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
[…] So I started to keep track, and with Google Drive to help, I was able to track on the go, accessing my list from anywhere. Imagine my surprise when that first year my list topped out at over 120 films new to me! In 2014, I hit a personal best of over 130. […]