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49 films watched in total.

1 rewatch, 48 brand new (to me).

My main focuses across the month were

(A) continue trying to watch all 2025 films that I haven’t already seen, so that I can *finally* create a ranked list of 2025. At the time of writing this, I’ve seen 185 films from 2025, but I still have at least 7 to see (Tuner, Obsession, Blue Heron, The Furious, How To Shoot A Ghost, Mile End Kicks and Glenrothan).

(B) continue working through the handful of films from the *New York Times Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century* list that they published last year. There were 7 films on it that I hadn’t seen. I managed to watch 2 of them this month (In The Mood For Love and Amélie), so I just have 5 left to go (The Act Of Killing, Amour, A Separation, Yi Yi and The Lives Of Others)

(C) start watching the 21 films on the *AFI - 100 Years, 100 Movies* list that I hadn’t already seen. I’ve managed to watch 8 of them this last month, leaving just 13 to complete the list.

For the month ahead, I’m going to continue to focus on those 3 things. I’m hoping to watch all of the 18 films left on the NYT and AFI lists, then as many of the 2025s as I can get access to. I think Obsession releases digitally tomorrow, so I should finally be able to catch that as I haven’t had the time to get to the cinema. Mile End Kicks, I already have. Tuner, I should be seeing in the cinema later this week. Blue Heron gets a limited release at the end of this month.

So yeah, that’s been my May and that’s a rough plan for my June.

Apologies if this is not the correct place for this.

I haven’t shared my collection for a while and I was just doing a bit of dusting and figured it’s as good a time as any for an update.

I’m not sure when I last shared, but I don’t *think* there’s that much here that I haven’t shared before in one form or another.

Maybe just the the last two photos, the one with the big TF Compendiums and the one with the Monster Sized Hellboy. Most of the stuff on those two shelves is relatively new to my collection, within the last 12 months or so, I think?

Anyway, if this IS the right place for this post, please enjoy and feel free to comment, mock, question, applaud or ignore as you see fit.

If it’s NOT the right place, accept my sincere apologies and I’m sure a mod will delete it before it upsets too many folks.

Thanks for looking!
Happy Sunday!!!

Scrolling through my LB earlier and I stumbled onto these.

I was just wondering what other people’s stats/percentages are.

Are there any that you’ve watched 100%?

Any that you are actively working on?

Any that aren’t listed that you have finished or are working on?

For example, as well as all the ones pictured above, I’m also working on the *New York Times Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century* that was published last year.

At the time of writing this, I’m at 93% because I’ve watched 93 of the 100.

Still need to watch:

*The Act Of Killing* (2012)

*Amélie* (2001)

*Amour* (2012)

*In The Mood For Love* (2000)

*The Lives Of Others* (2006)

*A Separation* (2011)

*YiYi* (2000)

Scrolling through my LB earlier and I stumbled onto these.

I was just wondering what other people’s stats/percentages are.

Are there any that you’ve watched 100%?

Any that you are actively working on?

Any that aren’t listed that you have finished or are working on?

For example, as well as all the ones pictured above, I’m also working on the *New York Times Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century* that was published last year.

At the time of writing this, I’m at 93% because I’ve watched 93 of the 100.

Still need to watch:

*The Act Of Killing* (2012)

*Amélie* (2001)

*Amour* (2012)

*In The Mood For Love* (2000)

*The Lives Of Others* (2006)

*A Separation* (2011)

*YiYi* (2000)

I’m a huge Ben Wheatley guy. I have been ever since *Kill List* (2011), easily one of my Top 10 films of the century so far. He just makes films that are VERY much my jam. Having read, listened to and watched multiple interviews with him, it seems we grew up around the same time, watching the same stuff, having the same reference points. So his films speak directly to me, mostly.

Anyway, I was in HMV today, actually to pick up *Hundreds Of Beavers* (2022) on Blu Ray, which they currently have in their 2 For £15 deal.

But then I noticed this, just sitting there on the shelf.

I didnt even know this had officially been released yet, never mind having an actual physical release. I knew it had played some festivals and there had been at least one screening at my beloved Prince Charles Cinema, with Ben in attendance for a Q&A, which I was unable to get to due to other commitments. I was also aware it had hit digital, as I already have it in that format, but I hadn’t gotten around to watching it yet.

So I was very shocked to see it sitting on the 4K shelves in HMV!

But I have some rules about buying 4Ks:

1 - I refuse to pay more than £20, absolute maximum, for a single film.

2 - I refuse to buy any kind of packaging other than a standard plastic Amray style case. I like things to look nice and uniform on my shelves. After decades of snapcases, super jewel cases, steelbooks and all kinds of other packaging in the DVD and BR days, I swore that with 4K everything would match.

3 - No blind buys. It doesn’t matter how much I like the filmmaker or the genre or the actors or the premise or the great reviews a film has gotten…I’ve been burned too many times, again in the DVD and BR days.

I broke all three rules with this.

It was £30

It’s in a digipack/mediapak type of cardboard packaging.

I haven’t seen it yet.

On the plus side, it’s some kind of limited edition. 1 of only 3000 copies, by the look of it. And since at least two of Wheatleys previous films haven’t had physical releases (afaik) - *Rebecca* (2020), Netflix and *Happy New Year, Colin Burstead* (2018), BBC - it seemed prudent to grab this while I could.

So, if this now gets a much more reasonably priced, non-limited edition 4K release, you can all thank me for my sacrifice.

Almost everything I watched in April.

Two shorts missing, because they are not on LB: *Beach Claw* (2020) 2.5 stars and *A Grade Students* (2024) 3 stars, both watched on 8th April.

2 films watched in the cinema, *Rose Of Nevada* and *Akira*, 3 (or 14, if you count them all individually) if you include the short film showcase on 8th April. The rest watched at home.

33 rewatches

22 first time watches