Favourite First Time Watches – March 2025

Four films per month, from any year. If I can be logged on Letterboxd, it is eligible for inclusion

Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, 2025)


Tish (Paul Sng, 2023)


No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024)


Boty: I Am the Sixties (Lee Cogswell, 2025)

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Favourite First Time Watches – February 2025

Four films per month, from any year. If I can be logged on Letterboxd, it is eligible for inclusion

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024)


The Order (Justin Kurzel, 2024)

Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot, 2024)

Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, 2022)

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Favourite First Time Watches – January 2025

Four films per month, from any year. If I can be logged on Letterboxd, it is eligible for inclusion.

Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)

“You won’t see that in Sight and Sound!”


Being John Smith (John Smith, 2024)

I could have watched another hour of this.

Part of “Being John Smith”.
CONDO hosting Tanya Leighton, Berlin & Los Angeles. On at Kate MacGarry until 15 Feb.


Babygirl (Halina Reijn, 2024)

Sweeter and warmer and funnier than I expected! I’m relieved to see it is indeed part of the “Eyes Wide Shut” universe, and I very much enjoyed Nicole’s loose-fit baby blue cashmere jumper.


A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski, 2024)

Apocalypse priorities: your cat and getting a pizza. I found this surprisingly emotional and profoundly moving – anyone who saw Quinn in “Dickensian” all those years ago knows the power of his tear-filled eyes. And Lupita – dragging her exhausted body from safe place to safe place over the course of the film – is, of course, extraordinary.

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