197 hours on screen. Or so.
Welp, after a slow start in early 2014, I managed to end the year having seen seven more films than I did in 2013. I’m honestly not sure how I did it, especially when you factor in all the television series I fit in there, the travel and work and, you know, generally having a life.
Before I get to my personal favorites (a separate post, to be sure), I’ve listed here (as I did last year) every film I watched in 2014. These are films, regardless of release year, that were new to me – I didn’t count the 18th viewing of Love, Actually, The Godfather and Midnight in Paris.
Of the 131 films I watched over the course of 12 months, I discovered a few interesting facts:
- A hefty 87 films I saw were 2014 releases – I’m glad to know I’ve seen so many current films, but I do feel lacking in catching up on some classics. Will have to make it a point to give my Netflix queue some love in the coming year.
- I watched 20 documentaries this year, down from 29 last year, however five of those films are on this year’s Oscar Documentary Shortlist (which just tells me I have more docs to see!).
- Festival films accounted for 32 of the movies I saw this year, including selections screened from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Seattle, Indianapolis, Toronto, Chicago and one from a festival at Lincoln Center called LatinBeat.
- And just behind festival screeners are films screened for work. Thirty-one of the films were either for consideration at Film Movement or would go on to become Film Movement releases.
- With over 130 films on this list, I admit I didn’t remember all the titles below – some because they were just that forgetful.
I kept track of every film on a Google spreadsheet, so the list below is everything I caught, and in chronological order to boot. I wish I’d kept track of what country each film was from, and which format I saw them in – will do that for 2015. In an upcoming post, I’ll share more on how I plan to track what I see this year. But I digress…here are the 131 films I saw this year:
- August: Osage County (2013)
- The Railway Man
- Lifeguard (2013, Sundance)
- We Steal Secrets (2013, documentary, Sundance)
- Dirty Wars (2013, documentary, Sundance)
- Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
- Monsters University (2013)
- ACOD (2013, Sundance)
- Behind the Candelabra (2013)
- Adore (2013, Sundance (under the title Two Mothers)
- Blood Brother (2013, documentary, Sundance)
- Drunktown’s Finest (Sundance)
- To Kill a Man (Sundance, Film Movement release)
- Captain Philips (2013)
- Mitt (documentary)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Salinger (2013, documentary)
- State of Arizona (2013, documentary)
- The Kings of Summer (2013, Sundance)
- Love Eternal (work screening)
- Labor Day
- SOMM (2012, documentary)
- Gloria (2013)
- The Hunt (2013)
- Big Star (2012, documentary)
- Oscar-Nominated Animation Short Films (counting this as one feature for these purposes)
- Stations of the Cross (Film Movement release)
- Jack (work screening)
- Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films (see above)
- The Great Beauty
- The Disobedient (work screening, Sundance)
- Macondo (work screening)
- In Order of Disappearance (work screening)
- Tim’s Vermeer (2013, documentary)
- Walter
- On My Way
- Tonnerre
- Inequality for All (2013, documentary, Sundance)
- The Lunchbox
- The Dark Valley (Film Movement release)
- Nights with Theodore (Film Movement release)
- The Mend (SXSW)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Human Capital (Film Movement release)
- When the Garden was Eden (documentary, Tribeca)
- Five Star (Tribeca)
- Ballet 422 (Tribeca)
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- The Fault in Our Stars (Seattle Int’l Film Festival)
- Legomentary (documentary, Seattle Int’l Film Festival)
- Regarding Susan Sontag (documentary, Seattle Int’l Film Festival)
- Half of a Yellow Sun (documentary, Seattle Int’l Film Festival)
- Prisoners (2013)
- Ida
- Choking Man (2007, Film Movement release)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Chef
- Lines of Wellington (Film Movement release)
- Like Sunday, Like Rain (work screening)
- Life Itself (documentary)
- Belle
- Bluebird (Indy Film Fest)
- You’ll Be A Man (Indy Film Fest)
- Beyond All Borders (Indy Film Fest)
- Diana (2013)
- Casa Grande (LatinBeat)
- Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (documentary)
- Don John (2013)
- Magic In The Moonlight
- Apaches (Film Movement release)
- Not Another Happy Ending (Film Movement release)
- Obvious Child
- Love Me (Film Movement release)
- The Immigrant
- Wish I Was Here
- A Most Wanted Man
- Nymphomaniac Vol. 1
- Nymphomaniac Vol. 2
- The Fisher King (1991)
- Begin Again
- Snowpiercer
- Boyhood
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Love Is Strange
- The Chambermaid (Film Movement release)
- Frank
- What We Do In the Shadows (work screening)
- Court (Toronto Int’l Film Festival)
- El Cinco (Toronto Int’l Film Festival)
- Out of the Furnace (2013)
- Footlight Parade (1940)
- Shelter (Toronto Int’l Film Festival)
- This Is Where I Leave You
- The Skeleton Twins
- The Unknown Known (documentary)
- Dancing Arabs (work screening)
- 20,000 Days On Earth (documentary)
- X+Y (work screening)
- Gone Girl
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- Rudderless (Chicago Int’l Film Festival)
- Force Majeure (Chicago Int’l Film Festival)
- Underdog (Chicago Int’l Film Festival)
- The Salvation (Chicago Int’l Film Festival)
- St. Vincent
- Whiplash
- Dial A Prayer (work screening)
- The Lesson (Film Movement release)
- Amour Fou (Film Movement release)
- Dear White People
- Still (Chicago Int’l Film Festival)
- Red Knot (work screening)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
- Citizenfour
- Nightcrawler
- Interstellar
- Foxcatcher
- Happy Christmas
- Basic Instinct (1996)
- Birdman
- Big Hero 6
- Still Alice
- Citizen Koch
- Wild
- The Internet’s Own Boy
- A Long Way Down
- The One I Love
- The Imitation Game
- Big Eyes
- Into the Woods
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