For funsies, here’s a list of all the movies I watched this year. 243 in total.
2015 releases are simply marked as “2015”
The other new-to-me movies are marked with a “~”
Rewatches are marked with a “*”
JANUARY
#001 – The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)~
#002 – Big Eyes (Tim Burton, 2014)~
#003 – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson, 2014)~
#004 – Joe (David Gordon Green, 2014)~
#005 – Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast) (James Lapine, 1991)~
#006 – Into the Woods (Rob Marshall, 2014)~
#007 – Unbroken (Angelina Jolie, 2014)~
#008 – A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014)~
#009 – The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson, 2014)~
#010 – Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014)~
#011 – Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)*
#012 – Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)~
#013 – The Voices (Marjane Satrapi, 2015)
#014 – The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, 2009)~
#015 – Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2014)~
#016 – Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 1999)~
#017 – Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014)~
#018 – American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014)~
#019 – The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014)~
#020 – À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)~
#021 – Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)~
#022 – Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)~
#023 – Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)~
#024 – Calvary (John Michael McDonaugh, 2014)~
FEBRUARY
#025 – Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, 2014)~
#026 – Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2014)~
#027 – Jupiter Ascending (Andy & Lana Wachowski, 2015)
#028 – The Theory of Everything (James Marsh, 2014)~
#029 – Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)*
#030 – Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn, 2015)
#031 – Wild (Jean-Marc Valee, 2014)*
#032 – Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)*
#033 – Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)*
#034 – Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)*
#035 – Redline (Takeshi Koike, 2010)~
MARCH
#036 – Predestination (Peter & Michael Spierig, 2015)
#037 – Laggies (Lynn Shelton, 2014)~
#038 – It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2015)
#039 – A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1957)~
#040 – Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004)~
#041 – Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)*
#042 – The Homseman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)~
#043 – Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2015)
#044 – Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh, 2015)
#045 – The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Andrew Jarecki, 2015)
#046 – Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)~
#047 – The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)*
#048 – Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut (Cameron Crowe, 2000)~*
APRIL
#049 – Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015)
#050 – World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
#051 – Furious 7 (James Wan, 2015)
#052 – Lost River (Ryan Gosling, 2015)
#053 – Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014)*
#054 – Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarittu, 2014)*
#055 – Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)~
#056 – Faults (Riley Stearns, 2015)
#057 – Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)~
#058 – Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, 2015)
#059 – Heathers (Michael Lehman, 1988)~
#060 – Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze, 2015)
#061 – Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015)
#062 – Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)*
#063 – Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)*
MAY
#064 – Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon, 2015)
#065 – Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012)~
#066 – Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981)~
#067 – Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985)~
#068 – Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg, 2015)
#069 – Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
#070 – Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)*
#071 – Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks, 2015)
#072 – When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2015)
#073 – Tomorrowland (Brad Bird, 2015)
#074 – Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)*
#075 – Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015)
#076 – Furious 7 (James Wan, 2015)*
JUNE
#077 – Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)*
#078 – Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)~
#079 – The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1989)*
#080 – Spy (Paul Feig, 2015)
#081 – San Andreas (Brad Peyton, 2015)
#082 – High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)~
#083 – Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer, 1974)~
#084 – Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow, 2012)~
#085 – Insidious: Chapter 3 (Leigh Whannell, 2015)
#086 – Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015)
#087 – Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2015)
#088 – Blade (Stephen Norrington, 1998)~
#089 – Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2002)*
#090 – Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991)~
#091 – The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2003)*
#092 – Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)
#093 – Dope (Rick Famuyiwa, 2015)
#094 – Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)*
#095 – Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 2011)~
#096 – The Body Beautiful (Ngozi Onwurah, 1991)~
#097 – What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus, 2015)
#098 – The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, 2015)
#099 – Blade II (Guillermo Del Toro, 2002)~
#100 – Les Anges du péché (Robert Bresson, 1943)~
#101 – Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)*
JULY
#102 – The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, 1995)~
#103 – Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)~
#104 – Terminator Genisys (Alan Taylor, 2015)
#105 – Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976)~
#106 – Welcome to Dongmakgol (Park Kwang-hyun, 2005)~
#107 – 7 Days in Hell (Jake Szymanski, 2015)
#108 – Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, 2014)*
#109 – Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)~
#110 – Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)*
#111 – Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015)
#112 – Les Dames du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson, 1945)~
#113 – Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
#114 – Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015)
#115 – Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, 2015)
#116 – Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001)*
#117 – They Came Together (David Wain, 2014)*
#118 – Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, 2015)
#119 – Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)*
#120 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)*
#121 – Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996)*
#122 – Mission: Impossible II (John Woo, 2000)~
#123 – Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, 2006)*
#124 – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)*
AUGUST
#125 – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015)
#126 – For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)~
#127 – Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)~
#128 – Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)~
#129 – What’s Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972)~
#130 – The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)~
#131 – Nickelodeon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1976)~
#132 – Fantastic Four (Josh Trank, 2015)
#133 – The Gift (Joel Edgerton, 2015)
#134 – Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014)~
#135 – Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)~
#136 – You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)~
#137 – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence (Roy Andersson, 2015)
#138 – Friday (F. Gary Gray, 1995)~
#139 – Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray, 2015)
#140 – Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, 2015)
#141 – Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz, 2015)
#142 – Citadel (Ciarán Foy, 2012)~
#143 – Sinister 2 (Ciarán Foy, 2015)
#144 – American Ultra (Nima Nourizadeh, 2015)
#145 – Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2015)
#146 – 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)~
#147 – New Nightmare (Wes Craven, 1994)*
SEPTEMBER
#148 – Maggie (Henry Hobson, 2015)
#149 – Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2013)*
#150 – Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015)
#151 – A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985)~
#152 – A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)~
#153 – Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)~
#154 – In Absentia (Timothy & Stephen Quay, 2000)~
#155 – Quay (Christopher Nolan, 2015)
#156 – The Comb (Timothy & Stephen Quay, 1991)~
#157 – Street of Crocodiles (Timothy & Stephen Quay, 1986)~
#158 – Arthurfest (Lance Bangs, 2015)
#159 – Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)~
#160 – The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)~
#161 – The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015)
#162 – Blind (Eskil Vogt, 2015)
#163 – They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)~
#164 – Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2015)
#165 – Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Ben Safdie, 2015)
#166 – The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robrt Bresson, 1962)~
#167 – The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015)*
#168 – Black Mass (Scott Cooper, 2015)
#169 – Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan, 2015)
#170 – Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)~
#171 – Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
#172 – After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)~
#173 – Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)
OCTOBER
#174 – Attack on Titan Part 1 (Shinji Higuchi, 2015)
#175 – Office (Johnnie To, 2015)
#176 – Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)*
#177 – The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)
#178 – Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)*
#179 – Spring (Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson, 2015)
#180 – Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)*
#181 – The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)~
#182 – Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)~
#183 – The Walk (Robert Zemeckis, 2015)
#184 – Everest (Baltasar Kormákur, 2015)
#185 – The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
#186 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Chuck Russell, 1987)~
#187 – Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)*
#188 – Paddington (Paul King, 2015)
#189 – Crimson Peak (Guillermo Del Toro, 2015)*
#190 – Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, 2015)
#191 – Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze, 2015)*
#192 – Attack on Titan Part 2: End of the WOrld (Shinji Higuchi, 2015)
#193 – Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
#194 – Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert, 1989)*
#195 – The Oracle (Roberta Findlay, 1985)~
#196 – Humanoids From the Deep (Barbara Peeters, 1980)~
#197 – The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982)~
#198 – Sorority House Massacre (Carol Frank, 1986)~
#199 – Stripped to Kill (Katt Shea, 1987)~
#200 – Blood Diner (Jackie Kong, 1987)~
#201 – [SAFE] (Todd Haynes, 1995)~
#202 – Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires, 1970)~
#203 – Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)*
NOVEMBER
#204 – Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)~
#205 – The Leisure Class (Jason Mann, 2015)
#206 – Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)*
#207 – Slow West (John Maclean, 2015)
#208 – Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, 2015)
#209 – Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
#210 – The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson, 2015)
#211 – Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
#212 – Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, 2015)
#213 – Spectre (Sam Mendes, 2015)
#214 – 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015)
#215 – Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia, 2015)
#216 – Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)~
#217 – Une femme douce (Robert Bresson, 1969)~
#218 – Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)~
#219 – Entertainment (Rick Alverson, 2015)
#220 – Z For Zachariah (Craig Zobel, 2015)
#221 – The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, 2015)
#222 – Escape From New York (John Carpenter, 1981)~
#223 – Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo, 2015)
DECEMBER
#224 – The Night Before (Jonathan Levine, 2015)
#225 – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Francis Lawrence, 2015)
#226 – Krampus (Michael Dougherty, 2015)
#227 – Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)
#228 – The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosada, 2015)
#229 – What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi, 2015)
#230 – Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, 2015)
#231 – Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
#232 – In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard, 2015)
#233 – The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)*
#234 – The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015)
#235 – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010)*
#236 – Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)*
#237 – Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)*
#238 – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983)*
#239 – Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams, 2015)
#240 – Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)*
#241 – Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2015)
#242 – Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)
#243 – The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)