Things have been a bit different at 100 Films this year. Was it only a year ago that I relaunched the site? Somehow it feels like it’s always been this way… Well, that’s because the new style is quite well bedded in now, and I haven’t had to really think about it for ten or eleven months.

But now that the year is over, the fact things have changed reemerges, with the question: how does it affect my end-of-year roundup posts? I’m afraid I’ve been a little unimaginative, because the answer is “not very much”. The main change is a new addition: the Final Standing I posted the other day, showing the end position of my 100 Films in a Year Challenge. Other than that, anyone who’s been reading the blog for 13 months or more is going to find what follows pretty familiar.

In this post, there’s a list of all my first-time watches in 2022, as well as any rewatches that have received (or I’m intending to give) the “Guide To” treatment. There’s also links to my monthly progress reports, using their header images to present a kind of visual summation of the year — although that’s now a visual summation of my progress with the Challenge, rather than everything I watched.

Future posts will also continue as in previous years: first, a statistical breakdown of all my viewing; then, lists of my favourite and least-favourite films I saw for the first time this year.

Below is a graphical representation of my viewing for the 100 Films in a Year Challenge, month by month. Each image links to the relevant monthly review, which contain a chronological list of my Challenge viewing, as well as other exciting stuff, like my monthly Arbie awards.

Leaving the Challenge behind, here is an alphabetical list of all my first-time watches during 2022. That’s followed by a list of rewatches that have had (or will have) ‘Guide To’ posts, then short films I watched for the first time. Where a title is a link, it goes to my review; when there’s no link, it’s because I haven’t reviewed it yet.

• 45 Years (2015)
• Ambulance (2022)
• Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
• L’avventura (1960)
• Bank Holiday (1938)
• Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper (2004)
• A Better Tomorrow (1986), aka Ying hung boon sik
• The Brits Are Coming (2018), aka The Con Is On
• Broken Blossoms (1919), aka Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Carousel (1956)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
• Christmas Holiday (1944)
• Clerks (1994)
• Cobra (1986)
• CODA (2021)
• Come and See (1985), Idi i smotri
• The Contender (2000)
• The Courier (2020)
• Cruella (2021)
• Death on the Nile (2022)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• Disenchanted (2022)
• Django & Django (2021)
• Doctor Who Am I (2022)
• Don’t Look Up (2021)
• Easy A (2010)
• Elizabeth R (1992), aka Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen
• Encanto (2021)
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), aka Children of Paradise
• Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
• Escape in the Fog (1945)
• Fast & Furious 9 (2021), aka F9
• Flight of the Navigator (1986)
• The Flying Deuces (1939)
• Frances Ha (2012)
• Free Guy (2021)
• The Ghost Writer (2010), aka The Ghost
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
• La Grande Illusion (1937), aka Grand Illusion
• The Guilty (1947)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• He Walked by Night (1948)
• High and Low (1963), aka Tengoku to jigoku
• The Hobbit (1977)
• House of Gucci (2021)
• Howard the Duck (1986)
• I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948)
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• Jackass: The Movie (2002)
• Jackass Number Two (2006)
• Jackass 3D (2010)
• Johnny Gunman (1957)
• Killer’s Kiss (1955)
• The Killing (1956)
• The King’s Man (2021)
• The Lost City (2022)
• The Lost Daughter (2021)
• A Man Escaped (1956), aka Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut
• Manhunter (1986)
• Mass (2021)
• Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2007)
• Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)
• The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)
• Mirror (1975), aka Zerkalo
• The Misfits (2021)
• The Mission (1986)
• Mona Lisa (1986)
• The Monolith Monsters (1957)
• Move Over, Darling (1963)
• Mr. Soft Touch (1949), aka House of Settlement
• Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
• Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
• My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
• The Navigator (1924)
• Nothing Like a Dame (2018), aka Tea with the Dames
• Ode to Joy (2019)
• Los Olvidados (1950), aka The Young and the Damned
• The Pajama Game (1957)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Penny Serenade (1941)
• Persuasion (2022)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Prey (2022)
• Quatermass 2 (1957)
• Repeat Performance (1947)
• Scream (2022)
• See How They Run (2022)
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
• She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
• Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour (1931), aka The Sleeping Cardinal
• Shot in the Dark (1933)
• The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case (1932)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
• This Means War (2012)
• The Thrill of It All (1963)
• tick, tick… BOOM! (2021)
• Tim Minchin: Back (2022)
• Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972), aka Tintin et le lac aux requins
• Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969), aka Tintin et le temple du soleil
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)
• Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)
• The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)
• Voyage of Time: An IMAX Documentary (2016)
• West Side Story (2021)
• The Winter Guest (1997)
• Withnail & I (1987)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

The 100 Films Guide To…

• Scream (1996)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Scream 3 (2000)
• Scre4m (2011)
• Top Gun (1986)

Shorts

• Absence (2015)
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
• The Infernal Cauldron (1903), aka Le chaudron infernal
• Life of an American Fireman (1903)
• Lupin the Third: Is Lupin Still Burning? (2018)
• The One-Man Band (1900), aka L’Homme orchestre

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The above list gets analysed to pieces in my annual statistics breakdown (hurrah!)