2020: My Year in Film



 I'm a huge film fan, a cinephile. And so I thought I would bring something new to my blog where I can record and recommend new films that I have never seen before each year in a list. Much like the GoodReads challenge I will challenge myself to watching a certain amount of new films. I currently use the Letterboxd app to record what films I have seen and leave reviews so I will use that in partner with the annual film watching list. 

This will only comprise of films that I have never seen before in my life. 

In 2020 I had watched 40 films and these were...

Jumanji: The Next Level (Jake Kasdan, 2019)
Coming to America (John Landis, 1988)
Cats (David Mallet, 1998)
Ghost (Jerry Zucker, 1990)
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson, 2020)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Cathy Yan, 2020)
1917 (Sam Mendes, 2019)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)
The Book Thief (Brian Percival, 2013)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (Shawn Levy, 2014)
Men in Black: International (F. Gary Gray, 2019)
To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (Michael Fimognari, 2020)
Taylor Swift: City of Lover Concert (Dan Massie, 2020)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)
Operation Dumbo Drop (Simon Wincer, 1995)
Mulan (Niki Caro, 2020)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan, 1996)
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)
Borat (Larry Charles, 2006)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, 2020)
Halloweentown (Duwayne Dunham, 1998)
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (Mary Lambert, 2001)
Enola Holmes (Harry Bradbeer, 2020)
The Half Of It (Alice Wu, 2020)
The Kissing Booth 2 (Vince Marcello, 2020)
Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019)
The Patriot (Roland Emmerich, 2000)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (Taylor Swift, 2020)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987)
Little Mix: LM5 The Tour Film (Laurence Warder, 2020)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)

I think when writing this post out I actually surprised myself at how many films I have watched this year for the first time. 

So to follow up I aim to watch 50 films in 2021 that I have not seen before. I do own a lot of DVD's that I have yet to watch so maybe this will encourage me to start watching them. 

Have any of you seen any of these films? Tell me in the comments you're favourite? Or better yet recommend a film to me that I might not have seen. 

Enjoy x


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