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
Monday, June 30, 2008
Favorite Movies of June
My favorite 3 new movies for June:
1. Fitzcarraldo 2. The Edge of Heaven 3. Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures 3. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
My favorite 3 old movies for June:
1. Bonnie and Clyde 2. The Graduate 3. Lost Highway 3. Donnie Brasco
For 2008, my goal is to watch two movies per day, which would be 732 movies by the end of the year.
* - Seen NOT for the first time # - Seen for the first time
N - Netflix B - Blockbuster D = DVD T - Theater M - Misc (May-152)
398.) Tootsie - B* 397.) Sixteen Candles - M - 252 396.) Grizzly Man - N - 251 395.) 8 1/2 - D* - Italy 394.) Chaos Theory - M - 250 393.) Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures - N - 249 392.) Independence Day - D* 391.) Fitzcarraldo - N - 248 - West Germany 390.) Wait Until Dark - M - 247 389.) Braveheart - D - 246 388.) My Best Friend - M - 245 - Germany 387.) Lost Highway - D* 386.) Hearts Of Darkness - N - 244 385.) Menace II Society - M - 243 384.) All The King's Men (1949) - M - 242 383.) Insomnia - N - 241 - Norway 382.) Color Me Kubrick - M - 240 381.) A Man For All Seasons - D - 239 380.) Happy Together - M - 238 - Hong Kong 379.) Capturing The Friedmans - M - 237 378.) Week End - M - 236 - France 377.) Darling - M - 235 376.) You Can't Take It With You - M - 234 375.) Two For The Road - N - 233 374.) Belle De Jour - M - 232 - France 373.) Jesse James - D - 231 372.) When We Were Kings - N - 230 371.) The Graduate - D* 370.) Aguirre: The Wrath of God - M* - Germany 369.) Gentleman's Agreement - M - 229 368.) Funny Games (1997) - M - 228 - Austria 367.) Chasing Amy - D* 366.) Signs of Life - M - 227 - West Germany 365.) Midnight Cowboy - D - 226 364.) Bonnie and Clyde - D* 363.) Amistad - M - 225 362.) Walk Hard - N* 361.) The Full Monty - D* 360.) Breathless (1983) - M - 224 359.) Driving Miss Daisy - M* 358.) 21 - M - 223 357.) Nightwatch - M - 222 356.) The Sweet Hereafter - N* 355.) Wag The Dog - D* 354.) Strange Culture - M - 221 353.) The Invasion - N* 352.) Grosse Point Blank - N* 351.) The Ice Storm - D* 350.) In Bruges - M - 220 349.) L.A. Story - M* 348.) L.A. Confidential - D* 347.) Jackie Brown - D* 346.) Defending Your Life - M* 345.) Juno - D* 344.) A Few Good Men - M* 343.) Definitely, Maybe - M - 219 342.) Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - D* 341.) Flawless - M - 218 340.) Liar, Liar - D* 339.) Life Is Beautiful - M - 217 - Italy 338.) Teeth - M - 216 337.) My First Mister - M* 336.) Be Kind Rewind - M - 215 335.) The Mist - M - 214 334.) Donnie Brasco - D* 333.) Amblin' - M - 213 332.) The Seven-Ups - 212 331.) December Boys - N - 211 330.) The Basketball Diaries - M - 210 329.) Wall Street - M* 328.) Overnight Delivery - M - 209 327.) 48 Hrs. - N* 326.) What About Bob? - M* 325.) Swimming With Sharks - M - 208 324.) The Edge Of Heaven - M - 207 - Germany/Turkey 323.) In The Company of Men - N (Instant) - 206 322.) Ulee's Gold - M - 205
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
