Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Film Tally 2013

Ah, another year has come and gone in an instant. Seems like it was January only yesterday. Anyway, my year had its ups (Toronto Film Festival!) and downs (the passing of my father), and I managed to get in a slew of good (and not-so-good) films. Going by month, they are as followed:
(Bold means 2013 release; underlined means viewed at TIFF.)

JANUARY
  1. Django Unchained
  2. The Sessions
  3. Drunken Angel
  4. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  5. Eat Drink Man Woman
  6. The Organizer
  7. Taxi!
  8. One Hour Photo
  9. The Company Men
  10. Local Hero
  11. The Yards
  12. Zero Dark Thirty
  13. Donnie Brasco
  14. The Search
  15. Two Women
  16. True Grit
FEBRUARY
  1. The Magnificent Ambersons
  2. Diva
  3. A Royal Affair
  4. Hiroshima mon amour
  5. Z
  6. Taste of Cherry
  7. Red Desert
  8. The Skin I Live In
  9. Shoot the Piano Player
  10. Side Effects
  11. Departures
  12. The Fountain
  13. Flight
  14. Before Sunrise
  15. Before Sunset
  16. Killer Joe
  17. Seven Beauties
  18. We Need to Talk About Kevin
  19. Blue Valentine
  20. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
MARCH
  1. Boy A
  2. Magic Mike
  3. Rust and Bone
  4. The Conformist
  5. L'eclisse
  6. Fallen Angels
  7. Letter Never Sent
  8. My Left Foot
  9. Bug
  10. Election
  11. Little Children
  12. Coriolanus
  13. Some Came Running
  14. The Sweet Hereafter
APRIL
  1. 24 Hour Party People
  2. Sleuth (1972)
  3. Layer Cake
  4. Big Deal on Madonna Street
  5. The Place Beyond the Pines
  6. Adaptation
  7. Limelight
  8. Wendy and Lucy
  9. Mona Lisa
  10. No Country for Old Men
MAY
  1. I Am Love
  2. The Orphanage
  3. If...
  4. Mud
  5. The Cranes Are Flying
  6. The Magdalene Sisters
  7. Withnail and I
  8. Kinky Boots
  9. Detachment
  10. A Prophet
  11. Star Trek Into Darkness
  12. Orlando
  13. Rounders
  14. Blow Out
  15. The Dead Zone
  16. Mickey One
  17. Galaxy Quest
  18. Cloud Atlas
JUNE
  1. The Deep End
  2. Bird
  3. Caged
  4. The Divorcee
  5. The Anderson Tapes
  6. The Ghost Writer
  7. My Beautiful Laundrette
  8. Drugstore Cowboy
  9. The Last of Sheila
  10. Secretary
  11. Wag the Dog
  12. Citizen Ruth
  13. The American President
  14. Prick Up Your Ears
  15. The Station Agent
  16. Detective Story
  17. Frances Ha
  18. Much Ado About Nothing
  19. Once
  20. Pygmalion
JULY
  1. The Bling Ring
  2. Moulin Rouge!
  3. V for Vendetta
  4. Before Midnight
  5. Biutiful
  6. Sense and Sensibility
AUGUST
  1. Fruitvale Station
  2. The Madness of King George
  3. Letter from an Unknown Woman
  4. Submarine
  5. Pariah
  6. Blue Jasmine
  7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  8. The House of Mirth
SEPTEMBER
  1. The World's End
  2. The Big Chill
  3. Only Lovers Left Alive
  4. Therese
  5. Dallas Buyers Club
  6. Rush
  7. The Invisible Woman
  8. Under the Skin
  9. August: Osage County
  10. Kill Your Darlings
  11. The Railway Man
  12. The Stag
  13. A Promise
  14. The Love Punch
  15. Prisoners
  16. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
  17. Dom Hemingway
  18. Labor Day
  19. 12 Years A Slave
  20. Of Human Bondage
OCTOBER
  1. Au revoir les enfants
  2. Love Me or Leave Me
  3. Captain Phillips
  4. Don Jon
  5. Gravity
  6. Pan's Labyrinth
  7. Serenity
  8. The Fifth Estate
  9. Enough Said
  10. House of Sand and Fog
NOVEMBER
  1. Cabaret
  2. Random Harvest
  3. Blood Simple
  4. Chicago
  5. About Time
  6. All Is Lost
  7. The Swimmer
  8. Dirty Pretty Things
  9. The General
  10. The More the Merrier
  11. Twentieth Century
DECEMBER
  1. Blue is the Warmest Color
  2. Out of the Furnace
  3. Philomena
  4. The Petrified Forest
  5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  6. American Hustle
  7. Saving Mr. Banks
  8. Nebraska
  9. The Wolf of Wall Street
  10. Stoker
Hmm. 163 films. That's...not a lot. I will certainly rectify that in the coming year. Oh, speaking of film plans, I have something in store for next year. I will explain more about it in the coming days.

Anyway, here's to the end of one year and the start of another.

1 comment:

  1. Certainly an admirable number to see 163 movies! Great achievement, congratulations! :)

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