We’re now a week into 2018, but before pushing ahead into a new year in movies, I wanted to look back at what I watched in 2017. I’m not listing all the new-to-me movies I watched this year (you can look at that on my Letterboxd here, or look through my monthly entries), but I’ll be breaking down my viewing habits and looking at the new releases I saw, and all the movies I revisited in the past year.

New-to-Me: 312

Re-Watched: 75

Total: 383*

*4 of my re-watches were also films I discovered in 2017, so they weren’t counted again in the grand total.

New-to-Me Films by Decade:

• 1920s – 9
• 1930s – 38
• 1940s – 49
• 1950s – 49
• 1960s – 30
• 1970s – 29
• 1980s – 19
• 1990s – 18
• 2000s – 11
• 2010s – 60

This past year I ended up watching more recent movies than I did in previous years, where my viewing pattern leaned more into older movies (especially from the 1940s and 1950s). And as far as individual years, the only years in which I watched a number of movies that reached the double-digits were the past two years: 2017 with 30, and 2016 with 19. After that, the most-watched year ended up being 1951 with just 9 new-to-me movies. Otherwise, my viewing habits were pretty spread out throughout the decades.

List of Re-Watched Films:

1. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
2. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
3. The Great Dictator (1940)
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
5. Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010)
6. Dirty Dancing (1987)
7. Dreamgirls (2006)
8. An Affair to Remember (1957)
9. Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
10. The Defiant Ones (1958)
11. The Miracle Worker (1962)
12. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
13. All About Eve (1950)
14. Detour (1945)
15. The Quiet Man (1952)
    
16. Tension (1949)
17. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
18. North by Northwest (1959)
19. Network (1976)
20. Scarlet Street (1945)
21. The Set-Up (1949)
22. Brute Force (1947)
23. The Graduate (1967)
24. The Prowler (1951)
25. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
26. Moonlight (2016)
27. Crime of Passion (1957)
28. Journey Into Fear (1943)
29. The Godfather (1972)
30. Short Cuts (1993)
    
31. Phantom Lady (1944)
32. Some Like It Hot (1959)
33. He Ran All the Way (1951)
34. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
35. High Wall (1947)
36. Hot Fuzz (2007)
37. They Live by Night (1948)
38. T-Men (1947)
39. The Best of Everything (1959)
40. Sudden Fear (1952)
41. Gun Crazy (1950)
42. Deadline at Dawn (1946)
43. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
44. My Favorite Year (1982)
45. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
    
46. Cluny Brown (1946)
47. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
48. In a Lonely Place (1950)
49. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
50. Possessed (1947)
51. Blade Runner (1982)
52. They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
53. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
54. The Princess Bride (1987)
55. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
56. Rebecca (1940)
57. Suspicion (1941)
58. Raw Deal (1948)
59. Psycho (1960)
60. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
    
61. Back to the Future (1985)
62. Mildred Pierce (1945)
63. Split Second (1953)
64. The Window (1949)
65. Casablanca (1942)
66. Night and the City (1950)
67. Strangers on a Train (1951)
68. Ace in the Hole (1951)
69. Lady Bird (2017)*
70. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)*
71. The Breaking Point (1950)*
72. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
73. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)*
74. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
75. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

*also a first-time watch in 2017

I also have to note that I watched Singin’ in the Rain twice this year (and the viewings were in a couple of days of each other). While the number of new-to-me movies I’ve watched in a given year has dropped within the past couple of years, I’ve noticed that I’ve been revisiting more movies instead. And I’m sure that trend will continue into 2018, especially with TCM continuing its Big Screen Classics series with Fathom Events.

List of Films I Saw in Theaters (in italics marks a re-watch):

1. Hidden Figures
2. Fences
3. Lion
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Singin’ in the Rain*
6. 20th Century Women
7. Dirty Dancing
8. An Affair to Remember
9. Get Out
10. All About Eve
11. Beauty and the Beast
12. North by Northwest
13. The Zookeeper’s Wife
    
14. The Graduate
15. Their Finest
16. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
17. Smokey and the Bandit
18. Wonder Woman
19. The Godfather
20. Some Like It Hot
21. Cars 3
22. Paris Can Wait
23. Baby Driver
24. The Beguiled
25. Spider-Man: Homecoming
26. The Big Sick
    
27. Dunkirk
28. Bonnie and Clyde
29. Logan Lucky
30. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
31. It
32. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
33. Blade Runner
34. Blade Runner 2049
35. Mudbound
36. Farewell, My Lovely
37. Wonderstruck
38. Lady Bird*
39. Call Me by Your Name
    
40. The Princess Bride
41. Battle of the Sexes
42. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
43. Thor: Ragnarok*
44. Murder on the Orient Express
45. Casablanca
46. Justice League
47. Coco
48. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
49. The Disaster Artist
50. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
51. Star Wars: The Last Jedi*
52. The Shape of Water

*watched twice in theaters

My trips to the movie theater more than doubled in 2017 compared to 2016, where I only saw about 21 movies on the big screen. And I did manage to go to the theater at least twice a month (though February consisted of just 2 movies I had previously seen; you can see how it all fared out on my Letterboxd here). This past year I was fortunate enough to catch so many old favorites in theaters! That’s mostly thanks to TCM’s partnership with Fathom Events for showing at least one old movie on the big screen a month, and I also had a special Regal Cinemas pass that let me see them without the extra charge. Additionally, spending a wonderful weekend at the New York Film Festival (where I saw 5 movies) helped bump up the numbers a bit.

List of New Releases I Saw (ordered by release date):

1. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2. Get Out
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. Five Came Back
5. The Zookeeper’s Wife
6. Their Finest
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
8. Paris Can Wait
9. Wonder Woman
10. Cars 3
11. Baby Driver
    
12. The Beguiled
13. Spider-Man: Homecoming
14. The Big Sick
15. Dunkirk
16. Logan Lucky
17. It
18. Our Souls at Night
19. Battle of the Sexes
20. Blade Runner 2049
21. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
22. Wonderstruck
    
23. Thor: Ragnarok
24. Lady Bird
25. Murder on the Orient Express
26. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
27. Mudbound
28. Justice League
29. Coco
30. Call Me by Your Name
31. The Disaster Artist
32. The Shape of Water
33. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

So the number of new releases I saw in 2017 also more than doubled compared to 2016, where I only saw 16. That’s partially in credit to getting a MoviePass subscription in October, though a couple of these titles were released on Netflix. Overall though, there were just a lot more movies I was interested in catching in the theater this year.

While we’re now in the new year, the look back at films in 2017 is far from over, with awards season kicking off tonight with the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards! And with this year marking the 90th year of the Oscars, I’ll try to update with a few special posts leading up to it. Anyway, here’s to another fantastic year in movies in 2018!