It's Alive!!!!
Today, 11th July 2025, marks the launch of Century of Cinema: The Website. This is my attempt to put something together that allows me to track and record the films I've been watching as part of my project to consume one hundred years of cinema content. To make things easier, I've compressed one hundred years into one decade. Each month represents a year, and I move through the years consecutively.
I'm actually already around half way through my project. I'm sure I'll talk more about its origins in future entries, but I began it in March 2020 by watching films from 1930, starting with Hell's Angels, an epic war movie directed by "The Aviator", Howard Hughes, and starring Ben Lyon and Jean Harlowe. I moved to 1931 in April, 1932 in May, and so on and so on and on and on. I take a pause in January and February each year, restarting from March with the start of a new decade (1940s in 2021, 1950s in 2022, 1960s in 2023, etc.). Every month, I tend to watch between 8 to 14 films from each year.
It's July 2025 now, and this month is the turn of 1984, which is a truly stunning year for film. It's a year of films that really defined the whole decade, films like Ghostbusters, Footloose, Splash, Gremlins, Beverly Hills Cop, The Neverending Story, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
If I succeed, I should reach the movies of 2029 - films that haven't even been made yet - in December 2029. That means I will have watched films spanning an entire century.For most of the project so far, I've been logging films on a notepad in Goodnotes on my iPad, and occasionally transfer details over to a spreadsheet. But I really wanting something where I could organise the films I've watched, provide opinion, and basically document my journey. And that's where this website comes in
It really is just my personal project, but I don't want to keep it just to myself. Doing such a project is an accomplishment, one that I'm incredibly proud of. It's opened my eyes to a world of entertainment and given me a method to systematically experience the classics, the unknown gems, and the best-left-forgotten. So, I'm sharing my movie watching shenanigans with the world. Take a look at what I've watched, read what I think. Or grab some popcorn and join in as we travel through a hundred years of cinema, one glorious month at a time!