Best Christmas Present of 2011

Last year I got a membership at the Film Forum for Christmas.  That means I got to see movies for cheaper there.  It was great, the freedom go to my favorite theater as much as I care to.  Here's what I saw last year.  Typed up here it doesn't seem like so many, but in real life it felt like I was visiting quite regularly.

• Laura
• A Separation -- That movie about an Iranian couple trying to get a divorce.  A bummer, but not the bummer I had been expecting.
• A Man Escaped--An old movie about a man escaping from prison.  I like how it was just about him escaping prison.
• The Searchers--Many call this the greatest Western.  Uhhh.  Maybe Westerns weren't all that great?
• Children of Paradise
• Ruggles of Red Gap
• The Graduate--Didn't realize how funny it was.
• The Gang's All Here--Busby Berkeley/Carmen Miranda mind bender.  Perhaps the inspiration for Tron?
• Celine and Julie Go Boating--Magnificently weird superlong French film.  Loved it.
• Bonjour Tristesse
• Sunset Boulevard
• Django--Super violent Spaghetti Western that launched 1000 imitators, "Django" is the "Famous Rays Pizza" of movies.
• Funny Face
• The Wolfman -- See Below
• The Mummy -- Scary movie double feature. The Wolfman is only just so-so, the Mummy is rad.
• Spanish Dracula -- A Spanish language version filmed at the same time as the classic Bela Lugosi version on the same sets.
• Citizen Kane--Watched this to see if it was better than Vertigo.  It most certainly is. 
• Why Worry?--Harold Lloyd movie about a rich hypochondriac who goes to South America to recouperate.  Brilliant.  So funny.
• Vertigo -- Watched to see if it was the Best Movie of All Time (as some poll declared).  It most certainly isn't.
• Safety Last--That Harold Lloyd where he hangs from a clock.  Why Worry? is funnier.
• Grand Amour
• Holy Motors--Also magnificently weird.  One of the only New Releases I saw at the Film Forum this year.
• Girl Shy
• Man in the White Suit--The only movie I saw at the Film Forum this year that I straight up did not care for.
• Tess -- So good.
• The Conformist
• Il Sorpasso -- File Under "So Good" as well.

Christmas 2012, my membership was renewed.  I look forward to another fine year of fine films, starting tonight or tomorrow.