Ellen Cheshire

As we step into 2025, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the films that made 2024 so memorable. A huge shoutout to letterboxd for making it easy to compile these year-end lists. I logged an impressive 869 films this year, including 666 first-time watches and 203 re-watches. I saw 84 films in cinemas, with the rest enjoyed at home. Curious to see everything I watched? Check out my Letterboxd profile: cheshellen . This year was packed with incredible movie moments, themed watc

With thanks to @letterboxd pro stats, compiling this end of year film lists so much simpler. I logged 832 films this year, 606 first-time watches, and 228 re-watches. 76 in cinemas, the rest at home. You can check out my letterboxd profile, cheshellen . And what a year it was! I took part in some fab online community themed watches inc #precodeapril #shocktober #noirvember . I also created some of my own film viewing projects including #JeanHagenJune and #AroundTheWorldi

I think this may well be the fastest watch of 52 films #DirectedbyWomen. With the 15th batch of 52 completed on 29 January, here's the...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 15th batch of 52 films since...

With thanks to @letterboxd pro stats, compiling this end of year film lists so much simpler. I logged 756 films this year, 596...

Back in March 2022, for International Women's Day, I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021 - Stories Women Tell , where I selected a single film per year, directed by a woman, from 2000 - 2021. I then wondered could I make it all the way back to the beginning of filmmaking? Well I made it through 1970 - 1999 and 1969 - 1940 fairly easily, although there were some years where I only managed to track down one or two films directed by a woman. But how about this last tranc

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 13th batch of 52 films since...

For International Women's Day I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021 - Stories Women Tell , where I selected a single film per year, directed by a woman, from 2000 - 2021. It was a tough task, as much has been done to see films by female filmmakers commissioned and distributed in the past couple of decades. But what about the 20th century? How far could I go back until I'd not seen a film directed by a woman in that year? Well I managed 1970 - 1999 fairly easily, altho

For International Women's Day I did a blog, Stories Women Tell: Films #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021 , where I selected a single film per year, directed by a woman, from 2000 - 2021. It was a tough task, as much has been done to see films by female filmmakers commissioned and distributed in the past couple of decades. But what about the 20th century? How far could I go back until I'd not seen a film made by a woman in that year? Well, here's 1970 - 1999. I have indicated the

The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is #BreakingtheBias, where we are asked to: Imagine a gender equal world... A world free of...

In celebration of International Women's Day in March 2020, I set myself the challenge to pick one film a year, directed by a woman since...

Using letterboxd for the first time in 2020 I began logging all films in the diary, making a list of those #DirectedbyWomen. Thereby...

What with a broken ankle at the start of 2020 followed by a pandemic/lockdown/working from home, probably watched more films in 2020 than...

Following on from May's #30DayFilmChallenge where I enjoyed revisiting films in my collection which I'd not watched in some time, in June I gave myself another film watching challenge #AlphabetFilm. In June each day I would watch films beginning with a letter of the alphabet, to make it doubly-fun/challenging one of them was to be a directed by a woman. Finding films directed by chaps in my collection was easy, for those directed by women many where new to me. Between 1 -

Well the good news is that each 'year' it is getting easier to find films directed by women, on the down side they still only represent a...

The #52FilmsByWomen pledge was started in 2015 by Los Angeles’ Women in Film, an organisation dedicated to promoting equal opportunities...

Crucial 21st Century Cinema #Crucial21DbW is #DirectedbyWomen's fantastic initiative for 2019. Every day they are publishing a blog post...