Whether or not he or she admits to it, deep inside every film buff is the desire to watch a certain number of films in a given year. Perhaps most people don’t do what I do, and set that number as their New Year’s resolution, but most people are not so wankeriffic as I am.
Yesterday, I reached a total of 183 distinct films watched in 2006, which is to say I’ve already hit my unofficial target of averaging one film every other day of the year with more than four months left to go.
Bragging is all well and good, but for the purposes of historical inquiry, I include the list of Every Damn Film I’ve seen since the 1st after the jump.
January
1. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
2. Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, 2004
3. Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, 2005)
4. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
5. Cinderella (Disney Studios, 1950)
6. The White Countess (James Ivory, 2005)
7. Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
8. The Matador (Richard Shepard, 2005)
9. MirrorMask (Dave McKean, 2005)
10. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
11. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
12. Hostel (Eli Roth, 2006)
13. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
14. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
15. Tristan & Isolde (Kevin Reynolds, 2006)
16. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
17. The Apple (Menahem Golan, 1980)
18. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
19. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks, 2006)
20. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
21. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (Sydney J. Furie, 1987)
22. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
23. Godzilla (Roland Emmerich, 1998)
24. Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood, Jr, 1959)
25. Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973)
26. Gas-s-s! (Roger Corman, 1971)
27. Tromeo and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman, 1996)
28. Graffiti Bridge (Prince, 1990)
29. Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple, 1988)
30. Rhinestone (Bob Clark, 1984)
31. Cobra Woman (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
32. SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (Bob Clark, 2004)
33. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
34. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1972)
February
35. The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich, 1934)
36. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
37. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis 1949)
38. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
39. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)
40. Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
41. When a Stranger Calls (Simon West, 2006)
42. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2005)
43. Firewall (Richard Loncraine, 2006)
44. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006)
45. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
46. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
47. The Pink Panther (Shawn Levy, 2006)
48. Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki, 2005)
March
49. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Michel Gondry, 2006)
50. Night Watch (Timur Bekmambatov, 2004)
51. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006)
52. Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, 2005)
53. The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja, 2006)
54. Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006)
55. Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, 2005)
56. Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1976)
April
57. Slither (James Gunn, 2006)
58. Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2006)
59. Take the Lead (Liz Friedlander, 2006)
60. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005
61. Lucky Number Slevin (Paul McGuigan, 2006)
62. L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005)
63. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950)
64. The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, 2005)
65. Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener, 2006)
May
66. American Dreamz (Paul Weitz, 2006)
67. Kinky Boots (Julian Jarrold, 2005)
68. Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)
69. Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, 2006)
70. The Promise (Chen Kaige, 2005)
71. Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff, 2006)
72. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
73. Poseidon (Wolfgang Petersen, 2006)
74. Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, 1994)
75. Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
76. Superman II (Richard Lester, 1980)
77. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002)
78. The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2006)
79. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
80. Down in the Valley (David Jacobson, 2005)
81. X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner, 2006)
82. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
83. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956
June
84. The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005)
85. An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2006)
86. The Pornographers (Imamura Shohei, 1966)
87. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
88. Back to the Future, Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
89. Back to the Future, Part III (Robert Zemeckis, 1990)
90. Banlieue 13 (Pierre Morel, 2004)
91. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
92. Typhoon (Kwak Kyung-Taek, 2005)
93. The Omen (John Moore, 2006)
94. Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick, 2006)
95. Cars (John Lasseter, 2006)
96. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006)
97. Lady and the Tramp (Disney Animation, 1955)
98. California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
99. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, 1933)
100. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
101. The Break-Up (Peyton Reed, 2006)
102. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
103. Nacho Libre (Jared Hess, 2006)
104. The Front (Martin Ritt, 1976)
105. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
106. The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer, 1925)
107. Water (Deepa Mehta, 2005)
108. The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti, 2006)
109. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
110. La bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938)
111. Wordplay (Patrick Creadon, 2006)
112. Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1930)
113. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)
114. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
115. Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006)
116. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
117. House of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton, 1944)
118. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
119. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
July
120. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley 1933)
121. The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)
122. Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004)
123. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
124. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles F. Reisner, 1928)
125. The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)
126. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006)
127. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
128. Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
129. Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine, 2006)
130. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
131. Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992)
132. Manhattan Murder Mystery(Woody Allen, 1993)
133. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler, 1970)
134. A Sailor-Made Man (Fred C. Newmeyer, 1921)
135. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box & Nick Park, 2005)
136. Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello, 2006)
137. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, 1976)
138. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (George Bamber, 2005)
139. Beowulf & Grendel (Sturla Gunnarsson, 2005)
140. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
141. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
142. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, 1969)
143. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley, 1933)
144. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
145. Clerks II (Kevin Smith, 2006)
146. Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan, 2006)
147. Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980)
148. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
149. Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders, 1993)
150. Dames (Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley, 1934)
151. Monster House (Gil Kenan, 2006)
152. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
153. College (James W. Horne, 1927)
154. Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006)
155. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
156. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)
157. Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders, 1985)
August
158. John Tucker Must Die (Betty Thomas, 2006)
159. The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey and Joseph Santley, 1929)
160. Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
161. The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
162. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006)
163. Dr. Jack (Fred C. Newmeyer, 192)
164. International House (Edward Sutherland, 1933)
165. The Petrified Forest (Archie L. Mayo, 1936)
166. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay, 2006)
167. Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall, 2002)
168. The Night Listener (Patrick Stettner, 2006)
169. Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, 2006)
170. Changing Times (André Téchiné, 2004)
171. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
172. The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
173. The Godfather, Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
174. Pulse (Jim Sonzero, 2006)
175. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
176. Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)
177. Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis, 2006)
178. Trust the Man (Bart Freundlich, 2006)
179. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (David Zucker, 1991)
180. Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley, 1934)
181. The Illusionist (Neil Burger, 2006)
182. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
183. The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, 1955)
Goal #2: 183 films that I’ve never seen before in one calendar year. I’ll be there before the end of September.