2024: Year in Review (Going Out or Watching Stuff)

[tamaranth]

Everything is reviewed on this blog! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.

Bracketed figures show range over the last 21 years [see the year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].

Note: 'Best' is shorthand for 'not necessarily objectively good but I really enjoyed'.

Film (in cinema): 17 (4-21). Best three = Emilia Perez, Wicked Little Letters, Lee

Film (streamed): 36 (39 last year). Best three that I hadn't already seen = Cold Comfort Farm, Nope, Crew

Theatre (live): 9 (1-26). Best three = Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime, Doctor Strangelove, Oedipus

Theatre (streamed): 0 (38 in 2020, 16 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 0 in 2023). Must watch more NT@Home, even alone.

Concerts (classical): 9 (2-22). Best three = Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at St Pauls Cathedral, Berlioz/Rachmaninoff/Saint-Saens.

Opera: 9 (0-10). Best three = Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Fidelio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Gigs: 7 (0-9). Best three = Sahra Halgan, The Last Dinner Party, Lankum

Art: 4 (0-6) Best was probably 'Accidentally Wes Anderson'

Books: 184.examined here: reviews here

Also in 2024: visited Glasgow (Worldcon), Mallorca, and Cambridge.

Comments

[lobelia321]

So happy that Crew made it into the favourites! Picked blindly. So many good theatres. I want to do more music and more theatre in this year of luxury.