Filling out my one film per year list

When I made my one game per year list I went back as far as 1990. This was because at that point I was struggling to come up with games I had actually played for a given year and while I could probably have filled in some stuff for the 80s, 1990 seemed like a good place to stop because it was a nice even number and also the year I was born.

When I went to do my one film per year list I stopped at the same point. I hadn’t put much thought into that, covering the same years for the list just seemed the obvious thing to do to me. When I shared it with some people they asked why stop there and some of them made their own lists, going back much farther in years and certainly further than when they were born. So I decided to go back look at how I would expand out the list back in time.

I haven’t updated the list yet but with just my preliminary scan through Letterboxd’s lists of movies by year I surprised myself with how few gaps I had. I was expecting to have trouble filling in entries once I hit the 70s on but it’s not till 1970 itself that I hit a gap where I don’t think that I’ve seen anything from that year and it’s not till the early 50s where I start to have more years where I don’t have anything than do.

But for 1970 I’ve been meaning to watch Crimes of the Future and I have other films that interest me for many of the gaps in my list, so I think I’m going to try to fill in the gaps in my list pushing it back a bit more before I update it and post it again, so expect me to post some reviews for older movies to my Letterboxd.

And if you have any recommendations for movies from 1955 or earlier I would be all ears to hear them. Or also for 1969 in particular as well because that is a year I seem to be struggling to find something I want to watch for.