The Year of Film

Two years ago, about the time I started to take a more serious interest in film, I started cataloging the new films that Karina and see. I had been doing the same for books and thought it would be interesting to do the same for films. Ok...and I was semi-curious at how many films we actually watched in a given year. Over the past 2 years we have also been slowly working our way through AFI's original 100 greatest films list. It has been a fun project but we have gotten bogged down in that process at times too.

In 2007 we watched 104 new films and in 2008 we watched 110 new films. A few favorites that stand out in my memory are Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin from 1936, Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood from 2005, Ostrov or The Island (a Russian film) about penance that is simply wonderful. Other favorites, Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Into the Wild (2007), King Corn (2007), Wall-E (2008), Iron Man (2008) and Babel (2006).

Our complete viewing list...
1.1.08 Babel 2006
1.1.08 The Seventh Seal 1954
1.4.08 The Natural 1984
1.5.08 Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End 2007
1.05.08 I Married a Witch 1942
1.06.08 Girl In the Café 2005
1.07.08 Doctor Zhivago 1965
1.07.08 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
1.08.08 Pink Panther 1963
1.12.08 The Prestige 2006
1.13.08 The Life & Passion of Jesus Christ 1905
1.14.08 From the Manger to the Cross 1913
1.15.08 Koyaanisqatsi 1982
1.16.08 Dan In Real Life 2007
1.18.08 Good Luck Chuck 2007
1.21.08 Barbarella 1969
1.21.08 War Games 1983
1.22.08 Angels With Dirty Faces 1938
1.22.08 Roaring Twenties 1939
1.26.08 Iron Giant 1999
1.29.08 Reign Over Me 2007
2.4.08 War of the Worlds 1953
2.10.08 Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
2.11.08 Memento 2000 2.13.08 License to Wed 2007
2.15.08 Bourne Ultimatum 2007
2.18.08 Transporter II 2005
2.19.08 The Life of Brian 1978
2.22.08 The Wild Bunch 1969
2.24.08 P.S. I Love You 2007
2.25.08 Evan Almighty 2007
3.01.08 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956
3.03.08 2 Days in Paris 2007
3.04.08 The Birds 1963
3.08.08 Wild Hogs 2007
3.09.08 Spirited Away 2002
3.09.08 The Jazz Singer 1928
3.10.08 Idiocracy 2006
3.14.08 We Are Marshall 2006
3.15.08 Everything is Illuminated 2005
3.17.08 Absent Minded Professor 1961
3.19.08 The Island 2006
3.20.08 Green Pastures 1936
3.22.08 The Perfect Man 2005
3.25.08 Little Children 2006
3.28.08 I Am Legend 2007
3.29.08 Unforgiven 1992
4.1.08 Goodfellas 1990
4.9.08 Gridiron Gang 2006
4.10.08 Modern Times 1936
4.10.08 Freedom Writers 2007
4.12.08 Night of the Hunter 1955
4.20.08 A Good Year 2006
4.21.08 Battleship Potemkin 1925
4.26.08 Juno 2007
4.27.08 27 Dresses 2007
4.30.08 Duck Soup 1933
5.02.08 Double Indemnity 1944
5.03.08 Iron Man 2008
5.04.08 Lars and the Real Girl 2007
5.06.08 Pan's Labrynth 2006
5.06.08 City Lights 1931
5.10.08 High Fidelity 2006
5.14.08 Friends With Money 2006
5.17.08 National Treasure II 2007
5.18.08 August Rush 2007
5.19.08 Cocktail 1988
5.21.08 Frankenstein 1931
5.27.08 Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull 2008
5.31.08 Jesus Camp 2005
6.02.08 Just Like Heaven 2005
6.03.08 Tootsie 1982
6.07.08 You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 2008
6.08.08 All About Eve 1950
6.10.08 Into the Wild 2007
6.15.08 The Game Plan 2007
6.19.08 The Godfather 1972
6.21.08 The Godfather II 1974
6.21.08 3:10 To Yuma 2007
6.22.08 The Goldrush 1925
7.19.08 Batman: The Dark Night 2008
7.20.08 The Departed 2006
8.04.08 Amadeus 1984
8.10.08 Cabaret 1972
8.11.08 In the Heat of the Night 1967
9.01.08 Bonnie & Clyde 1968
9.06.08 Shrek TheThird 2007
9.14.08 A Flea Market Documentary 2001
10.04.08 The Virgin Suicides 2000
10.04.08 King Corn 2007
10.10.08 The Bucket List 2008
10.11.08 High Noon 1952
10.12.08 The Third Man 1949
10.14.08 Baby Mama 2008
10.16.08 Grapes of Wrath 1940
10.18.08 The French Connection 1971
10.25.08 Fools Gold 2008
11.04.08 Be Kind, Rewind 2007
11.06.08 Get Smart 2008
11.10.08 Stagecoach 1939
11.18.08 Hancock 2008
11.22.08 Wall-E 2008
11.27.08 Quantum of Solace 2008
11.29.08 Black Snake Moan 2006
12.5.08 The Love Guru 2008
12.10.08 Leatherheads 2008
12.18.08 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008
12.26.08 Charlie Wilsons War 2008
12.29.08 Grand Theft Auto 1977
12.30.08 Burn After Reading 2008