I tried to do fiftyfifty this year (that’s a personal challenge of reading 50 books and 50 films that I’d never consumed before). I failed rather grandly on the books front. I’ve not had much time for books and what I have read has mostly been textbooks.
BUT! I did manage 90 new films. Here’s my list, favourites in bold:
- Bolt
- G-Force
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Bedtime Stories
- The Princess and the Frog
- Black Pond
- The Rebound
- Lucky Partners
- Hunger
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Robot and Frank
- Belle De Jour
- X-men
- Whip-It
- 50/50
- Spring Breakers
- I’m So Excited
- The Secret World of Arrietty
- Mud
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Million Dollar Baby
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- London to Brighton
- Say Anything
- Dead Poets Society
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Food, Inc
- A Cinderella Story
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Populaire
- Erin Brockovich
- Ginger Snaps
- A Single Man
- Good Will Hunting
- Despicable Me
- Frida
- Pariah
- Wilde
- Human Traffic
- Hasta La Vista
- Before Midnight
- Grey Gardens (doc)
- Grey Gardens (feature)
- According to Greta
- Super 8
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Adaptation
- The Holy Mountain
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Harvey
- The Sweetest Thing
- Transamerica
- Lovelace
- Intouchables
- Female Trouble
- Warm Bodies
- Brave
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Urbanized
- Jeff Who Lives At Home
- ParaNorman
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- A Band Called Death
- I Need That Record
- The Kids Are All Right
- Frances Ha
- Tiny Furniture
- Hysteria
- The Help
- Despicable Me 2
- Our Idiot Brother
- The Brass Teapot
- The Vicious Kind
- 2 Days in Paris
- Daydream Nation
- Kissing Jessica Stein
- Natural Selection
- The Giant Mechanical Man
- My Week With Marilyn
- The Sapphires
- Starlet
- Dirty Girl
- Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
- Molly’s Girl
- Being Elmo
- Driving Lessons
- The Babysitters
- Butter
- Paris is Burning
I’m going to do it again this year but deviate from the amounts to make it more interesting: 100/25 (films/books). Hope everyone has a happy new year! xx
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