overall goal: 10 films from each year, 1930-1979

• 1 chinese film from every year up to 1979
• 1 (more) american film from every year up to 1979
• full filmography: marilyn monroe
• full filmography: marlene dietrich
• all 1930s films on 1001
• all 1930s films on criterion
• film school dropouts 2021 (every friday from first week of jan)
• a film per year from each of the 'big 5' studios (rko,fox, paramount, warner brothers, mgm) from their respective conceptions until the end of the studio era or their collapse
  • rko: 1928-1959
  • fox: 1935-1954
  • paramount: 1912-1954
  • warner brothers: 1923-1954
  • mgm: 1924-1954
• 10x10 old hollywood directors:
  • william wyler: 8 to go
  • ernst lubitsch: 6
  • josef von sternberg: 7
  • douglas sirk: 8
  • billy wilder: 6
  • howard hawks: 3
  • george cukor: 6
  • michael curtiz: 8
  • stanley donen: 8
  • victor fleming: 8