2025 Round-Up
TOTAL FILMS SEEN IN 2025: 30
(see the film posters at the bottom of the post, arranged in watching order)
NEW-TO-ME: 22 (20 features & 2 shorts)
REWATCHES: 8 (6 features & 2 shorts)
Bette Davis setting the table for Christmas dinner
In 2025, I hit a low with the amount of classic films I watched, ever since I started keeping track and logged them in my Letterboxd account. Only 30 films, of which 4 are shorts! In comparison, I watched 166 films in 2015; 349 films in 2016; 214 films in 2017; 244 in 2018; 250 in 2019; 337 in 2020; 465 in 2021; 170 in 2022; 275 in 2023; and 45 in 2024.
There were only 4 round-up posts this year: April 2025; July, September & October 2025; November 2025; and December 2025. My fave post this year is, hands down, my tribute post to my parents, the post where I joined the watched films of three months: July, September & October 2025.
Maureen O'Hara, one of my dad's fave actresses
This year, the 1940s emerged as the winning decade with 11 watched films. Both the 1930s and the 1950s had 7 films watched. The 1920s registered 2 films, as well as the 1960s. The 1890s registered 1 film (it's my first logged film for this decade), and the 1900s and 1910s registered none.
My highest-rated films are all rewatches: The War of the Worlds, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Letter, and The Night Before Christmas. Of the new-to-me films I enjoyed The Thief of Bagdad, The Divorce of Lady X, and Big Business the most. The film I least enjoyed was Sinbad the Sailor.
I have no idea what 2026 is going to bring for the classics. What I can say for sure is that there won't be monthly round-up posts. But I will definitely watch classics now and then, since I have a huge watchlist, and the classics still make me happy and feel closer to my mum and dad.
So here's to more classic-film-watching!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! CHEERS!
Elizabeth Taylor, one of my mum's fave actresses
For a detailed summary of all films watched in 2025, click here and select a month. If you want to look up a specific film and the month when I watched it, use the search bar at the top of the page and type in the title.
