Since I’m always on some kind of mission to see films that various people have recommended over the years (read: decades), why not list the films I’ve caught up with this year?
As with the books, those that I was particularly impressed with are marked with *, and the ones I thought had a budget that would have been better off spent on regenerating my home town are marked with !
In chronological order:
- Disobedience – 2017
- A Most Wanted Man – 2014
- The Other Boleyn Girl – 2008
- 28 Days – 2000
- The Age of Innocence – 1993 *
- The Jane Austen Book Club – 2007
- White Chicks – 2004
- Mr Turner – 2014
- The Handmaiden – 2016
- Call Me By My Name – 2017
- Wolf of Wall Street – 2013
- Book Club – 2018
- The Second Mother – 2015 *
- The Post – 2017
- Casanova – 2005 *
- Philomena – 2013
- The Bucket List – 2007
- Finding Your Feet – 2017 *
- Gandhi – 1982
- Plein Soleil – 1960
- Bridge of Spies – 2015
- Night Train to Lisbon – 2013 !
- Crazy Rich Asians – 2018 *
- Queen of the Desert – 2015
- Downsizing – 2017
- Infinity Chamber – 2016
- Molly’s Game – 2017 *
- The Color Purple – 1985
- Fitzcarraldo – 1982
- Spaceballs – 1987
- 10×10 – 2018
- Mary, Queen of Scots – 2018
- The Favourite – 2018
- Midnight’s Children – 2012
- The Life of Brian – 1979
- Isle of Dogs – 2018
- A Star is Born – 2018
- The Incredibles 2 – 2018
- 500 Days of Summer – 2009
- How to be Single – 2016
- The Aftermath – 2019
- Aladdin – 2019
- Boy Erased – 2018
- The Hate U Give – 2018 *
- Vice – 2018
- Kimi No Nawa (Your Name) – 2016
- Pete’s Dragon – 2016
- Matilda – 1996
- Close – 2019
- Escape Room – 2017 (Will Wernick) !
- I am Mother – 2019
- There Will Be Blood – 2007
- Oranges and Sunshine – 2011
- El Camino – 2019
- Avant l’hiver – 2014
- Une nouvelle amie – 2015 !
- Belle Epoque – 2019 *