My top 100 feature films seen for the first time in 2020.
From The Goodbye Girl (Jan 2nd) to Under the Lighthouse Dancing (Dec 30th), I watched 640 feature films for the first time in 2020 (twelve a week), including old & current releases.
Habits: Comfort viewing in times of lockdown and a hampered new release schedule resulted in an increased focus on documentaries (especially Adam Curtis, Frederick Wiseman and American Experience), music performances (especially Pearl Jam circa Easter), televised plays (especially Macbeth and Pinter) and miniseries.
Sadly, zero 2020 films cracked my top 100.
Top 100 reflections: Zero films made my all-time list (The Falls is #225-ish). My top 25 looks great, messier logjam beyond. For some nice coincidental poster…
My top 100 feature films seen for the first time in 2020.
From The Goodbye Girl (Jan 2nd) to Under the Lighthouse Dancing (Dec 30th), I watched 640 feature films for the first time in 2020 (twelve a week), including old & current releases.
Habits: Comfort viewing in times of lockdown and a hampered new release schedule resulted in an increased focus on documentaries (especially Adam Curtis, Frederick Wiseman and American Experience), music performances (especially Pearl Jam circa Easter), televised plays (especially Macbeth and Pinter) and miniseries.
Sadly, zero 2020 films cracked my top 100.
Top 100 reflections: Zero films made my all-time list (The Falls is #225-ish). My top 25 looks great, messier logjam beyond. For some nice coincidental poster symmetry, gaze at #32-33, #61-66 & #77-78, whilst #38-39 has one imagining Ralph Richardson as LBJ, and #34-35 has that cop-by-day 'n' drag-by-night vibe to it.
Best rewatches: Manhunter, Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78) and Invaders from Mars ('86) saw the most significant upticks in appreciation
Best short: Wealth of a Nation (Greaves, '64)
(Please note, #3 Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged is only 36 mins, so considered demoting as ineligible short, but prefer to regard it like a standard length MTV Unplugged episode)
Most watched actor: Joel Edgerton (27)
Most watched director: Adam Curtis (17) and John Huston (16)
Production company of the year: Blue-Tongue Films (also shoutout to Kennedy Miller Mitchell)
Best actor 'discoveries' of the year: Now stanning Alan Bates & Glenda Jackson
Binge distractions: Battlestar Galactica, Billions and Succession were the only complete series binges that I engaged in this year (which meant more time for film)
Happy viewing in '21!
