While this sort of series isn’t unprecedented, it’s also not a regular thing. Fact of the matter is that some years, the amount of luminaries that we lose demands particular attention. Sometimes we’re able to cover this during the year — 2024 saw some loose tribute screenings to Shelley Duvall and Donald Sutherland, for example — whereas others and by virtue of usually planning a few months out, we simply cannot keep up.

With that, we turn the page on another year of cinema history in the making — and pause to acknowledge where we’ve been in order to better understand where we’re going.