240 hours on screen, give or take

And so, another year comes to a close. A banner year for me in many ways – two weeks in Europe, new job, moving back across the country – small things, really.

Trumping them all (ok, but not really) is breaking my own personal record for number of films watched these last 365 days: 160 movies. I realize this accomplishment is just as easily seen as nothing to really brag about. After all, that’s 240 hours (or 30 work days or 15 weekends or one full month) of my life spent in front of a screen of some sort, taking in a feature film. Imagine what else I might’ve accomplished with those same 240 hours?

Actually, let’s not imagine that. Imagining that would imply that I wish I’d been spending my time doing something else, when in reality I enjoyed every one of the approximately 14,440 minutes I spent watching movies.

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Here’s what I learned:

  • I officially went into full geek mode for film tracking in 2015, after wishing this time last year that I had more data with which to geek out.
  • 45 of the 160 films were documentaries (28%) and a whopping 73 (45%) were foreign films. By comparison, I watched 20 documentaries in 2014 and I couldn’t tell you how many foreign films – not because there were so many, but because I wasn’t tracking that last year (see above).
  • I saw the most movies in theaters (55, 32 of which were festival screenings) followed by screening links (35) and Netflix (33). I watched four films via in-flight entertainment on airplanes.
  • Only 9 of the films I watched were made before the year 2000; that number goes up to 23 when you add in films made before 2014.

So, without further ado, read on for the 160 ways in which I spent some of my time on every third day of the year.

Mr. Turner
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
The Nun
Tangerines
Famous Nathan
Full Moon In Paris
Rich Hill
Marquise of O
Secrets of War
Rosemary’s Baby
Selma
Inherent Vice
Song of the Sea
The Theory of Everything
Pasolini
The Overnight
Most Likely To Succeed
The Wolfpack
Strangerland
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Unexpected
Results
Chorus
Finding Gaston
Mala Mala
Oscar Live Action Shorts
Virunga
Miss and the Doctors
Breathe
Flowers
Oscar Animated Shorts
Timbuktu
Prince
I Am Big Bird
Gett: The Trial of Vivianne Amsalem
I Will Follow
Tell No One
Basquiat
Theeb
Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Cinderella
Venus in Fur
Haute Cuisine
Gemma Bovary
Top Five
Calvary
Rosewater
Emptying the Skies
100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Alleluia
Meru
Paulo Coelho’s Best Story
Mud
Revenge of the Mekons
Once Upon A Time in America
Six by Sondheim
Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck
Gored
Dior & I
Going Clear
Flamenco Flamenco
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Censored Voices
Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder
The Club
No
Cake
Hot Girls Wanted
Girlhood
Run Silent, Run Deep
To Be Takei
Code Black
What Happened, Nina Simone?
Beloved Sisters
Pussy Riot
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Inside Out
Amy
The Last Five Years
While We’re Young
Clouds of Sils Maria
Ex-Machina
Paris Is Burning
A Most Violent Year
Thru You Princess
Mr. Holmes
Beginners
The Babadook
I Am Chris Farley
Seasons
Beyond the Lights
Listen to Me Marlon
Zero Motivation
All About Eve
Narco Cultura
A Five Star Life
Incident Light
The Wave
My Name is Emily
Thank you for Bombing
The Idol
Bang Gang
Blood of My Blood
He Named Me Malala
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Nasser
Women He’s Undressed
Desierto
Endorphine
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Into The Forest
Rabin
A Patch of Fog
As I Open My Eyes
Looking For Grace
A Month of Sundays
West of Memphis
Searching for Sugarman
Spotlight
Black Mass
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spy
Iris
The Green Prince
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Far From the Madding Crowd
Kingsman
Love & Mercy
Russian Ark
The Witness
Therapy for a Vampire
Our Nixon
Hitchcock/Truffaut
The Martian
Brooklyn
Room
Our Brand is Crisis
Beasts of No Nation
The End of the Tour
Do I Sound Gay?
Cartel Land
Trainwreck
India’s Daughter
Francofonia
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
The Good Dinosaur
Best of Enemies
Winter On Fire
Dinosaur 13
Tangerine
Son of Saul
Mustang
Phoenix
Seymour: An Introduction
An Honest Liar
Carol
The Hateful Eight
The Big Short

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