Simon Taylor

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 45

Watch a movie with a name in the title.

This week I watched The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 44

Watch a movie about masks.

This week I watched See You Up There (2017).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 43

Watch a movie about time.

This week I watched:

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)
A Few Hours of Spring (2012)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)

Robert Peston, wearing a bright fuchsia suit and tinted shades, says, "I enjoy exposing the pompous and self-serving."

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 42

Watch a movie about buildings.

This week I watched:

The Apartment (1996)
Raw (2016)
Supermarket (1974)
Hôtel du Nord (1938)
The Old Gun (1975)
Le Trou (1960)
Diabolique (1955)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 41

Watch a movie about stories of people, memories, and realities that slip through our fingers.

This week I watched:

Under the Sand (2000)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
The Beautiful Prisoner (1983)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 40

Watch a movie about pursuit, toying with the enemy or clever one-upmanship.

This week I watched:

Breathless (1960)
Le Doulos (1962)
Bob le Flambeur (1956)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 39

Watch a movie with a connection to things you plant.

This week I watched:

Daisies (1966)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
Mood Indigo (2013)
The Apprentices (1995)
The Green Ray (1986)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 38

Watch a movie filmed in, or set during, the 1990s.

This week I watched:

The Doom Generation (1995)
Show Me Love (1998)
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Wild Reeds (1994)
Before the Rain (1994)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 37

Watch a movie based on a book.

This week I watched Diva (1981).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 36

Watch a movie with a two-word title.

This week I watched Forbidden Games (1952).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 35

Watch a movie starring an actor who occasionally moonlights as a musician, or a musician who also has a side hustle as an actor.

This week I watched:

Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
Bay of Angels (1963)
Café de Flore (2011)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 34

Watch a movie that has a connection to the Mission: Impossible franchise.

This week I watched:

I've Loved You So Long
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
The Passengers of the Night
Replay
Lourdes
Time Regained
A French Woman
The Second Act
Blue Is the Warmest Color

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 33

Watch a movie about opposites.

This week I watched:

Freakier Friday (2025)
My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
The Rules of the Game (1939)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 32

Watch a movie with a poster that features exactly two characters.

This week I watched:

White as Snow (2019)
Julia(s) (2022)
Elisa & Marcela (2019)
One Deadly Summer (1983)
Gabrielle (2005)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 31

Watch a movie that's (however loosely) based on a true event.

This week I watched:

Happening (2021)
The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Time Out (2001)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
Violette (2013)
Her Body (2023)
Camille Claudel (1988)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 30

Watch a movie with a strong red element.

This week I watched:

The Rapture (2023)
The Life of Jesus (1997)
Humanité (1999)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 29

Watch a movie where someone plays multiple roles.

This week I watched Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 28

Watch a movie featuring an actor who performs under a stage name.

This week I watched Love in the Afternoon (1972).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 27

Watch a movie about one of the seven noble virtues.

This week I watched:

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Tell No One (2006)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 26

Watch a movie about one of the seven deadly sins.

This week I watched:

Rififi (1955)
Read My Lips (2001)
How to Make a Killing (2024)
Both Sides of the Blade (2022)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 25

Watch a movie about verbal communication.

This week I watched The Silence of the Sea (1949)

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 24

Watch a movie with a question word in the title.

This week I watched Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 23

Watch a movie that's connected to one of the elements in the periodic table.

This week I watched:

Eureka (1983)
Total Recall (1990)
Golden Eighties (1986)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 22

Watch a movie worked on by ILM.

This week I watched Jarhead (2005).

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📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 21

Watch a movie about age.

This week I watched:

Jeune Femme (2017)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Adolescent (1979)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Two Is a Family (2016)
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935)
Little Solange (2021)
Forever Young (2022)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 20

Watch a movie about 'organized' crime.

This week I watched:

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
The French Detective (1975)
Serie Noire (1979)
The Swindle (1997)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Flic Story (1975)
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 19

Watch a movie about multiple stories or perspectives.

This week I watched:

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not (2002)
La Ronde (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
Passenger (1963)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 18

Watch a movie about animals.

This week I watched:

The Pig (1970)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 17

Watch a movie about directions.

This week I watched The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976).

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