SvdW | Movies I saw for the first time in 2021

• All the movies I've seen for the first time in 2021. So every movie I watch for the first time from Friday, January. 1, 2021 till Friday, December. 31, 2021 counts.

• Please free to leave a comment.

• Last year's total was 250 movies. This year's total might be different, but I'm not sure if I rewatch more or less than last year.

• My ranking system:

- ✮✮✮✮✮/✮✮✮✮✮
- ✮✮✮✮½/✮✮✮✮✮
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- ✮✮✮½/✮✮✮✮✮
- ✮✮✮/✮✮✮✮✮
- ✮✮½/✮✮✮✮✮
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- ✮½/✮✮✮✮✮
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- ½/✮✮✮✮✮

• My favorite movies I saw for the first time in 2021 are:

1. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
2. Hodejegerne (2011)
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
4. Brimstone (2016)
5. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
6. Druk (2020)
7. The French Dispatch (2021)
8. Brassed Off (1996)
9. Phone Booth (2002)
10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

• The best surprises / films that suprised me (films I thought I hate, but I didn't/films I had low hopes for):

- Zomerhitte (2008)
- The Bling Ring (2013)
- Feuten: Het Feestje (2013)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)
- Magnolia (1999)

• Films that disappointed me (films I thought I would like, but didn't):

- De Poolse bruid (1998)
- Anna (2019)
- A Very Long Engagement (2004)
- Rundskop (2011)
- I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006)
- Serial Mom (1994)
- Crimson Peak (2013)
- Hanna (2011)
- La vie d'Adèle / Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
- Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
- ¡Átame! (1989)
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
- La mala educación (2004)
- Spy Game (2001)
- Titane (2021)
- No Time to Die (2021)
- Bullitt (1968)
- Wolf (2013)
- Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975)
- Last Night in Soho (2021)

• Movies I’ve watched, but unavailable on IMDb:

(*) = making-of

1. I Remember Crimson Peak (*) [Crimson Peak] | Monday, March. 29, 2021

2. A Premier On Gothic Romance (*) [Crimson Peak] | Wednesday, March. 31, 2021

3. The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak (*) [Crimson Peak] | Wednesday, March. 31, 2021

4. Hand Tailored Gothic (*) [Crimson Peak] | Wednesday, March. 31, 2021

5. A Living Thing (*) [Crimson Peak] | Wednesday, March. 31, 2021

6. Beware Of Crimson Peak (*) [Crimson Peak] | Wednesday, March. 31, 2021

7. Crimson Phantoms (*) [Crimson Peak] | Wednesday, March. 31, 2021

8. Interview ( * ) [Blue Is the Warmest Colour]
Pretentious making-of about the making of Blue Is the Warmest Colour. Really made me hate the film more, and I can't stand seeing Abdellatif Kechiche's face.

9. Jaco Van Dormael's Bovary (2021) | Tuesday, May. 4, 2021
Film version of the theatre production of Bovary, starring Maaike Neuville and Koen De Sutter.

10. The Making of The Third Place ( * ) [The Third Place] | Friday, July. 9, 2021
Short documentary on the surreal PlayStation 2 commercial.

11. Unity | Thursday, July. 15, 2021
Short film directed by Aleks Normann.