Introduction

Welcome to 100 Films in a Year!

The task is simple: to see 100 films that I've never seen before between January 1st and December 31st.

The purpose of this blog is to document this quest. For every new film I see I'll post a miniature review and score out of five, as well as essential details (year of production, director, and the format I saw it on). There are also some entries which step outside this remit slightly -- short films don't count as full features, for example, but will still be reviewed; similarly, any "director's cut"-style new edits that I see that are not substantially different to the original will be reviewed outside the main numbering system. For example, Spider-Man 2.1 is basically the same as Spider-Man 2, but Blade Runner: The Final Cut will probably be notably different enough from the original version of Blade Runner to earn itself a proper number.

This blog originally started out on my deviantART page, but I decided it had broader appeal and so have set up its own blog... right here! That doesn't mean I'll necessarily get any more readers, of course, but I can but hope. Thanks for reading, by-the-way!

The initial entries take the form of weekly (or several-weekly) summaries covering anywhere from two to eighteen films, as this was the style I originally adopted on dA (they have been slightly edited to re-number them, following a mistake I made in week 12, but are otherwise the same as the originals). Once I get caught up adding all the old entries I'll switch to a film-by-film posting basis, possibly interspersed with little 'editorials' to make up for the missing introductions. These older entries are back dated so that they appear on the same day I originally posted them to dA; this introduction is dated so as to appear before them all. This blog was actually created on Friday 17th August 2007 and this was posted at 5:40pm.

Any suggestions for how to improve the blog are always welcome, as are suggestions for films to watch (though I can't guarantee I'll watch them immediately, not have already heard of them, or have already seen them). Equally, all comments are encouraged, read, and quite possibly replied to.

With all that said... I hope you read on, and enjoy!