When you've seen 160 films in the span of 365 days, you'd think it'd be easy to pick your favorites. You've seen enough that the cream should theoretically rise to the top, leaving all the mediocre movies to fade into memory. I suppose when I get down to it, that's true. I can tell you what my ...
Archives for January 2016
2015 [in films – foreign]
As you may've already heard, I saw 160 films in 2015. And thanks to some seriously geeky tracking, I can tell you that a whopping 73 of them (46%!) were foreign films. By that I mean they were produced in a country other than the US and are most likely not performed in English (though some, of ...
2015 [in films – documentary]
Of the 160 movies I watched in 2015, 44 of them were documentaries. That means that roughly one third (28%) of the hours of film I absorbed were factual accounts of the world around us. From finally watching 1990's groundbreaking Paris is Burning to cramming in as many of the Oscar Documentary ...
2015 [in books]
I thought I'd seen a sorry amount of theater in 2015, then I looked at the list of books I'd read in the course of the year. Can 5 books even be called a list? How sad that's all I made it through! But if I think about it, though the number of books I read is low, my eyes were not short for words ...
2015 [on stage]
Despite spending a lot of time at the movies this year, I managed to fit in a handful of live theater, too - shows that stretched from Broadway to London and back to Chicago. I saw nine shows in all, which puts my theater attendance at less than once per month...maybe I was busier with movies than I ...