As regular readers know, I keep a list of all of the movies I see each year. Breaking a trend, I saw fewer features (146) than I had in the previous year (160). I don’t really have any insight into this other than a strong suspicion that ~160 isn’t terribly sustainable for me.
I never actually got around to writing my “Best Of” 2012 post… As you may remember, I decided to stop waiting until the Oscars and instead just judge the movies I saw in the calendar year. I may be backtracking on this for 2013. I haven’t made up my mind yet.
A pretty large drop in the percentage of movies I saw in a theatre in 2013, down from 47% last year. Part of this is having a number of social obligations that kept me away from the SNFC, but some blame probably also lies at the foot of the ever-souring (mainstream) theatre experience. The indie theatres in Boston are still wonderful, but the skyrocketing price and cruddy service/experience at the mainstream theatres is disappointing.
20-25% repeat viewings seems pretty standard over the past few years. This number probably wasn’t helped by the several times I saw The Act of Killing, which is one of the best documentaries ever made.
No surprise that after an atypical lull in the number of documentaries I saw last year that the number rose in 2013.
Second year with a spike in viewings in February. For it being such a short month, the fact that it competes with IFFBoston in April is impressive. I have no idea what happened in September… I averaged ~13 films a month this year.
You can find the charts for 2013 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)