It’s my birthday today.

A few years ago, a friend of a friend got me started on an annual tradition. The idea is to make a list of things you want to do in the next year. You make it on your birthday and seal it in an envelope. Odds are, within a week you’ll forget at least half the list.

On your next birthday you open the list and have this serendipitous moment of seeing what you managed to do.

For the last two years, I have morphed that idea into my own little bit of geekery. I turned the list into movies I wanted to see over the course of the next year. Given my affinity for the number, I chose twenty one titles. Out of last year’s twenty one, I got through six. The year before I managed eight, but what can I say? I got distracted this year with lightbox…and film festivals…and the like.

This year’s list is below the cut.

Now if you’ll pardon me, I’m off to enjoy a day away from the office…

ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
ANTICHRIST
BAD LIEUTENANT
BROADCAST NEWS
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS
CRONOS
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE
ENTER THE VOID
EVIL DEAD
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
HIGH NOON
HUNGER
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY
ONE, TWO, THREE
PAPRIKA
THE PLAYER
POLYTECHNIQUE
SANJURO
SCHIZOPOLIS
THIRST