What I Watched in November

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November

1. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)

2. Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)

3. Tarzan (Buck, Lima, 1999)

4. Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais, 1959)

5. Leprechaun: Origins (Lipovsky, 2014)

6. People on Sunday (Siodmak, Siodmak, Ulmer, Zinnemann, 1930)

7. A Chess Dispute (Paul, 1903)

8. Night of the Creeps (Dekker, 1986)

9. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Iñárritu, 2014)

10. Ghoulies IV (Wynorski, 1994)

11. Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)

12. Hard Eight (Anderson, 1996)

13. The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (Kammerud, Smith, 2000)

14. The Sleeping Car (Curtis, 1990)

15. John Carter (Stanton, 2012)

16. Those Awful Hats (Griffith, 1909)

18. Cyrano de Bergerac (Maurice, 1900)

19. Wavelength (Snow, 1967)

20. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, Vasilev, 1938) 

21. In Vanda's Room (Costa, 2000)

22. Big Hero 6 (Hall, Williams, 2014)

23. Safety Last! (Newmeyer, Taylor, 1923)

24. Fishing for Goldfish (Lumière, 1895)

25. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)

26. Dumb and Dumber To (Farrelly, Farrelly, 2014)

27. Shrek (Adamson, Jenson, 2001)

28. Garfield's Halloween Adventure (Roman, 1985)

29. Garfield's Thanksgiving (Roman, Baldwin, Nesler, Sparey, 1989)

30. Low Down (Preiss, 2014)

31. A Garfield Christmas Special (Roman, Singer, 1987)

32. Blackfriars Bridge (Paul, 1896)

33. Le pêcheur dans le torrent (Guy, 1897)

34. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (Kaufman, 2013)

35. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Lawrence, 2014)

36. Hercules (Ratner, 2014)

37. Horribles Bosses 2 (Anders, 2014)

38. The Big Parade (Vidor, 1925)

39. The Kiss (Heise, 1896)

40. The Big Swallow (Williamson, 1901)

41. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Dickson, 1894)

42. See No Evil 2 (Soska, Soska, 2014)

43. Thanksgiving Family Reunion (Israel, 2003)

44. Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)

45. Maniac (Khalfoun, 2012)

46. The Theory of Everything (Marsh, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 316

What I Watched in October

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October 

1. To the Wonder (Malick, 2012)

2. Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (Guy, 1905)

3. Annabelle (Leonetti, 2014)

4. The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1968)

5. Comic Costume Race (Paul, 1896)

6. The Muppet Movie (Frawley, 1979)

7. Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014)

8. The Dancing Pig (1907)

9. Spartacus (Kubrick, 1960)

10. The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2003)

11. Sandow (Dickson, 1896)

12. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)

13. Fury (Ayer, 2014)

14. Mark of the Devil (Armstrong, Hoven, 1970)

15. Pumpkinhead (Winston, 1988)

16. Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (Burr, 1993)

17. My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas (Chele, 2005)

18. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)

19. St. Vincent (Melfi, 2014)

20. John Wick (Leitch, Stahelski, 2014)

21. Illusions fantasmagoriques (Méliès, 1898)

22. The Long Day Closes (Davies, 1992)

23. Castaway on the Moon (Lee, 2009)

24. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (Griffith, 1919)

25. Nightcrawler (Gilroy, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 270

What I Watched in September

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September

1. Arnulf Rainer (Kubelka, 1960)

2. Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999)

3. A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902)

4. Unsere Afrikareise (Kubelka, 1966)

5. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

6. Brave (Andrews, Chapman, Purcell, 2012)

7. This Is Not a Film (Mirtahmasb, Panahi, 2011)

8. The Living Skeleton (Matsuno, 1968)

9. Rose Hobart (Cornell, 1936)

10. Listen to Britain (Jennings, McAllister, 1942)

11. The Sea (Lumière, 1895)

12. The Barbershop (Fickson, Heise, 1894)

13. The Magician (Méliès, 1898)

14. The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures (Paul, 1901)

15. Kansas Saloon Smashers (Porter, 1901)

16. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988)

17. Ping Pong Summer (Tully, 2014)

18. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Algar, Geronimi, Kinney, 1949)

19. Compliance (Zobel, 2012)

20. Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel, 1929)

21. The House Is Black (Farrokhzad, 1963)

22. The Drop (Roskam, 2014)

23. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)

24. Le sang des bêtes (Franju, 1949)

25. Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1933)

26. The Maze Runner (Ball, 2014)

27. Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)

28. Tusk (Smith, 2014)

29. Giant Coal Dumper (White, 1897)

30. Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955)

31. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Berlinger, 2000)

Total films watched in 2014: 245

What I Watched in August

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August

1. Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)

2. Non-Stop (Collet-Serra, 2014)

3. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

4. Enemy (Villeneuve, 2013)

5. Stalingrad (Bondarchuk, 2013)

6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Liebesman, 2014)

7. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (Linklater, 1988)

8. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (Farrands, Kasch, 2010)

9. Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)

10. Grandma's Reading Glass (Smith, 1900)

11. Frozen (Green, 2010) 

12. Scenic Route (Goetz, Goetz, 2013)

13. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)

14. The Expendables 3 (Hughes, 2014)

15. La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)

16. A Field in England (Wheatley, 2013)

17. Martyrs (Laugier, 2008)

18. Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (Godard, 1967)

19. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Miller, Rodriguez, 2014)

20. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)

21. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)

22. As Above, So Below (Dowdle, 2014)

23. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)

24. Contempt (Godard, 1963)

Total films watched in 2014: 214

What I Watched in July

July

1. This Is the End (Goldberg, Rogen, 2013)

2. The Lego Movie (Lord, Miller, 2014)

3. Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013)

4. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014)

5. +1 (Iliadis, 2013)

6. 300: Rise of an Empire (Murro, 2014)

7. 24 Exposures (Swanberg, 2013)

8. The Purge: Anarchy (DeMonaco, 2014)

9. Don Peyote (Canzoniero, Fogler, 2014)

10. Repentance (Caland, 2013)

11. Children of Sorrow (McClure, 2012)

12. Life Itself (James, 2014)

13. Road to Nowhere (Hellman, 2010)

14. Stage Fright (Sable, 2014)

15. Lucy (Besson, 2014)

16. Rob the Mob (De Felitta, 2014)

17. Opus I (Ruttmann, 1921)

18. 13 Sins (Stamm, 2014)

17. After the Ball, the Bath (Méliès, 1897)

18. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (Tillman Jr., 2013)

19. Rewind This! (Johnson, 2013)

20. Wish I Was Here (Braff, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 190

What I Watched in May & June

May 

1. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Webb, 2014)

2. Odd Thomas (Sommers, 2013)

3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Jackson, 2013)

4. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (Landon, 2014)

5. Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (Muybridge, 1880)

6. Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007)

7. Neighbors (Stoller, 2014)

8. Waxwork II: Lost in Time (Hickox, 1992)

9. Lazer Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove (Kostanski, 2008)

10. Fantasy Beyond (Kostanski, 2006)

11. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Stiller, 2013)

12. Triangle (Smith, 2009)

13. Only Loves Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2013)

14. The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese, 2013)

15. Godzilla (Edwards, 2014)

16. Last Resort (Zielinski, 1994)

17. Million Dollar Arm (Gillespie, 2014)

18. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)

19. God's Pocket (Slattery, 2014)

20. Gimme Shelter (Krauss, 2013)

21. X-Men: Days of Future Past (Singer, 2014)

22. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)

23. Chef (Favreau, 2014)

24. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)

25. The Immigrant (Gray, 2013)

June 

1. Edge of Tomorrow (Liman, 2014)

2. Devil's Due (Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett, 2014)

3. 22 Jump Street (Lord, Miller, 2014)

4. Yellowbrickroad (Holland, Mitton, 2010)

5. Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013)

6. Escape from Tomorrow (Moore, 2013)

7. The Signal (Eubank, 2014)

8. The End of Love (Webber, 2012)

9. Transformers: Age of Extinction (Bay, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 170

What I Watched in April

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April

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson, 2014)

2. Dallas Buyers Club (Vallée, 2013)

3. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

4. Police, Adjective (Porumboiu, 2009)

5. La Rafle (Bosch, 2010)

6. What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (Porter, Fleming, 1901)

7. Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out (Vasilovich, 2012)

8. Kill Your Darlings (Krokidas, 2013)

9. Funny Ha Ha (Bujalski, 2002)

10. Nebraska (Payne, 2013)

11. The Grandmaster (Wai Wong, 2013)

12. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)

13. Out of the Furnace (Cooper, 2013)

14. Thrashin' (Winters, 1986)

15. The Book Thief (Percival, 2013)

16. Parkland (Landesman, 2013)

17. Oculus (Flanagan, 2013)

18. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003)

19. Half Past Dead 2 (Camacho, 2007)

20. Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)

21. Party Central (Mann, 2014)

22. Muppets Most Wanted (Bobin, 2014)

23. The Man Without a Past (Kaurismäki, 2002)

24. A Haunted House 2 (Tiddes, 2014)

25. Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)

26. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Barron, 1990)

27. Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)

28. Transcendence (Pfister, 2013)

29. American Hustle (Russell, 2013)

30. The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2013)

31. The Hungover Games (Stolberg, 2014)

32. Joe (Green, 2013)

33. The World (Zhangke, 2004)

34. The Railway Man (Teplitzky, 2013)

35. The Way Way Back (Faxon, Rash, 2013)

36. The Quiet Ones (Pogue, 2014)

37. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)

38. Brick Mansions (Delamarre, 2014)

39. Batman: Strange Days (Timm, 2014)

40. Glaze of Cathexis (Brakhage, 1990)

41. Accordion Player (Le Prince, 1888)

42. Place du Pont (Lumière, 1897)

43. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (McKay, 2013)

43.  Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (Vietti, 2014)

Total films watched in 2014: 136