Film and Book Tally 2016

Well, this year was utter shit, wasn't it? Loads of celebrities dropping like flies, politics becoming an absolute joke...if it wasn't for a few personal bright spots (took some college courses, went to a few film festivals, became a member of the Women Film Critics Circle), I would've written this whole year as nothing more than a mess.

Anyway, onto what I indulged in this year. I saw more movies this year but read less books. Still, at least I made the most of these crummy twelve months. (Apparently grieving over celebrities can be best treated by watching movies. Who knew?)

My list starts after the jump:

(Side note: titles in italics indicate those that I watched for the 52 Films By Women project; those in bold were for The Matinee's Blind Spot Series.)

1. I Will Follow (2011, dir. Ava DuVernay)
2. Quadrophenia (1979, dir. Franc Roddam)
3. The Strawberry Blonde (1941, dir. Raoul Walsh)
4. The Clock (1945, dir. Vincente Minnelli)
5. The Marrying Kind (1952, dir. George Cukor)
6. Scarecrow (1973, dir. Jerry Schatzberg)
7. Concussion (2015, dir. Peter Landesman)
8. The Hateful Eight (2015, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
9. Girlfriends (1978, dir. Claudia Weill)
10. Crossing Delancey (1988, dir. Joan Micklin Silver)
11. The Big Short (2015, dir. Adam McKay)
12. Joy (2015, dir. David O. Russell)
13. The Revenant (2015, dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
14. Tomboy (2011, dir. Céline Sciamma)
15. My Brilliant Career (1979, dir. Gillian Armstrong)
16. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, dir. Nicolas Roeg)
17. Heathers (1989, dir. Michael Lehmann)
18. Attack the Block (2011, dir. Joe Cornish)
19. Nowhere Boy (2009, dir. Sam Taylor-Wood)
20. Labyrinth (1986, dir. Jim Henson)
21. Desert Hearts (1985, dir. Donna Deitch)
22. Beautiful Thing (1996, dir. Hettie MacDonald)
23. Hail, Caesar! (2016, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
24. Anomalisa (2015, dir. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson)
25. The Mark of Zorro (1940, dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
26. The Ballad of Little Jo (1993, dir. Maggie Greenwald)
27. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938, dir. Henry King)
28. Barry Lyndon (1975, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
29. Nightmare Alley (1947, dir. Edmund Goulding)
30. The Dresser (1983, dir. Peter Yates)
31. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941, dir. Henry King)
32. The Heartbreak Kid (1972, dir. Elaine May)
33. Blood and Sand (1941, dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
34. The Bigamist (1953, dir. Ida Lupino)
35. Crash (2005, dir. Paul Haggis)
36. The Long Gray Line (1955, dir. John Ford)
37. Le Bonheur (1965, dir. Agnès Varda)
38. The Opposite of Sex (1998, dir. Don Roos)
39. A New Leaf (1971, dir. Elaine May)
40. The Long Day Closes (1992, dir. Terence Davies)
41. One, Two, Three (1961, dir. Billy Wilder)
42. Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951, dir. Ida Lupino)
43. Lola (1960, dir. Jacques Demy)
44. Any Day Now (2012, dir. Travis Fine)
45. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001, dir. Jill Sprecher)
46. Bound (1996, dir. Lana and Lilly Wachowski)
47. The Decoy Bride (2011, dir. Sheree Folkson)
48. Eve's Bayou (1997, dir. Kasi Lemmons)
49. Rambling Rose (1991, dir. Martha Coolidge)
50. Frida (2002, dir. Julie Taymor)
51. An American in Paris (1951, dir. Vincente Minnelli)
52. This Sporting Life (1963, dir. Lindsay Anderson)
53. Forty Shades of Blue (2005, dir. Ira Sachs)
54. Shoot the Moon (1982, dir. Alan Parker)
55. Picture Snatcher (1933, dir. Lloyd Bacon)
56. State of the Union (1948, dir. Frank Capra)
57. The Vikings (1958, dir. Richard Fleischer)
58. A Double Life (1947, dir. George Cukor)
59. Presenting Lily Mars (1943, dir. Norman Taurog)
60. Eye in the Sky (2016, dir. Gavin Hood)
61. Midnight Special (2016, dir. Jeff Nichols)
62. My Darling Clementine (1946, dir. John Ford)
63. Born to Be Blue (2016, dir. Robert Budreau)
64. Miles Ahead (2016, dir. Don Cheadle)
65. Green Room (2016, Jeremy Saulnier)
66. Walking and Talking (1996, dir. Nicole Holofcener)
67. The Merry Gentleman (2009, dir. Michael Keaton)
68. Firelight (1997, dir. William Nicholson)
69. Witness (1985, dir. Peter Weir)
70. Money Monster (2016, dir. Jodie Foster)
71. The Nice Guys (2016, dir. Shane Black)
72. Italian for Beginners (2000, dir. Lone Scherfig)
73. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936, dir. Michael Curtiz)
74. Amarcord (1973, dir. Federico Fellini)
75. High-Rise (2016, dir. Ben Wheatley)
76. Hello, My Name Is Doris (2016, dir. Michael Showalter)
77. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016, dir. Matthew Brown)
78. Sing Street (2016, dir. John Carney)
79. Captain Blood (1935, dir. Michael Curtiz)
80. For Me and My Gal (1942, dir. Busby Berkeley)
81. Dodge City (1939, dir. Michael Curtiz)
82. This Is England (2006, dir. Shane Meadows)
83. The Privates Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, dir. Michael Curtiz)
84. The Meddler (2016, dir. Lorene Scafaria)
85. A Bigger Splash (2016, dir. Luca Guadagnino)
86. They Died With Their Boots On (1941, dir. Raoul Walsh)
87. Mikey and Nicky (1976, dir. Elaine May)
88. After Hours (1985, dir. Martin Scorsese)
89. Santa Fe Trail (1940, dir. Michael Curtiz)
90. In Old Chicago (1937, dir. Henry King)
91. Compulsion (1959, dir. Richard Fleischer)
92. Songcatcher (2000, dir. Maggie Greenwald)
93. Four's a Crowd (1938, dir. Michael Curtiz)
94. Sweetie (1989, dir. Jane Campion)
95. Not Another Happy Ending (2013, dir. John McKay)
96. Monsoon Wedding (2001, dir. Mira Nair)
97. Love & Friendship (2016, dir. Whit Stillman)
98. Maggie's Plan (2016, dir. Rebecca Miller)
99. The Lobster (2016, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
100. The Devils (1971, dir. Ken Russell)
101. 1776 (1972, dir. Peter H. Hunt)
102. Exotica (1994, dir. Atom Egoyan)
103. Truly Madly Deeply (1990, dir. Anthony Minghella)
104. Gregory's Girl (1981, dir. Bill Forsyth)
105. Like Crazy (2011, dir. Drake Doremus)
106. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, dir. Taika Waititi)
107. Our Kind of Traitor (2016, dir Susanna White)
108. Swiss Army Man (2016, dir. Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan)
109. Wilde (1997, dir. Brian Gilbert)
110. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, dir. Nagisa Oshima)
111. The Innocents (2016, dir. Anne Fontaine)
112. Weiner-Dog (2016, dir. Todd Solondz)
113. Star Trek Beyond (2016, dir. Justin Lin)
114. Metropolitan (1990, dir. Whit Stillman)
115. Eraserhead (1977, dir. David Lynch)
116. Unrelated (2007, dir. Joanna Hogg)
117. The Best Man (1964, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
118. To Each His Own (1946, dir. Mitchell Leisen)
119. Carrington (1995, dir. Christopher Hampton)
120. Florence Foster Jenkins (2016, dir. Stephen Frears)
121. Blonde Crazy (1931, dir. Roy Del Ruth)
122. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967, dir. David Swift)
123. Indignation (2016, dir. James Schamus)
124. Equity (2016, dir. Meera Menon)
125. Clueless (1995, dir. Amy Heckerling)
126. 5 to 7 (2015, dir. Victor Levin)
127. Strictly Sinatra (2001, dir. Peter Capaldi)
128. Vagabond (1985, dir. Agnès Varda)
129. Barcelona (1994, dir. Whit Stillman)
130. Primary Colors (1998, dir. Mike Nichols)
131. The Cameraman (1928, dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton)
132. Little Men (2016, dir. Ira Sachs)
133. Southside with You (2016, dir. Richard Tanne)
134. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2016, dir. Ron Howard)
135. Lambert & Stamp (2014, dir. James D. Cooper)
136. City Lights (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
137. Hell or High Water (2016, dir. David Mackenzie)
138. Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey)
139. Don't Look Now (1973, dir. Nicolas Roeg)
140. The Brood (1979, dir. David Cronenberg)
141. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven)
142. Berberian Sound Studio (2012, dir. Peter Strickland)
143. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016, dir. Travis Knight)
144. Jennifer's Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)
145. The Babadook (2014, dir. Jennifer Kent)
146. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour)
147. Paint It Black (2016, dir. Amber Tamblyn)
148. Operator (2016, dir. Logan Kibens)
149. Never Fear (1949, dir. Ida Lupino)
150. American Honey (2016, dir. Andrea Arnold)
151. Queen of Katwe (2016, dir. Mira Nair)
152. Poltergeist (1982, dir. Tobe Hooper)
153. Jackie (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín)
154. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, dir. Louis Malle)
155. I, Daniel Blake (2016, dir. Ken Loach)
156. The Salesman (2016, dir. Asghar Farhadi)
157. Lion (2016, dir. Garth Davis)
158. By Sidney Lumet (2016, dir. Nancy Buirski)
159. Things To Come (2016, dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
160. Elle (2016, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
161. Paterson (2016, dir. Jim Jarmusch)
162. Neruda (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín)
163. Loving (2016, dir. Jeff Nichols)
164. Sand Storm (2016, dir. Elite Zexer)
165. Toni Erdmann (2016, dir. Maren Ade)
166. The Candidate (1972, dir. Michael Ritchie)
167. The Steel Helmet (1951, dir. Samuel Fuller)
168. Christine (2016, dir. Antonio Campos)
169. Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins)
170. Doctor Strange (2016, dir. Scott Derrickson)
171. Angel Face (1953, dir. Otto Preminger)
172. The Dark Corner (1946, dir. Henry Hathaway)
173. Denial (2016, dir. Mick Jackson)
174. Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)
175. The Edge of Seventeen (2016, dir. Kelly Fremon Craig)
176. Three Colors: Blue (1993, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
177. Three Colors: White (1993, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
178. Three Colors: Red (1994, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
179. Johnny Belinda (1948, dir. Jean Negulesco)
180. Mustang (2015, dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
181. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964, dir. Robert Aldrich)
182. Girlhood (2014, dir. Céline Sciamma)
183. Mrs. Parkington (1944, dir. Tay Garnett)
184. Gentleman Jim (1942, dir. Raoul Walsh)
185. The Handmaiden (2016, dir. Park Chan-wook)
186. Train to Busan (2016, dir. Yeon Sang-ho)
187. The Wailing (2016, dir. Na Hong-jin)
188. Gremlins (1984, dir. Joe Dante)
189. The Silent Partner (1978, dir. Daryl Duke)
190. Footlight Parade (1933, dir. Lloyd Bacon)
191. Top Hat (1935, dir. Mark Sandrich)
192. Private Lives (1931, dir. Sidney Franklin)
193. Kings Go Forth (1958, dir. Delmar Daves)
194. Personal Property (1937, dir. W.S. Van Dyke)
195. Sherlock Jr. (1924, dir. Buster Keaton)
196. It's Love I'm After (1937, dir. Archie Mayo)
197. Portrait of Jason (1967, dir. Shirley Clarke)
198. The Great White Hope (1970, dir. Martin Ritt)
199. Outrage (1950, dir. Ida Lupino)
200. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, dir. Jacques Demy)

And yes, I KNOW my postings have been sporadic these last few months. Give me a break, I'm only human. (Expect most of them up within the first week or so of the new year.)

Onto the books! (Thank God it's a much shorter list.)

1. The Revenant by Michael Punke
2. The First Bad Man by Miranda July
3. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
4. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
5. The Silver Screen by Maureen Howard
6. The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
7. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
8. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
9. Toby's Room by Pat Barker
10. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
11. 1776 by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards
12. Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
13. Mislaid by Nell Zink
14. Indignation by Phillip Roth
15. Leone Leoni by George Sand
16. The Charioteer by Mary Renault
17. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
18. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
19. The Vagabond by Colette
20. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
21. Maru by Bessie Head
22. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
23. Persuasion by Jane Austen

Okay, resolutions for 2017: read more (duh), spend less time online, and cut down on sugar intake. Oh, and here's hoping we don't get thrown into World War III.