DVD Dreams - My 2008 - The Year of the Foreign Film
Best New Movies of 2008
Baby Mama
Be Kind Rewind
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
In Bruges
Iron Man
Leatherheads
The Promotion
Smart People
Watching The Detectives
Best 2007 Movies seen for the FIRST TIME
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford
The Edge of Heaven
Gone Baby Gone
Into The Wild
Juno
Lars and The Real Girl
Margot at the Wedding
Michael Clayton
My Blueberry Nights
El Orphanato
Paranoid Park
Rocket Science
The Savages
The Visitor
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Best pre-2007 Movies seen for the FIRST TIME
Affliction
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Asphalt Jungle
Bully
The Celluloid Closet
Central Station
Charade
Chunking Express
A Clockwork Orange
Crime Wave
The Crimson Rivers
The Day of The Jackal
Deconstructing Harry
Delirious
Duck Soup
The Exterminating Angel
Festen
Fitzcarraldo
Forbidden Games
The Getaway (1994)
Harold and Maude
Head-On
Hearts of Darkness
In The Heat of The Night
Insomnia
Leave Her To Heaven
Lenny
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lilith
M
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Midnight Cowboy
The Quick and The Dead
Quick Change
Rififi
Run Of The Arrow
Le Samourai
Shanghai Triad
She's Gotta Have It
The Spirit Of The Beehive
Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures
Straight Time
Sudden Fear
Umberto D.
Ulysses' Gaze
Wages of Fear
Week End
When We Were Kings
Friday, February 1, 2008
My Widescreen Dreams - Watching the Oscars
In 2007, I watched 608 movies. How many will it be this year?
* - Seen NOT for the first time # - Seen for the first time
N - Netflix B - Blockbuster D = DVD T - Theater M - Misc 112.) 30 Days of Night - N - 82 111.) Affliction - M - 81 110.) Pickup On South Street - N - 80 109.) Dan In Real Life - M - 79 108.) Four Brothers - M - 78 107.) The Darjeeling Limited - N* 106.) There Will Be Blood - M 105.) He Got Game - M - 77 104.) Michael Clayton - N 103.) Chunking Express - M - 76 - Hong Kong 102.) The Hunting Party - B - 75 101.) Cassandra's Dream - M - 74 100.) No Country For Old Men - M* 99.) Straight Time - N - 73 98.) Hunchback of Notre Dame - N* 97.) The Kite Runner - M - 72 96.) Before The Devil Knows You're Dead - M* 95.) Margot At The Wedding - N - 71 94.) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington - M - 70 93.) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - M 92.) Seven Days in May - N - 69 91.) Black Snake Moan - N* 90.) August Rush - M - 68 89.) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - M - 67 88.) Umberto D. - M - 66 - Italy 87.) Gone Baby Gone - M 86.) Mississippi Burning - M* 85.) Interview with the Assassin - M - 65 84.) We Own The Night - N - 64 83.) Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and The Butterfly) - M - 63 - France 82.) Snakes On A Plane - M - 62 81.) Punch-Drunk Love - D* 80.) Across The Universe - M - 61 79.) No Reservations - N - 60 78.) La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) - M - 59 - Italy 77.) Searching for Bobby Fischer - NOnline* 76.) Boogie Nights - D* 75.) Elizabeth: The Golden Age - N - 58 74.) Lars and the Real Girl - M - 57 73.) Kind Hearts and Coronets - M - 56 72.) Sydney (aka Hard Eight) - D* 71.) Jurassic Park - D* 70.) Le Samourai - M - 55 - France 69.) Witness - M* 68.) The Brave One - B - 54 67.) Magnolia - D* 66.) I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With - M - 53 65.) Beaufort - M - 52 - Israel 64.) Taxi To The Dark Side - M - 51 63.) The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Tidal Seas / Coasts - N - 50 62.) The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Seasonal Seas / Coral Seas - N - 49 61.) In The Valley Of Elah - M - 48 60.) Enchanted - M - 47 59.) Michael Clayton - M - 46 58.) Gangs of New York - N* 57.) Into The Wild - M - 45 56.) In The Heat of The Night - M - 44 55.) Harold and Maude - N - 43 54.) Bee Movie - M - 42 53.) Norbit - M - 41 52.) Invincible - M - 40 51.) She's Gotta Have It - N - 39 50.) Martian Child - M - 38 49.) Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience - M - 37
All Foreign Language Films Watched (* equals Favorites)
Mediterraneo
Hard-Boiled
Leolo
Indochine
El Mariachi*
Gomorra
Faraway, So Close*
La Belle Et La Bete
Three Colors: Blue*
Katyn
12
Cronos*
A Tale of Two Sisters*
El Orfanato*
Before The Rain
Riget*
Chungking Express*
L' Enfer*
Ashes of Time
Four Days In September*
The Exterminating Angel*
The Crimson Rivers*
Shanghai Triad*
Ulysses' Gaze*
Ordet*
The City of Lost Children
Fallen Angels
Breathless*
Underground
Head-On*
Ikiru
Tell No One*
The Trap*
Kolja*
La Zona
Mad Detective
Jar City*
Exiled
The Spirit of The Beehive*
La Promesse*
8 1/2*
Fitzcarraldo*
My Best Friend
Insomnia*
Happy Together
Week End*
Belle de Jour
Aguirre: The Wrath of God*
Funny Games
Signs of Life
Life Is Beautiful*
The Edge Of Heaven*
Central Station*
Aleksandra
Rififi*
Festen*
The Wages of Fear*
The Grand Illusion*
Rashomon
L'Eclisse*
Woman In The Dunes
Le Mepris/Contempt*
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Passion of The Christ
All About My Mother
Forbidden Games*
El Orphanato*
M*
Chunking Express*
Umberto D*
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly*
The Unknown
Le Samourai*
Beaufort
Mongol
The Counterfeiters*
Breaking News
Pickpocket
Spoorloos
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days*
Persepolis
Paris, je t'aime*
The Seven Samurai
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Der Untergang
Nine Queens
