Personal Film Goals for 2020

[Fergenaprido]

I'm going to continue to work on a lot of my 2019 goals in 2020, and only add a few new ones.

3330 feature-length films - 370 to go
2330 short-length films - 220 to go
5500 checks - 455 to go
3000 official checks - 256 to go
<20 unseen films on ≥20 official lists - 35 to go
≥10 films from at least ≥50 countries - 14 countries to go
≥5 films from at least ≥75 countries - 21 countries to go
Be ranked below 10,000 on all official lists - 6 to go (icm Most Checked, FilmTotaal, Tim Dirks, TSZDT, imdb mini-series, The Deuce)
Get median ranked list to be under 1500 - current median pair is at 1838 & 1851, with 17 more lists between rank 1500 and 1838.

Finish outstanding goals from 2015 (7 goals) & 2016 (7 goals)
Finish all four old watchlists (2013-2016) - 31 to go
Finish country-based old watchlists (2017-2018) - 55 to go
Watch at least 15 films that are at least 2½ hours long, including 5 films at least 3 hours long and at least 5 mini-series.
Finish outstanding Tin Award goals and Notable Director goals.

Fergenaprido's 2020 Film Goals

Goal	Target	Start Jan 1	Progress Mar 31	Progress Jun 30	Progress Sep 30	Progress Dec 31
Feature-length films	3330 films	370 to go	251 to go
Short-length films	2330 films	220 to go	155 to go
Checks	5500 checks	455 to go	270 to go
Official checks	3000 checks	256 to go	109 to go
Films on 20+ official lists	43 films	35 to go	35 to go
≥10 films	50 countries	14 to go	36 to go
≥5 films	75 countries	21 to go	18 to go
Ranked <10,000	All lists	6 to go	6 to go
Median Ranked List below 1500	Half of all lists	18 to go	14 to go
Finish goals from 2015	112 goals	7 to go	7 to go
Finish outstanding goals from 2016	38 goals	7 to go	4 to go
Finish 2013-2016 watchlists	250 films	31 to go	29 to go
Finish 2017-2019 watchlists	100 films	55 to go	53 to go
Films at least 2½ hours long	15 films	15 to go	8 to go
Films at least 3 hours long	5 films	5 to go	2 to go
Mini-series at least 2½ hours long	5 mini-series	5 to go	5 to go
Tin Awards	30 awards	28 to go	25 to go
Notable and/or Prolific Directors	500 directors	636 to go (483)	625 to go (472)
Specific Notable and/or Prolific Directors	21 directors	17 to go	17 to go/td]

2016 goals finished: 3 - 25 films (1981, 1982, 1983)

Minimal progress this first quarter, though I ended up seeing more films than planned. On top of Mubi and Kanopy, I now have Netflix, so those numbers may increase as well (or decrease if I get lost in the tv shows on Netflix). Biggest progress is probably on the long films, an area I've struggled with forever. Mubi's new South Asian channel is responsible for most of those films (and it's also helped me improve my ranks on the 3 Indian lists).

[Obgeoff]

1. Watch at least 366 features
2. Reach platinum on TSPDT by March (69 to go)
3. From April, each month watch at least 25 films in a single challenge
4. Make it to the cinema at least 20 times
5. Watch all movies on 10+ lists (89 to go)

After March:
1. Ahead of target (137 features in 91 days)
2. Completed TSPDT on the 19th March with Shoah. Delighted and proud to complete a really enriching experience.
3. Got to participate fully in the last few days of March so hit this milestone for Women Directors.
4. I've been 9 times but not the year for this challenge!
5. I was down to 64 but the new lists added 28 for me.

[cinephage]

Since I didn't reach my goals from 2019, I'll try and pursue them in 2020.

1 - Reach gold on the They shoot zombies, don't they ? list (158 films to watch)

2 - get bronze on the <400 list : 80 movies to check.

3 - Get 6 more bronze medals (1910, Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize, Goya Awards, Belgian Film Awards, Silent but not forgotten, Spaghetti western)

4 - Finish iCM Forum's Favourite French Films list : https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... htysparks/ (21 films to watch)

Spoiler

1 - 156 films to watch. Only 2 checks this month...

2 - 77 films to watch. Only 3 checks, in spite of the challenge. I didn't do well here...

3 - Get 6 5 more bronze medals (1910, Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize, Goya Awards, Belgian Film Awards, Silent but not forgotten, Spaghetti western)

4 - Still 21 films to watch.

So I didn't do too well last month, we'll see if I can do better.

1 - 152 films to watch, the progress is slow, but regular...

2 - 76 more films, progress as well here.

3 - Nothing there...

4 - still 20 films to watch.

I'm not certain I will actually reach any of these goals before the year's end...

[kongs_speech]

My goal is to reach 3000 Letterboxd ratings this year. I presently have 2,414. I hope the vast majority will be features, as I'm really trying to expand my film expertise.

[Leopardi]

Despite watching a goal-related film each day for the last few weeks I'm still falling behind schedule. Here's a breakdown of my progress, showing the number of checks needed at the beginning of the year, last month and today, with completed lists in bold, backslides in red and gains in green:

The push for Top 200 on every official list

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 11-->7-->6
A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2010s: 0-->0-->4
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation: 6-->0-->0
Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films: 1-->1-->1
BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films: 0-->1-->1
Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque: 1-->1-->1
CineChile's 50 Best Chilean movies of all time: 1-->0-->0
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019: 0-->0-->0
Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema: 0-->1-->1
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films: 1-->0-->0
Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema: 0-->0-->9
IMDb's 1910s Top 50: 1-->1-->1
IMDb's 1920s Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's 1950s Top 50: 1-->1-->1
IMDb's 1970s Top 50: 1-->1-->0
IMDb's 2010s Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Animation Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Biography Top 50: 0-->0-->1
IMDb's Drama Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Shorts Top 50: 0-->0-->1
IMDb's Top 250: 0-->0-->1
Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films: 3-->0-->0
Livejournal's 100 Best Russian Movies: 1-->0-->0
Outlook India's Best Bollywood Films: 1-->0-->0
Rotten Tomatoes's Top 100 Movies of All Time: 0-->2-->0
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time: 17-->16-->14
Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies: 1-->1-->1
Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies: 2-->2-->2
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 17-->19-->21

And the breakdown so far:

Goal: Top 200 on every official list
Films left at start of year: 66
Target pace to meet goal: 5.5 checks/month
Checks left last month: 58
Checks left currently: 69
Checks left at this point in 2019/2018/2017/2016/2015: 66/63/79/71/47
Current pace: -1.0 checks/month
Top 200 goals completed this month: Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation, Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019, IMDb's 1970s Top 50, IMDb's Animation Top 50, IMDb's Top 250, and Rotten Tomatoes's Top 100 Movies of All Time
Lists that have (re)appeared this month: A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2010s, Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation, Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019, Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema, IMDb's 2010s Top 50, IMDb's Biography Top 50, IMDb's Shorts Top 50, and IMDb's Top 250
Worst ranking this month: Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema (#341)
Best goal-related ranks: IMDb's Animation Top 50 (#149)
Median ranking on all lists: #78 (BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time) and #79 (National Film Archive of India's 125 Great Indian Films)
Overall Ranking: 18-->14-->16

Despite watching all those goal-related films since the COVID-19 outbreak sent us all home, new and evolving lists delivered a mighty headwind along the way: The Cinema Tropical update was first, adding 3 to the goal. Then Hürriyet updated, putting me back another 18, which I've halved so far. And finally, the addition of the new A.V. Club list added another 9 to the to-do list (now down to 4). All of that, plus some IMDb updating, made for a real roller coaster of a month, but it's been a lot of fun putting out those fires and seeing some quality films in the process, so I'm not complaining.

Amazingly, despite adding 120 official checks in the last month (including those from the list updates/additions, of course) I've fallen two spots in the ranking, to Blueboybob and Spocksbrain! The latter is able to check a dozen or more features a day pretty regularly, so I have no hope in competing with them. And Tim2460 is tearing up the track behind me, so the next update I fully expect to drop another place. it's a jungle out there!

[beasterne]

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed that update Leopardi. Good luck with your future progress!

[Leopardi]

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed that update Leopardi. Good luck with your future progress!

Thanks! I worry that I put too much detail into these updates, but I figure it's only once a month so it's not too obnoxious or annoying.

[kongs_speech]

I would like to boost my lifetime numbers to 3000 films seen and 300 Criterions. Using my Letterboxd numbers, I'm currently at 2419 and 162, respectively. I believe these goals are within reach, particularly since I own about 100 Criterions that I haven't yet watched. (Those Barnes and Noble 50% off sales, man. Gets me every time.)

[Fergenaprido]

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed that update Leopardi. Good luck with your future progress!

Thanks! I worry that I put too much detail into these updates, but I figure it's only once a month so it's not too obnoxious or annoying.

Not at all. I also enjoy reading your monthly updates.

[Tim2460]

Still working on the new 3+ Films and the total Number of awards.

Having been very mainstream for my first 35 years of movies... I'm trying to be as eclectic as possible and have meet some sucess.. The only subject i'm wayyyyy back is Horror/Zombies
And god knows there are a lot of people who seems to like them here @ICM

This is the number of awards for the top 50 users on ICM .. I'm doing good but i could do even better. The "full Award Goal" is still... 517 Films away (Maybe a few films on 2 lists will help)

							Road To Bronze
List.Name	Seen	%	Num	Unseen	%	Rank	517
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019	28	12%	229	201	88%	79	87
UNESCO's Memory of the World	337	41%	832	495	59%	20	79
TSPDT's Ain't Nobody's Blues but My Own	72	28%	253	181	72%	15	55
DIFF's The 100 Greatest Arab Films	19	18%	104	85	82%	64	33
Film Magazine's Best Iranian Films	32	26%	121	89	74%	55	29
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej's 100 Years of Polish Film	38	29%	130	92	71%	51	27
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2000-2009	41	33%	125	84	67%	61	22
Yle News's Best Finnish Films	25	27%	92	67	73%	77	21
Asociatiei Criticilor de Film's Best Romanian Films	10	17%	59	49	83%	71	20
Golden Lotus Award - Best Indian Feature Film	14	21%	66	52	79%	24	19
Golden Foundation of Czech and Slovak Cinema	37	33%	112	75	67%	72	19
Cine.gr's The Best of Greek Cinema	14	23%	60	46	77%	66	16
Bodil Award - Best Danish Film	22	30%	73	51	70%	60	15
Público's Top Portuguese Films to Show in Schools	15	26%	58	43	74%	57	14
National Film Archive of India's 125 Great Indian Films	49	39%	125	76	61%	28	14
Magyar Művészeti Akadémia's 53 Hungarian Films	14	26%	53	39	74%	57	13
Lola Award - Best German Film	23	32%	72	49	68%	45	13
Locarno Film Festival - Golden Leopard	35	40%	88	53	60%	15	9
Maariv's Best Israeli Films of All Time	13	33%	40	27	68%	13	7
CineChile's 50 Best Chilean Movies of All Time	26	42%	62	36	58%	23	5

[peeptoad]

just one: crack 400 features again (I'm currently at 406 I think for 2019).

Putting the kibosh on this since COVID19 has effectively made it a non-challenge...

[Obgeoff]

1. Watch at least 366 features
2. Reach platinum on TSPDT by March (69 to go)
3. From April, each month watch at least 25 films in a single challenge
4. Make it to the cinema at least 20 times
5. Watch all movies on 10+ lists (89 to go)

After April:
1. Ahead of target (253 features in 121 days)
2. Completed TSPDT on the 19th March with Shoah. Delighted and proud to complete a really enriching experience.
3. Done it for 3 challenges (1950s, Doubling the Canon List and Women Directors).
4. I've been 9 times but not the year for this challenge!
5. Down from 92 to 82.

[Traveller]

1. Top 150 (#210 -> #203 -> #197 -> #182 -> #156)
2. Make progress on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (all editions) list (253 left -> 249 left -> 238 left -> 234 left -> 229 left)
3. Finish the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list (77 left -> 76 left -> 65 left -> 57 left -> 56 left)

[72aicm]

1. Platinum on the 500<400 list. (472/500 +28)
2. Gold on the iCM Forum's 1000<400 list (718/1000 +182)
3. Get bronze or better on every official lists. (180/198 +18)

1. Done.
2. 821/1000 (+103)
3. 181/198 (+1)

1. Still done.
2. 821/1000 (+0)
3. 184/198 (+3)

1. Done
2. 821/1000 (+0)
3. 193/204 (+9)

1. Done
2. 846/1000 (+25)
3. 193/204 (+0)

[joachimt]

My goals:

1. Watch every available title on TSPDT All Editions: currently 73 unchecked (a handful are unavailable)
I had this goal last year as well and then I had 144 unchecked, so at this pace I might reach it in 2020.

66 unchecked

64 unchecked

Almost everything I watch are simply things that pop up on the three streaming-subscription I got: MUBI, Prime, Disney+. Since MUBI has a watching deadline, I keep giving stuff there priority. So I rarely watch movies anymore that I collected on my laptop. I doubt I'll reach this goal this year, but it doesn't matter. My subscriptions give me a lot of variety in what I watch, so I'm having fun with those.

Two months later, two movies down.
62 unchecked.

[Tim2460]

Interesting i'm @ 74 unchecked on the TSPDT all edition we're not far

[beasterne]

The 2019 Goals thread helped me stay on track for my goals for the most part. Hopefully 2020 will be the same. Here are my goals for 2020:

1. Complete my project of watching a film from each year from 1919-2020 (currently on 1960, 60 films to go)
2. Bronze on TSPDT (53 films to go)
3. Rank in top 8,000 on every list (9 more lists to go)

Update through April:

1. Complete my project of watching a film from each year from 1919-2020 (currently on 1980, 40 films to go)
2. Bronze on TSPDT (39 films to go)
3. Rank in top 8,000 on every list (8 lists to go)

[kongs_speech]

2461 films for the lifetime total and an even 200 for the year. I need to step my game up if I'm going to break 3000 by year's end. And my Criterion number hasn't gone up much because I'm focusing more on things that are expiring from streaming.

[erde]

My goals for 2020:

1. Platinum on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? -215 to go
2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - 19 to go
3. All movies on a list with 50 films from 50 countries, chosen by my friend and myself to watch and discuss during the year in pubs -49 to go
+ Watch all unseen movies on 10+ official lists again - 15 to go

1. Platinum on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? - 135 to go. Three movies to watch on top 600.
2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - Done! For years I've struggled, for some reason, to get myself to watch these, but now I just went and did it for the Nordic challenge! It was enlightening to finally see some of the classics of my home country that I hadn't previously watched. I cannot explain why I've put it off for so long.
3. All movies on a list with 50 films from 50 countries, chosen by my friend an myself to watch and discuss during the year in pubs - 33 to go. Well on schedule. Pubs are off limits now, of course, but drinking in front of a webcam works surprisingly well, too.
+ Watch all unseen movies on 10+ official lists again - 15 to go. No progress here yet.

[Fergenaprido]

2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - Done! For years I've struggled, for some reason, to get myself to watch these, but now I just went and did it for the Nordic challenge! It was enlightening to finally see some of the classics of my home country that I hadn't previously watched. I cannot explain why I've put it off for so long.

And what are your thoughts on the films you watched/your national cinema overall now that's you've achieved your bronze? Top 5 recommendations?

[erde]

2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - Done! For years I've struggled, for some reason, to get myself to watch these, but now I just went and did it for the Nordic challenge! It was enlightening to finally see some of the classics of my home country that I hadn't previously watched. I cannot explain why I've put it off for so long.

And what are your thoughts on the films you watched/your national cinema overall now that's you've achieved your bronze? Top 5 recommendations?

Well, watching forty-something films on Yle News list hardly makes me an expert on Finnish cinema. But it has brought me a much more versatile understanding of it than before. My ultimate Finnish favourite director has always been - not at all surprisingly - Aki Kaurismäki. (Although, instead of the usual suspects, my favourite movie from him is https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/ham ... aailmassa/ which is, in my opinion, criminally underseen.) But I find that his distinctive style of filmmaking sits very comfortably in cosmopolite western arthouse cinema, and is not especially "Finnish" (whatever that is). I have also enjoyed films by e.g. Veikko Aaltonen (e.g. https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/isa+meidan/ and https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/rakkaudella+maire/) and Auli Mantila (https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/neitoperho/). Also, as a very special recommendation, one of my favourite Finnish filmmakers of all time is Katariina Lillqvist who has done amazing puppett animation based on e.g. Kafka's short stories in the 90's (see https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/kamarihaikara/, https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/hii ... atsastaja/ and https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/maalaislaakari/). Although I'm afraid that they might be quite hard to come across. Couple of recent delightful surprises include https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/hymyileva+mies/ and https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/armomurhaaja/. However, I notice that many of these are not official checks, of which I am sorry.

[Leopardi]

Being able to work from home (for the most part) during this global shutdown has really done a number on the list this month, just like last month, and yet only a few days ago did I actually find myself meeting my minimum checking needs to complete this year's goal. Here's a breakdown of my progress, showing the number of checks needed at the beginning of the year, last month and today, with completed lists in bold, backslides in red and gains in green:

The push for Top 200 on every official list

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 11-->6-->5
A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2010s: 0-->4-->1
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation: 6-->0-->0
Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films: 1-->1-->1
BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films: 0-->1-->1
Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque: 1-->1-->1
CineChile's 50 Best Chilean movies of all time: 1-->0-->0
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019: 0-->0-->0
Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema: 0-->1-->1
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films: 1-->0-->0
Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema: 0-->9-->0
IMDb's 1910s Top 50: 1-->1-->2
IMDb's 1920s Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's 1950s Top 50: 1-->1-->1
IMDb's 1970s Top 50: 1-->1-->0
IMDb's 2010s Top 50: 0-->1-->2
IMDb's Animation Top 50: 0-->0-->0
IMDb's Biography Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Drama Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Shorts Top 50: 0-->1-->0
IMDb's Thrillers Top 50: 0-->0-->1
IMDb's Top 250: 0-->1-->2
Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films: 3-->0-->0
Livejournal's 100 Best Russian Movies: 1-->0-->0
Outlook India's Best Bollywood Films: 1-->0-->0
Rotten Tomatoes's Top 100 Movies of All Time: 0-->0-->0
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time: 17-->14-->7
Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies: 1-->1-->1
Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies: 2-->2-->0
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 17-->21-->12

And the breakdown so far:

Goal: Top 200 on every official list
Films left at start of year: 66
Target pace to meet goal: 5.5 checks/month
Checks left last month: 69
Checks left currently: 41
Checks left at this point in 2019/2018/2017/2016/2015: 52/56/75/71/36
Current pace: 6.25 checks/month
Top 200 goals completed this month: Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema, IMDb's 1950s Top 50, IMDb's Shorts Top 50, and Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies
Lists that have (re)appeared this month: IMDb's 1950s Top 50, IMDb's Drama Top 50, and IMDb's Thrillers Top 50
Worst ranking this month: IMDb's 2010s Top 50 (#353)
Best goal-related ranks: IMDb's Shorts Top 50 (#1) and Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019 (#157)
Median ranking on all lists: #73 (TSPDT's Brief Encounters and The Criterion Collection) and #74 (Lola Award - Best German Film and BFI's 100 Science Fiction Films)
Overall Ranking: 18-->16-->16

This is the first full month of lockdown, and the effect on the numbers are very apparent. I've overcome the deficit built up from the new lists and swung back into positive territory, concentrating almost exclusively on the TSPDT and Hürriyet lists, completing the latter goal this morning. The earliest I'll be back in the lab is June 1st, and I plan to continue watching roughly a goal-related film each day until then. Since TSPDT, S&S and 1001 Films have so much overlap and together make up more than half the remaining checks needed, in the next four weeks I may actually come within a stone's throw of finishing my 2020 goal altogether!

Also this month there was a trade-off in overall ranking, with Tim2460 blazing past me as I in turn passed Jerry Warton. For the first time every person ahead of me has selected an avatar for themselves; I don't know why I've been preoccupied about that, but I have. There was a spell where SanderO and Rich were taking it easy, but they've started checking again in earnest lately and so everyone ahead of me is very active on the whole. I'm not sure my all-time highest rank of #14 will be bested, not for a long time anyway, and there's a risk in future years of not being able to meet my goal of at least maintaining my rank at each year's end. But this year seems safe, December 2021 is a long way off, and a lot can happen between now and then, so I'm curious to see how it all plays out.

[Fergenaprido]

2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - Done! For years I've struggled, for some reason, to get myself to watch these, but now I just went and did it for the Nordic challenge! It was enlightening to finally see some of the classics of my home country that I hadn't previously watched. I cannot explain why I've put it off for so long.

And what are your thoughts on the films you watched/your national cinema overall now that's you've achieved your bronze? Top 5 recommendations?

Well, watching forty-something films on Yle News list hardly makes me an expert on Finnish cinema. But it has brought me a much more versatile understanding of it than before. My ultimate Finnish favourite director has always been - not at all surprisingly - Aki Kaurismäki. (Although, instead of the usual suspects, my favourite movie from him is https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/ham ... aailmassa/ which is, in my opinion, criminally underseen.) But I find that his distinctive style of filmmaking sits very comfortably in cosmopolite western arthouse cinema, and is not especially "Finnish" (whatever that is). I have also enjoyed films by e.g. Veikko Aaltonen (e.g. https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/isa+meidan/ and https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/rakkaudella+maire/) and Auli Mantila (https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/neitoperho/). Also, as a very special recommendation, one of my favourite Finnish filmmakers of all time is Katariina Lillqvist who has done amazing puppett animation based on e.g. Kafka's short stories in the 90's (see https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/kamarihaikara/, https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/hii ... atsastaja/ and https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/maalaislaakari/). Although I'm afraid that they might be quite hard to come across. Couple of recent delightful surprises include https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/hymyileva+mies/ and https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/armomurhaaja/. However, I notice that many of these are not official checks, of which I am sorry.

Thanks!

Official check status isn't that important to me. Not a big fan of Kaurismäki, but his films are usually short so they're not that bad to sit through and give a try. I'm not familiar with any of the ones you mentioned, but I'll look around for them and see if I can find a few and add them to my ever-growing watchlist.

[erde]

That "Hamlet liikemaailmassa" (engl. 'Hamlet goes business'), which I heartily recommend, is not a typical Kaurismäki film (more like "Kaurismäki does Buñuel" kind of thing...), so you might like it even if you don't usually like his films. Let me know if you decide to watch it (or other films that I recommended), and tell me what you thought of it!

[Ebbywebby]

Only 63 features on my watchlist, and "Hamlet Goes Business" is one of them.

[erde]

Great! Let me know what you thought about it.

It seems that the seven other voters in this year's DtC were not as amazed by it as I am. I find it quite curious, of course, but hey, what can you do?

[Tim2460]

I have meet this last Month 2 of my main Goals...

One is an very old, almost "For ever" Goal as i finally collected all the Peary Book Film Fanatic Films ! Only 129 Still to watch on the watchlist for it ,)

The other one, is joining the Top 75 Club, just in time before the TSZDT update ,)



I have been watching wayyyyy to much Horror films theses last 15 days just to go down the last List over 75.

Time for a little "Movie i have to watch for an ICM Goal" break.

[Leopardi]

Another COVID-related thrust forward this month nearly pushes me over the top for this year's film goal. Here's a breakdown of my progress, showing the number of checks needed at the beginning of the year, last month and today, with completed lists in bold, backslides in red and gains in green:

The push for Top 200 on every official list

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 11-->5-->0
A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2010s: 0-->1-->1
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation: 6-->0-->0
Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films: 1-->1-->0
BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films: 0-->1-->1
Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque: 1-->1-->0
CineChile's 50 Best Chilean movies of all time: 1-->0-->0
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2010-2019: 0-->0-->0
Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema: 0-->1-->1
FOK!'s Film Top 250: 0-->0-->1
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films: 1-->0-->0
Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema: 0-->0-->0
IMDb's 1910s Top 50: 1-->2-->0
IMDb's 1920s Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's 1950s Top 50: 1-->1-->1
IMDb's 1970s Top 50: 1-->0-->0
IMDb's 2010s Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Animation Top 50: 0-->0-->0
IMDb's Biography Top 50: 0-->1-->1
IMDb's Drama Top 50: 0-->0-->0
IMDb's Shorts Top 50: 0-->0-->0
IMDb's Thrillers Top 50: 0-->1-->0
IMDb's Top 250: 0-->2-->1
Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films: 3-->0-->0
Livejournal's 100 Best Russian Movies: 1-->0-->0
Outlook India's Best Bollywood Films: 1-->0-->0
Reddit Top 250: 0-->0-->1
Rotten Tomatoes's Top 100 Movies of All Time: 0-->0-->0
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time: 17-->7-->0
Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies: 1-->1-->0
Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies: 2-->0-->0
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 17-->12-->0

And the breakdown so far:

Goal: Top 200 on every official list
Films left at start of year: 66
Target pace to meet goal: 5.5 checks/month
Checks left last month: 40
Checks left currently: 10
Checks left at this point in 2019/2018/2017/2016/2015: 37/50/85/65/30
Current pace: 11.2 checks/month
Top 200 goals completed this month:1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation, Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films, Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque, IMDb's 1910s Top 50, IMDb's 1950s Top 50, IMDb's Thrillers Top 50, Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time, Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies, and TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
Lists that have (re)appeared this month: Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation, FOK!'s Film Top 250, IMDb's 1950s Top 50, IMDb's Thrillers Top 50, Reddit Top 250
Worst ranking this month: IMDb's 2010s Top 50 (#279)
Best goal-related ranks: IMDb's Shorts Top 50, IMDb's Thrillers Top 50, Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies (#1) and IMDb's Drama Top 50 (#61)
Median ranking on all lists: #67 (UNESCO's Memory of the World and Sharon A. Russell's Guide to African Cinema) and #68 (BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time)
Overall Ranking: 18-->16-->16

This is the first time I've ever been in the home stretch in the first part of the year. I think I"ll do a little trimming (maintaining lists that are complete, plus finish off one or two more lists in the next few days) but as I usually do I'll leave the IMDb lists until December or so since they fluctuate so much anyway. The three films I'll be watching for in the months ahead are Ford v Ferrari, 1917 and possibly Manchester by the Sea, since at the moment it seems like they'll be necessary to complete the goal and since I don't have access to them currently.

[erde]

My goals for 2020:

1. Platinum on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? -215 to go
2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - 19 to go
3. All movies on a list with 50 films from 50 countries, chosen by my friend and myself to watch and discuss during the year in pubs -49 to go
+ Watch all unseen movies on 10+ official lists again - 15 to go

1. Platinum on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? - 109 to go. Surprisingly good progress this month, even though I practically had to pause for a week because of being too busy at work. Looking forward to the official TSPDT challenge in June! Interesting to see if I can get the top 800 checked during the challenge (27 films to watch).
2. Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time - Done!
3. All movies on a list with 50 films from 50 countries, chosen by my friend an myself to watch and discuss during the year in pubs - 28 to go. Well on schedule.
+ Watch all unseen movies on 10+ official lists again - 16 to go. No progress, actually a little movement towards the opposite direction. I'll tackle this later, no worries.

[72aicm]

1. Platinum on the 500<400 list. (472/500 +28)
2. Gold on the iCM Forum's 1000<400 list (718/1000 +182)
3. Get bronze or better on every official lists. (180/198 +18)

Spoiler

1. Still done.
2. 821/1000 (+0)
3. 184/198 (+3)

1. Done
2. 821/1000 (+0)
3. 193/204 (+9)

1. Done
2. 846/1000 (+25)
3. 193/204 (+0)

1. Done
2. 849/1000 (+3)
3. 196/204 (+3)

Not far away from bronze on all lists:

Spoiler

1. DIFF's The 100 Greatest Arab Films 31/104 +21
2. Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema 38/102 +13
3. TSPDT 1000 Noir Films 391/835 +27
4. Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own 47/253 +80
5. They Shoot Zombies, Don't They? 417/1000 +83
6. Cinema Tropical - Top Ten Latin American Films of the Decade (2010-2019) 58/229 +57
7. Maariv's Best Israeli Films of All Time 6/40 + 14
8. BFI's 100 European Horror Films 47/50 +3

[Obgeoff]

1. Watch at least 366 features
2. Reach platinum on TSPDT by March (69 to go)
3. From April, each month watch at least 25 films in a single challenge
4. Make it to the cinema at least 20 times
5. Watch all movies on 10+ lists (89 to go)

After May:
1. Ahead of target (355 features in 152 days) - probably need to update target for Covid times.
2. Completed TSPDT on the 19th March with Shoah. Delighted and proud to complete a really enriching experience.
3. Done it for 5 challenges (Comedy, Western, 1950s, Doubling the Canon List and Women Directors).
4. I've been 9 times but not the year for this challenge!
5. Down from 82 to 59.

[Traveller]

Updated the first goal because I reached it.

1. Top 125 (#210 -> #203 -> #197 -> #182 -> #156 -> #148)
2. Make progress on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (all editions) list (253 left -> 249 left -> 238 left -> 234 left -> 229 left -> 213 left)
3. Finish the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list (77 left -> 76 left -> 65 left -> 57 left -> 56 left -> 38 left)

[cinephage]

Since I didn't reach my goals from 2019, I'll try and pursue them in 2020.

1 - Reach gold on the They shoot zombies, don't they ? list (158 films to watch)

2 - get bronze on the <400 list : 80 movies to check.

3 - Get 6 more bronze medals (1910, Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize, Goya Awards, Belgian Film Awards, Silent but not forgotten, Spaghetti western)

4 - Finish iCM Forum's Favourite French Films list : https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... htysparks/ (21 films to watch)

Spoiler

1 - 152 films to watch, the progress is slow, but regular...

2 - 76 more films, progress as well here.

3 - Nothing there...

4 - still 20 films to watch.

1 - 127 films to check, 31 checks since january... The update was certainly a big help...

2 - 68 more films to watch. 8 checks since last time, that's good.

3 - Get 6 3 more bronze medals (1910, Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize, Goya Awards, Belgian Film Awards, Silent but not forgotten, Spaghetti western) Hey, I did good with this one.

4 - Still 19 to watch. Slow progress here as well, but progress still.

[kongs_speech]

Yeah, I'm not going to hit either of my goals this year, and that's fine. Those goals were set before I started work on my album project.

[Ebbywebby]

I have a new goal...using my own debatable spin on ICM data, I compiled a small list of the most renowned directors I haven't seen a film by. Now I'm aiming to narrow down that list. I already saw my first films by Zhang Yimou, Marguerite Duras, Lucrecia Martel, James Gray, Pietro Germi and Terence Fisher in the recent past.

The names along with, according to TSPDT, their most renowned films.

Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake)
Aleksey German (My Friend Ivan Lapshin)
Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs)
Bing Wang (Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks)
Bruno Dumont (L'humanité)
Edgar Reitz (Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany)
Eduardo Coutinho (Twenty Years Later)
Fernando E. Solanas (The Hour of the Furnaces)
Hirokazu Koreeda (After Life)
Irving Rapper (Now, Voyager)
Jackie Chan!?!? (Police Story)
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet)
Jin Xie (Two Stage Sisters)
João César Monteiro (Come and Go)
John M. Stahl (Leave Her to Heaven)
José Luis Guerín (In the City of Sylvia)
Kaige Chen (Yellow Earth)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure)
Lav Diaz (Evolution of a Filipino Family)
Margarethe von Trotta (Die Bleierne Zeit)
Miguel Gomes (Tabu)
Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun)
Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light)
Raj Kapoor (Awaara)
Ruy Guerra (Os Fuzis)
Samira Makhmalbaf (The Apple)
Sergey Bondarchuk (War and Peace)
Serif Gören (Yol)
Shinji Sômai (Typhoon Club)
Stanley Kwan (Center Stage)
Walter Salles (Central Station)
Werner Schroeter (Der Tod der Maria Malibran)
Yilmaz Güney (co-directed Yol)
Youssef Chahine (Cairo Station)
Zhuangzhuang Tian (The Horse Thief)

And then there are some borderline (but major) names where I've seen shorts and/or short features, but not really a full feature.

Boris Barnet (By the Bluest of Seas)
Budd Boetticher (Ride Lonesome)
Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
Jonas Mekas (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
Manoel de Oliveira (Abraham's Valley)
Ming-Liang Tsai (Goodbye, Dragon Inn)
Nanni Moretti (Caro Diario)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Distant)
Zhangke Jia (Platform)

Based on what's easily on hand, I'm most likely to aim for Dumont, Kapoor, Boetticher, Ceylan or Ming-Liang Tsai next. Though it'd be nice to see "Yol" because this would eliminate two names at once.

[prodigalgodson]

I have a new goal...using my own debatable spin on ICM data, I compiled a small list of the most renowned directors I haven't seen a film by. Now I'm aiming to narrow down that list. I already saw my first films by Zhang Yimou, Lucrecia Martel, James Gray, Pietro Germi and Terence Fisher in the recent past.

The names along with, according to TSPDT, their most renowned film.

Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake)
Aleksey German (My Friend Ivan Lapshin)
Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs)
Bing Wang (Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks)
Bruno Dumont (L'humanité)
Edgar Reitz (Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany)
Eduardo Coutinho (Twenty Years Later)
Fernando E. Solanas (The Hour of the Furnaces)
Hirokazu Koreeda (After Life)
Irving Rapper (Now, Voyager)
Jackie Chan!?!? (Police Story)
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet)
Jin Xie (Two Stage Sisters)
João César Monteiro (Come and Go)
John M. Stahl (Leave Her to Heaven)
José Luis Guerín (In the City of Sylvia)
Kaige Chen (Yellow Earth)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure)
Lav Diaz (Evolution of a Filipino Family)
Margarethe von Trotta (Die Bleierne Zeit)
Miguel Gomes (Tabu)
Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun)
Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light)
Raj Kapoor (Awaara)
Ruy Guerra (Os Fuzis)
Samira Makhmalbaf (The Apple)
Sergey Bondarchuk (War and Peace)
Serif Gören (Yol)
Shinji Sômai (Typhoon Club)
Stanley Kwan (Center Stage)
Walter Salles (Central Station)
Werner Schroeter (Der Tod der Maria Malibran)
Yilmaz Güney (co-directed Yol)
Youssef Chahine (Cairo Station)
Zhuangzhuang Tian (The Horse Thief)

And then there are some borderline (but major) names where I've seen shorts and/or short features, but not really a full feature.

Boris Barnet (By the Bluest of Seas)
Budd Boetticher (Ride Lonesome)
Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
Jonas Mekas (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
Manoel de Oliveira (Abraham's Valley)
Ming-Liang Tsai (Goodbye, Dragon Inn)
Nanni Moretti (Caro Diario)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Distant)
Zhangke Jia (Platform)

Based on what's easily on hand, I'm most likely to aim for Dumont, Kapoor, Boetticher, Ceylan or Ming-Liang Tsai next. Though it'd be nice to see "Yol" because this would eliminate two names at once.

Awesome quest! Yilmaz Guney's a legend, though I personally didn't get much out of Yol at the time. I haven't seen anything from Goren outside their collaborations, but my understanding is Yol was more Guney's project. I think Goren acted on specific instructions as his proxy while Guney was in prison, and the latter edited it once he escaped too. If you like Yol, Hope/Umut (maybe his most acclaimed) and The Herd/Suru (my personal favorite) are incredible.

[Ebbywebby]

Awesome quest!

Thanks. I don't know much about the "Yol" backstory, but I know Amazon Prime has "The Legend of Ugly King."

[kongs_speech]

I hit 2500 checks.

[Ebbywebby]

I have a new goal...using my own debatable spin on ICM data, I compiled a small list of the most renowned directors I haven't seen a film by. Now I'm aiming to narrow down that list. I already saw my first films by Zhang Yimou, Marguerite Duras, Lucrecia Martel, James Gray, Pietro Germi and Terence Fisher in the recent past.

The names along with, according to TSPDT, their most renowned films.

Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake)
Aleksey German (My Friend Ivan Lapshin)
Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs)
Bing Wang (Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks)
Bruno Dumont (L'humanité)
Edgar Reitz (Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany)
Eduardo Coutinho (Twenty Years Later)
Fernando E. Solanas (The Hour of the Furnaces)
Hirokazu Koreeda (After Life)
Irving Rapper (Now, Voyager)
Jackie Chan!?!? (Police Story)
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet)
Jin Xie (Two Stage Sisters)
João César Monteiro (Come and Go)
John M. Stahl (Leave Her to Heaven)
José Luis Guerín (In the City of Sylvia)
Kaige Chen (Yellow Earth)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure)
Lav Diaz (Evolution of a Filipino Family)
Margarethe von Trotta (Die Bleierne Zeit)
Miguel Gomes (Tabu)
Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun)
Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light)
Raj Kapoor (Awaara)
Ruy Guerra (Os Fuzis)
Samira Makhmalbaf (The Apple)
Sergey Bondarchuk (War and Peace)
Serif Gören (Yol)
Shinji Sômai (Typhoon Club)
Stanley Kwan (Center Stage)
Walter Salles (Central Station)
Werner Schroeter (Der Tod der Maria Malibran)
Yilmaz Güney (co-directed Yol)
Youssef Chahine (Cairo Station)
Zhuangzhuang Tian (The Horse Thief)

And then there are some borderline (but major) names where I've seen shorts and/or short features, but not really a full feature.

Boris Barnet (By the Bluest of Seas)
Budd Boetticher (Ride Lonesome)
Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
Jonas Mekas (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
Manoel de Oliveira (Abraham's Valley)
Tsai Ming-Liang (Goodbye, Dragon Inn)
Nanni Moretti (Caro Diario)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Distant)
Zhangke Jia (Platform)

Well, I can cross off Boris Barnet (By the Bluest of Seas), Youssef Chahine (Cairo Station) and Tsai Ming-Liang (The River) now! I'm really enjoying this quest.

[Lakigigar]

My goals:

Watch 2010-2019 movies until 1 oct

Spoiler

27/6
The Handmaiden

28/6
Kawaki
Heartstone

29/6
The Villainess
Thoroughbreds

The Beach Bum
The Wailing

Ant-Man and the Wasp
Captain Marvel
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Far From Home

1917
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Suspiria
The Lost City of Z
Annihilation
Your Name.
Roma
Adrift
Snowpiercer
All Is Lost
mother!
Lion
Blade Runner 2049
The House That Jack Built
A Star Is Born
Climax
Mid90s
Den skyldige
Dogman
Midsommar
Hereditary
Passengers
Edge of Tomorrow
Beautiful Boy
Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu
Sorry We Missed You
Warrior
Guilty of Romance
The Land of Hope
Tokyo Tribe
The Whispering Star
Tag
Antiporno
The Forest of Love
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Skin I Live In
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Hot Summer Nights
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Under the Silver Lake
Dope
Only Lovers Left Alive
22 July
Never Goin' Back
Flower
Cam
First Girl I Loved
Skate Kitchen
The Favourite
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Florida Project
Loveless
The Shape of Water
Paterson
Mud
Suburra
Beach Rats
Us
Baby Driver
Le meraviglie’
I Wish
The Third Murder
After the Storm
Shoplifters
Marriage Story
Zoe
Like Crazy
Newness
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Europa Report
Girlhood
The Rover
Wild
Bone Tomahawk
Brawl in Cell Block 99
The Gift
War Dogs
A Cure for Wellness
The Bad Batch
You Were Never Really Here
Las hijas de Abril
Teen Spirit
The Irishman
Birds of Passage
Monos
Contratiempo

Watch horror movies from 1 oct to 1 nov

Watch movies before 2010 from 1 nov to 1 Jul

Spoiler

Strange Circus
Noriko's Dinner Table
Ai no Mukidashi
Hard Candy
Paranoid Park
Last Days
Walkabout
Memories of Murder
Dolls
Donnie Brasco
North by Northwest
Das Boot
Sunset Blvd.
Raise the Red Lantern
Judgment at Nuremberg
Nobody Knows
Hana-Bi
Perfect Blue
Ghost World
Ginger Snaps
Heathers
Once upon a Time in America

work on some lists
participate in challenges