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2021 With Movies!


2021 was not quite as good as 2020 with respect to movies. Though i have seen quite a lot of films this year too. Most of them were rewatches of the films i had seen earlier.

2021 movie log

List of all the films i have seen this year : here

Rewatched films : here

Letterboxd has been quite useful for keeping track of films. Its perhaps also the app i used the most this year. 

Some Stats : 
Total films : 130
New Films : 97
Rewatches : 33

Year wise : pre 1950s - 5, 1950s to 75 - 10, 1975 to 2000 - 17, 2000 to 2010 - 20, 2010 to 2021 - 45

Top 10 favourite films seen this year:
Honourable mentions : Casablanca-1942, On The Waterfront - 1954, Stalker - 1979, Persona - 1966, American Beauty - 1999, Moonlight - 2016, North By Northwest - 1959, The Tree Of Life - 2011, Wuthering Heights - 2011, Babadook - 2014, Piku - 2015, Highway - 2014, The English Patient - 1996, Repulsion - 1965, Platoon - 1986, Soul - 2020, Lilya 4-ever - 2002, Drive - 2011, Funny Games - 2007, Tess - 1979 

10. Schindler's List, 1993 
9. The Fall, 2006 
8. The Assassination Of Jesse James By Coward Robert Ford, 2007
7. Incendies, 2010
6. Melancholia, 2011 
5. Pyaasa, 1957
4. Apocalypse Now,1979
3. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, 2019
2. Dancer In The Dark, 2000
1. Through A Glass Darkly, 1961


Tags, adjectives, favorites, blah, blah, blah

Favourite Performances - MALE
Fav: Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now
Other favourites: Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront | Brad Pitt in Jesse James | Guru Dutt in Pyaasa | Choi Min-Sik in Oldboy, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca | Irrfan Khan in Piku & Maqbool | Anthony Hopkins in The Father | Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown |

Favourite Performances - FEMALE
Fav: Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia 
Other favourites: Harriet Andersson in Through A Glass Darkly | Essie Davies in The Babadook | Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion | Oksana Akinshina in Lilya 4-ever | Catinca Untaru in The Fall | Liv Ullman in Persona | Adele Haenel and Neomie Merlant in POALOF | Björk in Dancer In The Dark | Waheeda Rahman in Pyaasa | Alia Bhatt in Highway | Tabu in Maqbool | 

Favourite Director
Fav: Lars Von Trier for Melancholia, Dancer In The Dark
Other favourites:  | Roman Polanski for Tess, Repulsion, The Pianist | Ingmar Bergman for Through A Glass Darkly, Persona and The Seventh Seal | Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List, Indiana Jones, Duel | Quentin Tarantino for Jackie Brown, The Hateful Eight, Death Proof | Céline Sciamma for POALOF | Tarsem Singh for The Fall | Alfred Hitchcock for North By Northwest, Notorious, Rope | 

Favourite Cinematography / Visuals : 
Fav: The Fall
Other favourites: | Portrait Of A Lady On Fire | Apocalypse Now | Stalker | Assassination Of Jesse James By Coward Robert Ford | Persona | Melancholia | Soul | Wuthering Heights | Tess | Moonlight | The Tree Of Life | Schindler's List | 

Favourite music / score : 
Fav: Pyaasa 
Other favourites: | Portrait Of A Lady On Fire | Lilya 4-ever | Apocalypse Now | Singin' In The Rain | Wizard Of The Oz | Jackie Brown | Soul | Drive | Baby Driver | Inside Llewyn Davis | 

Favourite Dialogues : 
Fav: Jackie Brown 
Other favourites: | Portrait Of A Lady On Fire | Apocalypse Now | Stalker | Pyaasa | Lilya 4-ever | Casablanca | The Seventh Seal | Tess | Through A Glass Darkly | Persona | There Will Be Blood | 

Favourite Screenplay/story : 
Fav: Apocalypse Now 
Other favourites: | Stalker | Through A Glass Darkly | American Beauty | Incendies | Casablanca | Spotlight | There Will Be Blood | The Seventh Seal | On The Waterfront | Schindler's List | 

Some Films people recommended and i loved : 
Lilya 4-ever | Soul | The Fugitive | Piku | 

Others liked but i didn't(sort of) :
Ak vs Ak | Pride And Prejudice, 2005 | Quiet Place 2 | Soorarai Pottru | pi | Mank | The Social Network | 

Others hated/disliked but i loved(or didn't that hated much) :
Temple of Doom | Funny Games | Jackie Brown | Crash | Green Book | Jessabelle | 

 Favourite Bollywood / Indian films :
Pyaasa | Piku | Highway | Barah Aana | Salaam Bombay | Court | Maqbool | 


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