Happy New Year! I’m excited to see what 2024 holds for me movie-wise and otherwise. But before diving into the new year, a quick recap of my movie-watching in the last month of 2023. I ended up rewatching more films than seeing some for the first time (partly due to revisiting some holiday classics), but I had the great opportunity to see several of these old favorites. This included a double feature of Holiday Affair and The Shop Around the Corner on the night before Christmas Eve at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica (in which I happened to be sitting near Guillermo del Toro for both films!), and at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood: Christmas Eve screenings of White Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life, and New Year’s Eve screenings of The Apartment and Phantom Thread. There were some other memorable events I went to in December but I’ll leave it at that and get on with a look at all I watched over the last 31 days of the year…

New-to-Me Films by Decade:

• 1910s – 2
• 1920s – 2
• 1930s – 1
• 1940s – 1
• 1950s – 3
• 1960s – 0
• 1970s – 0
• 1980s – 3
• 1990s – 0
• 2000s – 0
• 2010s – 0
• 2020s – 9

List of New-to-Me Films:

1. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (2023)
2. Cassandro (2023)
3. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
4. The Iron Claw (2023)
5. The Nest (2020)
6. Poor Things (2023)
7. A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
8. The Lady of the Dugout (1918)
9. A Man There Was (1917)
10. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
11. The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
12. Miracle on Main Street (1939)
13. I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948)
14. Wonka (2023)
15. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
16. The Zone of Interest (2023)
17. The Pride and the Passion (1957)
18. Houseboat (1958)
19. St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
20. Rumble Fish (1983)
21. American Gigolo (1980)

List of Re-Watched Films:

1. Y tu mamá también (2001)
2. Lady on a Train (1945)
3. Lady in the Lake (1946)
4. May December (2023)
5. Rope (1948)
6. Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
7. The Holiday (2003)
8. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
9. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
10. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
11. Blast of Silence (1961)
12. Charade (1963)
13. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
14. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
15. Holiday Affair (1949)
16. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
17. The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
18. White Christmas (1954)
19. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
20. The Grass Is Greener (1960)
21. Rear Window (1954)
22. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
23. The Lady Eve (1941)
24. My Man Godfrey (1936)
25. The Apartment (1960)
26. Phantom Thread (2017)

List of Films I Saw in Theaters (re-watches marked in italics):

1. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (2023)
2. Cassandro (2023)
3. Y tu mamá también (2001)
4. Lady on a Train (1945)
5. Lady in the Lake (1946)
6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
7. The Iron Claw (2023)
8. The Nest (2020)
9. Poor Things (2023)
10. May December (2023)
11. Blast of Silence (1961)
12. Charade (1963)
13. Wonka (2023)
14. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
15. The Zone of Interest (2023)
16. Holiday Affair (1949)
17. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
18. The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
19. White Christmas (1954)
20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
21. The Apartment (1960)
22. Phantom Thread (2017)