2021: What I Watched (Patreon)

I did this last year and found it helpful/interesting; it also demonstrates the extent to which y'all influence/dictate my viewing. Once again divided into four categories.

NEW FILMS PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN (135; last year: 87)

I saw significantly more new releases last year (with a corresponding dropoff in older films), though that mostly reflects my having watched an unusually low number in 2020, due to not attending TIFF (not even virtually). In alphabetical order; films I watched because they won the weekly request poll are noted with an asterisk. 

Ahed’s Knee

Ali & Ava

The Alpinist

Anne at 13,000 Feet.

Annette

Arthur Rambo

The Assistant

Awake

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar*

Beginning

Benedetta

Benediction

Bergman Island

The Card Counter

Casablanca Beats

Cliff Walkers

C’mon C’mon

Compartment No. 6

The Courier

Cry Macho

Cyrano

The Disciple

Drive My Car

Dune: Part One

Earwig

Education

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The Empty Man*

Enemies of the State

Finch

Flag Day

Flee

France

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

French Exit

Futura

The Girl and the Spider

The Green Knight

Gunda

The Hand of God

Here Today

A Hero

Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard

The Ice Road

I’m Your Man

In Front of Your Face

Inexorable

The Informer

Întregalde

Introduction

Invisible Life

Isabella

Judas and the Black Messiah

The Killing of Two Lovers

King Richard

The Last Duel

Licorice Pizza

Lingui: The Sacred Bonds

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

The Mad Women’s Ball

Malignant*

Mandibles

The Matrix Resurrections

Matthias & Maxime

Mayor Pete

Memoria

Minari

MLK/FBI

Monday

Montana Story

Neptune Frost

News of the World

Night of the Kings

Nightmare Alley

No Man of God

No Sudden Move

No Time to Die

One Second

Onoda

Operation Varsity Blues

The Other Tom.

Outside the Wire

Oxygen

Parallel Mothers

Paris, 13th District

Passing

Penguin Bloom

Petite Maman

Pig

Possessor

The Power

The Power of the Dog

Prayers for the Stolen

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

Prisoners of the Ghostland

Promising Young Woman

Rams

Red Rocket

Saloum

Short Vacation

Siberia

63 Up

Slow Machine

Sound of Metal

The Souvenir Part II

The Story of My Wife

Stowaway

Summer of 85

Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

A Tale of Love and Desire

Teenage Emotions

There Is No Evil

There’s Someone Inside Your House

Three Floors

Titane

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Tragic Jungle

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Truffle Hunters

The Tsugua Diaries

12 Mighty Orphans

Unclenching the Fists

The Unforgivable

The Velvet Underground

West Side Story

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

White Lie

WolfWalkers

Wood and Water

The Worst Person in the World

Wrath of Man

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

NEW FILMS REVISITED (19; last year: 9)

Second viewings of films I loved and films that other people loved.

Annette

Beanpole

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Collective

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Enemies of the State

First Cow

French Exit

I Was at Home, but…

The Killing of Two Lovers

Lovers Rock

Martin Eden

Memoria

Pig

Red, White and Blue

Short Vacation

The Souvenir

Undine

Vitalina Varela

OLD FILMS PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN (71; last year: 87)

"Old" is here defined as anything that premiered prior to 2019. Again, request-poll winners are noted with an asterisk. I'd like to get this number a bit higher in 2022 (though I'm off to a poor start in that regard with eight rewatches out of 12 viewings thus far). In chronological order now: 

The Ring (1927)

You Only Live Once (1937)*

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Canyon Passage (1946)*

Variety Lights (1950)

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Terminal Station (1953)

The Ladykillers (1955)*

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

The Horse’s Mouth (1958)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

Hatari! (1962)*

I fidanzati (1963)

Red Beard (1965)*

Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

War and Peace: Andrei Bolonsky (1965)*

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

War and Peace: Natasha Rostova (1966)*

War and Peace: The Year 1812 (1967)*

War and Peace: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)*

I Am Curious—Blue (1968)

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)*

Husbands (1970)*

Original Cast Album: Company (1970)*

Bang Bang (1971)*

Mon oncle Antoine (1971)

Juvenile Court (1973)*

The Travelling Players (1975)*

Coup de Grâce (1976)

The Ascent (1977)*

The Devil, Probably (1977)*

Girlfriends (1978)*

Jubilee (1978)

Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)*

Gregory’s Girl (1980)

Hopscotch (1980)

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)*

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)*

Tenebre (1982)*

Sleepaway Camp (1983)*

Mike’s Murder (1984)*

Desert Hearts (1985)*

Real Genius (1985)*

Shoah (1985)*

Demolition Man (1993)*

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)*

Carl Th. Dreyer—My Métier (1995)

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)

The End of Evangelion (1997)*

Dirty Work (1998)*

Breakfast of Champions (1999)*

John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars (2001)

The Room (2003)

Mad Detective (2007)

Quantum of Solace (2008)*

Watchmen (2009)*

The American (2010)*

For Those in Peril (2013)*

They Came Together (2014)*

Sleeping With Other People (2015)*

Spectre (2015)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water (2015)

Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

The Disaster Artist (2017)

En el Séptimo Día (2017)

One Cut of the Dead (2017)*

Ayka (2018)

Keep an Eye Out (2018)

Thunder Road (2018)*

The Wolf House (2018)

OLD FILMS REVISITED (120; last year: 144)

You'll notice that a big hunk of these are from 2000-01, watched in preparation for this annual A.V. Club feature. There'll be no such hunk this year, even should the retrospective poll continue (which currently seems unlikely, or at least my own participation in it does), as I started using the needlessly precise 100-point scale in 2002 and hence don't have a bunch of not-yet-rated films to revisit. (That's Ed, I do plan to take a second look at La Captive and Talk to Her, plus catch up with Herzog's Invincible.)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)*

À nous la liberté (1931)

M (1931)

One Hour With You (1932)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Duck Soup (1933)*

King Kong (1933)

Angel (1937)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)*

The Great McGinty (1940)

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)*

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*

Nightmare Alley (1947)*

Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

Wagon Master (1950)*

Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)

Bob le flambeur (1956)

The Court Jester (1956)*

Party Girl (1958)

Il posto (1961)

The Innocents (1961)*

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Viridiana (1961)*

A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

The Damned (1962)

Hud (1963)*

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)*

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)*

Loves of a Blonde (1965)

The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Come Drink With Me (1966)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

The Pornographers (1966)

I Am Curious—Yellow (1967)

The President’s Analyst (1967)*

Stolen Kisses (1968)

My Night at Maud’s (1969)*

Bed and Board (1970)*

Fat City (1972)*

The Ruling Class (1972)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)*

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)*

Paper Moon (1973)*

Chinatown (1974)

The Parallax View (1974)*

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)*

The Devil’s Playground (1976)

The Last Wave (1977)

The Deer Hunter (1978)*

Killer of Sheep (1978)*

All That Jazz (1979)*

Love on the Run (1979)

The Long Good Friday (1980)*

Nostalghia (1983)*

Choose Me (1984)*

Dune (1984)*

Commando (1985)*

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

The Dead (1987)*

Dirty Dancing (1987)*

Prince of Darkness (1987)*

Miracle Mile (1988)*

The Moderns (1988)

Rain Man (1988)

Close-Up (1990)*

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)*

The Long Day Closes (1992)*

Man Bites Dog (1992)

One False Move (1992)

Un cœur en hiver (1992)

Hoop Dreams (1994)*

Speed (1994)*

Apollo 13 (1995)

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

Se7en (1995)*

A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

The Apostle (1997)*

Cure (1997)

Beloved (1998)

Rushmore (1998)*

The Road Home (1999)

The Winslow Boy (1999)

Amores perros (2000)

Chopper (2000)

The Circle (2000)

The Day I Became a Woman (2000)

Eureka (2000)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

The Gleaners and I (2000)

Little Otik (2000)

Together (2000)

Under the Sand (2000)

The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)

Bully (2001)

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

In the Bedroom (2001)

The Mexican (2001)

Pootie Tang in Sine Your Pitty on the Runny Kine (2001)

Startup.com (2001)

Va savoir (2001)

Bus 174 (2002)

Charlotte Sometimes (2002)

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

The Good Thief (2002)

Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

Crimson Gold (2003)

Before Sunset (2004)*

I, Robot (2004)

Sideways (2004)*

Silent Light (2007)

BirdWatchers (2008)

In the Loop (2009)

Margaret (2011)

Silence (2016)