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

One response to “197 hours on screen. Or so.”

%d bloggers like this: