This past week, I've posted five lists looking back at the movies and movie ads of 2011. I didn't really have to dig through a year's worth of articles because I kept a list of everything I found noteworthy. This year, I also kept a movie journal and made a record of every time I watched a feature-length film. Then I took an image or a slice of an image from each movie and put them into a collage. I feel pretty proud to have stuck with this project for 365 days (or if you want to be absolutely obnoxious about it, 363 days), and I'd like to share it with all of you.
After the jump, you'll find two different collages and then the list of 368 movies I saw (not 368 different movies because I watched some flicks twice; I probably watched around 350 different films). I hope you like it.
[Because the collages count viewings and not different movies, some films have more than one image]
Here's the really long slice-version of the collage:
And here's my 2011 movie journal:
1/1 – A Hard Day's Night
1/2 – You Don't Know Jack
1/3 – Fish Tank
1/4 – Kiki's Delivery Service
1/5 – Best Worst Movie
1/7 – Restrepo
1/8 – Troll 2
1/9 – Porco Rosso
1/10 – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
1/11 – Hail the Conquering Hero
1/12 – Commando
1/13 – The Green Hornet
1/14 – The Wild Bunch
1/15 – Crimson Tide
1/16 – The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1/17 – Dracula
1/18 – The Illusionist (2010)
1/19 – No Strings Attached
1/20 – Project Nim
1/21 – The Music Never Stopped
1/21 – Magic Trip
1/21 – Submarine
1/21 – Bobby Fischer Against the World
1/22 – Win Win
1/22 – Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
1/22 – Tyrannosaur
1/22 – Like Crazy
1/23 – My Idiot Brother
1/23 – The Interrupters
1/23 – Homework
1/23 – Higher Ground
1/24 – Red State
1/24 – Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
1/24 – These Amazing Shadows
1/24 – Reagan
1/25 – The Details
1/25 – The Lie
1/25 – Salvation Boulevard
1/25 – Hobo with a Shotgun
1/26 – Martha Marcy May Marlene
1/26 – Benavides Born
1/26 – Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
1/26 – In a Better World
1/27 – How to Die in Oregon
1/27 – The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
1/27 – Take Shelter
1/28 – The Future
1/28 – Pariah
1/28 – The Guard
1/28 – Flypaper
1/29 – MacGruber
1/30 – Howl's Moving Castle
1/31 – Solitary Man
2/1 – Sanctum
2/2 – Dreamcatcher
2/3 – The Eagle
2/5 – Boy A
2/6 – Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
2/7 – Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980
2/8 – Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983
2/9 – Take Me Home Tonight
2/9 – I Am Number Four
2/10 – Payback (Straight Up – The Director's Cut)
2/12 – Superman II
2/13 – 8: The Mormon Proposition
2/13 – The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
2/14 – Antichrist
2/15 – The Adjustment Bureau
2/15 – Unknown
2/16 – Don't Look Now
2/17 – Memento
2/18 – Blazing Saddles
2/19 – Le Cercle Rouge
2/20 – Shoot the Piano Player
2/20 – Five Easy Pieces
2/21 – A Woman Is a Woman
2/22 – Hall Pass
2/24 – Drive Angry
2/26 – Rango
2/26 – Conversations with Other Women
2/27 – The 'burbs
2/27 – Megamind
2/28 – Helvetica
3/1 – Silent Running
3/2 – Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
3/2 – Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
3/3 – Paul
3/5 – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
3/5 – The Lovely Bones
3/5 – Timecop
3/5 – Monsters
3/6 – Cat People (1942)
3/6 – Sling Blade
3/7 – Red Riding Hood
3/7 – Source Code
3/8 – Battle: Los Angeles
3/8 – Jane Eyre
3/10 – Black Hawk Down
3/10 – Tropic Thunder
3/10 – Limitless
3/11 – The Ladykillers (1955)
3/12 – White Heat
3/13 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3/14 – Trust
3/14 – The Lincoln Lawyer
3/15 – Cracks
3/16 – The Conspirator
3/16 – Carlos
3/18 – The China Syndrome
3/20 – Death Race 2000
3/20 – The Escapist
3/20 – Dirty Dancing
3/21 – Chloe
3/22 – The Promotion
3/23 – Sucker Punch
3/24 – Defending Your Life
3/25 – Arthur (1981)
3/26 – The Inglorious Bastards
3/26 – Rubber
3/27 – Stray Dog
3/27 – The Social Network
3/28 – Stand and Deliver
3/29 – The Naked City
3/29 – Night and the City
3/30 – Hanna
3/31 – How Do You Know
4/6 – Win Win
4/8 – Arthur (2011)
4/9 – Another Year
4/10 – The Last Detail
4/10 – Scream 3
4/10 – MacGruber
4/12 – Scream 4
4/13 – The Beaver
4/14 – Bridesmaids
4/16 – Alice (1988)
4/17 – Red Dawn (1984)
4/17 – Your Highness
4/18 – Sisters
4/19 – Casualties of War
4/22 – House (1977)
4/23 – In the Loop
4/25 – Hesher
4/26 – Fast Five
4/27 – Beginners
4/27 – How to Train Your Dragon
4/27 – Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs
4/28 – Everything Must Go
4/28 – Terri
4/30 – Thor
4/30 – Things Fall Apart
5/1 – Another Earth
5/2 – Something Borrowed
5/7 – Thor
5/14 – Bridesmaids
5/15 – Grey Gardens (1975)
5/15 – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
5/15 – Harlan County U.S.A.
5/17 – The Tree of Life
5/17 – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
5/23 – The Hangover Part II
5/24 – Meek's Cutoff
5/25 – Attack the Block
5/30 – Mr. Baseball
5/30 – The Graduate
5/30 – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
5/31 – X-Men: First Class
5/31 – Fantastic Mr. Fox
6/2 – Midnight in Paris
6/3 – X-Men: First Class
6/4 – 13 Assassins
6/5 – Tigerland
6/6 – Apollo 13
6/7 – Super 8
6/8 – Drive Angry
6/10 – Happy Feet
6/10 – True Grit (2010)
6/11 – Mr. Popper's Penguins
6/11 – A Fistful of Dollars
6/12 – Pride & Prejudice (2005)
6/27 – Transformers: Dark of the Moon
6/28 – A Better Life
6/28 – Larry Crowne
7/2 – Green Lantern
7/3 – Bad Teacher
7/3 – The Mechanic (2011)
7/4 – The American President
7/4 – Smokey and the Bandit
7/5 – Horrible Bosses
7/7 – Hobo with a Shotgun
7/9 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
7/9 – Winnie the Pooh
7/9 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7/9 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
7/10 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7/10 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7/10 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7/10 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
7/11 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
7/16 – Crazy, Stupid, Love.
7/21 – Drive
7/22 – 30 Minutes or Less
7/23 – Cowboys & Aliens
7/26 – Senna
7/27 – Captain America: The First Avenger
7/30 – Tabloid
8/2 – Rise of the Planet of the Apes
8/2 – The Change-Up
8/3 – One Day
8/3 – Bellflower
8/4 – The Way Back
8/5 – Harry Brown
8/5 – Mona Lisa
8/6 – Q
8/6 – Back to the Future
8/7 – Valhalla Rising
8/7 – Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
8/8 – The Help
8/9 – The Winning Season
8/10 – Fright Night (2011)
8/11 – Warrior
8/12 – Going the Distance
8/13 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8/14 – The Good, the Bad, the Weird
8/14 – I Saw the Devil
8/15 – Raise the Red Lantern
8/16 – Conan the Barbarian (2011)
8/17 – Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
8/18 – The Machine Girl
8/19 – The Big Lebowski
8/20 – Midnight in Paris
8/21 – High and Low
8/21 – Sanjuro
8/22 – Kagemusha
8/23 – The Bad Sleep Well
8/24 – The Debt
8/26 – A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
8/26 – Rio
8/27 – The Lion King (3D)
8/28 – Red Beard
8/29 – Randy and the Mob
8/30 – Drive
9/1 – That Evening Sun
9/2 – Killer Elite
9/2 – Dead Ringers
9/3 – OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
9/3 – Dogtooth
9/4 – Away from Her
9/6 – Contagion
9/8 – Melancholia
9/8 – Pina
9/8 – The Ides of March
9/8 – Restless
9/9 – The Artist
9/9 – A Dangerous Method
9/9 – The Skin I Live In
9/9 – We Need to Talk about Kevin
9/9 – God Bless America
9/10 – The Descendants
9/10 – 360
9/10 – Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
9/11 – Goon
9/11 – Hick
9/11 – Friends with Kids
9/11 – The Awakening
9/12 – Shame
9/12 – Killer Joe
9/12 – Alps
9/12 – 50/50
9/12 – Ten Year
9/13 – Sleeping Beauty
9/13 – Moneyball
9/13 – Into the Abyss
9/13 – I'm Carolyn Parker
9/14 – Hysteria
9/15 – Butter
9/15 – Faust
9/15 – Rampart
9/16 – Anonymous
9/16 – Twixt
9/16 – Sleepless Night
9/17 – That Summer
9/17 – Jeff, Who Lives at Home
9/17 – You're Next
9/17 – Violet & Daisy
9/19 – Footloose (1984)
9/20 – Puncture
9/22 – Machine Gun Preacher
9/26 – Rango
9/28 – What's Your Number?
9/29 – Real Steel
9/30 – MacGruber (Unrated Version)
10/10 – The Thing (1982)
10/11 – The Thing (2011)
10/12 – Margin Call
10/13 – Ghostbusters
10/15 – Airplane!
10/22 – Puss in Boots
10/24 – The Rum Diary
10/25 – Martha Marcy May Marlene
10/25 – In Time
10/29 – Trick 'r Treat
10/30 – Return of the Living Dead
10/31 – Creepshow
10/31 – Shaun of the Dead
11/1 – Captain America: The First Avenger
11/1 – Tower Heist
11/2 – Gambit
11/3 – A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
11/4 – J. Edgar
11/8 – The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
11/10 – Immortals
11/13 – The Freebie
11/16 – Arthur Christmas
11/16 – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
11/17 – The Muppets
11/18 – Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
11/19 – Blackthorn
11/21 – Hugo
11/22 – The Trip
11/23 – A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
11/24 – Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
11/24 – The Incredibles
11/25 – Cars 2
11/25 – Mad Dog and Glory
11/25 – The Muppets
11/25 – Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
11/26 – Attack the Block
11/27 – The Beach
11/28 – The House of the Devil
11/29 – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
11/29 – Law Abiding Citizen
11/30 – Young Adult
12/1 – The Descendants
12/3 – Friends with Benefits
12/4 – Se7en
12/4 – The Game
12/5 – El Topo
12/6 – The Artist
12/6 – The Sitter
12/7 – Kung Fu Panda 2
12/8 – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
12/8 – The Adventures of Tintin
12/8 – War Horse
12/9 – Carnage
12/9 – Horrible Bosses
12/9 – Margot at the Wedding
12/10 – Project Nim
12/10 – From Russia with Love
12/12 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
12/12 – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
12/13 – We Bought a Zoo
12/13 – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
12/14 – Coriolanus
12/15 – Beginners
12/16 – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
12/17 – Rampart
12/17 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
12/18 – Hanna
12/20 – The Iron Lady
12/23 – Die Hard
12/23 – Albert Nobbs
12/24 – Speechless
12/24 – Win Win
12/25 – The Ref
12/26 – Hanna
12/26 – My Week with Marilyn
12/28 – 12 Angry Men