1981 Of the 119 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... Das Boot The Road Warrior Prince of the City Reds Coup de Torchon True Confessions Modern Romance Body Heat Ragtime Les Plouffe Circle of Deceit Pixote Eye of the Needle Mephisto Man of Iron Thief Esca...

1959 Of the 108 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... North by Northwest The 400 Blows Some Like It Hot I'm All Right Jack Anatomy of a Murder Ben-Hur Compulsion The Bridge Fires on the Plain The Diary of Anne Frank Hiroshima, Mon Amour The World of Apu O...

One year when I was over in London I tried to get to the bottom of the true initial release date of Room at the Top and after a trip to the BFI Resource Centre determined it to be 1958. It was up for BAFTAs in that year and had an initial release in the north of England in 1958 as well.

1991 Of the 166 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... The Silence of the Lambs Terminator 2: Judgment Day Raise the Red Lanterns Les Amants du Pont Neuf Beauty and the Beast City of Hope Little Man Tate Thelma and Louise The Commitments Cape Fear JFK Ramb...

1924 These are the 15 films that I have seen from this year ranked in order ... Sherlock, Jr. The Thief of Bagdad The Last Laugh Greed The Saga of Costa Berling Die Nibelungen: Siegfried Hot Water He Who Gets Slapped Her Night of Romance The Iron Horse The Navigator Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Reve...

2022 Out of the 174 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... All Quiet on the Western Front The Banshees of Inisherin She Said Athena Bobi Wine: The People's President Paris Memories Triangle of Sadness The Batman Thirteen Lives Amsterdam Close Holy Spider T...

2015 Out of the 105 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... Deepan Trumbo Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens Beast of No Nation A Man Called Ove Joy Legend Son of Saul Tangerine Black Spotlight Spectre Chappie Sicario Room Flocking Amy Embrace of the...

2008 Out of the 95 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... Kung Fu Panda The Hurt Locker Vicky Christina Barcelona Valkyrie Slumdog Millionaire The Wrestler In Bruges Mesrine Parts 1 & 2 Milk Changeling Burn After Reading Frost/Nixon WALL-E Let the Righ...

1930 Out of the 47 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... All Quiet on the Western Front Westfront 1918 The Blue Angel Outward Bound Animal Crackers The Big House The Divorcee Tom Sawyer Anna Christie Morocco Min and Bill Au Bonheur des Dames Hell's Angels...

1986 Out of the 117 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... Platoon Hannah and Her Sisters Jean de Florette Manon of the Spring Sid and Nancy The Decline of the American Empire Aliens The Color of Money Salvador Peggy Sue Got Married Down by Law Children of...

Regarding Orson Welles' The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice - I would place this as a 1952 film and think the imdb gets it wrong when considering it released in 1951. According to researchers, the 1951 screening of Othello was an Italian dub of the film purely designed to attract investors to...

1951 Out of the 114 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... A Christmas Carol The African Queen The Day the Earth Stood Still Outcast of the Islands Strangers on a Train The Magic Box Decision Before Dawn A Streetcar Named Desire Alice In Wonderland Bright ...

"Brought me back from the dead."
- Jan Rubes, The Amateur

1979 Out of the 115 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... Apocalypse Now Manhattan Alien Bye Bye Brazil All That Jazz Tess Breaking Away The Onion Field The Tin Drum 10 Kramer vs. Kramer Buffet Froid The Black Stallion The Rose Clair de Femme The Great Sa...

1968 Out of the 154 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ... 2,001 A Space Odyssey Bullitt Once Upon a Time In the West The Lion In Winter Rosemary's Baby Oliver! Stolen Kisses The Charge of the Light Brigade Romeo and Juliet Targets Isadora if ... Planet of...