As I said
about this time last year, I’m more than a little embarrassed by my habit of making compulsive lists of the movies and plays that I see and the books that I read. (Actually, I’ve only been keeping a list of the plays that I see for a couple of years now—I wish I had a better record of what I’d seen in London, Madrid, Seattle, and on my quick jaunts to New York when I still lived on the West Coast.)
Anyhoo, what’s the point of feeling self-conscious about my anorak tendencies, may as well just revel in them and reveal them. (And it’s not like I’m providing a pivot table or offering any complicated correlations.)
In 2006, I saw
71 plays (confession: this does count five constituent plays of
Druid/Synge separately; second confession, yes, five, I left before the last one!); I saw
22 movies; and I read
57 books.
Movie-going has taken a huge hit since we moved to New York. I saw
106 movies in 2004, my last full year in Seattle; then
42 in 2005; then 22 in this first full year here. New York is a great movie city—but so is Seattle. There’s nothing like the magnificent
SIFF on my New York cultural agenda, nor is there anything like the
Warren Report —at least that I’m aware of. (The one time I went to a
New York Observer Cinema Club screening, the line was ridiculous. We didn’t make it into the movie, despite arriving early—I decided right then that it wasn’t worth saving the price of admission.) But the biggest reason for the low movie count, of course, was that I spent more than 65 afternoons and evenings in the theater.
I don’t think I’ll do a series of Top 10 lists or anything quite so formal, but check back over the next couple of days for my thoughts on the most memorable—and sometimes disappointing—plays, books, movies, TV shows, and music of 2006.
Labels: 2006, anorak, books, cinema, lists, movies, plays, theater
