The Movie Slot Machine: 12 Random Movies, One Specific Viewer
May's schedule of movies, from the retooled Movie Slot Machine, has been completed, in spite of the marathon length of two of its selections — which, incidentally, bookend the month's results as the best and the worst of the group. Here's how May's movies fared:
May's Movie Slot Machine Results
For information on how the Movie Slot Machine was re-engineered and how May's movies were selected, click here.
Trailers for May's Watchlist
More Info:
Full list of all criteria loaded into the Movie Slot Machine for May:
View Movie Selection Rules
I post reviews for all the movies on this blog, and live-tweet most viewings here:
https://twitter.com/popgap
This list is posted to Letterboxd, here:
https://letterboxd.com/dorrk/list/popgap-2016-05-movie-slot-machine/
You can keep track of my Flickchart here:
http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?user=dorrk
Movie Slot Machine Rules
- Actor: Angela Winkler
- Actor: Anna Karina
- Actor: Anne Baxter
- Actor: Anne Parillaud
- Actor: Anouk Aimée
- Actor: Bulle Ogier
- Actor: Catherine Deneuve
- Actor: Celia Johnson
- Actor: Dorothy Mackaill
- Actor: Franco Nero
- Actor: Humphrey Bogart
- Actor: Ingrid Bergman
- Actor: Irène Jacob
- Actor: Jack Hawkins
- Actor: Jean Gabin
- Actor: Jean Simmons
- Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Actor: Jeanne Crain
- Actor: Jeffrey Wright
- Actor: Lee Remick
- Actor: Mads Mikkelsen
- Actor: Margaret O'Brien
- Actor: Marie Prevost
- Actor: Marion Cotillard
- Actor: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Actor: Mathieu Amalric
- Actor: Max Von Sydow
- Actor: Miriam Hopkins
- Actor: Monica Vitti
- Actor: Patricia Neal
- Actor: Paul Giamatti
- Actor: Robert Ryan
- Actor: Klaus Kinksi
- Actor: Tahar Rahim
- Actor: Taraji P. Henson
- Actor: Teresa Wright
- Actor: Trevor Howard
- Actor: Ursula Andress
- Actor: Viggo Mortensen
- Actor: William Bendix
- Actor: Yasuaki Kurata
- Actor: Daniel Auteiul
- Actor: Michael Shannon
- Actor: Nastassja Kinski
- Actor: Emmanuelle Beart
- Actor: Stéphane Audran
- Actor: Setsuko Hara
- Actor: Isabella Rossellini
- Director: Abbas Kiarostami
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Director: Anthony Mann
- Director: Asghar Farhadi
- Director: Bertrand Tavernier
- Director: Carol Reed
- Director: David Gordon Green
- Director: Don Siegel
- Director: Douglas Sirk
- Director: Eric Rohmer
- Director: Francois Truffaut
- Director: George Sluizer
- Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Director: Jacques Audiard
- Director: Jacques Demy
- Director: Jean-Jacques Annaund
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- Director: Joe Swanberg
- Director: John Hillcoat
- Director: Joseph Losey
- Director: Jules Dassin
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Director: Leos Carax
- Director: Louis Malle
- Director: Lynn Shelton
- Director: Marcel Carné
- Director: Masaki Kobayashi
- Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
- Director: Max Ophuls
- Director: Michael Winterbottom
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Director: Mikio Naruse
- Director: Paolo Sorrentino
- Director: Ramin Bahrani
- Director: René Clément
- Director: Robert Aldrich
- Director: Robert Bresson
- Director: Roberto Rossellini
- Director: Rouben Mamoulian
- Director: Shane Meadows
- Director: Shion Sono
- Director: Takashi Miike
- Director: Takeshi Kitano
- Director: Terence Davies
- Director: Tobe Hooper
- Director: William A. Wellman
- Director: Agnès Varda
- Director: Jacques Rivette
- Director: Guy Maddin
- Director: Preson Sturges
- Director: Claude Pinoteau
- Watchlist: Random pick from Top 20
- Watchlist: Random pick from Bottom 20
- Watchlist: Random pick from Oldest 20
- Watchlist: Random pick from Newest 20
- Watchlist: Random pick
- Flickchart: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- Flickchart: A.V. Club's the New Cult Canon
- Flickchart: Alamo Drafthouse 100
- Flickchart: Artificial Eye
- Flickchart: BBC's 100 Greatest American Films
- Flickchart: Cahiers du cinéma: Top 10 Lists
- Flickchart: Cannes Caméra d'Or Winning
- Flickchart: Cannes Grand Prix
- Flickchart: Cannes Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- Flickchart: Cannes Jury Prize
- Flickchart: Cannes Palme d'Or Winning
- Flickchart: Cannes Prix du scénario
- Flickchart: Cannes Prix Un Certain Regard
- Flickchart: Cannon Films
- Flickchart: Complex's 100 Best Movies of the Complex Decade
- Flickchart: Complex's 50 Indie Movies You Need to See Before You Die
- Flickchart: Criterion Eclipse
- Flickchart: David di Donatello Award for Best Film Winning
- Flickchart: Elder's Best Film You've Never Seen
- Flickchart: Elder's Film That Changed My Life
- Flickchart: Empire Magazine's 100 Best Films of World Cinema
- Flickchart: European Film Award for Best Film Nominated
- Flickchart: Facets Video
- Flickchart: Film Comment Selects
- Flickchart: French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix Léon Moussinac
- Flickchart: French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix Méliès Winning
- Flickchart: Gold Hugo Winning
- Flickchart: Golden Bear for Best Film Winning
- Flickchart: Golden Lion Winning
- Flickchart: Hammer Film Productions
- Flickchart: Independent Spirit Award for Best Film Nominated
- Flickchart: Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film Nominated
- Flickchart: Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award Winning
- Flickchart: Kino International
- Flickchart: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Flickchart: L.A. Noire 'Golden Film Reels' Collection
- Flickchart: Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen
- Flickchart: Little White Lies's 100 Great Movies By Female Directors
- Flickchart: London Film Critics' Circle Award for Film of the Year
- Flickchart: London Film Critics' Circle British Film of the Year Winning
- Flickchart: London Film Critics' Circle Foreign Language Film of the Year Winning
- Flickchart: Lux Prize Nominated
- Flickchart: Masters of Cinema
- Flickchart: Moscow International Film Festival Top Prize Winning
- Flickchart: National Board of Review Award for Best Film Winning
- Flickchart: National Film Registry
- Flickchart: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film Winning
- Flickchart: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film Winning
- Flickchart: Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture Winning
- Flickchart: Paste Magazine's 100 Best "B Movies" of All Time
- Flickchart: Paste Magazine's 100 Best Documentaries of All Time
- Flickchart: Paste Magazine's 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
- Flickchart: Paste Magazine's 100 Best Martial Arts Movies of All Time
- Flickchart: Paste Magazine's 100 Best Silent Films of All Time
- Flickchart: Paste Magazine's 40 Best Films from the Netherlands
- Flickchart: Quentin Tarantino's Cinematic Influences
- Flickchart: RKO Pictures
- Flickchart: Roger Ebert's Great Movies
- Flickchart: Rolling Thunder Pictures
- Flickchart: Rue Morgue's 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need To See
- Flickchart: Saturn Award for Best Horror or Thriller Film Nominated
- Flickchart: Saturn Award for Best International Film Nominated
- Flickchart: Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film Nominated
- Flickchart: Screamfest Best Picture Winning
- Flickchart: Shaw Brothers Studios
- Flickchart: Shôchiku
- Flickchart: Shout! Factory
- Flickchart: Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time Poll
- Flickchart: Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix Winning
- Flickchart: Slant Magazine's 'Best of the Aughts'
- Flickchart: Slant Magzine's 100 Best Films of the 1990s
- Flickchart: Slant Magzine's 100 Essential Films
- Flickchart: Sony Pictures Classics
- Flickchart: Spike Lee's Essential Film List
- Flickchart: Strand Releasing
- Flickchart: Studio Ghibli
- Flickchart: Sundance Selects
- Flickchart: TCM Underground
- Flickchart: the Cinema Guild
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