If you move your eyes a degree or two to the right, you’ll notice a new feature: a complete tally of all the DVDs I’ve received, the Q&As I’ve witnessed, and the screenings I’ve attended since the For Your Consideration season started in October. I’ve also listed the films I hope to see before 4 January, when the first round of BAFTA voting ends. I’ll try to update the tally regularly as I attended more screenings.
If there’s a film that came out in 2005 that you think deserves consideration in any category, and I’ve left it off my list, let me know, and I’ll try to see it.
One thing that helped me put this list together is that I’m pretty careful about keeping track of which movies I’ve seen; after I’ve seen a movie, I make a point of entering it into my list, and jotting down a few notes about my impression. Looking over the list as a whole, I notice that I’ve seen roughly 85 movies thus far in 2005 (including DVDs). This is far above the national average, but doesn’t seem like all that much to me. I blame all the traveling I’ve done this year. Clearly, I am spending too much time seeing the real world, and not enough time in somebody else’s fantasy. I will have to do something about that next year.