A place to keep track of the fifty new (to me) films and fifty new books I shall attempt to consume in 2012.
Film
#1 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 1/1/12
#2 The Curse of the Cat People 3/1/12
#3 The Leopard Man 3/1/12
#4 I walked with a zombie 4/1/12
#5 The Body Snatcher 5/1/12 (and so ends the mini season of RKO horror films on BBC)
#6 Mongol 5/1/12
#7 The Young Victoria 6/1/12
#8 The Infidel 7/1/12 (first film I haven't really enjoyed)
#9 Transsiberian 8/1/12 (pretty terrible)
#10 Precious 9/1/12 (back on track)
#11 Little Lady Fauntleroy 11/1/12 (documentary on DVD)
#12 The Social Network 11/1/12
#13 Catfish 13/1/12
#14 Adventureland 14/1/12
#15 The King's Speech 14/1/12
#16 Bridget Jones: The edge of reason 14/1/12
#17 The extraordinary adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec 15/1/12
#18 X-Men First Class 16/1/12
#19 Tyrannosaur 17/1/12
#20 A Tale of two cities 19/1/12
#21 Man of Aran 20/1/12
#22 Industrial Britain 20/1/12 (20 min documentary)
#23 A very long engagement 22/1/12
#24 The Big Lebowksi 22/1/12
#25 The Whale Rider 24/1/12
#26 Thor 27/112
#27 Happy People: A year in the Taiga28/1/12
#28 Way of the Morris 28/1/12
#29 Super 8 29/1/12
#30 Starship Troupers 30/1/12
#31Black Pond 31/1/12
#32 Sailcloth 1/2/12
#33 Eighty Eight 1/2/12
#34 Mowser 1/2/12
#35 The wrecking season 1/2/12
#36 Return to Kestle 1/2/12
#37 Attack the block 3/2/12
#38 Iron Man 5/2/12
#39 Lemonade 5/2/12
#40 Paris is Burning 5/2/12
#41 Son of Babylon 6/2/12
#42 Bluebeard 9/2/12
#43 Paper Clips 11/2/12
#44 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 12/2/12
#45 Old Joy 12/2/12
#46 District 9 13/2/12
#47 Inception 13/2/12
#48 Alfred Wallis 15/2/12
#49 Treeless Mountain 17/2/12
#50 The Tree of Life 18/2/12
#51 Iron Man 2 18/2/12
#52 Starsky and Hutch 20/2/12
#53 Lourdes 23/2/12
#54 Attenburg 25/2/12
#55 Gallivant 25/2/12
#56 Potiche 25/2/12
#57 Wendy and Lucy 26/2/12
#58 The wasp woman 26/2/12
#59 Eegah 27/2/12
#60 Prehistoric Women 27/2/12
#61 Bagdad Cafe 28/2/12
#62 Black Cat White Cat 29/2/12
#63 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 3/3/12
#64 Up 4/3/12
Books
#1 A Game of Thrones 9/1/12
#2 The Hunger Games 10/1/12
#3 Catching Fire 21/1/12
#4 Mockingjay 22/1/12
#5 Fun Home
#6 Will you still love me if I wet the bed?
#7 Prophets of the ghost ants
#8 Hark! A vagrant
#9 Dead until Dark
#10 Undertow
#11 I curse the river of time
#12 The year of the hare