New-to-me viewings: 46
Re-watches: 3

Total for January: 49

Total for 2014 so far: 49

New-to-me list:

  • Sitting on the Moon (1936)
  • Let’s Go Collegiate (1941)
  • The Bigamist (1953)
  • The Wrong Road (1937)
  • The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
  • Endless Love (1981)
  • Laughing Sinners (1931)
  • Father is a Prince (1940)
  • Greenberg (2010)
  • Exiles (2013)
  • OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
  • Embraceable You (1948)
  • Murder with Music (1941)
  • Five Minutes to Live (1961)
  • Her (2013)
  • The Maverick Queen (1955)
  • It’s a Date (1940)
  • Lone Survivor (2013)
  • Signs of Life (1989)
  • Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons (1978)
  • Dogs of War (1923)
  • Fluttering Hearts (1927)
  • It’s a Gift (1923)
  • A Night in the Show (1915)
  • A Rare Chaplin Snippet (1916)
  • The Rink (1916)
  • Live Wires and Love Sparks (1916)
  • He’s In Again (1918)
  • Pie-Eyed (1925)
  • Only Me (1929)
  • Duplex (2003)
  • Water Wagons (1925)
  • Out Bound (1924)
  • Chasing Choo-Choos (1927)
  • Danger Ahead (1926)
  • Yukon Jake (1924)
  • Three of a Kind (1926)
  • Dry and Thirsty (1921)
  • Family Life (1924)
  • Now You Tell One (1926)
  • The Grocery Clerk (1920)
  • Mumford (1999)
  • Stuck in Love (2012)
  • Nebraska (2013)
  • The Last Word (2008)

As you may be able to tell by looking at the titles and dates on the above list, a good chunk of my viewing this month was dedicated to finishing up the short films in the Slapstick Encyclopedia. I’m reviewing these films in an series, every Thursday for eleven weeks beginning on February 6. (Ten of the posts will cover one volume of the set each, and then there will be a final wrap-up post listing my favorites & reviewing the set as a whole.)

Viewing methods:

  • At the cinema – 4
  • From my collection – 31
  • Netflix Instant – 8
  • TCM/DVR – 1
  • Vimeo – 1
  • WatchTCM  streaming – 4

By decade:

  • 1910s – 5
  • 1920s – 15
  • 1930s – 5
  • 1940s – 5
  • 1950s – 2
  • 1960s – 1
  • 1970s – 1
  • 1980s – 4
  • 1990s – 1
  • 2000s – 3
  • 2010s – 7

DVD collection update:

I did some damage this month and the only explanation I have for myself is that, hey, January was my first month of grad school, life changes are stressful, who doesn’t like a bit of DVD therapy? My shelves are aching a little bit more with the weight of this month’s acquisitions. But everything I got was bargain-priced. Here’s the list, in video form: