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Criterion Challenge 2022

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This is my current work-in-progress list for the second annual Criterion Challenge as created by Letterboxd user <a href="https://letterboxd.com/benvsthemovies/">Ben</a>. I'm challenging myself to watch at least one Criterion-related movie a week based on that week's category. Click the glasses button ("Read more") to see the category for each movie!

Although the categories are numbered, I will be tackling the list in no specific order, either by personal fiat or using a random number generator. I will post my weekly pick in the comments to help me keep things straight.

The original rules and details can be found here: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/benvsthemovies/list/the-criterion-challenge-2022/">The Criterion Challenge 2022</a>

Also see my own Criterion Challenge list for last year: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/atomicpwrdrobot/list/the-criterion-challenge-2021/detail/">The Criterion Challenge 2021</a>

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Repulsion (1965)
Repulsion WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.0 98 ratings
罗曼·波兰斯基 actor: 凯瑟琳·德纳芙 / 伊恩·亨德里 …
other title: 冷血惊魂 / 厌恶 …
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Dazed and Confused
★ 7.4 62 ratings
理查德·林克莱特 actor: 杰森·伦敦 / 乔伊·劳伦·亚当斯 …
other title: 멍하고 혼돈스러운 / バッド・チューニング …
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Two-lane Blacktop WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.8 16 ratings
蒙特·赫尔曼 actor: 詹姆斯·泰勒 / 沃伦·奥茨 …
other title: 双车道柏油路 / Two-lane Blacktop …
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
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Amores Perros (2000)
Amores perros WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.9 238 ratings
Alejandro González Iñárritu actor: Gael García Bernal / Vanessa Bauche …
other title: 아모레스 페로스 / アモーレス・ペロス …
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.
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Mon Oncle (1958)
Mon Oncle
★ 8.6 258 ratings
雅克·塔蒂 actor: 让·皮埃尔·佐拉 / Adrienne Servantie …
other title: 我的舅舅 / 糊涂舅父(港) …
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
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Head (1968)
Head WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.0 6 ratings
鲍勃·拉菲尔森 actor: 彼得·图尔克 / 戴维·琼斯 …
other title: 毛发 / 헤드 …
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.
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Shock Corridor (1963)
Shock Corridor WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.8 44 ratings
塞缪尔·富勒 actor: 彼得·布瑞克 / 康斯坦丝·陶尔斯 …
other title: 恐怖走廊 / 惊恐回廊 …
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
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The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Körkarlen WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.2 45 ratings
维克多·斯约斯特洛姆 actor: 维克多·斯约斯特洛姆 / 希尔达·博里斯特伦 …
other title: 幽灵马车 / Körkarlen …
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
Le salaire de la peur
★ 8.7 166 ratings
亨利-乔治·克鲁佐 actor: 伊夫·蒙当 / 夏尔·瓦内尔 …
other title: 恐惧的代价 / Le salaire de la peur …
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
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Crash (1996)
Crash
★ 7.3 158 ratings
David Cronenberg actor: James Spader / 霍利·亨特 …
other title: 欲望号快车 / 撞车 …
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Valerie a týden divů
★ 7.7 80 ratings
亚罗米尔·伊雷什 actor: 雅罗斯拉娃·莎勒洛娃 / Helena Anýzová …
other title: Fantasie di una tredicenne / Valerie a týden divů …
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
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One Night in Miami... (2020)
One Night in Miami WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.0 24 ratings
雷吉娜·金 actor: 金斯利·本-阿迪尔 / 阿尔迪斯·霍吉 …
other title: 원 나이트 인 마이애미 / あの夜、マイアミで …
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
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The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.5 10 ratings
罗伯·爱泼斯坦 actor: 哈维·米尔克
other title: 哈维·米尔克的时代 / 하비 밀크의 시대 …
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
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Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Y tu mamá también
★ 7.7 180 ratings
阿方索·卡隆 actor: 盖尔·加西亚·贝纳尔 / 迭戈·卢纳 …
other title: 이 투 마마 / 天国の口、終りの楽園。 …
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Face in the Crowd WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.3 9 ratings
伊利亚·卡赞 actor: 安迪·格里菲斯 / 帕德里夏·妮尔 …
other title: 登龙一梦 / 人海沉浮录 …
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
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Watership Down (1978)
Watership Down
★ 7.6 56 ratings
马丁·罗森 actor: 约翰·赫特 / 理查德·布赖尔斯 …
other title: 沃特希普高地 / 兔子共和国 …
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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