SUVISO

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 -...

What has changed in 2020.. This is the worst year anyone could have ever imagined. It couldnt have gotten worse. But not in terms of movies I guess. This had been great year for me as movie admirer. I have seen more number of films than any other year before(actually I haven't counted films before this year, but still I guess I watched more than previous years). Still not as many as some of the movie madmen who watch 2-3 movies every day for an entire year!  And with the process of watching films I have really developed a new hobby or.. an obsession, really!! For better or worse I have started watching movies differently, being more into it, and analysing and thinking about how its made, whats its meaning and all the behind the scenes developments. And because of it I obviously stumbled upon many other things which go complimentary with movies: the critics, the reviews, the interpretations of films, the behind the scene stories, the personal reasons of why the film is m...

Honorable Mentions:   | Enemy - 2013 | Arrival - 2016 | Rushmore - 1998 | The Revenant -2015 | Being John Malkovich - 1999 | The King Of Comedy - 1982 | Sicario - 2015 | Annie Hall - 1977 | Nocturnal Animals - 2016 | Psycho - 1960 | Slumdog Millionaire - 2008 | Knives Out - 2019 | Mulholland Drive - 2001 | Jaws - 1975 | Alien - 1979 and Aliens - 1986 | The Shining - 1980 | Blade Runner 2049 - 2017 | Dunkirk - 2017 | Life Of Pi - 2013 | The Royal Tenenbaumbs - 2001 | Moonrise Kingdom - 2012 | Thw Grand Budapest Hotel - 2014 | The Departed - 2006 | Gone Girl - 2014 | Hereditary - 2018 | Little Women - 2019 | The Game - 1997 | ET - 1982 | Gangs Of New York - 2002 |Mad Max: Fury Road - 2015 | The Top 25: 25. Contagion - 2011 24. La La Land - 2016 23. 12 Angry Men -1957  22. Citizen Kane - 1941 21. Rear Window - 1954  20. Saving Private Ryan - 1998  19. Donnie Darko - 2001  18. Pan's Labyrinth - 2006  17. Fargo - 1996  16. Rosemary's Baby - 1968...

2020 was decent year for consuming books, having literally unlimited time to explore new books and good literature. I had set realistic goal to read at least two books a month, which I completed but still I hoped for more. I know people who read twice, thrice and more amount than what I have read. But could I not complain because I loved the whole process and looking forward to reading more good books next year.  I had also suffered underperforming last year by setting a reachable but unrealistic goal of hundred books(and only completing quarter of that goal). So setting a goal within a reach was important this year. I also got little more familiar with the books and literature world, exploring new authors and books. I read quite a deal more about the authors and their ideas, themes of their books than the actual books themselves, and it gave me fair idea about whom to read and whom to skip and whom to avoid at all cost! Reading bad books in between does not necessarily hurt but th...