2024

Movies

Goals

• I don't think that I will watch significantly more movies than I did in 2023. I am going to shoot for an average of 7-10 movies per month or around 80-120 movies for the year. The total number of movies isn't as important to me as the mix of movies.
• I would like to watch 5-7 from each decade from the 1930s to the 2020s.
• I would like to try to expand the diversity of the foreign language films I watch. I would like to try and see at least one movie each from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. I think that  the Noir City DC Film Festival should help in that regards if the slate for NCFF in January in San Francisco is any indication of what to expect to be showing at the DC edition of the festival in October.
• I would like to watch more animated films from Japan. I'm not sure what else is out there but there are probably other animated films in languages other than Japanese that I should try.
• I would like to watch more animated films in English, including some older ones from 1970s and 1980s.
• I would like to try and watch a few musicals. They aren't exactly my cup of tea but I would like watch a few even if they are just ones that I have seen before.
• I would like to watch more documentaries
• I would like to watch more films that star and/or were made by non-White people in English and other languages
• I would like to watch some English language films from countries other than just the US, UK, and Australia

Here's the list of movies I watched in 2024 in the order in which they were released. See my Movies by Date Watched page for a list of all the movies I have watched in 2024 in the order in which I watched them.

1920s

• One Week (1920)
• Outside the Law (1920)
• Within Our Gates (1920)
• Girl Shy (1924)
• Hot Water (1924)
• The Flying Ace (1926)

1930s

• Grand Hotel (1932)
• Nothing Ever Happens (1933)
• Twentieth Century (1934)
• Fanfare d'amour (1935)
• Mad Love (1935)
• The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• Stella Dallas (1937)
• Port of Shadows (1938)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

1940s

• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• High Sierra (1941)
• The Glass Key (1942)
• You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
• Christmas Holiday (1944)
• Cover Girl (1944)
• Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
• The Best Days of Our Lives (1946)
• The Blue Dahlia (1946)
• The Dark Corner (1946)
• Notorious (1946)
• Dark Passage (1947)
• Kiss of Death (1947)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• Repeat Performance (1947)
• They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
• So Evil My Love (1948)
• All the King's Men (1949)
• Hardly a Criminal (1949)

1950s

• All About Eve (1950)
• Armored Car Robbery (1950)
• Gun Crazy (1950)
• Union Station (1950)
• The Thing from Another World (1951)
• Victims of Sin (1951)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
• Ikiru (1952)
• My Son John (1952)
• Never Open That Door (1952)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• The Bigamist (1953)
• Black Tuesday (1954)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• It Should Happen to You (1954)
• Silver Lode (1954)
• Rififi (1955)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• Across the Bridge (1957)
• Edge of the City (1957)
• Plunder Road (1957)
• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
• Cairo Station (1958)
• Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
• Indiscreet (1958)
• The Crimson Kimono (1959)
• On the Beach (1959)

1960s

• Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
• Le Trou (1960)
• Aimless Bullet (1961)
• Zero Focus (1961)
• Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Ride the High Country (1962)
• Strongroom (1962)
• High and Low (1963)
• Nothing But a Man (1964)
• The Hill (1965)
• Arabesque (1966)
• A Man Called Adam (1966)
• A Man for All Season (1966)
• The Professionals (1966)

1970s

• Husbands (1970)
• Shaft (1971)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
• The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)
• Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973)
• Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973)
• Wonder Woman (1974)
• The New Original Wonder Woman (1975)
• Sholay (1975)
• Star Wars (1977)
• The Boys from Brazil (1978)

1980s

• Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• Fire and Ice (1983)
• The Outsiders (1983)
• After Hours (1985)
• Gung Ho (1986)
• Slaying the Dragon (1988)
• They Live (1988)
• Violent Cop (1989)

1990s

• Miller's Crossing (1990)
• George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)
• Portrait of a Lady (1996)
• Pusher (1996)
• Star Wars (1997)
• After Life (1998)
• Run Lola Run (1998)
• SLC Punk (1998)
• Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

2000s

• Shaft (2000)
• Frida (2002)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
• 3-Iron (2004)
• Havoc (2005)
• My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005)
• Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet (2006)
• 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)

2010s

• Animal Kingdom (2010)
• Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded (2011)
• Gravity (2013)
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
• Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
• The Favourite (2018)
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

2020s

• Enola Holmes (2020)
• I'm Your Man (2021)
• Nobody (2021)
• X (2022)
• Bottoms (2023)
• Poor Things (2023)
• Sing Sing (2023)
• Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
• Misericordia (2024)
• Waves (2024)
• The Wild Robot (2024)

Debrief

• I watched more movies than I thought I would in 2024 (140), the overwhelming majority (over 92%) of them were films that I had not seen before. The jump from 2022 to 2023 was much bigger but I still managed to watch about 15% more films in 2024 than I did in 2023.
• I started and ended the year by watching foreign language films. I watched 24 (not counting foreign language animated movies) or an average of 2 per month although I saw 11 of them in October alone, thanks to the Noir City DC Film Festival. I saw movies in eleven different foreign languages including films from South America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
• I saw seven foreign English language films, six from the UK and one from Australia.
• I saw six animated films, three of which were Japanese and the other three were American.
• I saw six documentaries, not counting all the little features that were included on DVDs that I borrowed from the library.
• I watched seven films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and six more that were nominated for but did not win the award.
• I saw 27 films that starred non-White characters. Thirteen of those films were in English and the other 14 were in foreign languages.
• I saw at least one film from every year from 1932 to 1966.
• I saw six silent films (all from the 1920s) and at least seven movies per decade from every decade since the 1920s. I saw more films by far from the 1940s (20) and 1950s (31) than I did any other decades.
• I saw almost twice as many films at the AFI Silver theater (61) than I did in 2023 (33). I only saw about half the number of films on DVDs that I borrowed from the library in 2024 (13) as I did in 2023 (25).