{"id":5103,"date":"2025-12-31T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:54:35","slug":"the-year-of-living-cinematically-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"The Year of Living Cinematically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The only rule: each entry was watched in its entirety. All films that I saw for the first time are marked with an asterisk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/kevinddaly\/\">Letterboxd<\/a> now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Dark at the Top of the Stairs <\/em>(1960) 1\/2<br><em>*Can&#8217;t Stop the Music <\/em>(1980) 1\/4<br><em>*Walkabout <\/em>(1971) 1\/6<br><em>*Real Life <\/em>(1979) 1\/9<br><em>*Naked Alibi <\/em>(1959) 1\/15<br><em>*Middle of the Night <\/em>(1959) 1\/16<br><em>*The Kid Detective<\/em> (2020) 1\/17<br><em>*Dennis the Menace <\/em>(1993) 1\/18<br><em>*Monte Carlo <\/em>(1930) 1\/20<br><em>*Anything Goes <\/em>(1936) 1\/21<br><em>*Emilia Perez <\/em>(2024) 1\/23<br><em>Wicked <\/em>(2024) 1\/24<br><em>*Postcards from the Edge <\/em>(1990) 1\/25<br><em>*The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp <\/em>(1943) 1\/28<br><em>North by Northwest <\/em>(1959) 1\/29<br><em>*The Last of Sheila <\/em>(1973) 2\/4<br><em>The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer <\/em>(1947) 2\/6<br><em>*Room Service <\/em>(1938) 2\/8<br><em>The King and I <\/em>(1956) 2\/13<br><em>*I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang <\/em>(1932) 2\/14<br><em>*Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles <\/em>(2019) 2\/15<br><em>*Nobody&#8217;s Fool <\/em>(1994) 2\/19<br><em>Conclave <\/em>(2024) 2\/24<br><em>*Anora <\/em>(2024) 2\/24<br><em>*The Lady from Shanghai <\/em>(1947) 3\/11<br><em>Amadeus <\/em>(1984) 3\/28<br><em>*The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie <\/em>(1972) 3\/29<br><em>*To Die For <\/em>(1995) 4\/2<br><em>*Sinners <\/em>(2025) 5\/5<br><em>Sunset Boulevard <\/em>(1950) 6\/9<br><em>Psycho <\/em>(1960) 6\/16<br><em>All About Eve <\/em>(1950) 6\/28<br><em>High Society <\/em>(1956) 7\/1<br><em>Clue <\/em>(1985) 7\/13<br><em>Moonstruck <\/em>(1987) 7\/18<br><em>Summertime <\/em>(1955) 7\/19<br><em>*Cries and Whispers <\/em>(1972) 7\/20<br><em>Sister Act <\/em>(1992) 7\/21<br><em>Gone with the Wind <\/em>(1939) 7\/22<br><em>Airplane! <\/em>(1980) 7\/23<br><em>*One Hundred Men and a Girl <\/em>(1937) 7\/23<br><em>Babette&#8217;s Feast <\/em>(1987) 7\/24<br><em>*It Started with Eve <\/em>(1941) 7\/24<br><em>The Grand Budapest Hotel <\/em>(2014) 7\/25<br><em>*Three Smart Girls Grow Up<\/em> (1937) 7\/25<br><em>Bringing Up Baby <\/em>(1938) 7\/28<br><em>*Sweethearts <\/em>(1938) 7\/29<br><em>Broadcast News <\/em>(1987) 7\/31<br><em>*The Best of Everything<\/em> (1959) 8\/1<br><em>The Sound of Music <\/em>(1965) 8\/2<br><em>*The Naked Gun <\/em>(2025) 8\/3<br><em>Sunset Boulevard <\/em>(1950) 8\/3<br><em>Meet Me in St. Louis <\/em>(1944) 8\/4<br><em>State Fair <\/em>(1945) 8\/5<br><em>The Music Man <\/em>(1962) 8\/6<br><em>South Park: Bigger, Longer &amp; Uncut <\/em>(1999) 8\/7<br><em>*The Shape of Water <\/em>(2017) 8\/15<br><em>*Foul Play <\/em>(1978) 8\/18<br><em>A New Leaf <\/em>(1971) 8\/22<br><em>*The Phoenician Scheme <\/em>(2025) 8\/24<br><em>Sinners <\/em>(2025) 8\/28<br><em>*Do the Right Thing <\/em>(1989) 8\/29<br><em>10 Things I Hate About You <\/em>(1999) 9\/2<br><em>Midnight <\/em>(1939) 9\/7<br><em>Back to School <\/em>(1986) 9\/8<br><em>The Sound of Music <\/em>(1965) 9\/17<br><em>*War and Peace <\/em>(1966) 9\/20<br><em>Stage Door <\/em>(1937) 9\/24<br><em>*One Battle After Another <\/em>(2025) 9\/29<br><em>Moonstruck <\/em>(1987) 10\/9<br><em>The Naked Gun <\/em>(2025) 10\/10<br><em>*Last of the Red Hot Lovers <\/em>(1972) 10\/17<br><em>*The Dead <\/em>(1987) 11\/14<br><em>Howards End <\/em>(1992) 11\/18<br><em>The Remains of the Day <\/em>(1993) 11\/19<br><em>Grey Gardens <\/em>(1975) 11\/21<br><em>Miracle on 34th Street <\/em>(1947) 12\/10<br><em>Psycho <\/em>(1998) 12\/12<br><em>*Wake Up Dead Man <\/em>(2025) 12\/19<br><em>The Hours <\/em>(2002) 12\/26<br><em>When Harry Met Sally <\/em>(1989) 12\/26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only rule: each entry was watched in its entirety. All films that I saw for the first time are marked with an asterisk. I&#8217;ve got a Letterboxd now. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) 1\/2*Can&#8217;t Stop the Music (1980) 1\/4*Walkabout (1971) 1\/6*Real Life (1979) 1\/9*Naked Alibi (1959) 1\/15*Middle of the Night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=5103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Year of Living Cinematically<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}