
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Porco Rosso
3. Pearl
4. Joy Ride
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1. Happy April Fools’ Day! Watch a movie centered on pranks, hijinks, or schemes.

2. My dad is the one who really got me into movies and some of my earliest memories of movie watching include watching classic Universal monster movies and Elvis movies with him. Watch either a Universal monster movie or an Elvis movie.

3. I absolutely love going to see movies in theaters! However, I am not always the best about actually seeing my anticipated releases when they are in theaters. Watch a movie you meant to see in theaters, but didn’t get around to it.

4. I am actually starting this month off on a trip to Disneyland! However, I am typically a Walt Disney World visitor with EPCOT being my all time favorite park. Watch a movie from one of the countries in EPCOT’s World Showcase (Mexico, Norway, China, , Italy, America, Japan, Morocco, , the United Kingdom, and Canada).

5. I grew up near Dayton, Ohio, aka the birthplace of aviation! In honor of my hometown, watch a movie that heavily features aviation.

6. Not only did I grow up in Ohio, but I actually grew up on a pony farm! Watch a movie that prominently features a horse or pony.

7. Something I really appreciate in a movie is great costume design. Watch a movie that has been nominated for best costume design at the Oscars.

8. I love birthdays and get a little too excited when I find out I have a birthday twin. There are quite a few actors who share my birthday (including a couple Oscar winners). Find an actor that shares your birthday and watch one of their films.

9. Some of the best parts of movies are the side characters. Watch a movie featuring an iconic side character (or several).

10. Happy National Siblings Day! I have one older brother, so in honor of my personal sibling dynamic…Watch a movie with a brother and sister duo.

11. It seems as though every well known musician has had a movie made of their life. With the high volume of musician biopics, let's not forget other stories. Watch a non-musician biopic.

12. Traveling is one of my biggest ions and I love watching movies set in different places throughout the world. Watch a movie with a specific location in the title.

13. We are nearing the end of the 50th season of Saturday Night Live. Throughout its historic run, SNL has had many many talented host. Many of these hosts have returned time after time. Watch a movie starring one of the of the SNL Five Timers Club.

14. I spend entirely too much time on New York Times games...Watch a movie that has been used in a NYT Crossword puzzle.

15. Movies are great, but I have a soft spot for live theatre. Watch a movie that has either been adapted from a stage production or adapted into a stage production.

16. We all have holes in our movie watching. Watch a movie that you are embarrassed to it you haven’t seen yet.

17. There are lots of things that I enjoy in movies that I don’t particularly love in real life, for example the mafia. Watch a movie centered around organized crime.

18. A goal of mine is to eventually have watched a director's entire filmography. Watch a film you haven't yet seen from your most watched director.

19. Today marks the one year anniversary of the release of Taylor Swift’s 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department. In honor of her massive discography, watch a movie that has the same name as a Taylor Swift song.

20. Happy Easter! Watch a movie that is based on the Bible (either explicitly or through allegory/allusion).

21. Most people don’t have a least favorite number. But I do and it is 21. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the 21st movie that pops up.

22. We have arrived at Earth Day! Watch a movie with a blue or green poster.

23. Today is World Book Day! Watch a movie based on a book you read for school (or at least one you were supposed to read in school).

24. Despite how much I love watching movies, I don't watch much TV. But when I do, it is almost always a sitcom. To me there isn't a better show than Arrested Development (but we don't count the 4th and 5th seasons). Watch a movie featuring one of the cast from Arrested Development.

25. We have somehow made it to the halfway mark of the 2020s! Let's throw it back a bit and watch a movie set in the 1920s.

26. With the rising prices of streaming services, I am starting to gain an even greater appreciation for movies I don't have to pay extra for. Watch a movie for free (could be from a free streaming service, a movie you already own, one you find on YouTube, etc.).

27. We are one month into the Major League Baseball season. I am a diehard Cincinnati Reds fan and while it has been 35 years since their last World Series win, they have quite a promising team this year. Watch a movie that was released in one of the years the Reds won a World Series (1919, 1940, 1975, 1976, or 1990).

28. We are now in Q2 of 2025, so let's take the time to reflect on our Q1. Watch a movie that has been released so far in 2025 that you have yet to watch.

29. Let's also get prepped for the rest of the year. Watch a movie that has a sequel or remake coming out in 2025.

30. For our last prompt of the month, let's really try to stretch ourselves. Use a random word generator to find a word, type that word into the search bar on Letterboxd, and find a movie with that word in the title.

1. Joy Ride
2. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
3. Pearl
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. Porco Rosso
6. Secretariat
7. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

   John Schuck

9. Aladdin
10. The Royal Tenenbaums

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I just thought I would try to do a little experiment to see if I can put a point as to what has helped create my love for film and what has made me into the person I am today. Perhaps the Star Wars Special Edition was not the first film that I saw at the theatre but it was the first one that I going to and having an impact at the age of 5. I probably went to other Disney films before hand like Pocahontas or any of the other rereleases that the company use to do. I cannot find any conformation of this but it would be an easy assumption to make.

Star Wars changed my life, as it did for many people. I have always credited seeing that film in 1997 gave me the grand love for film and was one of the reasons why I went to film school. I, like every other film student, had dreams of creating a world that would impact the world and leave a legacy that would last for decades. That dream for me started to fade away after three years of school and countless days of not getting sleep because I would be working on film shoots, going to classes, and trying to have an actual job making money. But that is a story for another day.

Another film that stands out clearly in mind is Pokémon: The First Movie. I seeing it at the North Shore theatre in Mequon, Wisconsin and leaving the theatre in tears because the film caught fire and burned before it ended. I never knew how the film ended for what felt like years but was probably only a few months when the film hit VHS. I miss the sound of the projector now, the grain on the screen, the softness that you would always get from film. Perhaps it's misplaced nostalgia but I still love seeing a film shown on actual film and I still drive many hours to see some of my favorites projected on film even if the film has a slight chance to burn.

I've seen countless movies with friends and family and most of them have stories that come with them. Some of them might seem silly to most but are incredibly personal to me. Sometimes the story that goes with the movie is better than the movie I saw itself, like the way that I almost ended up in the hospital just before leaving for my showing of Iron Man 2. The stupid things a teenage guy will do to impress a girl. Now I still have love for watching movies at home with friends and family, I love the intimacy of the theatre more. Hundreds of people gathered in a dark room to share an experience that you cannot repeat at home. You have countless distractions and most of them are taken away at the theatre or at least should be.

I would like to apologize to my girlfriend for many reasons. First, I don't mean to make your heart go berserk everytime I confront someone for talking at full volume at a movie or for having a phone out during the climax or even for smoking an e-cigarettes. You tell me everytime that one of these times I'm going to get flat out punched but I cannot stand the rudeness of people, they feel entitiled because they paid $10 to see a movie. Guess what I paid the same thing you did, I showed up early to pick out the seat I wanted and just because you show up late and you need to Snapchat every moment of your life doesn't mean you have a life more meaningful than mine. Secondly, I'm sorry for taking you to some terrible films: Annie, The Lazarus Effect, Shut In, Jem and the Holograms and countless other films. You went with me so I wouldn't have to be alone and I thank you for it. Four years together has given us many great film memories together and some bad ones too.

July 20, 2012. That is a date that still haunts me every moment I look at a movie theatre. That is the day that a man attacked my home, the place I go to for escapism and to try and forget about the world for a few hours a day. I will never forgive that man nor this country for letting such an act happen. The act keeps happening at schools, churches, clubs, and now even airports. We have no safety left in this world. I do not live in fear of this, I just walk around everyday with the names of the victims in my head: Jonathan Blunk, Alexander Boik, Jesse Childress, Gordon Cowden, Jessica Ghawl, John Larimer, Matt McQuinn, Micayla Medek, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, Alex Sullivan, Alexander Teves, and Rebecca Wingo. Those people are not memorialized in anyway, they are asked to be faint memories to us yet they gave up their lives doing something that most of us do everyday. You shouldn't have to expect things like this to happen but now you clearly do. You must always expect the unexpected in our world. I try to ask most of friends and family to think about those victims on July 20 every year and just try to imagine someone attacking you at the place where you go to leave the world only to have it turn into your worst nightmare.

I spend a lot of my time thinking about how grateful I am lately. I have found myself working as a film reviewer for two schools I have attended which let me see many films I never cared to see. I have found myself struggling to write about films at times after being confronted about how I have no right telling people not to see a film that countless people put effort into and once again I tell you that you are correct. I have no right to do so, I have no degree that tells me that I can tell people to stay away from art that I find distasteful, I know how it works as well with people telling others to stay away from my work because it seems juvenile and lacks craft. I agree, we all have our opinions and I never want to crush anyones, I just want to be a person who gets the ball rolling and gets conversation flowing.

Perhaps none of my rambling makes any sense, it normally doesn't unless I have an editor look at it and tell me all the ways I need to focus more but I wanted to get something raw out into the world. Something that might not make sense but still can mean something.

• Star Wars
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Oliver & Company
• Return of the Jedi
• Free Willy 3: The Rescue
• Anastasia
• Flubber
• Mulan
• The Parent Trap
• Antz

...plus 1403 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thanks to Colin for hosting this month's hunt.

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Prompts:
1. If Scavenger Hunts were movies, the first prompt would be the poster. Watch a film with a painted poster.

2. Now put an arthouse flair on it. Watch a movie with an entirely black-and-white poster.

3. If we start low, we can only go up from there. (That's just physics.) Watch any director's least popular or lowest rated film on Letterboxd.

4. Letterboxd can feel a little American-centric sometimes, so let's get an outsider's perspective. Watch a movie about/set in the United States directed by a non-American (e.g. Once Upon a Time In America, Widows, News from Home, The Ice Storm, The Power of the Dog, etc.).

5. Okay, technically that was still Americentric. To make up for it: Watch a movie known exclusively by a non-English title. Less Parasite, Breathless, or Pan's Labyrinth, more Y Tu Mamá También, Ikiru, and La Haine.

6. Many actors get their start in non-English language movies but eventually move to English language roles (Salma Hayek, Jackie Chan, Marlene Dietrich, etc.). Far fewer English-speaking Hollywood stars eventually move to working with global auteurs and speaking different languages for their roles. For this prompt, you can seek out anyone willing to get out of their comfort zone. Watch a movie starring someone acting in a non-native language.

7. Last year was a big year for multilingual films, with many global awards frontrunners—including Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, and Emilia Pérez—prominently featuring multiple spoken languages. Watch a movie with at least three spoken languages. You can check this on Letterboxd under any movie's "Details." (I promise this is the last language-based prompt.)

8. We all have watchlists. Some are just more unnecessarily difficult to maintain than others. Watch a film on my Ten-per-year, hundred+ year watchlist.

9. Today is the Super Bowl, and the Lions had their best season record of all time this year. Additionally, over the last few days, Tottenham have played Liverpool in the 2nd leg of the semi-final of the Carabao Cup, Aston Villa in the 4th round of the FA Cup, and two Europa League games; hopefully they've made it through at least one of these competitions. Celebrate my American and European football teams and Watch a movie about an unlikely hero or an underdog.

10. Secede from our modern techno-oligarchy. Watch a film made before the first commercially successful personal computers were released in 1977.

11. We can do good things on computers, too. Like Letterboxd. Or, most importantly, play Resident Evil. Watch a movie set in any classic Resident Evil location: a creepy mansion, a police station, an orphanage, a sewer, a science lab, an island, or a small European village.

12. With horror on the brain, one of my favorite niche micro-genres is horror films directed by filmmakers who aren't known for working in the genre. Watch a film from my list Experiments In Terror: Horror Films by Non-Horror Directors or any other movie you feel fits that category.

13. Watch a movie about a nun, a ballet dancer, or a sex worker. That's it, that's the prompt.

14. Obligatory Valentine's Day prompt, but weird, in honor of some of my favorite romance movies like Blue Velvet, The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Chungking Express: Watch either an erotic thriller, a non-English movie musical, or a movie that could be considered an unconventional rom-com.

15. I love nothing more than a hyper-specific title. Watch a movie with a title that's five words or longer. The more it looks like a complete sentence, the better.

16. There should always be an element of discovery to a Scavenger Hunt. Watch a film you hadn't heard of before today.

17. I didn't really get into movies until late into my teen years. In honor of my somewhat stunted cinephilic development, Watch a movie on BFI's List of the 50 Films You Should See By the Age of 14. If you've seen them all, watch a children's/family movie made before 1980.

18. We often think of certain genres as locked in their place in time. Let's unlock them. Watch a western or noir film made after 1956 (the year The Searchers came out), or Watch a science-fiction or action film made before 1968 (the year 2001: A Space Odyssey came out).

19. Embrace minimalism. Watch a film with ten or fewer people listed in the cast on Letterboxd. Try Letterboxd's chamber-piece showdown for inspiration.

20. One of my favorite filmmakers, Mike Leigh, released Hard Truths this year at the age of 81; today he turns 82. Watch a movie made by a director who was at least 65 years old when the film was released.

21. You know who else is rad? Icelandic icon Björk Guðmundsdóttir. Björk released solo studio albums in 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, and 2022. Watch a film from one of those years, or watch The Juniper Tree, Dancer In the Dark, or The Northman.

22. Celebrate Black History Month and Watch a film from NPR & Slate's The New Black Film Canon, S. Torriano Berry & Venise T. Berry's The 50 Most Influential Black Films, or any film made by a Black director on either list.

23. The Oscars are scheduled to air a week from today. Watch a movie on the list of lowest rated Best Picture nominees or on the list of least popular Best Picture nominees.

24. I come from a family of non-film lovers, so instead of paying tribute to my grass-touching kin, let's honor the neverending succession of filmmaking dynasties from Hollywood and beyond. Watch a film starring a nepo baby.

25. Watch a pre-Code Hollywood film or a movie once rated X or NC-17 by the MPAA.

26. Today marks the most important holiday of the month: the anniversary of the release of Charli XCX's 2016 Vroom Vroom EP (prod. Sophie). Watch a movie Charli XCX has marked watched on Letterboxd, or watch any movie with a hyperpop aesthetic (e.g. The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, Spring Breakers, Climax, etc.).

27. I've done hyperpop so now—logically—I must do shoegaze. Watch a movie that you think epitomizes any of the qualities of shoegaze—dreamy, hypnagogic, slow, etc.—or watch either version of My Bloody Valentine.

28. If Scavenger Hunts were movies, the last prompt would be the credits. Watch a movie by one of my favorite directors: Yasujirō Ozu, Mike Leigh, Abbas Kiarostami, Chantal Akerman, Robert Altman, Wong Kar-Wai, Éric Rohmer, Tsai Ming-Liang, Ingmar Bergman, or David Lynch (R.I.P.).

1. I Saw the Devil
2. Beautiful Boy
3. Boxcar Bertha
4. Once Upon a Time in America
5. La Haine
6. Public Enemies
7. Cold War
8. The Iron Claw
9. The Boys in the Boat
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Anora
• The Wild Robot
• Challengers
• Dìdi (弟弟)
• Inside Out 2
• Flow
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• The Brutalist
• Wicked
• Nosferatu

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thanks to Hannah for hosting this challenge.

Top 5:
1. City Lights
2. All About Eve
3. Wicked 
4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
5. Gone with the Wind

The Prompts

1. In the spirit of January and the start of a new year, let’s work on some resolutions. How about we start by watching a movie you actually just really want to watch to get you going and start your stats off on the right track with a fun "first watch".

2. I know it’s January, but sometimes there just isn’t enough time to get in all of the holiday films you love. Go ahead and watch a holiday film you didn’t get a chance to see. (Could be any holiday, go wild, who am I to judge?)

3. I always say I’m going to finish my lists and only do it like 10% of the time. Watch a movie from your scavenger hunt graveyard, or if this is your first, check out the master list and pick a prompt.

4. Letteboxd is one of my favorite sites, and I am addicted to closing my rings. Watch a film from one of the rings you haven’t completed yet or use this as a spot to watch a movie from another challenge you might be doing this year. [check out your "stats" page].

5. I’m a kind of voracious reader. I always want to read more, so it's always my resolution to read an unattainable amount of books. Go ahead and watch a literary adaptation. (Here's a list to get you started, or this one.)

6. I struggle between wanting to always watch new movies and missing some of my favorites. Go ahead and watch a comfort movie, or one you think might become a comfort movie.

7. In the new year, I think it’s important we all work on educating ourselves. Go ahead and find a documentary that speaks to you. (You can start here if you can't think of one).

8. Who doesn’t have a resolution about their job? I work for a Tribe, and so I spend a lot of time catching up learning about Indigenous content. Watch a movie by a filmmaker from a marginalized community or starring a predominantly POC cast.

9. Forget work. Let’s talk about the fun stuff we’re looking forward to this year. Watch a film from a country you want to visit (or visit again if you already have).

10. Sometimes, I put off movies because they seem hard, or they’re long, or I just don’t feel like thinking. Watch a movie you’ve honestly been putting off for whatever reason.

11. I’m a big fan of going to the movies. Go see a movie in theaters, or stream a release from 2025 (or the end of 2024).

12. I like working through filmographies of actors and directors, but sometimes I struggle to complete them. Watch a movie from your favorite director or actor that you haven’t seen yet. If you’ve seen all of them, pick your second favorite, you mad lil lad.

13. It’s 2025, we don’t have time anymore. And frankly, I am a huge proponent of a tight 90. Watch a film under 100 minutes. (This might me by favorite list on this app tbh).

14. Let’s get to know each other, make some friends, find some common ground. Click around, find someone you either already follow or a review from a recent movie you watched that you found funny or insightful, and watch one of their four favorites.

15. We’re all trying to learn every film ever made and keep up on all the new ones, right? Go ahead and watch an old movie. I’ll let you define what old is to you, but it has to be before you were born at least.

16. Letterboxd is a very fun place to make very fun lists. I’ve found a ton that I love to revisit for these hunts. Go find a fun list and watch a movie you haven’t seen yet from it (maybe leave a comment and thank them for their dope list). Some of my faves include: 🌈Pride: A Chronological History of Queer Interest & LGBTQ+ Cinema, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films, Befriending the lyrical loneliness…, Where to Begin: Great Directors)

17. January is a fun month. We got a lot of sports popping off– NFL, WNBA, NBA, NHL, and CFB to name a few American classics. Watch a sports movie.

18. Last time I hosted, I made you watch a film from my favorite city and hometown, Pittsburgh. I also made you watch one from where I currently live, Miami. I’ve also lived in New York, Toronto, Brazil, California, and Virginia. Watch a movie set in any of those places.

19. A major resolution I have had for the past few years is to learn Spanish. Watch a movie in a language different from your own.

20. It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the US today. In the spirit of his work,watch a movie about the Civil Rights Movement, protesting, or civil disobedience.

21. Yesterday was also Inauguration Day, meaning the US has a new president and we all have feelings about it I’m sure. Go ahead and watch a movie with a president in it could be a biopic or just a fictional president.

22. My girlfriend started using Letterboxd when we started dating. She’s the true cinephile in our relationship. She definitely didn’t tell me to write this. Go ahead and watch a movie from her all time faves or from movies we’ve watched together

23. Enough about my super amazing wonderful partner. Ask your partner or best friend or sibling or whoever means a lot to you what movie you should watch for this prompt.

24. A good resolution I’ve tried to stick to is eating out less and cooking more. I love cooking, so it all works out. Watch a film about cooking, food, or restaurants.

25. New year means decluttering. Go ahead and clean out some of your watchlist by watching one here.

26. Oscar nominees are going to be announced this month. Watch a movie you think will be nominated in any category (or if you want to wait and watch one after the announcement, do that).

27. Speaking of Oscar nominations, go ahead and watch a movie or performance you think got snubbed, historically.

28. Maybe in the new year, you’ll want to spend more time with family. Watch a movie about family. Or, frankly, if you’re like me and don’t like your family, watch a movie about getting away from your family.

29. We all have gaps in our viewing, and that’s why we do these hunts. Watch a film from a genre that isn’t one of your favorites.

30. Every year, Steven Soderberg published his list of content he consumed. It usually publishes the first week of January, but if you don’t want to wait for the 2024 list, watch a movie from his 2023/4 list.

31. It’s the end of the month– you did it! We’re 8% done with 2025. Enjoy a free spot to get a jump on February.

1. Out of Sight
2. Santa Claus: The Movie
3. 24×36
4. Harakiri
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's
6. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
7. F for Fake
8. Barbershop
9. Wolfwalkers
10. Gone with the Wind

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 21 Years: Richard Linklater
• '71
• After Tiller
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• American Movie
• The American Scream
• Amour
• Annie Hall
• Anomalisa
• The Armstrong Lie

...plus 307 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Inglourious Basterds
• Oppenheimer
• The Godfather
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Avengers: Endgame
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Django Unchained
• The Hateful Eight
• The Batman
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Trying to reignite my love for film. Hoping that a scavenger hunt will help.

29 new films, 1 rewatch

Top 5 Films:

1. Persona
2. 3:10 to Yuma
3. 24×36
4. The Deer Hunter
5. The Third Man
6. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
7. The Pianist
8. Totally Killer
9. Sleepaway Camp
10. Anatomy of a Fall

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While I don't agree with all of these films being in my Top 100, Flickchart tells me they should be.

Updated 10/12/14

The Dark Knight added at 8, Star Wars added at 12, Man on Wire added at 21, Inside Out added at 44, Under the Skin added at 47, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town added at 48, To Kill a Mockingbird added at 50, The Fountain added at 61, The Fugitive added at 62, 12 Monkeys added at 63, Swingers added at 76, The Gift added at 92, The Goodbye Girl added at 94, Southpaw added at 95

Films That Left the List: Se7en, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Young Frankenstein, Brooklyn Castle, Hunger, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Garden State, Seven Psychopaths, The Skeleton Twins, Election, Dogma, Hollywoodland, Double Indemnity, Harvey

Updated: 11/04/15

United 93 added at 22, Moonrise Kingdom added at 71, A Walk to added at 74, Limitless added at 79, Still Alice added at 81, Zodiac added at 83, X-Men: Days of Future Past added at 87, Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust added at 88

Films That Left The List: The Gift, Stories We Tell, The Goodbye Girl, Southpaw, Mary Poppins, The Imposter, The Guard, Fast and Furious 6

Updated 12/08/15

The Invisible War added at 40, Driving Miss Daisy added at 51, Terminator 2: Judgment Day added at 54, Fight Club added at 55, Spotlight added at 57, Room added at 70, Notorious added at 75, A Hard Days Night added at 81, The Peanuts Movie added at 90, Hollywoodland added at 96

Films That Left the List: 12 Angry Men, Spider-Man 2, Annie Hall, No Country for Old Men, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Prestige, Citizen Kane, 500 Days of Summer, Batman Begins, Nightcrawler

Updated 2/22/16

The Godfather Part II added at 3, Birdman added at 50, The Artist added at 56, West Side Story added at 60, The Revenant added at 71, The Lady Eve added at 81, Beasts of the Southern Will added at 83, Saving Private Ryan added at 99

Films That Left the List:
Hard Candy, The Lion King, Hollywoodland, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, The Emperor's New Groove, Rushmore

Updated 5/2/16
About Time added at 39, Battle Royale added at 43, Crazy Stupid Love added at 57, The Big Lewbowski added at 68, Inside Llewyn Davis added at 76, Everybody Wants Some added at 77, Side Effects added at 85

Left That Left the List:
The Revenant, Still Alice, The Peanuts Movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Zodiac, Saving Private Ryan, Swingers

Updated 10/6/17
Apocalypse Now added at 8, La La Land added at 23, GoodFellas added at 24, Her added at 30, Manchester by the Sea added at 31, Spartacus added at 33, American Graffiti added at 35, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly added at 36, Arrival added at 38, On Her Majesty's Secret Service added at 39, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg added at 42, Nebraska added at 45, Blade Runner added at 46, The Grand Budapest Hotel added at 48, Hunger added at 49, Moonlight added at 53, The Big Sick added at 56, Spider-Man 2 added at 58, The Lost City of Z added at 61, Aladdin moved to 63, Snowpiercer added at 73, Memento added at 76, Up added at 78, Everybody Wants Some moved to 82, Swiss Army Man added at 83, Captain America: Civil War added at 84, The Grapes of Wrath added at 85, Baby Driver added at 86

Left the List:
Superman II, Hero, Thank You for Smoking, Inside Llewyn Davis, 10 Things I Hate About You, E.T., The Fountain, The Fugitive, 12 Monkeys, Tangled, Thunderball, Side Effects, The Karate Kid, The Lady Eve, Notorious, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Gandhi, Moonrise Kingdom, Superman, A Hard Days Night, A Walk to , Mallrats, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Fantasia, Fruitvale Station, Limitless, The Lady Vanishes

Updated 11/26/17
North by Northwest added at 57, Back to the Future added at 73, The Fall added at 96

Films that Left the List:
Rush, Spotlight, 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Updated 4/22/18
Atonement added at 8, Halloween (1978) added at 34, Blade Runner 2049 added at 91, 127 Hours added at 93

Films that Left the List:
The Kings of Summer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Big Lebowski, Silver Linings Playbook

Updated 11/12/18
Lawrence of Arabia added at 60, Spies Like Us added at 61, Colossal added at 71, Return of the Jedi added at 83, Avengers: Infinity War added at 87, Won't You Be My Neighbor added at 88,

Films that Left the List:
Aliens, War Horse, T2: Judgement Day, Fight Club, Room, West Side Story

Updated 7/5/19
Wall-e added at 26, Glengarry Glen Ross added at 43, The Spectacular Now added at 64, Rashomon added at 70, Paddington 2 added at 71

Films That Left the List:
Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, The Artist, All the President's Men, 127 Hours

Updated 3/28/20
The Philadelphia Story added at 29, Marriage Story added at 35, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre added at 36, The Gift added at 38, Little Women (2019) added at 52, Parasite added at 63, Brief Encounter added at 99

Left the List:
Driving Miss Daisy, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Stupid Crazy Love, Everybody Wants Some, Swiss Army Man, Captain America: Civil War, The Grapes of Wrath

Updated 6/17/21
Marriage Story moved to 21, La La Land moved to 23, The Muppets added at 27, Boyhood added at 30, Alien moved to 38, Before Sunrise moved to 39, Annihilation added at 50, The Shining moved to 55, Sunset Boulevard added at 62, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring added at 63, Hellboy added at 65, Brooklyn added at 76, In the Heights added at 77, Promising Young Woman added at 78, Train to Busan added at 79, Whip It added at 80, A League of Their Own added at 81, PS I Love You added at 82, Spies Like Us moved to 83,

Left the List:
Before Sunrise

Updated 5/3/24
Raging Bull added at 12, Sicario added at 46, The Lady Vanishes added at 48, Dial M for Murder added at 62, The Red Shoes added at 84, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret added at 85, Oppenheimer added at 88, Luca added at 89, The Holdovers added at 90, Ford v Ferrari added at 92, The Manchurian Canidate added at 95, James and the Giant Peach added at 96, Vertigo added at 97, Kick-Ass added at 98, Oliver added at 99

Left the List: About Time, Moneyball, Finding Nemo, Badlands, Rashomon, Paddington 2, The Lost City of Z, The Invisible War. Aladdin, Colossal. Battle Royale. The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Strangers on a Train, Psycho

1. Jaws
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Part II
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Inception
7. Inside Out
8. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
9. Atonement
10. Apocalypse Now

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Holdovers
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• 20 Days in Mariupol
• Oppenheimer
• Nimona
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
• Judy Blume Forever
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Barbie
• The Creator

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dual
• The Batman
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• The Black Phone
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• The Fabelmans
• Barbarian
• Glass Onion
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Scream

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Malignant
2. Hoosiers
3. Patch Adams
4. Throne of Blood
5. Moonfall
6. All About Eve
7. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. The American President
9. The Town
10. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While I've been sadly sporadic with my participation with these scavenger hunts. I'm still always excited to make the list and watch a couple new films. Most of these films have appeared on other lists I have made so eventually the pressure will get to me and I'll finally watch them.

Original List: boxd.it/hpuzY

Top 5:
1. The Jungle Book
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Winter's Bone
4. Amanda Knox
5 Timecop

1. Let's do introductions! My name is Amanda, watch a movie with a character named Amanda!

2. Nothing beats the love of my life, New York! Watch a movie filmed there!

3. I'm an education major. Watch a movie with a great teacher!

4. I love Dark Horse comics, but the Marvel/DC fanwars are funny. Out of spite, watch a comic book movie that's not Marvel or DC!

5. Fifth grade kickstarted my lifelong Jim Carrey obsession. Watch a movie with one of your fictional/real-life crushes! Bonus points if they're your first, and tell me who they are in the notes!

6. I'm a theatre kid dropout. Watch a musical (pro-shots count)!

7. In honor of my friend, Melvin, watch any hand-drawn Disney movie!

8. Stop-motion is my favorite medium, hands down! Watch a stop-motion movie! (bonus points for rankin/bass).

9. As a cringy goth teenager, I'm contractually obligated to include this prompt: Watch a Tim Burton movie!

10. I see you shiver with antici....pation for this next prompt! Rocky Horror is my favorite movie of all time, so watch a cult movie!

11. I started getting seriously into film in junior year, and I personally thank my film teacher, Mrs. Pendley, for that. Pick a movie from her recommendation list!

12. Beware of falling chandeliers! I'm currently reading Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, watch any adaptations of/films inspired by Phantom of the Opera! There's surprisingly more of these than I thought.

13. Often, I watch movies that I know I would've gone crazy over if I saw them as a little kid. Watch a movie that you think your younger self would've loved!

14. My dear letterboxd , you're not immune to my emotional late 2000's childhood entertainment. Case in point, pick your poison because you're watching either a Barbie, Bratz, or Monster High movie.

15. I watched my first horror movie at 15, the 1974 Dracula with Jack Palance! Watch a vampire movie!

16. I'm a sucker for John Hughes. Watch a movie starring any of The Brat Pack!

17. My friends like to bully me for not seeing their childhood classics. Watch a movie from this list of flicks that I apparently missed out on (and tell me if they're good).

18. Peak Amanda culture is watching Madagascar 2 at my grandma's house. Pick a movie from my grandma's dvd rack.

19. Mermaid mythology always fascinates me! Watch a mermaid movie!

20. I'm pretty sure Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon altered my brain chemistry in sixth grade and onwards. Watch a movie where a character wears a mask!

21. My biggest pet peeve in movies is forced romances. Watch a movie where the protag has NO love interest!

22. In honor of my friend, Lauren, watch an Ewan McGregor movie!

23. My ultimate comfort show is M*A*S*H*, I'm a Father Mulcahy stan first and human being second. Watch a movie that got a tv show adaptation or vice versa!

24. My brother's all-time favorite movie is Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Watch a movie where cartoons interact with humans/"the real world"!

25. Because I love him so much, I dedicate two prompts to my brother. Watch a movie with a sister/brother duo! Bonus points for older sister/younger brother dynamic.

26. In honor of my friend, Ace, watch a Studio Ghibli movie! Or any Ace Ventura movies.

27. It's my sleepover, I get to choose the movie! Choose a movie from my comfort movies list!

28. August 28th is Jack Black's birthday, which in my opinion should be a national holiday. Watch a Jack Black movie!

29. My birthday is in February! Watch a movie that was released in a February from any year!

30. My aunt worked at DC comics for a long time. Watch a Batman movie!

31. I'm the kind of person who brainstorms my Halloween costume months in advance. Watch a movie with a character you would dress up as for Halloween (bonus points if you say who)!

1. Amanda Knox
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. The Great Debaters
4. Timecop
5. Winter's Bone
6. An American in Paris
7. The Jungle Book
8. The House
9. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
10. Donnie Darko

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Lady Bird
2. Room
3. The Spectacular Now
4. Under the Skin
5. Ex Machina
6. Moonlight
7. Green Room
8. First Reformed
9. Midsommar
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Spencer
• October Sky
• The House
• The 355
• Music and Lyrics
• The Half of It
• Under the Silver Lake
• Winter's Bone
• Honey Boy
• Pretty Woman

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• In the Heights
• Mass
• West Side Story
• CODA
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Wrath of Man
• Flee
• Writing with Fire
• Nomadland

...plus 113 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. 10 Cloverfield Lane
2. 10 Things I Hate About You
3. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
4. 12 Angry Men
5. Twelve Monkeys
6. 12 Years a Slave
7. 127 Hours
8. 13 Going on 30
9. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
10. 1917

...plus 2025 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm usually lucky to watch half of the movies. Really going to try and make it to at least the 60% mark this go. Wish me luck!

Top 5:
1. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2. Raging Bull
3. Oliver Twist
4. The Way Back
5. Big Daddy

Original List:
boxd.it/bFkmo

1. The Green Mile
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. The Way Back
4. Raging Bull
5. M
6. Bridget Jones's Diary
7. Big Daddy
8. Artemis Fowl
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• The Avengers
• Captain America: Civil War
• Avengers: Endgame
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Iron Man
• Black Panther
• WandaVision
• Captain America: The First Avenger

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 5:
1. Shiva Baby
2 The Suicide Squad
3 Little Fish
4. Monsters vs Aliens
5. Joe Versus the Volcano

Original List: boxd.it/5cTia

1. Little Fish
2. 13 Assassins
3. The Roommate
4. Ever After
5. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
6. The Apple Dumpling Gang
7. Uptown Girls
8. Gangs of New York
9. The Suicide Squad
10. Triple Frontier

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While I love doing these Scavenger Hunts I never seem to finish them. Hopefully this time will be different. Little Nemo is a rewatch but I haven't seen the film in the past twenty years so it will feel new.

Original list:
boxd.it/bRI30

Top 5:
1. Bicycle Thieves
2. My Girl
3. Jennifer's Body
4. Ladder 49
5. The Tuxedo

1. My Girl
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. Ladder 49
4. Born on the Fourth of July
5. Cabaret
6. Cinema Paradiso
7. The Tuxedo
8. At Eternity's Gate
9. Jennifer's Body
10. The Pianist

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• My Name Is Julia Ross
• So Dark the Night
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
• Kill the Umpire
• Angels in the Outfield
• Blind Alley
• Some Like It Hot
• Gilda
• The Lady from Shanghai
• Johnny O'Clock

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Haven't had the chance to do one of these scavenger hunts for the past few years, thought it might be time to get back into them.

Original List:
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/lilyscolins/list/scavenger-hunt-75-june-2021/

Top 5:
1. The Red Shoes
2. Train to Busan
3. His Girl Friday
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort

1. Train to Busan
2. Taste of Cherry
3. City of God
4. Alien³
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort
6. Happy-Go-Lucky
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Authors Anonymous
9. Bringing Up Baby
10. Wildlife

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Palm Springs
• Promising Young Woman
• The Assistant
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Soul
• The Lodge
• The Invisible Man
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Happiest Season
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Up
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Parasite
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Ex Machina
• Hereditary
• Citizen Kane
• Knives Out
• Ready or Not
• Get Out

• Noelle
• Lady and the Tramp
• One Day at Disney
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Mr. Duck Steps Out
• The Imagineering Story
• Lamp Life
• Captain America: Civil War
• Inner Workings
• Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Marriage Story
• Double Indemnity
• Sunset Boulevard
• Her
• Chinatown
• Blade Runner
• LA 92
• La La Land
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• L.A. Confidential

• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
• Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Christopher Robin
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• True Romance
• Life Itself
• Bad Times at the El Royale
• Assassination Nation
• Halloween

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Marriage Story
• Parasite
• Avengers: Endgame
• Shazam!
• Us
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Little Women
• Love, Antosha
• Klaus
• Wild Rose

...plus 126 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Return of the Jedi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• X-Men: First Class
• X2
• Logan
• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• X-Men: The Last Stand
• Deadpool 2
• The Wolverine
• X-Men
• X-Men: Apocalypse
• Deadpool

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The 400 Blows
• The Act of Killing
• Adaptation.
• All About Eve
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Amélie
• Barry Lyndon
• The Battle of Algiers
• Battleship Potemkin
• Ben-Hur

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Aliens
• The Dark Knight
• The Godfather Part II
• Spider-Man 2
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

• Before Sunrise
• Like Crazy
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Her
• Brief Encounter
• Casablanca
• La La Land
• (500) Days of Summer
• Blue Valentine

1. Paddington 2
2. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
3. Hereditary
4. First Reformed
5. Sorry to Bother You
6. BlacKkKlansman
7. Blindspotting
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
9. Black Panther
10. The Favourite

...plus 135 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. The Shop Around the Corner
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas
5. The Muppet Christmas Carol
6. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
7. Arthur Christmas
8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
9. Elf
10. Holiday Inn

1. Psycho
2. Halloween
3. Scream
4. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
5. The Cabin in the Woods
6. Happy Death Day
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street
8. The Final Girls
9. You're Next
10. Child's Play

• Alien
• Her
• Ex Machina
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Matrix
• Unfriended
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• WarGames
• TRON: Legacy
• Unfriended: Dark Web

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Dunkirk
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Apocalypse Now
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Glory
9. War Horse
10. Wonder Woman

While I cannot stand the lack of costumer service from Movie, I still feel like I get a bang for my buck.

• Bully
• Mary Poppins
• Trouble with the Curve
• Here Comes the Boom
• Taken 2
• Argo
• Dredd
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Frankenweenie
• Hotel Transylvania

...plus 510 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Fantasia
4. The Reluctant Dragon
5. Dumbo
6. Bambi
7. Saludos Amigos
8. Victory Through Air Power
9. The Three Caballeros
10. Make Mine Music

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Big Sick
2. Dunkirk
3. Lady Bird
4. Coco
5. Darkest Hour
6. The Shape of Water
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. John Wick: Chapter 2
9. Colossal
10. Wonder Woman

...plus 154 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I love the concept of these scavenger hunts and have tried to do them since the inception but my time have become increasingly less focused to movies and more focused on the craziness of actual life. I hope to give it a try yet again and with some great tasks giving some films I have been meaning to see, I'm going to try and give it my all.

letterboxd.conexionsite.com/ziggystorstrand/list/scavenger-hunt-32-november-2017/

1. A prominent movie from the New Wave of American Cinema
2. A movie written by Jay and/or Mark Duplass
3. A Werner Herzog Documentary
4. A movie where Paul Dano cries (Hint, all his movies)
5. A documentary featuring animated scenes/recreations
6. A movie about a sport you couldn't care less about.
7. A Norwegian film, produced and made in Norway
8. The lowest rated Nicolas Cage movie you haven't seen yet (On Letterboxd)
9. The most popular Nicolas Cage movie you haven't seen yet (On Letterboxd)
10. Watch preferably Clerks, or any other movie directed by Kevin
 Smith
11. A biopic about a person or event that you already have a personal stake in/really care about
12. A South-Korean revenge-thriller
13. A really Metal (as in heavy metal) movie
14. A movie starring Audrey Hepburn
15. A movie you think will make you incredibly depressed
16. A Spaghetti Western not directed by Sergio Leone
17. The original of a movie you've only seen the remake of
18. A movie where Paul Giamatti plays at least a semi-asshole (hint, all of his movies)
19. A movie starring your least favorite actor/actress
20. A movie featuring full MALE frontal nudity
21. A movie you weren't allowed to watch as a child
22. A movie you have refused to watch due to a horrible poster (or just a movie with a horrible poster)
23. A movie you know you didn't give a fair chance to the first time around
24. The highest rated movie on IMDb Top 250 you haven't seen yet (Indian flicks excluded)
25. A movie featuring the production of a movie within said movie
26. A Chamberplay/Kammerspiel movie (A movie that takes place in one location)
27. A heist-film made pre 1980
28. An A24-studios film
29. A movie where Robert DeNiro isnt a mafioso, criminal, nor has a criminal past
30. A Netflix produced or distributed film
Bonus Nr.31 : Watch a movie featuring an actor/actress born on November 9th (My Birthday)

1. The Dirty Dozen
2. Blue Jay
3. Into the Inferno
4. Okja
5. Waltz with Bashir
6. Secretariat
7. Troll Hunter
8. Left Behind
9. Adaptation.
10. Yoga Hosers

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Almost Famous
• Moonlight
• Inside Out
• Boyhood
• American Graffiti
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Sing Street
• The Spectacular Now
• Moonrise Kingdom

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 12 Angry Men
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Alien
• High Noon
• Before Sunrise
• American Graffiti
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Before Sunset
• Gravity

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Personally I had to read the material to know if the adaptation was good or not, which is was films like Fight Club and The Godfather will not be on this list.

1. Jaws
2. Casino Royale
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Room
5. Jurassic Park
6. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. Hamlet
9. The Martian
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Citizen Kane
2. Almost Famous
3. Network
4. Spotlight
5. Zodiac
6. Ace in the Hole
7. Spider-Man 2
8. Groundhog Day
9. Frost/Nixon
10. All the President's Men

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While I have a vacation planned in August I would still like to give the scavenger hunts a try again. Missed doing them and they always make me watch films that I should have watched years ago. Many thanks to Christian Alec for this months hunt!

: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/christianalec94/list/summer-under-the-stars-august-2017-scavenger-1/

1: Watch a film set in my home state of Kansas.
2: Watch a film from the Road to... series with Crosby, Hope and Lamour.
3: Watch a film from my friend Zā's list of films that define them.
4: Watch a film starring a Summer Under the Stars on TCM star: Barbara Stanwyck
5: Watch a film starring a Summer Under the Stars on TCM star: Sidney Poitier
6: Watch a film based on a Pulitzer Prize Winning novel.
7: Watch a film that was nominated for Best Animated Feature BUT DID NOT WIN.
8: Watch a film from the landmark year 1967. Bonus if you watch one of the 5 featured in Mark Harris': Pictures at a Revolution
9: Watch a film with Chicano characters. (List here)
10: Watch a film Berry Jenkins took from the Criterion Collection closet.
11: Watch a film with a score by John Williams THAT IS NOT A Steven Spielberg film OR Star Wars film. Here is a handy list.
12: Watch a film made by Centron Corporation. Fun Fact: My film classes were in the actual studio many of these shorts were filmed at! You can find many of these on YouTube. This list has a list of the shorts they produced
13: Watch a film from the year one of your parents or guardians was the same age as you are now EXAMPLE: My dad was 23 in 1976 so I would watch a film from that year
14: Watch a miniseries.
15: Watch a film from the top 100 grossing Foreign language films on Box Office Mojo.
16: Watch a film from the BBS Production Company. Shoutout to my friend Anthony who knew the "S" from the Company!
17: Watch a film that won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
18: Watch a film featured in The Celluloid Closet PREFERABLY LGBTQ+ RELATED
19: Watch a film featuring the Wilhelm Scream! BONUS IF YOU CAN FIND IT AND TELL US WHERE IT IS IN YOUR REVIEW
20: Watch a film featuring the songs of Stephen Sondheim (List here!)
21: Watch a film set in 1917 the year of America entering WWI, The Russian Revolution, WWI events,etc.
22: Watch a film featuring a character who has diabetes. (List here!)
23: Watch a film directed by Agnés Varda
24: Watch a film where the main character/characters do not have a real first name. i.e. Guy and Girl from Once, The Man With No Name Trilogy or, The New Mrs. DeWinter from Rebecca.
25: Watch a film that is LIVE ACTION from Walt Disney in the 1960s
26: Watch a film about a teacher.
27: Watch a film featured on Elvira's Movie Macabre
28: Watch a film featuring a song/songs by Johnny Cash. (List here!)
29-30:Watch a science fiction DOUBLE FEATURE film from the 1950s. (List here!)

1. In Cold Blood
2. Road to Singapore
3. Rebel Without a Cause
4. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
5. In the Heat of the Night
6. South Pacific
7. Monster House
8. Doctor Dolittle
9. The Mask of Zorro
10. Weekend

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.