The Movies I Saw in 2011

As regular readers know, I keep a list of all of the movies I see each year.  I saw more movies this year (160) than each of the past two (147)..  I did include a handful of shorts on the list this year, though.  This was also the first year I kept track of the date on which I saw each movie, which will allow me to see trends in years moving forward.

My “Best of 2011″ list will hopefully be done in the next few days.  Unlike the past few years, I’ve decided to do the list now instead of waiting until the Oscars.  I found waiting to actually be more stressful, for some reason.  Anyway, all the gory details are after the jump…

The formats in which I consume movies hasn’t changed drastically from last year..  Some more movies in the theater, some fewer movies on disc.

I watched more movies for the first time this year (83%) vs last year (80%)

And while documentaries continue to be a favorite of mine, they took more of a back seat to other genres this year

Finally, here is the month-by-month tallies of my consumption

You can see a big jump in April..  It is no coincidence that the 2011 Independent Film Festival of Boston straddled these months.

Enough data porn, here’s the list.  As usual, movies in Italics are repeat viewings.

1. The Girl Who Played With Fire
2. Sweet Movie
3. True Grit (2010)
4. Green Hornet 3D
5. The King’s Speech
6. Easy A
7. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
8. Somewhere
9. My Idiot Brother
10. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest
11. Winter’s Bone
12. The Mechanic
13. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
14. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980
15. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983
16. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
17. Splice
18. Another Year
19. Blood Into Wine
20. Conviction
21. Bronson
22. The Rookie
23. The Confession
24. The Crush
25. God of Love
26. Na Wewe
27. Wish 143
28. The Road
29. GasLand
30. Freakonomics
31. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
32. Metropolis
33. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
34. The Adjustment Bureau
35. Crank
36. Law Abiding Citizen
37. The Terminator
38. Robocop
39. Hobo With A Shotgun
40. Sucker Punch
41. Return to Oz: The Joy That Got Away
42. Planet of the Apes
43. National Lampoon’s Animal House
44. Red
45. Big Fan
46. Source Code
47. Get Low
48. Hanna
49. House (Hausu)
50. El Topo
51. Sweet Movie
52. The Conspirator
53. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
54. The Bengali Detective
55. On The Ice
56. The City Dark
57. Last Days Here
58. The Catechism Cataclysm
59. Convento
60. How to Die in Oregon
61. Windfall
62. The Future
63. Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour
64. Stake Land
65. Make Believe
66. Circumstance
67. God Willing
68. Another Earth
69. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
70. Sons of Perdition
71. Terri
72. The Whistleblower
73. Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
74. Green Zone
75. Thor: 3D
76. Rubber
77. 13 Assassins
78. Incendies
79. Best Worst Movie
80. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
81. Feeding Frenzy
82. Transcendent Man
83. Troll 2
84. Super
85. Beautiful Boy
86. Too Big to Fail
87. Bridesmaids
88. The Tree of Life
89. Jackass 3
90. Super 8
91. Bobby Fischer Against the World
92. Nostalgia for the Light
93. Jackass 3.5
94. The God Who Wasn’t There
95. Hangover: Part II
96. Submarine
97. Wanted
98. I’m Still Here
99. Chasing Amy
100. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
101. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
102. Hot Coffee
103. My Blue Heaven
104. Iron Man 2
105. Horrible Bosses
106. The Curious Case of Curt Flood
107. Raging Bull
108. Cedar Rapids
109. Project Nim
110. Captain America: The First Avenger
111. The Matrix
112. The Matrix Reloaded
113. The Matrix Revolutions
114. Machete
115. Obscene
116. Cowboys and Aliens
117. Dead Snow
118. Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
119. Jaws
120. Crazy, Stupid, Love
121. 5 Fingers
122. Better This World
123. It Is Fine! Everything is Fine.
124. What Is It?
125. Contagion
126. X-Men: First Class
127. Titicut Follies
128. Insidious
129. Moneyball
130. The Ides of March
131. Paul
132. The Guard
133. Margin Call
134. Take Shelter
135. A Beautiful Mind
136. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
137. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
138. Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?)
139. Attack the Block
140. The Donner Party
141. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
142. Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie
143. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
144. The Punisher
145. The Muppets
146. The Debt
147. Red State
148. Shame
149. The Cove
150. Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
151. Win Win
152. Limitless
153. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
154. Bad Santa
155. Scrooged
156. Forrest Gump
157. The Right Stuff
158. Contact
159. Apollo 13
160. Rise of the Planet of the Apes