I saw one more film in 2014 than 2013, but strangely, I apparently didn’t see any short film or, more likely, I didn’t record seeing them. With so much short-form video content available online it is difficult to figure out where to ‘draw the line’ in my recordkeeping.
After deciding last year that ~160 features a year was unsustainable, in 2014 I watched 159 features, so perhaps it is..
The percentage of film I saw in a theater remained very similar to 2013.. This is still quite below the previous few years, and I maintain that probably has much to do with the declining experience in mainstream theaters. That said, I see more film in a theater than almost anyone I know (outside of Howard and my IFFBoston friends) so this is probably a much higher number than most.
The mysterious February spike of the past few years has disappeared. April spikes as expected due to IFFBoston. January and December were strong this year, and if I had to try and determine why I’d guess it was playing ‘catch up’ on either side of the new year.
You can find the charts for 2014 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)