Ellen Cheshire

Using letterboxd for the first time in 2020 I began logging all films in the diary, making a list of those #DirectedbyWomen. Thereby making this blog detailing my Top 10 of the Year, and Five Faves from each decade from 1930s to 2020 much easier to compile. What with being at home recovering from a broken ankle in January/February followed by working from home from March, I certainly watch more films in 2020 than any other. 863 films logged, 222 #DirectedbyWomen - slightly m

Continuing my #52FilmsByWomen pledge that I started in 2015. This is now my 6th ‘year’, year being such a loose term as I have watched this 6th batch of films directed by women since 7 June 2020. Read about films: 1 – 52, 53 - 104, 105 - 156, 157 - 208 and 209 - 261. The acceleration in watches was due to finding new ways to re-visit films and find new ones. In this list there are letters F – Z from my A-Z of films directed by women project, read more here. After that I start

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 small percentage of the films I watch. Read blogs for Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4. This group of 52 spanning 101 years from 1919 - 2020 I watched between 15 October 2019 and 5 June 2020, and features so many great films. Some like Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Autumn de Wilde’s Emma. were widely released and I managed to catch them