I watched 341 films over the course of 2013. Here’s a list of them all, if you’re interested in what dumb crap I watched. This coming year, I’ll make it easier to discern which films were rewatches, blind-spots, and new 2014 films. Here goes…
#1 – What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward, 1999)
#2 – Paranorman (Sam Fell & Chris Butler, 2012)
#3 – Sleepless Night (Frederic Jardin, 2011)
#4 – Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
#5 – Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012)
#6 – Pi (Darren Aronosky, 1998)
#7 – Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)
#8 – Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
#9 – Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer, 2013)
#10 – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
#11 – Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
#12 – Mama (Andres Muschietti, 2013)
#13 – MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010)
#14 – The Last Stand (Kim Jee-Woon, 2013)
#15 – Broken City (Allen Hughes, 2013)
#16 – Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
#17 – The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
#18 – Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
#19 – Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)
#20 – Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
#21 – The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)
#22 – Somersault (Cate Shortland, 2004)
#23 – Hearts of Darkness (George Hickenlooper, 1991)
#24 – Lore (Cate Shortland, 2013)
#25 – Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
#26 – John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli, 2013)
#27 – Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
#28 – Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine, 2013)
#29 – Bullet to the Head (Walter Hill, 2013)
#30 – Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
#31 – The ABCs of Death (26 Directors, 2013)
#32 – Identity Thief (Seth Gordon, 2013)
#33 – Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013)
#34 – Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine, 2013)
#35 – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
#36 – Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
#37 – Close-Up (Abbas Kiorastami, 1990)
#38 – Certified Copy (Abbas Kiorastami, 2010)
#39 – Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924)
#40 – The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2012)
#41 – A Lake (Philippe Grandrieux, 2008)
#42 – Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2013)
#43 – Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
#44 – A Good Day to Die Hard (John Moore, 2013)
#45 – Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
#46 – Die Nibelungen: Kreimhild’s Revenge (Fritz Lang, 1924)
#47 – The Slender Man (AJ Meadows, 2013)
#48 – The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
#49 – Dark Skies (Scott Stewart, 2013)
#50 – How to Survive a Plague (David France, 2012)
#51 – Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
#52 – The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, 2012)
#53 – Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
#54 – The Last Exorcism: Part II (Ed Gass-Donnelly, 2013)
#55 – Stoker (Chan-Wook Park, 2013)
#56 – Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
#57 – Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)
#58 – The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
#59 – Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
#60 – 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
#61 – Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi, 2013)
#62 – Dead Man Down (Niels Ardem Oplev, 2013)
#63 – Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
#64 – Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda, 2013)
#65 – Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2013)
#66 – Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
#67 – Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)
#68 – Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955)
#69 – Smashed (James Ponsoldt, 2012)
#70 – Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, 1999)
#71 – Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, 2007)
#72 – Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, 2009)
#73 – Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2013)
#74 – Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
#75 – Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010)
#76 – Celeste and Jesse Forever (Lee Toland Krieger, 2012)
#77 – Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
#78 – Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
#79 – Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2013)
#80 – The Call (Brad Anderson, 2013)
#81 – Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975)
#82 – Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012)
#83 – Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
#84 – On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
#85 – Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2004)
#86 – The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
#87 – Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
#88 – The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, 2013)
#89 – Blade Runner: Workprint (Ridley Scott, 1982)
#90 – The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
#91 – Trance (Danny Boyle, 2013)
#92 – Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2013)
#93 – The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
#94 – Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
#95 – Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
#96 – The Other Woman (Hugo Haas, 1954)
#97 – Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
#98 – Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki, 2012)
#99 – The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
#100 – Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012)
#101 – The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
#102 – G.I. Joe: Retaliation (John M. Chu, 2013)
#103 – Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua, 2013)
#104 – Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
#105 – To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2013)
#106 – Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
#107 – Trance (Danny Boyle, 2013)
#108 – The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, 2013)
#109 – Extraterrestrial (Nacho Vigalando, 2011)
#110 – Primer (Shane Carruth, 2003)
#111 – Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
#112 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
#113 – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosada, 2008)
#114 – Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013)
#115 – Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
#116 – Arthur Newman (Dante Ariola, 2013)
#117 – My Son John (Leo McCarey, 1952)
#118 – Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosada, 2009)
#119 – Pain and Gain (Michael Bay, 2013)
#120 – The Big Wedding (Justin Zackham, 2013)
#121 – Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso, 2012)
#122 – Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada, 2013)
#123 – Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
#124 – Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
#125 – The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2006)
#126 – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005)
#127 – Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013)
#128 – Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2012)
#129 – The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
#130 – Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2013)
#131 – The Way, Way Back (Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, 2013)
#132 – Roman De Gare (Claude Lelouch, 2007)
#133 – Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
#134 – Bug (William Friedkin, 2006)
#135 – Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1983)
#136 – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
#137 – Mother (Joon-Ho Bong, 2009)
#138 – Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2005)
#139 – JSA: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park, 2000)
#140 – Star Trek (JJ Abrams, 2009)
#141 – Star Trek Into Darkness (JJ Abrams, 2013)
#142 – Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
#143 – Star Trek Into Darkness (JJ Abrams, 2013)
#144 – The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
#145 – Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2012)
#146 – Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2013)
#147 – Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
#148 – Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
#149 – Fast & Furious 6 (Justin Lin, 2013)
#150 – Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
#151 – Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
#152 – Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
#153 – The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
#154 – Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
#155 – I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-Woon, 2010)
#156 – The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt, 2013)
#157 – Mother (Joon-Ho Bong, 2009)
#158 – The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
#159 – Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 2010)
#160 – Dune (David Lynch, 1984)
#161 – Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013)
#162 – Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
#163 – Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
#164 – Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
#165 – Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
#166 – The Purge (James DeMonaco, 2013)
#167 – VHS 2 (7 Directors, 2013)
#168 – Europa Report (Sebastian Cordero, 2013)
#169 – Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
#170 – Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013)
#171 – Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton, 2013)
#172 – Crystal Fairy (Sebastian Silva, 2013)
#173 – Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery, 2013)
#174 – Mother, I Love You (Janis Nords, 2013)
#175 – This is the End (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, 2013)
#176 – You’re Next (Adam Wingard, 2013)
#177 – Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler, 2013)
#178 – Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013)
#179 – Delivery (Brian Netto, 2013)
#180 – Goodbye World (Denis Henry Hennely, 2013)
#181 – Drug War (Johnnie To, 2013)
#182 – Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
#183 – Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
#184 – Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
#185 – Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013)
#186 – White House Down (Roland Emmerich, 2013)
#187 – The Chaser (Hong-jin Na, 2009)
#188 – Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
#189 – Life of Brian (Terry Joens, 1979)
#190 – World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
#191 – The Heat (Paul Feig, 2013)
#192 – Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003)
#193 – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)
#194 – The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013)
#195 – Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, 2005)
#196 – Pacific Rim (Guillermo Del Toro, 2013)
#197 – Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
#198 – Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
#199 – The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013)
#200 – The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
#201 – The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
#202 – The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)
#203 – Stoker (Chan-Wook Park, 2013)
#204 – The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
#205 – Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer and Andy & Lana Wachowski, 2012)
#206 – Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
#207 – Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
#208 – 2 Guns (Baltasar Kormákur, 2013)
#209 – The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
#210 – Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
#211 – Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
#212 – Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
#213 – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
#214 – The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2013)
#215 – Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
#216 – Pacific Rim (Guillermo Del Toro, 2013)
#217 – Elysium (Neill Blomkamp, 2013)
#218 – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)
#219 – Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
#220 – Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
#221 – Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
#222 – The World’s End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
#223 – Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997)
#224 – The Conspiracy (Christopher MacBride, 2013)
#225 – You’re Next (Adam Wingard, 2013)
#226 – The World’s End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
#227 – 8 1/2 (Frederico Fellini, 1963)
#228 – Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
#229 – Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
#230 – Love is Colder Than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969)
#231 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Lee Daniels, 2013)
#232 – Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
#233 – Machete (Robert Rodriguez, 2010)
#234 – Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, & Kazuya Tsurumaki, 2007)
#235 – Gods of the Plague (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
#236 – Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, & Kazuya Tsurumaki, 2009)
#237 – Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, & Mahiro Maeda, 2012)
#238 – Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1998)
#239 – The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013)
#240 – No (Pablo Larrain, 2012)
#241 – Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
#242 – Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997)
#243 – The Family (Luc Besson, 2013)
#244 – Insidious: Chapter 2 (James Wan, 2013)
#245 – From Up On Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki, 2013)
#246 – Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier, 2013)
#247 – Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
#248 – Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
#249 – We’re the Millers (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2013)
#250 – Magic Magic (Sebastian Silva, 2013)
#251 – Escape From Tomorrow (Randy Moore, 2013)
#252 – Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2009)
#253 – Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
#254 – I’m a Cyborg, but That’s Ok (Chan-Wook Park, 2006)
#255 – The Kings of Summer (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2013)
#256 – Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
#257 – Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
#258 – Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
#259 – This is the End (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, 2013)
#260 – Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
#261 – All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
#262 – Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
#263 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
#264 – Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
#265 – World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
#266 – Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013)
#267 – Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
#268 – What Maisie Knew (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, 2013)
#269 – The Host (Joon-Ho Bong, 2006)
#270 – The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)
#271 – Ali: Feat Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
#272 – Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
#273 – 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
#274 – Carrie (Kimberly Peirce, 2013)
#275 – Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003)
#276 – Maniac (Franck Khalfoun, 2013)
#277 – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986)
#278 – Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
#279 – Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
#280 – Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
#281 – The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013)
#282 – Mr. Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael, 2013)
#283 – The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
#284 – Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
#285 – All is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013)
#286 – Ender’s Game (Gavin Hood, 2013)
#287 – Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee, 2007)
#288 – The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007)
#289 – My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
#290 – The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2014)
#291 – Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor, 2013)
#292 – 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
#293 – 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai, 2007)
#294 – Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003)
#295 – The Congress (Ari Folman, 2014)
#296 – The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
#297 – About Time (Richrad Curtis, 2013)
#298 – Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
#299 – They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)
#300 – Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
#301 – Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
#302 – Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
#303 – Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Valée, 2013)
#304 – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, 2013)
#305 – 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
#306 – Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013)
#307 – Oldboy (Spike Lee, 2013)
DECEMBER
#308 – No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
#309 – A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009)
#310 – Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)
#311 – Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 1993)
#312 – Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
#313 – Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
#314 – Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper, 2013)
#315 – Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013)
#316 – Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2013)
#317 – Chungking Exprss (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
#318 – The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt, 2013)
#319 – Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
#320 – Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2013)
#321 – Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green, 2013)
#322 – Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2013)
#323 – The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2013)
#324 – Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
#325 – Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)
#326 – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson, 2013)
#327 – Philomena (Stephen Frears, 2013)
#328 – Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
#329 – Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
#330 – Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
#331 – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Adam McKay, 2013)
#332 – Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)
#333 – The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
#334 – Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
#335 – The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen, 2013)
#336 – American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013)
#337 – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller, 2013)
#338 – Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013)
#339 – The Grandmaster: Chinese Cut (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013)
#340 – Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013)
#341 – The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
