Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

#CriterionChallenge 13 was called 'Song and Dance', but gave a list (see next post) to choose from. Easy one for me - I finally got round to watching the copy of Thirty Two Films about Glenn Gould I've had on my hard drive for about 15 years. It's superb 1/3

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Keeping up with the #CriterionChallenge despite a heavy cold. Last night's treat was #HaraKiri, chosen on the strength of its poster as per the challenge. One I've been aware of for a long time, I cannot recommend it highly enough - brilliantly plotted, acted and shot
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A ★★★★★ review of Nashville (1975) My Criterion Challenge 2026 13. Song and Dance You may say that I ain't free but it don't worry me! I love a movie that's both a sprawling opus and a naturalistic slice-of-life. Both a loving tribute ...

"Both a loving tribute and a scathing indictment of the music industry..."

My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of NASHVILLE (1975) directed by Robert Altman #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

A ★★★★½ review of The Long Goodbye (1973) My Criterion Challenge 2026 45. Novels on the Big Screen Honestly, Elliott Gould being the coolest motherfucker alive is probably worth four stars on its own. The first ten minutes are literally just ...

"Honestly, Elliott Gould being the coolest motherfucker alive is probably worth four stars on its own."

My ★★★★½ Letterboxd review of THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) directed by Robert Altman #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes…

#CriterionChallenge 11 was to pick something from the list I'm going to link in the next post. This led me to one of the few #WesAnderson films I had never seen, the magnificently bonkers Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. You either love him or you don't; I do.
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A ★★★★★ review of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Criterion Challenge 2026 44. Watch a film you haven’t seen that someone else watched as part of last year’s challenge When a man goes into the wilderness, and with his bare bones gives birth to a smal...

"This movie goes all out in creating a totally different kind of western than anyone had ever seen..."

My ★★★★★ review of MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971) directed by Robert Altman #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

A ★★★½ review of The Phantom of the Monastery (1934) CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026 PROGRESS: 13/52 CRITERIA: Criterion Double Features: Film #1 "Who knows if they came to life or if we died for a night?" Similar in setting and visual style to Two Monks, Phan...

CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 13/52
CRITERIA: Criterion Double Features: Film #1
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Blow Out (1981) While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the…

#CriterionChallenge 10 was to watch a randomly generated spine number. 562 came up, which is Brian de Palma's 1981 paranoid thriller Blow Out. One of those films I probably watched while at university, although I only vaguely remember it; it was genuinely gripping.

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A ★★★★★ review of Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Criterion Challenge 2026 3. Watch a film with a color in the title An absolute masterclass in "Show Don't Tell" storytelling and the use of silence that should be (and probably is) taught in film scho...

"An absolute masterclass in 'Show Don't Tell' storytelling and the use of silence that should be (and probably is) taught in film school."

My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

A ★★★½ review of Two Monks (1934) CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026 PROGRESS: 12/52 CRITERIA: Criterion Double Features: Film #2 "But he appeared in a strange form, as if his return foreboded disaster, despite how long I've longed for it." I’m...

CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 12/52
CRITERIA: Criterion Double Features: Film #2
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A ★★★½ review of The 400 Blows (1959) Criterion Challenge 2026 1. 20th Anniversary Releases I can't help feeling like this is one of those movies that (for me, at least) can't escape the incredibly long shadow of its reputation. And/or on...

"I appreciate the craft and it kept me interested but sadly I was expecting something more from a movie on so many greatest of all time lists."

My ★★★½ Letterboxd review of THE 400 BLOWS (1959) directed by François Truffaut #CriterionChallenge 📽️🎬

A ★★★★½ review of Flow (2024) OSCAR HISTORY CHALLENGE 2026 PROGRESS: 12/52 CRITERIA: A FILM NOMINATED AT THE 97TH ACADEMY AWARDS CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026 PROGRESS: 11/52 CRITERIA:  DIRECTOR APPROVED “Meow.” Since I so thoroughly e...

CRITERION CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 11/52
CRITERIA:  DIRECTOR APPROVED

OSCAR HISTORY CHALLENGE 2026
PROGRESS: 12/52
CRITERIA: A FILM NOMINATED AT THE 97TH ACADEMY AWARDS

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A ★ review of The Last House on the Left (1972) Criterion Challenge 2026 50. Criterion Double Features: Film #2 This is tough, guys. I think today I finally have to admit something to myself and to the world: I don't think I like Wes Craven (as a f...

"This is tough, guys. I think today I finally have to admit something to myself and to the world: I don't think I like Wes Craven (as a filmmaker) very much."

My ★ Letterboxd review of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) directed by Wes Craven #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🔪🎬

A ★★★★½ review of The Virgin Spring (1960) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

"The relationship between faith and guilt is a long and complex one. Let's watch while Ingmar Bergman tackles it in under 90 minutes!"

My ★★★★½ Letterboxd review of THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960) directed by Ingmar Bergman #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

Cure (1997) A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Latest #CriterionChallenge was 1990s. To avoid rewatches and also cross one off my other list, I chose #KiyoshiKurosawa's extraordinary, unsettling and 'Se7en'-inflected 'Cure'. Might be the best film I've watched this year; it's certainly still firmly in my head
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A ★★★★★ review of Empire of Passion (1978) Criterion Challenge 2026 12. Judge a film by its cover - Watch a film whose cover art caught your eye REWATCH Nobody does ghost stories like the Japanese but when it's a Nagisa Ōshima ghost story, hol...

"Nobody does ghost stories like the Japanese but when it's a Nagisa Ōshima ghost story, hold onto your butts!"

My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of EMPIRE OF PASSION (1978) directed by Nagisa Ōshima #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️👻🎬

A ★★★★½ review of Certain Women (2016) Criterion Challenge 2026 10. Random Number Generator REWATCH I just knew if I didn't start driving, I wasn't gonna see you again. I didn't want that. That's all. As expected, this worked so much bette...

"As expected, this worked so much better for me the second time around, being better acquainted with Kelly Reichardt's oeuvre."

My ★★★★½ Letterboxd review of CERTAIN WOMEN (2016) directed by Kelly Reichardt #CriterionChallenge #Rewatch #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

A ★★★★★ review of In the Mood for Love (2000) I sometimes wonder what I'd be if I hadn't married. Have you ever thought of that? Maybe happier! .... I can't waste time wondering if I made mistakes. Life's too short for that. Something must change...

"The way the entire story... is contained within the visual metaphor of these breathtaking liminal moments of Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan passing each other in the stairwell..."

My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) directed by Wong Kar-wai #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

Movie posters of Carlito’s Way, The Battle of Algiers, Assault on Precinct 13, and His Girl Friday

A little late for #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched but since I had a few flights and downtime this week I got in some decent movies and crossed off a few on my #CriterionChallenge list (9 down, 43 to go)

The Lady Vanishes (1938) On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes,…

#CriterionChallenge 8 was 1930s. So, time to catch up with a classic I've never seen before, shockingly. What genre is it? Yes.

Delightful and everything everyone says it is, the whole thing passed in the blink of an eye. Sublimely English while being universal.

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A ★★★★★ review of Gummo (1997) Criterion Challenge 2026 15. Director Approved The problem was, all I see is misery and darkness.... Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be...

"A terribly unflinching, uncompromising odyssey into the ugly, fetid, forgotten underbelly of rural America."

My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of GUMMO (1997) directed by Harmony Korine #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

Born in Flames (1983) In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

#CriterionChallenge no.7 Queer Cinema. Lizzie Borden's explosive guerrila metafictional documentary #BornInFlames which is startlingly contemporary in places, and very much of its time in others. Striking post-punk soundtrack gives it energy and forward motion.

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Alongside the #CriterionChallenge (of which more later), I am starting the delightful task of watching the entirety of the #BBCTelevisionShakespeare in original broadcast order. Originally broadcast starting in 1978, I watched most of the early ones before heading off to university in Edinburgh 1/n

A ★★★★★ review of Inland Empire (2006) Criterion Challenge 2026 14. 2000s I guess after my son died, I went into a bad time when I was just watching everything around me while I was standing in the middle-- watching it like in a dark theat...

"Welcome to David Lynch's Hollywoodland, where dreams become reality becomes movies become dreams become movies become reality becomes dreams..."

My ★★★★★ @letterboxd.social review of INLAND EMPIRE (2006) directed by David Lynch #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️👻🎬

A ★★★★½ review of Ms .45 (1981) Criterion Challenge 2026 25. “Good For Her” Cinematic Universe Sister. A very simple rape revenge story elevated to incredible heights of vintage New York sleaze and misandristic catharsis by the live...

"A very simple rape revenge story elevated to incredible heights... by the lively, frantic authorial hand of Abel Ferrara and... Joe Delia's raucous jazzy score."

My ★★★★½ @letterboxd.social review of MS .45 (1981) directed by Abel Ferrara #CriterionChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️🎬

Currently on a journey to watch all of PTA's movies and then rewatch One Battle After Another, and Dead Man was on my #criterionchallenge list! I'm at 7/52 on that :)

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the last drive in with joe bob briggs shows a green beach chair Alt: the last drive in with joe bob briggs sitting in a green beach chair

HAPPY JOE BOB DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

It's "haunted house night"!

Darcy said they're showing one of her favs but she *might* like the remake better so that's gotta be THE HAUNTING.

Personally I really hope they show THE OTHERS since it's on my #CriterionChallenge #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam 🎥👻🎬

Coup de Grâce (1976) A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

#CriterionChallenge No.6 was to pick one from the 20 least-watched titles in the Criterion catalogue. Plumped for this sobering, fatalistic view of the collapse of order and the hopelessness of men who only know war. Now want to watch Die Blechtrommel again.

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