Well. Finally this year is over. It has not been the greatest. I'd be hard pressed to even call it a good year. But the good news is that it's now time for my favourite part of the year, writing up the end of year lists!
It's going to be a little different this year. I only saw 58 films this year, and as such I don't think that I can make two top ten lists. I just don't think I saw enough of a range this year to warrant two separate lists. Instead, I'm going to do a top 15 films list. This is still going to be hard, cause I saw quite a few awesome films, and it's going to be hard to narrow it down to just 15.
Because of that, I'm going to be releasing the list in three parts. This is partly because no one wants to read one full post of text, but mainly because I'm too lazy to write about 15 films at once.
I'm also going to be writing out a special top five films, for a genre that really stood out this year. And also so that I can talk about more awesome films and make it easier to narrow down the other 15 films.
As usual, I will be doing a worst films list. Not sure how many will be on that yet, since I didn't see that many awful films this year, mainly because I don't see the point in deliberately spending money on a film that looks terrible.
The other thing I want to talk about is what's happening next year. I really want to get into a rhythm of doing regular reviews, preferably once a week but for next year I'm going to try and do one every two weeks at least. And in order to this I'm going to go through the complete filmography of the films Orry-Kelly designed costumes for.
One of the biggest films to come out in Australia this year (which I haven't yet seen but I will soon) was the documentary Women He's Undressed directed by Gillian Armstrong, about Kelly and his costumes. Considering that I want to watch more old films anyway, why not start with his films?
Of course, since he did direct over 300 films, I won't be watching all of them in one year. But I will try and watch and review at least one of his films a month. I hope I can stick to these goals. If I don't, please feel free to berate me until I do.
So, I hope everyone has an excellent 2016. Wish me luck with these resolution, and I will get the end of year lists up as soon as possible. Until next time, readers.
