Sunday 4 December 2016

Around the World in 80 Films


Unable to physically travel the world, I plan to travel through film.

I tried this challenge back in 2012 where for 6 months, leading up to the London Film Festival, I watched as many films from around the world as possible. I covered an unimpressive 21 countries, most of them Europe and the UK. To be fair it was impressive at the time but that's not so great now.
The aim of the game is to try and watch 80 different films from around the world. I do understand that I might not get to 80 films but I’m damned well going to try my best. As this will be a challenge, there are a few rules to remember:
THE RULES: There are no rules! No there are rules otherwise it wouldn’t be a challenge…
-No repetition of countries
-Countries only – no city stand ins
-Collaborative films between countries are allowed but those countries can't be picked again separately
-The Vatican City is not a country in this challenge, it would be included as part of Italy (just covering all bases)
-For the purposes of this challenge, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are separate countries as each has its own industry.
There is no order to the countries. I will pick a country and announce the next country I am writing about in the next post.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in! 

Feel free to use my basic banner or use your own. 80 films is slightly daunting so don’t worry if you don’t have time to do them all.
As I’m a curious cat, tweet me - @HoganShogan or comment on a post about any posts you do for the challenge so I can have read.

I have made a Letterboxd list for this occassion where I will be adding films to be watched. 
It all starts 1st January 2017 and ends 31st December 2017.