Friday, January 3, 2014

Civilian 2013 Wrap-Up and Year-End Stats!




Back again!

Having addressed the horror genre in the previous entry (hey, this is HORROR 101 after all), it’s now time to give the civilian flicks a moment in the sun. As before, all titles listed were encountered for the first time from January 1 to December 31, 2013 (i.e. no repeat viewings were eligible), with  top picks denoted with an asterisk. (*)  

Because I didn’t get to the cinema much outside of the early 2013 Oscar race and the two festivals (SXSW and BIFFF), it’s not surprising that my 2013 civilian favorites were dominated by 2012 releases and limited 2013 screenings.  But these are the cards I’m holding, so these are the ones I’m playing.

Let the OCD madness begin!!!

2013 Totals: 306 films, 240 1st time views, 185 horror, 69 cinema

(2012 Totals: 607, 520, 362, 166)
(2011 Totals: 640, 419, 355, 59)
(2010 Totals: 364, 253, 242, 45)
(2009 Totals: 472, 276, 289, 38)
(2008 Totals: 384, 278, 226, 39)
(2007 Totals: 409, 284, 260, 40)


TOP CIVILIAN VIEWS RELEASED IN (OR AROUND) 2013


56 Up! (2012)
Amour (2012)
Argo (2012)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Gravity (2013)
The Impossible (2012)
Jonas (2013)*
Life of Pi (2012)
Rust and Bone (2012)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)*
The Sessions (2012)
Stoker (2013)
Upstream Color (2013)*






FESTIVAL FAVES (AWAITING WIDE RELEASE)


Blancanieves (2012)*
Coldwater (2013)
Confession of Murder (2012)
Downloaded (2013)
The Fifth Season (2013)
I am Divine (2013)
I Declare War (2012)
Pieta (2012)
Short Term 12 (2013)
Sound City (2013)
Yellow (2013)
Zero Charisma (2013)







TOP CIVILIAN DISCOVERIES OF 2013

21 Jump Street (2012)
Ban the Sadist Videos! (2006)
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
The Do-Deca Pentathalon (2012)
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
Once (2006)*
The Outlaw (1943)
Reefer Madnes: The Movie Musical (2005)
Righting Wrongs (aka Above the Law) (1986)
Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)





WORTH SEEING

 

Animals (2012)
The Butler (2013)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Date Night (2010)
Haywire (2012)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Super (2010)












MIXED BAGS


 
The Call (2013)
The Heat (2013)
Marley & Me (2008)
Room 237 (2012)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)













WORST CIVILIAN VIEWS OF 2013







Man of Steel (2013)
X, Y and Zee (1972)













WHAT THE *&*%#^$%#% DID I JUST WATCH? (CIVILIAN EDITION)




The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Gymkata (1985)
The Last Dragon (1985)
Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Van Nuys Blvd. (1979)
Vanishing Waves (2012)








 
MORE FUN STATS FROM 2013…


DOCUMENTARIES WATCHED: 18 
Harlan County U.S.A., In the Belly of the Beast, The Smashing Machine, The VanBebber Family, The Meltdown Memoirs, Ban the Sadist Videos!, Religulous, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Searching for Sugar Man, 56 Up!, Room 237, Men in Suits, Downloaded, I am Divine, Milius, Sound City, The World's End: Making of Day of the Dead, Crystal Lake Memories


MOST VIEWED ACTOR:
Klaus Kinski (Venom, Schizoid, Crawlspace)


MOST VIEWED DIRECTORS:
(3)
John Carpenter (Body Bags, Assault on Precinct 13, Prince of Darkness)
Jess Franco (Castle of Fu Manchu, Lorna…the Exorcist, Dracula: Prisoner of Frankenstein)
William Fruet (Death Weekend, Baker County USA, Funeral Home)

(2)
Andrew Davis (The Final Terror, Code of Silence)
Christian Duguay (Scanners II, Scanners III)
Larry Fessenden (Beneath, Habit)
Sam Firstenberg (Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination)
Marc Forster (Stranger Than Fiction, World War Z)
David Gregory (Ban the Sadist Videos, The VanBebber Family)
Todd Haynes (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, I’m Not There)
Fred J. Lincoln (Serena: An Adult Fairy Tale, Same Time Every Year)
Adam Rehmeier (The Bunny Game, Jonas)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle)
David Schmoeller (Crawlspace, The Seduction)


MULTIPLE VIEWS IN 2013 (** - by choice; all others indicate review purposes)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2)
The Beast Within (2)
Body Bags (2)
Crawlspace (2)
Evil Dead** (2)
The Horror Show (2)
Knightriders (2)
The Lords of Salem (2)
Night of the Comet
Saturn 3 (2)
You’re Next** (2)


SEEING DOUBLE:
Crawlspace (1986, 2013)
Possession (1981) & The Possession (2012)
We Are What We Are (2010, 2013)
The World’s End (2013) & The World’s End: The Making of Dawn of the Dead (2013)


GOING A-Z
Saw films with titles starting with every letter of the alphabet
(Q: The Winged Serpent & X, Y, and Zee, in case you were wondering)


WATCHED (AND REVIEWED!) XXX-RATED MOVIES


COUNTRIES OF RECORD: 26
Argentinia, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA


EARLIEST FILM WATCHED:
The Old Dark House (1932)


LONGEST STREAK OF SEEING FILMS FROM EACH YEAR:
1969-1974, 1976-1996, 1999-2013 (i.e., this was a disaster)


VIEWINGS BY MONTH:
January – 28
February – 18
March – 37 (SXSW)
April –  56 (BIFFF)
May – 6
June – 26
July – 17
August – 14
September – 18
October – 38 (October Challenge)
November – 21
December – 27


TOP VIEWING YEARS:
2012 – 85
2013 – 58
2011 – 13
2010 – 10
1981 – 8
1982 – 8
1980 – 7
1976 – 6
1985 – 6
2006 – 6


VIEWS BREAKDOWN BY DECADE:
1930s – 2
1940s – 2
1950s – 3
1960s – 9
1970s – 27
1980s – 52
1990s – 16
2000s – 29
2010s - 166


That’s all, folks! See you next year...

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