Last year I watched 517 new-to-me films and I thought that number was ridiculously large. Well, this year not only did I reach that number, I surpassed it with an additional 600 new-to-me films, bringing my grand total to 1,117 new-to-me films for 2011. Don’t believe me? There’s a list after the cut of every film, broken down by month so you can see just exactly what films I watched. I don’t know how to explain how I watched so many films. I will say, it all started with a bet from CybelDP on Twitter. The rest, as they say, is history.

Some life information: for the first half of the year I worked as a substitute teacher (which meant only 1 to 2 days of work a week) and lived in the back of my parents’ house and watched Turner Classic Movies non-stop. From the end of May on I moved to San Francisco, where I now go to the Academy of Art University working towards an MFA in film editing. Yet, somehow amongst all that I managed to watch A LOT OF FRICKIN’ MOVIES. I also watched a lot of movies in theaters (thank you very much Castro Theatre) for the first time that were films I’d already seen. If you take a look at each of my monthly wrap-ups, I talk about what films those were.

Last year in my end of the year post I wrote about how many films with certain stars that I’d seen and stuff like that. The sheer volume of films I saw this year makes that task pretty difficult. I will say, I saw a lot of films featuring the following and if you want to try to look through my list and figure out exact numbers, be my guest: Orson Welles, Buster Keaton, James Cagney, Lew Ayres, Joseph Cotten, Joel McCrea, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Ray Milland, Robert Taylor, Ryan O’Neal, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Jean Harlow. There are probably others whose filmographies I put giant dents in this year, but those are the ones that really stuck out. Speaking of filmographies, I also finished a handful of director filmographies this year: Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch and Martin Scorsese. I also came close to finishing off Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and Elia Kazan and watched a bunch of films by Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Fritz Lang and John Ford. I also discovered a love for Westerns that I never knew I had (well, other than Clint Eastwood westerns, which I always loved). Oh, and I’ve only got 76 Best Picture nominated films left to see. That’s out of 487 films total, so I think I’m doing pretty well there.

One last thing before I reveal the list and my favorite new-to-me film of the year: in this past year I have felt more intellectually stimulated than I have ever felt before. Everyday I watched films and every film that I watched I gathered new information and my brain felt so alive and so active; it’s an amazing feeling for sure. I would go to bed thinking about the films I’d watched that day and the actors and directors and screenwriters that I learned about. I would think about Cedric Gibbons and Douglas Shearer and the amazing jobs they did at MGM and Irving Thalberg’s genius and how I wish I could be as prolific as Woody Allen. Then I would wake up the next day and start all over again and the more I watched the more everything fit together, the more I got from every film because I could see how it fit within the framework of cinema’s history. It was an amazing year of discovery and reflection and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.

And, now, without further ado, the list. Ps. there’s more writing after the list, so please keep reading! Also, for some reason WordPress can’t handle a bulleted list that has four digits, so it cuts off the numbers towards the end of the list. But I think you can still figure out what’s what.

1. [January] A Day At The Races
2. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
3. Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot The Piano Player)
4. In & Out
5. Manhattan
6. Shadows and Fog
7. Johnny Belinda
8. Stage Fright (1950)
9. Crimes and Misdemeanors
10. Interiors
11. Bananas
12. What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
13. 127 Hours
14. Pennies From Heaven (1981)
15. Broadway Danny Rose
16. The Producers (1968)
17. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
18. The Fugitive (1993)
19. Somebody Up There Likes Me
20. Calendar Girls
21. Another Woman
22. Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
23. Whatever Works
24. Room At The Top
25. Play It Again, Sam
26. Alice
27. Love and Death
28. The Good Earth (1937)
29. Of Human Bondage (1934)
30. Dramatic School
31. Letter From An Unknown Woman
32. Only Two Can Play
33. The Millionairess
34. Brief Encounter (1945)
35. The Bobo
36. After The Fox
37. The Hustler
38. The Cameraman
39. It’s A Wonderful World (1939)
40. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
41. TRON: Legacy
42. Missing
43. I Want To Live!
44. I’m No Angel
45. Deconstructing Harry
46. The King’s Speech
47. Still of the Night
48. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
49. Blue Valentine
50. Sylvia Scarlett
51. The Toast of New York
52. Gunga Din
53. Only Angels Have Wings
54. Night and Day (1946)
55. High Sierra
56. Love Affair (1939)
57. Go West (1925)
58. Love Affair (1932)
59. This Sporting Life
60. The Fountainhead (1949)
61. It’s A Great Feeling
62. The Subject Was Roses
63. Murder By Death
64. No Other Woman (1933)
65. Humoresque (1946)
66. City Streets
67. Little Caesar
68. The Mayor of Hell
69. The Bad Seed (1956)
70. Le Mans
71. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
72. The Sea Hawk (1940)
73. The Uninvited (1944)
74. September Affair
75. Knute Rockne All American
76. Broken Blossoms (1919)
77. Page Miss Glory
78. Black Narcissus
79. Lost Horizon (1937)
80. Tide of Empire
81. Baby Face (1933)
82. Bordertown (1935)
83. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
84. The Member of the Wedding
85. Reflections In A Golden Eye
86. Topper
87. Sleuth (1972)
88. Lucky Jordan
89. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
90. The Color of Money
91. Since You Went Away
92. Chain Lightning (1950)
93. Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (aka Man in a Cocked Hat)
94. Ninotchka
95. The Petrified Forest
96. To Be or Not to Be
97. The Merry Widow (1934)
98. The Happy Years
99. Night of the Lepus
100. Ministry of Fear
101. Vampire’s Kiss
102. Little Big Man
103. Bad Day At Black Rock
104. A Foreign Affair
105. Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box)
106. Die 3-Groschen-Oper (The Threepenny Opera)
107. A Modern Hero
108. Life At The Top
109. The Dirty Dozen
110. The Wild Bunch
111. Lust For Life
112. [February] The Rain People
113. Manhattan Melodrama
114. Richard III (1955)
115. The Private Life Of Henry VIII
116. Anne Of The Thousand Days
117. Anthony Adverse
118. The Great Waltz
119. Lonelyhearts
120. The Moon Is Blue
121. The Last Detail
122. Witness for the Prosecution
123. For Whom The Bell Tolls
124. Un chien andalou
125. The Love Parade
126. The Big House (1930)
127. The Divorcee (1930)
128. Disraeli (1929)
129. Edward, My Son
130. Separate Tables (1958)
131. The Sundowners (1960)
132. The Champ (1931)
133. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
134. The Lion in Winter (1968)
135. Mourning Becomes Electra
136. Othello (1965)
137. One Hour With You
138. Stand and Deliver
139. Irma Vep
140. Conquest (aka Marie Walewska)
141. La nuit américaine (Day For Night)
142. The Pride of the Yankees
143. The Kiss (1929)
144. Viva Villa!
145. Trader Horn (1931)
146. Libeled Lady
147. The Black Swan (1942)
148. Blossoms in the Dust
149. Madame Curie
150. L’illusionniste (The Illusionist)
151. Mrs. Parkington
152. The Valley of Decision
153. Ball of Fire
154. In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!)
155. On the Beach
156. The Caine Mutiny
157. The Sin of Madelon Claudet
158. Come Back, Little Sheba
159. After Hours
160. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
161. Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three Colors: Red)
162. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
163. National Velvet
164. The Yearling
165. Random Harvest
166. Of Mice and Men (1939)
167. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
168. Quo Vadis (1951)
169. Executive Suite
170. A Free Soul
171. None But the Lonely Heart
172. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
173. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
174. The Story of Louis Pasteur
175. Alice Adams
176. Flirtation Walk
177. The More the Merrier
178. The Talk of the Town
179. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
180. Le dernier métro (The Last Metro)
181. Mon oncle
182. My Man Godfrey (1936)
183. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
184. Lady For A Day
185. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
186. Pote tin Kyriaki (Never On Sunday)
187. Street Angel
188. Anna Christie (1930)
189. September
190. Do the Right Thing
191. The Tourist
192. Dead End
193. Five Star Final
194. On the Town
195. The Goddess
196. Inherit the Wind
197. Mr. Saturday Night
198. Come and Get It
199. The Westerner
200. Blow-Up
201. Summertime
202. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
203. Night Must Fall (1937)
204. Watch on the Rhine
205. Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue)
206. Trzy kolory: Bialy (Three Colors: White)
207. State Fair (1945)
208. Pygmalion (1938)
209. Two Arabian Knights
210. The Divine Lady
211. Limelight (1952)
212. Skippy
213. Ship of Fools
214. The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka All That Money Can Buy)
215. You Were Never Lovelier
216. Cover Girl
217. A Song to Remember
218. Don’t Look Now
219. Amarcord
220. 8 1/2
221. La Strada
222. The Lavender Hill Mob
223. Dodsworth
224. The Blacksmith
225. Great Expectations (1946)
226. Marie Antoinette (1938)
227. Bus Stop
228. The Corn Is Green (1945)
229. The Search
230. Ivanhoe (1952)
231. King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
232. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
233. Fanny (1961)
234. Silkwood
235. I’ll Cry Tomorrow
236. Sunrise At Campobello
237. Joan of Arc (1948)
238. The Informer (1935)
239. Smilin’ Through (1932)
240. Arthur (1981)
241. Broadway Melody of 1936
242. The Citadel
243. [March] The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
244. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
245. Cabaret
246. The Human Comedy
247. Test Pilot
248. The Dresser
249. The Emperor Waltz
250. Jezebel
251. All This, and Heaven Too
252. Ieri, oggi, domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)
253. Captain Blood (1935)
254. Kings Row (1942)
255. Four Daughters
256. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
257. Kiss of Death (1947)
258. Sullivan’s Travels
259. New York Stories
260. Obsession
261. Shall We Dance (1937)
262. The Star
263. Tortilla Flat
264. Between Two Worlds
265. D.O.A. (1950)
266. Storm In A Teacup
267. The Richest Girl in the World
268. Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear)
269. Georgy Girl
270. High Noon
271. The Gold Rush
272. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
273. The Sunshine Boys (1975)
274. Ginger e Fred (Ginger & Fred)
275. The Three Musketeers (1948)
276. Safe in Hell
277. Scaramouche (1952)
278. Texas (1941)
279. The Last Station
280. Two Weeks in Another Town
281. Red-Headed Woman
282. Three Wise Girls
283. Riffraff (1936)
284. Suzy
285. Indiscretion of An American Wife
286. More Than a Secretary
287. The Age of Consent (1932)
288. Bed of Roses (1933)
289. Stella Dallas (1937)
290. Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
291. Shopworn
292. Father Is a Bachelor
293. Repo Man
294. A Canterbury Tale
295. Apocalypse Now
296. The Last Picture Show
297. The Harder They Fall
298. Love Me Tonight
299. Going Hollywood
300. Shanghai Express
301. La passion de Jeanne d’Arc
302. Saint Joan
303. For Heaven’s Sake (1926)
304. Green Light
305. The Story of Mankind
306. Husbands and Wives
307. The Man from Laramie
308. The Pumpkin Eater
309. The Rich Are Always with Us
310. So Big! (1932)
311. They Call It Sin
312. Week-end Marriage
313. The Painted Veil (1934)
314. The Right To Live (1935)
315. Robot Monster
316. The Public Enemy
317. Bombshell
318. Reckless
319. Personal Property
320. I Live My Life
321. Manhattan Murder Mystery
322. Sunnyside Up
323. Follow The Fleet
324. Bonjour tristesse
325. Irene
326. Carnal Knowledge
327. Easy To Love (1934)
328. In Caliente (aka Viva Senorita)
329. The Cook (1918)
330. The Boogens
331. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
332. Thunder Road
333. Small Time Crooks
334. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
335. Sherlock Jr.
336. The Natural
337. Nashville
338. MASH
339. Broadway Melody of 1940
340. The Boob
341. I Take This Woman (1940)
342. Wife Vs. Secretary
343. Red Dust
344. Hold Your Man (1933)
345. China Seas
346. The Secret Six
347. Saratoga
348. They Live By Night
349. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
350. Take the Money and Run
351. Shock Corridor
352. Rich Man, Poor Girl
353. The Jazz Singer (1927)
354. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
355. Berserk!
356. Gypsy (1962)
357. Guys and Dolls
358. Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
359. Ohayō (Good Morning)
360. The Big Street
361. Sounds From A Town I Love
362. Edge of the City
363. Unknown (2011)
364. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
365. Miss Grant Takes Richmond
366. Pocketful of Miracles
367. Oliver Twist (1948)
368. Adventures of Don Juan
369. The Land That Time Forgot
370. The Secret Garden (1949)
371. No Highway in the Sky
372. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
373. Waterloo Bridge (1931)
374. Noah’s Ark (1928)
375. Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City)
376. Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)
377. Strange Cargo (1940)
378. Daisy Kenyon
379. Taris, roi de l’eau
380. Don’t Drink the Water (1994)
381. This Woman Is Dangerous
382. Goodbye, My Fancy
383. The Damned Don’t Cry
384. Dinner At Eight
385. The Girl From Missouri
386. The Beast of the City
387. [April] À Propos de Nice (aka Nizza)
388. Small Town Girl
389. Blinkity Blank
390. Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip To The Moon)
391. Secret Ceremony
392. Frankenstein (1931)
393. The Great Lie
394. Trapeze
395. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
396. Celebrity
397. Hollywood Ending
398. Anything Else
399. Zéro de Conduite: Jeunes Diables au Collège (Zero for Conduct)
400. Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows)
401. L’Atalante
402. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
403. Billy Liar
404. Some Came Running
405. Melinda and Melinda
406. When Ladies Meet (1941)
407. The Actress
408. Green Mansions
409. Five Miles to Midnight
410. Good Girls Go To Paris
411. Raintree County
412. The Major and the Minor
413. The Crystal Ball
414. A Woman of Distinction
415. The Doctor Takes A Wife
416. Polly of the Circus (1932)
417. Dancing Lady
418. Band of Angels
419. The Wheeler Dealers
420. The Bad and the Beautiful
421. That Hamilton Woman
422. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
423. Sparrows
424. Matchpoint
425. Scoop
426. A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
427. Madame de… (The Earrings of Madame de..)
428. Galaxy of Terror
429. Du Barry Was A Lady
430. Meet The People
431. Merton of the Movies (1947)
432. The Baroness and the Butler
433. Le Million
434. Run Silent Run Deep
435. America, America
436. Lassie Come Home
437. Conspirator
438. Father’s Little Dividend
439. Dead Ringer
440. The Young Philadelphians
441. Stage Door
442. Too Many Girls
443. So Evil My Love
444. Blonde Crazy
445. The Glass Key
446. Payment Deferred
447. Rango
448. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
449. The Safecracker
450. The Birth of a Nation
451. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
452. Hostile Witness
453. Crossfire (1947)
454. Adventure
455. Beat The Devil (1953)
456. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
457. Whipsaw
458. Paper Moon
459. Stage Door Canteen
460. Out of the Fog
461. Born To Dance
462. Fire Down Below
463. The Tales of Hoffmann
464. Camille (1921)
465. The Verdict
466. Algiers
467. Wise Girl
468. Everything Happens At Night
469. Kitty (1945)
470. Reap The Wild Wind
471. Neighbors (1920)
472. The Boat (1921)
473. Beau Geste (1939)
474. Raw Meat (aka Death Line)
475. Girl Shy
476. The Freshman (1925)
477. Welcome Danger
478. Jeanne d’Arc (1900)
479. Excelsior! – Prince of Magicians
480. Partie des cartes (Card Party)
481. L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat (Arrival of a Train At La Ciotat)
482. Requiem for a Heavyweight
483. Le Cauchemar (A Nightmare)
484. Une Nuit Terrible (A Terrible Night)
485. La Manoir du diable (The House of the Devil)
486. Un homme de têtes (Four Troublesome Heads)
487. Les cartes vivantes (The Living Playing Cards)
488. Easter Parade
489. The Silver Chalice
490. Phantom Lady
491. The Tunnel of Love (1958)
492. Mystic River
493. Who’s That Girl?
494. The Hill
495. Julie
496. Love Me Or Leave Me
497. Please Don’t Eat The Daisies
498. The Great Lover
499. Something To Sing About
500. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
501. The Miracle Woman
502. Girl Happy (TCM Film Fest)
503. Niagara (TCM Film Fest)
504. [May] Night Flight (TCM Film Fest)
505. Swing Your Lady
506. The Gay Sisters
507. The Heavenly Body
508. Close To My Heart
509. Night Into Morning
510. A Life of Her Own
511. The Man Who Played God (1932)
512. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
513. Night People
514. The Wrong Man (1956)
515. Dark Journey
516. Dear Heart
517. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
518. The Teahouse of the August Moon
519. The World Changes
520. The Kennel Murder Case
521. The Man With Two Faces
522. Midnight
523. The Nun’s Story
524. Stepping Out
525. Broadway Serenade
526. Wild Orchids
527. Room For One More
528. Bathing Beauty
529. Treasure Island (1934)
530. How To Steal A Million
531. Flesh (1932)
532. Wild Boys of the Road
533. Knock On Any Door
534. Beyond The Rocks
535. I Remember Mama
536. The Young Rajah
537. The Conquering Power
538. Judgement at Nuremberg
539. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
540. So Big (1953)
541. Of Human Hearts
542. Lured
543. H.M. Pulham, Esq.
544. The Sisters
545. Confessions of a Nazi Spy
546. The Roaring Twenties
547. The Rocking Horse Winner
548. The Demi-Paradise (aka Adventure for Two)
549. Murder, She Said
550. The Killing Fields
551. The Conqueror
552. Trade Winds
553. The Woman on the Beach
554. The Little Minister (1934)
555. Break of Hearts
556. A Woman Rebels
557. Quality Street (1937)
558. Little Women (1933)
559. Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
560. Pagan Love Song
561. 49th Parallel (aka The Invaders)
562. In This Our Life
563. Lydia
564. This Is The Night
565. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
566. The Garden of Eden (1928)
567. Wings of the Morning (1937)
568. That Certain Woman
569. The Mad Miss Manton
570. Young Mr. Lincoln
571. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
572. Viva Las Vegas
573. Strange Interlude
574. Woman Wanted (1935)
575. Let Us Live
576. The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
577. Cairo
578. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
579. Where Danger Lives
580. Bell, Book and Candle
581. Side Street (1950)
582. Cat People (1942)
583. The Curse of the Cat People
584. Johnny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
585. Dangerous When Wet
586. His Kind of Woman
587. All Fall Down
588. My Brilliant Career
589. Ordet
590. Awakenings
591. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages
592. My Sister Eileen (1955)
593. Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem)
594. Tickle Me
595. My Sister Eileen (1942)
596. The Doorway To Hell
597. Midnight In Paris
598. Paris When It Sizzles
599. New York, New York
600. The Year of Living Dangerously
601. Bird of Paradise (1932)
602. Julia Misbehaves
603. Detective Story
604. What Price Hollywood?
605. [June] Boom!
606. Queen Christina
607. Anchors Aweigh
608. The Celluloid Closet
609. The Tree of Life
610. Every Girl Should Be Married
611. Love Me Tender
612. Home Town Story
613. Golden Boy (1939)
614. A Letter To Three Wives
615. The Ox-Bow Incident
616. Ziegfeld Follies
617. Les vampires (1915)
618. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
619. The Scarlet Empress
620. Make Way For Tomorrow
621. No Man Of Her Own (1932)
622. The Wasp Woman (1959)
623. Beyond the Forest
624. Blonde Venus
625. Super 8
626. You Only Live Once
627. Rope
628. One Way Passage
629. Beginners
630. À nous la liberté
     
631. State Fair (1933)
632. Iron Man (1931)
633. Mr. Popper’s Penguins
634. X-Men: First Class
635. The Ice Follies of 1939
636. Fish Tank
637. Trouble In Paradise (1932)
638. The Boys In The Band
639. Repulsion
640. The Rainmaker (1956)
641. Across The Pacific (1942)
642. The Dark Mirror
643. Love Letters (1945)
644. The Stranger
645. My Darling Clementine
     
646. Paris, Texas
647. Le procès (aka The Trial)
648. The Big Parade
649. The Crowd
650. The Corpse Vanishes
651. Invisible Ghost
652. Baraka
653. The Last Tycoon
654. Duel in the Sun
655. Fail-Safe
656. The Great Train Robbery
657. Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge
658. Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
659. Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
660. Bulldog Drummond’s Peril
661. Bulldog Drummond in Africa
662. Bulldog Drummond Escapes
663. Arrest Bulldog Drummond
664. Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police
665. Bulldog Drummond’s Bride
666. Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
     
667. Our Hospitality
668. Two For The Road
669. Almost You
670. Portrait of Jennie
671. I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)
672. The Playhouse
673. The Love Nest
674. The Electric House
675. Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
676. The Devil Is A Woman
677. Journey Into Fear (1944)
678. [July] The Marrying Kind
679. Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
680. Cops (1922)
681. Convict 13
682. The Scarecrow
683. The Goat
684. The Haunted House
685. Hard Luck
686. The ‘High Sign’
687. The Tin Star
688. Broadway Melody of 1938
689. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
690. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
691. The Docks of New York
692. The Racket (1928)
693. Camille (1936)
694. Red River
695. Something Wild
696. Queen Kelly
697. The Pope of Greenwich Village
698. Streets of Fire
699. Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (The Hidden Fortress)
     
700. Phffft!
701. Gold Diggers of 1933
702. Taxi!
703. The Strawberry Blonde
704. The Hearts of Age
705. What’s Up, Doc?
706. Love Story
707. Why Husbands Flirt [SF Silent Film Festival]
708. Upstream (1927) [SF Silent Film Festival]
709. I Was Born, But… [SF Silent Film Festival]
710. The Great White Silence [SF Silent Film Festival]
711. The Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [SF Silent Film Festival]
712. Il Fuoco [SF Silent Film Festival]
713. Disney’s Newman Laugh-O-Gram reel [SF Silent Film Festival]
714. The Four Musicians of Bremen [SF Silent Film Festival]
715. Puss In Boots (1922) [SF Silent Film Festival]
716. Cinderella (1922) [SF Silent Film Festival]
717. Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1922) [SF Silent Film Festival]
718. Jack The Giant Killer (1922) [SF Silent Film Festival]
719. Alice’s Wonderland [SF Silent Film Festival]
720. Scoring Silent Newsreels [SF Silent Film Festival]
721. The Blizzard [SF Silent Film Festival]
722. The Goose Woman [SF Silent Film Festival]
723. Chumming With Chipmunks [SF Silent Film Festival]
724. Mr. Fix-It [SF Silent Film Festival]
725. Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (The Woman Men Yearn For) [SF Silent Film Festival]
726. Tribune-American Dream Picture [SF Silent Film Festival]
727. Shoes (1916) [SF Silent Film Festival]
728. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend [SF Silent Film Festival]
729. Le Spectre Rouge [SF Silent Film Festival]
730. The Acrobatic Fly [SF Silent Film Festival]
731. The Thieving Hand [SF Silent Film Festival]
732. Princess Nicotine, Or The Smoke Fairy [SF Silent Film Festival]
733. Arthème Swallows His Clarinet [SF Silent Film Festival]
734. The Cameraman’s Revenge [SF Silent Film Festival]
735. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend: The Pet [SF Silent Film Festival]
736. Filmstudie [SF Silent Film Festival]
737. Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra [SF Silent Film Festival]
738. Chess Fever [SF Silent Film Festival]
739. The Nail In The Boot [SF Silent Film Festival]
740. He Who Gets Slapped [SF Silent Film Festival]
741. Pather Panchali
742. The Last Waltz
743. Under Capricorn
744. Masculin féminin
745. Rio Grande
746. The Quiet Man
747. Fort Apache
748. A Delicate Balance
749. Top Hat
750. Frozen Alive
751. Dementia 13
752. The King of Comedy
753. 30 Minutes of Less
754. Captain America: The First Avenger
755. Things Change
756. A Thousand Clowns
757. Letty Lynton
758. The China Syndrome
759. Daughters of the Dust
760. The Front Page (1931)
761. The Spanish Prisoner
762. We’re Not Dressing
763. [August] Devil and the Deep
764. Rain
765. House of Games
766. The Blue Gardenia
767. Julia (1977)
768. It’s Love I’m After
769. Made For Each Other (1939)
770. Save The Tiger
771. My Cousin Rachel
772. Warlock (1959)
773. Weekend (1967)
774. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
775. The Long Voyage Home
776. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
777. Klute
778. Me and Rubyfruit
779. Hell’s Angels
780. Meek’s Cutoff
781. Limbo (1999)
782. Barry Lyndon
783. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
784. Prizzi’s Honor
785. The Smiling Lieutenant
786. A Yank At Oxford
787. Night Tide
788. With A Song In My Heart
789. Going The Distance (2010)
790. The Bride Came C.O.D.
791. Dodge City
792. Summer and Smoke
793. Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)
794. Glengarry Glen Ross
795. 42nd Street
796. Arise, My Love
797. Nickelodeon
798. Bells Are Ringing
799. Lady in the Lake
800. The Last Command
     
801. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
802. La ley del deseo (Law of Desire)
     
803. Norma Rae
804. Source Code
805. Advise & Consent
806. La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret)
807. Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
808. Bottle Rocket
809. One Day (2011)
810. The Help
811. Watching The Detectives
812. 2010: The Year We Make Contact
     
813. High Anxiety
814. Cape Fear (1991) 
815. Bluebeard (1944)
     
816. Caged
817. The Door with Seven Locks (aka Chamber of Horrors)
818. Les misérables (1935)
     
819. The Screaming Skull
820. Holiday (1930)
821. When Ladies Meet (1933)
822. Easy Living
     
823. A Blueprint For Murder
824. Ride Lonesome
825.  Silent Movie
     
826. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter
827. The Constant Nymph (1943)
     
828. The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (aka Phantom Ship)
829. Rio Bravo
     
830. Scared To Death
831. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
     
832. Clash By Night
833. Three Days of the Condor
     
834. New In Town
835. [September] Watership Down
836. Life of an American Fireman
837. Three Coins In The Fountain
838. 8 Mile
839. The ChubbChubbs!
840. Fait d’Hiver (Gridlock)
841. Down By Law
842. Short Cuts
843. Mysterious Skin
844. Fort Apache, The Bronx
845. Coquette
846. Spirited Away
847. Vivacious Lady
848. The Big Country
849. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
850.  The Grifters
     
851. They All Laughed
852. Highball
853. Stranger Than Paradise
854. Contagion
855. Mean Streets
856. The Hospital
857. Lady Killer
858. Johnny Guitar
859. The New Tenants
860. Mona Lisa (1986)
861. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
862. Lola rennt (aka Run Lola Run)
863. All That Jazz
864. The Critic
865. She Done Him Wrong
866. Drive
867. Jane Eyre (2011)
868. Thor
869. Permanent Vacation
870. The Man With The Golden Arm
     
871. Harry and Tonto
872. Foreign Correspondent
     
873. God of Love
874. All That Heaven Allows
875. Magnificent Obsession (1954)
     
876. Marked Woman
877. Man With The Movie Camera
878. Bull Durham
879. Night On Earth
880. They Drive by Night (a.k.a. The Road to Frisco)
     
881. Night Nurse
882. Mystery Train
883. You and Me
884. Directed By John Ford
885. Buena Vista Social Club
886. Other Men’s Women
887. Three on a Match
888. Elmer Gantry
889. All The Fine Young Cannibals
890. The Professionals
891. Who’s That Knocking at My Door
     
892. The Cabin In The Cotton
893. Ready (2002)
894. Sleep (2002)
895. The Player
896. Good Morning Vietnam
897. Machine Gun Preacher
898. The File on Thelma Jordon
899. The Long Goodbye
900. California Split
901. Kundun
902. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
     
903. What’s Your Number?
     
904. Coney Island (1917)
905. Romeo and Juliet (1936)
906. [October] 50/50
907. The Cat and the Canary (1927)
908. 3 Bad Men
909. Out West
910. The Angel Wore Red
911. Murder With Pictures
912. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
913. The Navigator
914. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
915. Real Steel
916. Dream House (2011)
917. Fool For Love
918. Vincent (1982)
919. In The Name of the Father
920. For The Birds
921. The Limits of Control
922. Geri’s Game
923. The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
924. The Ides of March
925. Spider (2007)
926. And The Red Man Went Green
     
927. Take Shelter
928. Island of Lost Souls
929. The Big Trail
930. Brighton Rock (1947)
931. The Saphead
932. Validation
933. Balance
934. The Big Year
935. F For Fake
936. The Heart of the World
937. Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair
938. L’arroseur arrosé
     
939. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
940. An Exercise in Discipline – Peel
941. Lady of the Tropics
942. Audrey Rose
943. Three Smart Girls
944. The Great Gatsby (1949)
945. In My Merry Oldsmobile
     
946. Micmacs
947. The Capture
948. Der er en yndig mand (This Charming Man)
949. West Bank Story
950. The Evictors
951. Mr. Arkadin
952. Midnight Express
953. Dead Man
954. I Married A Witch
955. When It Rains
956. Passionless Moments
957. Istället för abrakadabra (Instead of Abracadabra)
958. Around The World With Orson Welles
959. Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
960. The Falklands Play
961. Margaret (2009)
962. Lifted
963. Kiwi!
964. Presto
965. In The Bedroom
966. The Cat That Hated People
967. La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)
968. Sayonara
969. Arizona (1940)
970. All Good Things
971. George Lucas In Love
972. The Black Cat (1934)
973. The Invisible Ray
974. Pleasures of War
975. The Powers of Ten
976. Miss Austen Regrets
977. Suburban Plight
978. Blood and Sand (1941)
979. Videodrome
980. Martha Marcy May Marlene
981. Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque
982. In Old Arizona
983. ‘Neath the Arizona Skies
984. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
985. [November] The Big Combo
986. Straw Dogs (1971)
987. Detour (1945)
988. Bigger Than Life
989. Kansas City Confidential
990. A Stolen Life
991. Multi-Facial
992. Black Button
993. Alma (2009)
994. Suddenly
995. The Killer is Loose
     
996. Vera Cruz
997. I Wake Up Screaming
998. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
999. Footlight Parade
1000. Withnail & I
1001. Killer’s Kiss
1002. Her Night of Romance
1003. Her Sister From Paris
1004. Sudden Fear
1005. Hollywood Party
1006. Impact
1007. House By The River
1008. The Man Who Fell To Earth
1009. Boomerang!
1010. Om natten (At Night)
1011. Romancing the Stone
1012. Caught
1013. Three Ages
1014. 7th Heaven
      
1015. Two Rode Together
1016. I Walk Alone
1017. Shock
1018. The Descendants
      
1019. Among the Living
1020. Angel Face
      
1021. The Big Knife
1022. 99 River Street
1023. Tanghi Argentini (Tonight Argentina)
1024. Il supplente (The Substitute)
1025. Death By Scrabble
1026. Criss Cross
1027. Human Desire
1028.  The San Francisco Story
1029. He Ran All The Way
1030. My Week With Marilyn
1031. Witness To Murder
1032. Woody Allen: A Documentary
1033. Hugo
1034. Fear in the Night
1035. The Muppets
1036. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
1037. Hangover Square
1038. Water For Elephants
1039. The Turning Point (1952)
1040. Don’t Bother To Knock
1041. The Farmer’s Daughter
1042. The Reckless Moment
1043. Melancholia
1044. The Redhead and the Cowboy
1045. Panic in the Streets
1046. In Old Chicago
1047. Untamed Heart
1048. Armored Car Robbery
1049. Cause For Alarm
1050. Les Diaboliques
1051. The Artist
1052. [December] Adventure in Manhattan
1053. The Prince and the Showgirl
1054. Moneyball
1055. We Bought A Zoo
1056. Xanadu
1057. Shame
1058. River of No Return
1059. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1060. 9
1061. College (1927)
1062. Boxcar Bertha
1063. The Gentle Sex
1064. These Three
1065. Natural Born Killers
1066. The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
1067. Death Takes A Holiday
1068. Underworld (1927)
1069. Johnny Suede
1070. The Quatermass Xperiment
1071. Plot Device
1072. Young Adult
1073. Weird Science
1074. Career Opportunities
1075. Chimes At Midnight
1076. C Me Dance
1077. Zombie High (aka The School That Ate My Brain)
1078. Bridesmaids
1079. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
1080. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
1081. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1082. A Dangerous Method
1083. Carnage
1084. Fort Bowie
1085. The Last Sunset
1086. Albert Nobbs
1087. We Need to Talk About Kevin
1088. Man in the Shadow
1089. Apache
1090. Rampart
1091. Another Earth
1092. J. Edgar
1093. Invitation to a Gunfighter
1094. Young Man With Ideas
1095. Warrior
1096. The Vikings
1097. Scrooge (1970)
1098. L’arbre de Noël (aka The Christmas Tree)
1099. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
1100. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
1101. Indestructible Man
1102. Divorzio all’italiana (Divorce – Italian Style)
1103. War Horse
1104. Young Dr. Kildare 
1105. Calling Dr. Kildare
1106. The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1107. Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case
1108. Dr. Kildare Goes Home 
1109. Dr. Kildare’s Crisis
1110. The People vs. Dr. Kildare
1111. Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day
1112. Dr. Kildare’s Victory
1113. The Devil’s Double
1114. Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation)
1115. The Last Temptation of Christ
1116. Eyes Wide Shut
1117. Le notti bianche

Here is a breakdown by decade. I would like to point out that this skews very classic because that’s what I really focused on this year. I have been actively watching films since I was about four years old (just ask my parents), so I’ve seen A LOT of films from the 80s on already in my life. I have a few holes in those decades, this is true, but for the most part I’ve got them covered already.

1880s: 1
1890s: 6
1900s: 13
1910s: 14
1920s: 87
1930s: 247
1940s: 188
1950s: 168
1960s: 94
1970s: 64
1980s: 62
1990s: 49
2000s: 60
2010s: 64

Last year I also picked twenty films as my favorite new-to-me films of the year. I found this to be an impossible task this year. Each month I picked five, so if you read those posts, you can get a little glimpse into some of the films I loved at the time. I will say, however, that there was one film that I loved above all. Yes, out of the 1,117 films there is one film that I can definitely call “my favorite.” It’s a film I watched for the first time in February and since then have watched about ten more times. That would be none other than Martin Scorsese’s 1985 film After Hours.

I just love this film so much. It’s one Kafkaesque night in the life of a word processor stuck in SoHo whose only desire is to go home, something that appears to be impossible. Every time I watch this film I find something new about it to love. There are hundreds of films I watched this year that are definitely worth your time, but if you only feel you can handle watching one of them, I say you make it this one.

So that brings us up to speed with 2011 and leaves us wondering what 2012 will hold. Well, I’ve yet to watch a film so far this year (it’s just about 1PM my time), but the day is young. I’m not sure I’ll be able to keep up this heavy pace of film watching, but I will do my best to watch at least one new-to-me film a day. I will say, my one film watching New Year’s resolution is to watch more classic world cinema. I’ve got France pretty well covered (though, I’m still missing a few from there as well), but I need to see more classic Italian and German and Swedish and Russian and Japanese and Indian and Spanish and and and so many other foreign film industries. So, as I work through 2012 in film, I will try my best to include more cinema from around the world. I hope you follow me through that journey as well. Happy New Year to you all and may 2012 be filled with even more great cinematic discoveries!