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.
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
You can see a big jump in the number of films in April.. It is no coincidence that the 2011 Independent Film Festival of Boston straddled these months.
You can find the charts for 2011 here. Once you are there you can use the filter controls at the top to slice and dice the data as you see fit.
(If you are interested in the technical guts of these graphs, you can find the source code here)