My 2020 in film

Cairo Station (1958)

So in 2020 we stayed in… a lot - and I watched a lot of films - more than in any year since I’ve been keeping a log (and I can’t imagine any year before then when I saw more). Here’s a quick summary.

• I watched 389 films
• The average score of the films I watched was 5.89 / 10
• I saw 0.79% of them on the big screen
• and watched almost a quarter of them on Talking Pictures TV
• 57% of the films I watched were from before I was born
• 7 were animated and 31 were musicals
• 88.9% of films were in English
  other langugaes:
  • Bengali (1)
  • Polish (2)
  • Japanese (2)
  • Arabic (4)
  • Telegu (1)
  • Finnish (1)
  • French (10)
  • Russian (1)
  • German (1)
  • Hindi (8)
  • Spanish (2)
  • Silent (8)

All the films I rated ten were films I’d seen before

• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Underground (1928) that was one of the three on the big screen film!
• Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)

The highest rated film I’d not seen before was

• Cairo Station (1958, Youssef Chahine) which got a nine