i'm doing this even though it - obviously - is going to take me much longer than the month of may bc unfortunately may has been filled with me mostly screaming into an abyss. i loved these categories though so i'll steadily chip away at them for a couple of months until i'm done!
UPDATE: IT'S TAKING ME ALL YEAR I HOPE ONLY TO BE DONE BY DECEMBER 31st
original list
1. Any film featuring a character named 'May'
2. A Scandinavian teen/coming of age film
3. A film you saw 5+ years ago in theatres but haven't seen since
4. A non Star Wars film starring a cast member of Star Wars Episode IV
5. Any film logged by…
i'm doing this even though it - obviously - is going to take me much longer than the month of may bc unfortunately may has been filled with me mostly screaming into an abyss. i loved these categories though so i'll steadily chip away at them for a couple of months until i'm done!
UPDATE: IT'S TAKING ME ALL YEAR I HOPE ONLY TO BE DONE BY DECEMBER 31st
original list
1. Any film featuring a character named 'May'
2. A Scandinavian teen/coming of age film
3. A film you saw 5+ years ago in theatres but haven't seen since
4. A non Star Wars film starring a cast member of Star Wars Episode IV
5. Any film logged by between 69 and 420 letterboxd users (I'm sorry, I hate myself)
6. An English-language film with a non-white female lead
7. A film starring a transgender actor
8. A low budget, high concept sci-fi film (ex. Circle, Cube, Time Lapse, Primer, Coherence, Triangle etc)
9. A pre-1970 Western
10. A post-1990 Western
11. A film about Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Abominable Snowman
12. A film with "party" in the title
13. A film directed by any member of the Coppola family (Francis Ford, Sofia, Gia, Roman, Christopher)
14. A Hitchcock film you haven't previously seen
15. A film about loneliness
16. A film from the British kitchen sink realism movement
17. A superhero film not based on any Marvel or DC characters
18. Any winner of the Grand Prix (2nd most prestigious award) at the Cannes Film Festival
19. Any film made by a director who has their latest in competition at Cannes this year
20. A film starring one or more members of the regular Simpsons voice cast (not The Simpsons Movie)
21. A film that takes place over the course of a single night
22. A film starring your first movie star crush
23. A non-horror anthology film
24. Any film from Roger Ebert's 'Great Movies' list
25. A film that takes place in a fictional country
26. An Australian horror film
27. A film in which a good actor gives a notoriously bad performance
28. A film with a species of bird in the title
29. A film by a director whose first name and surname begin with the same letter
30. A film selected from The Official Max Oxley Top 100™