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
Thursday, May 1, 2008
My Widescreen Dreams - Need 304 To Keep Pace
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 (April-121)
321.) Central Station - M - 204 - Brazil 320.) Velvet Goldmine - D* 319.) Norma Rae - M* 318.) Gods and Monsters - N* 317.) The Cincinnati Kid - M - 203 316.) Aleksandra - M - 202 - Russia 315.) Cleaner - M - 201 314.) U Turn - M - 200 313.) The Oxford Murders - M - 199 312.) Happiness - N* 311.) P.S. I Love You - M - 198 310.) Bulworth - M* 309.) Ordinary People - M - 197 308.) Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - N - 196 307.) Scarecrow - M - 195 306.) Rififi - M - 194 - France 305.) A Map Of The World - M - 193 304.) Leave Her To Heaven - M - 192 303.) Grace Is Gone - M - 191 302.) Buffalo '66 - M - 190 301.) The Illusionist - D* 300.) 21 Grams - D* 299.) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - M - 189 298.) A Prairie Home Companion - D* 297.) Gummo - M - 188 296.) The Firm - N* 295.) Saving Private Ryan - D* 294.) Festen/The Celebration - N - 187 - Denmark 293.) Splendor In The Grass - M - 186 292.) Rounders - D* 291.) Husbands - M - 185 290.) Lilith - M - 184 289.) A Simple Plan - N* 288.) Semi-Pro - M - 183 287.) Blown Away - M* 286.) French Kiss - N* 285.) As Good As it Gets - M* 284.) The Thin Red Line - D* 283.) Rushmore - D* 282.) Masked and Anonymous - M - 182 281.) The 40 Year Old Virgin - D* 280.) Boxcar Bertha - M - 181 279.) The Wages of Fear - M - 180 - France/Italy 278.) The Big Lebowski - D* 277.) American History X - N* 276.) Small Time Crooks - M - 179 275.) The Pelican Brief - B* 274.) Rendition - N - 178 273.) The Red Violin - N* 272.) The Opposite of Sex - M - 177 271.) Then She Found Me - M - 176 270.) Out of Sight - D* 269.) Dark City - D* 268.) A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies - M - 175 267.) The Grand Illusion - N - 174 - France 266.) Iron Man - T - 173 265.) True Crimes - M - 172 264.) The Big Chill - M* 263.) The Bank Job - M - 171 262.) The Big Knife - B - 170 261.) There's Something About Mary - M* 260.) An American Crime - M - 169 259.) City of Angels - N* 258.) U.S. Marshals - M* 257.) National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets - M - 168 256.) Love Liza - M - 167
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
