My Year In Film, 2017

Right, for the penultimate installment in my year-end wrap-up, here's every DVD i watched in 2017.

I bought very few new DVDs this year, so i've seen most of these more than once. The new ones are marked with an asterisk.

Casino Royale
*The Young Victoria
Skyfall
Footlight Parade
*The Hateful Eight
American Gangster
Pulp Fiction
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
*Jason Bourne
Zero Dark Thirty
Babel
The Fifth Element
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
The Long Good Friday
The Hurt Locker
Independence Day
*Patriots Day
Year Of The Dragon
Lethal Weapon
The Sweeney
Jackie Brown
Mad Max
Mad Max II
Lethal Weapon 3
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Replacement Killers
A Prayer For The Dying
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
*Snowden
Diamonds Are Forever
Inglourious Basterds
Gold Diggers of 1933
Terror By Night
Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon
The Fugitive
Analyze This
No Country For Old Men
Broken Arrow
Prometheus
Grosse Point Blank
*The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (amazingly, i'd never seen this 1965 film before)
O Brother, Where Art Thou
The Libertine
Last Man Standing
Salt
Gravity
There Will Be Blood
Goldfinger
Sea Of Love
Eastern Promises
*Caligula
Burn After Reading
*Ocean's Eleven
*Ocean's Twelve
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
*Ocean's Thirteen
Blade Runner   
Speed
*Out Of Sight
The Adjustment Bureau
*Grumpier Old Men
Casablanca
The Bourne Legacy
A History Of Violence
My Cousin Vinny
*Breakfast At Tiffany's
Heat
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
The Killing Fields
*The Beatles: Eight Days A Week -- The Touring Years
Spectre
Jason Bourne
Live Free Or Die Hard
The Nightmare Before Christmas
*The Great Wall
True Lies

The best of the new ones was probably "Patriots Day" -- about the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. It began fairly slowly but when the bombs blew it went into overdrive and presented a very important message: we are here on this planet to help each other. After the explosions, most bystanders weren't running away, they were running towards the scene in order to help the victims.

I say "probably" because "Eight Days A Week" was a very close second, with lots of wonderful concert footage and an in-depth analysis of the Beatles' influence not only on music but on Western civilisation as a whole.

I must add a few words about one of the worst  films i have ever seen in my life, "Caligula." I watched it because two actors i admire, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, star in it. It was directed by Tinto Brass, who's a bit of a sleazeball with a reputation for (very) softcore porn, but, you know, seeing Helen Mirren naked never fails to please. What i didn't know was that the executive producer was a man whose sleaziness makes Tinto Brass look like St Francis of Assisi, Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine. Guccione wanted to introduce some hardcore porn into the movie. Brass refused. Guccione did it anyway. I could probably have lived with that, though, if the movie had had any redeeming features, but it had none. Just sordid and squalid from start to end.