Curated Watch Lists?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Carterbuzz@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨moviesandtv@lemmy.film⁩

Recently I’ve been all about the curated collections that The Ctierion Channel puts out. For those that are unaware, they’ll pick a couple themes and put together a list of 6-12 movies complete with a blended trailer and overview of the theme. Right now for instance they have “70s Car Movies” and “High School Horror”. My only complaint is that it obviously only lists movies that are available on The Ctierion Channel.

Is there anything similar out there, be it a blog, YouTube channel, whatever, but that will regularly curate lists without regards for where to actually watch the movie?

I know I could just search for best whatever genre movies I’m interested in watching, but sometimes I don’t want to think about what to watch. Additionally, the curated list for a given theme gets me to branch out from what I may typically watch in that I know it’s generally going to be a good movie.

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Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Seems like a good question, I don’t know why you are downvoted

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- bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe people think this is an ad for the criterion channel? Don’t know, I don’t downvote.
  
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bogdugg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There are tons and tons of lists on Letterboxd, a social network built around movies. Sounds like exactly what you’re looking for.

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judgeholden@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
a little off-topic, but I just opened a Criterion Channel subscription a week or two ago and I’m loving it so far. price is nowhere near as high as other streaming services and I’ve watched all kinds of amazing movies I likely wouldn’t have watched before.

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Redoomed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you’re up for another recommendation, something that I’ve been enjoying that fits your request is the podcast, “Four Play,” hosted on the Last Free Nation Culture YouTube Channel. Here’s the premise of the podcast quoted from the video description of one of their most recent episodes:

Four Play selects four iconic films from a theme or genre to meticulously analyze and place in their proper historical context. Hosted by veteran esports commentators Richard Lewis, Duncan “Thorin” Shields, and Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles, Four Play showcases both legendary Hollywood movies as well as hidden gems outside the mainstream.

What this description doesn’t mention is that episodes drop once a week and the theme of the month, as well as a list of the four films selected, are announced in advance on their YouTube community page or Twitter page.

To address specific aspects of the Criterion Channel in your post that Four Play also provides:

put together a list of 6-12 movies

After they review the last of the four films of a selected theme, they recommend a list of films of that same theme that did not make the four, but are worth viewing if you’re interested in that theme. For example, here’s their list of cosmic horror films at the end of their review of From Beyond (1986) [timestamped Piped link] [timestamped YouTube link].

overview of the theme

Whenever they begin a theme or genre, they give an intro to the genre and the historical context. They provided an overview of cosmic horror in the inaugural episode of the podcast in which they discussed The Thing (1982) [timestamped Piped] [timestamped YouTube].

the curated list for a given theme gets me to branch out from what I may typically watch in that I know it’s generally going to be a good movie

For me, at least, I generally enjoyed the films that were introduced to me through this podcast. I think what they excel at is recommending these lesser known films that you might find are underrated bangers. In their month of cosmic horror, for example, they reviewed The Thing and Annihilation (2018), two well-known movies that have been in the cultural conversation, but also Event Horizon (1997) and From Beyond, two lesser known movies that are, if not severely underrated, worth watching at least once for the experience.

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