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
Continuing the tradition from last month, here are the top 3 new films (films seen for the first time) and the top 3 old films (films seen previously) watched during the month of March:
NEW
1.) El Orphanato 2.) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 3.) Charade
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
188.) Kiss Me Deadly - D* 187.) Following - M* 186.) Le Mepris - N* - France 185.) Wonder Boys - D* 184.) Zelig - M - 130 183.) The Matrix - D* 182.) Adaptation - D* 181.) The Purple Rose of Cairo - D* 180.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - M - 129 - France 179.) The Fountainhead - M - 128 178.) The Perfect Storm - M* 177.) Body Heat - M* 176.) Vantage Point - M - 127 175.) A Midnight Clear - M - 126 174.) Eagle vs. Shark - M - 125 173.) Slums of Beverly Hills - M - 124 172.) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - M - 123 171.) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - M - 122 170.) Southland Tales - M - 121 169.) My Blueberry Nights - M - 120 168.) To Have and Have Not - M - 119 167.) Dark Passage - M - 118 166.) The Harder They Fall - M - 117 165.) Reservation Road - M - 116 164.) The Passion of The Christ - M - 115 163.) The African Queen - M - 114 162.) Four Weddings and a Funeral - N* 161.) Memento - D* 160.) Enchanted - N* 159.) Glory Road - M - 113 158.) A Life Less Ordinary - N - 112 157.) The Killers (1946) - M - 111 156.) Minority Report - D* 155.) Crime Wave - M - 110 154.) Jumper - M - 109 153.) Cellular - M - 108 152.) Girl, Interrupted - D* 151.) All About My Mother - M - 107 - Spain 150.) October Sky - M - 106 149.) The Beach - D - 105 148.) To Catch A Thief - M - 104 147.) Deconstructing Harry - M - 103 146.) The Big Heat - M - 102 145.) Charade - M - 101 144.) 27 Dresses - M - 100 143.) The Accused - M* 142.) Cassandra's Dream - M* 141.) High Fidelity - D* 140.) Almost Famous - D* 139.) Dancer In The Dark - D* 138.) Best In Show - D* 137.) Unbreakable - D* 136.) Run, Fat Boy, Run - M - 99 135.) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - N - 98 134.) Forbidden Games - N - 97 - France 133.) The Sting - D* 132.) Journey Into Fear - M - 96 131.) My Dog Skip - M - 95 130.) El Orphanato - M - 94 - Mexico 129.) The Asphalt Jungle - M - 93 128.) August Rush - M* 127.) Enigma - M - 92 126.) King of California - N* 125.) The Enforcer (1951) - M - 91 124.) Lions For Lambs - M - 90 123.) Duck Soup - M - 89 122.) Dave - M* 121.) Lenny - N - 88 120.) M - M - 87 - Germany 119.) Lolita (1962) - M - 86 118.) A Clockwork Orange - D - 85 117.) The Fountain - D* 116.) Requiem For A Dream - D* 115.) Pi - D* 114.) The Ladykillers (1955) - M - 84 113.) Blue State - M - 83
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