Year 4! For more info about the challenge see Ben's list that includes important links for some of the categories.
This year I focused more on choosing films actually in the Criterion Collection rather than just being on the Criterion Channel--in most cases managing to find titles that were on both.
A note about my "watchlist" (since several of prompts require choosing from one's watchlist). My LB Watchlist is reserved for titles I hadn't been able to find on my streaming services, so I get notification if they do show up on one. I maintain a separate, private, list encompassing all the movies I intend to watch and that's where most of my "watchlist" related picks are. (There have been…
Year 4! For more info about the challenge see Ben's list that includes important links for some of the categories.
This year I focused more on choosing films actually in the Criterion Collection rather than just being on the Criterion Channel--in most cases managing to find titles that were on both.
A note about my "watchlist" (since several of prompts require choosing from one's watchlist). My LB Watchlist is reserved for titles I hadn't been able to find on my streaming services, so I get notification if they do show up on one. I maintain a separate, private, list encompassing all the movies I intend to watch and that's where most of my "watchlist" related picks are. (There have been a handful of movies on my LB watchlist that are now on streaming services so I was able to pick one movie from there.)
This is the first year in which I had to somewhat alter the prompts in order to find first-watches: 1) the Made in Brazil category (where I chose something from the Channel, having watched both titles that were provided as options from the Collection--very surprised they didn't have more from Brazil), and 2) Sight and Sound, since I have already watched all the Criterion titles that were on the Sight and Sound list.
