What I Watched: 2024 in Review
Another year in the books!
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This was the year I truly discovered foreign films and I look forward to watching more in 2025. The year I watched more silent films and more Pre-Code films. In total I watched 234 films this year and enjoy (almost) every one. Here's the full list of movies I watched in 2024.
Here's my 2023 Year in Review post, 2022 Year in Review post, my 2021 Year in Review post, my 2020 Year in Review post; and here's my 2019 Year in Review post.
Now, let's talk about the movies I watched!
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Best/Favourite Movies: For the Love of Mary (1948), The Impossible Years (1968), Adventure in Baltimore (1949), Airport ’77 (1977), The Unfinished Dance (1947), The Last Metro (1980), A Slightly Pregnant Man (L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune) (1973), That Wonderful Urge (1948), Girl Trouble (1942), Paradise for Three (1938), The Man in Possession (1931), Chained (1934), Three Daring Daughters (1948), Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) (1970), Lovers Like Us (Le Sauvage) (1975), Week-End in Havana (1941), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Jack of Diamonds (1967), Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958), The Monte Carlo Story (1957), That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio) (1964), 10,000 Bedrooms (1957), Havana Widows (1933), The Mating of Millie (1948), My Sister Eileen (1942), Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Weirdest/Worst Movies: Kept
Husbands (1931) because I just can’t make myself like Joel McCrea; Carol
for Another Christmas (1964) because why. I'm loathe to put any Claudette Colbert films on this list because it's not her fault she had insane chemistry with all of her co-stars but man, do I loathe Fred MacMurray characters (cough, The Bride Comes Home).
Earliest Movie: Cleopatra (1912)
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Latest Movie: My Fellow
Americans (1996)
Year with the Most Representation: 1934,
with 12 movies! Easy to Love, One Night of Love, The Merry Widow, Have a Heart, Upperworld, Chained, Sadie McKee, The Girl From Missouri, The Big Shakedown, This Man is Mine, I've Got Your Number, Bolero
Favourite Movie Title: The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), Ginger and Fred (Ginger e Fred) (1986), The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960), …And God Created Woman (Et Dieu… créa la femme) (1956), Mississippi Mermaid (1969), The Lions Are Loose (Les lions sont lâchés) (1961)
Movies with Ladies' Names as the Title: For
the Love of Mary (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Colleen
(1936), Cleopatra (1912), Ginger and Fred (Ginger e Fred) (1986),
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960), Torchy Blane in Panama
(1938), Salome (1953), Dear Brigitte (1965), Sadie McKee
(1934), Vicki (1953), Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) (1970), Belle
de Jour (1967), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Undercover
Maisie (1947), Goldie (1931), Stanley and Iris (1990), The
Mating of Millie (1948),
The Girls Got It: When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965), Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935), The Girl From Jones Beach (1949), Street Girl (1929), Girl Trouble (1942), A Girl, A Guy and a Gob (1941), The Girl From Missouri (1934), Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948), Three Wise Girls (1932), Girls Can Play (1937), Take Care of My Little Girl (1951), Make Way for a Lady (1936), Should Ladies Behave (1933), …And God Created Woman (Et Dieu… créa la femme) (1956), Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), The Woman in the Red Boots (La Femme aux bottes rouges) (1974), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Bad Sister (1931), Three Daring Daughters (1948), Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Musicals: Silver Skates (1943), One Night of Love (1934), When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), The Sky’s the Limit (1943), Flower Drum Song (1961), The Unfinished Dance (1947), The Merry Widow (1934), Camelot (1967), Rock Rock Rock! (1956), We’re in the Money (1935), Tonight and Every Night (1945), Three Daring Daughters (1948), Delightfully Dangerous (1945), Week-End in Havana (1941), Reaching for the Moon (1930), It’s a Date (1940), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), The Desert Song (1953), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Night and Day (1946), The French Line (1953), Scared Stiff (1953), That Night in Rio (1941), George White’s Scandals (1945), She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952), Oklahoma! (1955), Sombrero (1953), Deep in My Heart (1954), You’ll Never Get Rich (1941), Can-Can (1960), Bolero (1934), Mame (1974), Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
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Number of Pre-Code Movies Watched: 36. Easy
to Love (1934), Another Language (1933), Half Marriage
(1929), Should Ladies Behave (1933), Baby Face (1933), Street
Girl (1929), Kept Husbands (1931), I Like Your Nerve
(1931), Upperworld (1934), The Man in Possession (1931), The
Half-Naked Truth (1932), Man's Castle (1933), The Guardsman
(1931), Daughter of the Dragon (1931), Sadie McKee (1934), Reaching
for the Moon (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), Navy Blues (1929),
Reducing (1931), The Secret Six (1931), Hell's Angels
(1930), The Big Shakedown (1934), This Man is Mine (1934), Havana
Widows (1933), Iron Man (1931), Goldie (1931), Three Wise
Girls (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), I've Got Your Number (1934),
No Man of Her Own (1932), The Crash (1932),
Number of Silent Films Watched: 13. Why
Be Good? (1929), West Point (1927), Cleopatra (1912), The
Boob (1926), The Sheik (1921), Love (1927), The Phantom of
the Opera (1925),
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Number of Foreign Films Watched: 21. The Colossus of Rhodes (Il Colosso di Rodi) (1961), The Last Metro (Le Dernier Métro) (1980), Ginger and Fred (Ginger e Fred) (1986), All These Women (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor) (1964), A Slightly Pregnant Man (L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune) (1973), Manon 70 (1968), …And God Created Woman (Et Dieu… créa la femme) (1956), Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) (1970), Lovers Like Us (Le Sauvage) (1975), Male Companion (Un monsieur de compagnie) (1964), Belle de Jour (1967), A Matter of Resistance (La Vie de château) (1966), The Woman in the Red Boots (La Femme aux bottes rouges) (1974), Breathless (1960), Pierrot le Fou (1965), That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio) (1964), Love is a Funny Thing (Un homme qui me plaît) (1969), Indochine (1992), 8½ (Otto e mezzo) (1963), The Lions Are Loose (Les lions sont lâchés) (1961), My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (1969)
Let’s Count: One Night of Love (1934), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Twice Blessed (1945), Paradise for Three (1938), Three Daring Daughters (1948), Three Wise Girls (1932), Three Loves Has Nancy (1938), The Secret Six (1931), Dinner at Eight (1933), 8½ (Otto e mezzo) (1963), Twenty Plus Two (1961), Manon 70 (1968), 10,000 Bedrooms (1957), Any Number Can Play (1949), I've Got Your Number (1934)
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Love is All You Need: Easy to Love (1934), For the Love of Mary (1934), One Night of Love (1934), The Young Lovers (1964), Lovers Like Us (Le Sauvage) (1975), Love (1927), Love is a Funny Thing (Un homme qui me plaît) (1969), Love is a Headache (1938), Love is Better Than Ever (1952), The Love Expert (1920), The Cardboard Lover (1928), Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
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Let’s Dance: The Unfinished Dance (1947), Rock! Rock! Rock! (1956), Rumba (1935), Can-Can (1960), Bolero (1934)
Let’s Travel: China
Seas
(1935), Adventure in Baltimore (1949), The Girl From Jones Beach
(1949), Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961), The Train Robbers (1973),
Torchy Blane in Panama (1938), The Vanishing Virginian (1942), The
Venetian Affair (1967), Our Man in Havana (1959), Week-End in
Havana (1941), The Desert Song (1953), Mississippi Mermaid
(1969), Macao (1952), The Las Vegas Story (1952), The Monte
Carlo Story (1957), Crashing Las Vegas (1956), That Night in Rio (1941),
That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio) (1964), Indochine (1992), Oklahoma!
(1955), Havana Widows (1933), My Fellow Americans (1996),
Bette or Joan? Joan. I'm a Bette stan but I'm running out of her movies!
I watched two of Bette's '50s films this year (Another Man's Poison from 1951 and Storm Center from 1956) and her very first (The Bad Sister from 1931), but I've all but run out of the films she made during her heyday and I'd like to conserve them! Of the three, though, Storm Center was my favourite.
Speaking of Joan, I'm still working my way slowly through her filmography, so I watched four this year: Chained (1934), Sadie McKee (1934), The Damned Don’t Cry (1950), and Paid (1930). Of the four, Chained was my favourite!
Liv or Joan? I don’t think I watched an Olivia de Havilland movie this year (I have so few left and I’m trying to conserve them!), but the Joan Fontaine one I watched—Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)—I enjoyed!
Favourite Discovery Jean-Paul Belmondo. I wanted to watch more foreign language films this year, and given my (at one point in my life robust) grasp of the French language, it seemed like the easiest gateway. Belmondo had a day to himself for Summer Under the Stars and I DVR'd so many of his films and loved them all. I wish I had've recorded more, but the ones I did watch I'm obsessed with, especially That Man from Rio. I look forward to watching more of his films moving forward!
Here's what I watched from Jean-Paul Belmondo this year: Breathless (1960), Pierrot le Fou (1965), That Man
from Rio (L'Homme de Rio) (1964), Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and Love
is a Funny Thing (Un homme qui me plaît) (1969).
Favourite TCM Star of the Month: Debbie Reynolds in March! Though she got it crammed into a week at the tail-end of 31 Days of Oscar. I wish she’d gotten the month she deserved but that was a fun week of settling in to watch different eras of her career every night.
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