Dvds Reviewed in 2010

A total of 136 films

[Updated: 12.30.10]



[Photo: the certifiably mad actor Klaus Kinski in German director Werner Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God. The crew had to keep Kinski from killing Herzog with a rock during filming]


A Christmas Memory (1968)
A Good Year (2007)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964) bw
A Prophet (2009) France
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) bw
A Very Long Engagement (2004) France [photo rt]
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) Germany
Almost Famous (2000)
American Splendor (2003)
An Education (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Baraka (1992)
Baran (2001) Iran
Beetlejuice (1988)
Beyond Silence (1996) Germany
Big Deal on Madonna St (1959) Italy, bw
The Black Stallion (1979)
Blood of My Blood (2007) Mexico
Bloody Sunday (2002)
The Book of Eli (2010)
Bottle Rocket (1995)
The Buccaneers (1996)
Butterfly (1999) Spain
Carrie's War (2004)
Changeling (2008)
Chaos (2001) France
The Children of Huang Shi (2007) Australia [photo rt]
The Chorus (2004) France
Cobra Verde (1987) Germany
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Crazed Fruit (1956) Japan, bw
Crazy Heart (2009)
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 7 (2009)
Devils On the Doorstep (2000), China, bw
Donnie Darko (2001)
Downfall (2004) Germany
Dreamland (2006)
Earth (1998) India-Canada
El Alamein (2002) Italy
Era Notte a Roma (1960) Italy, bw
The Fall (2007) India-U.S.
Fateless (2005) Hungary-France-UK, bw
Fire (1995)
Floating Weeds (1959), Japan
The Fortune Cookie (1966) bw [photo rt]
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) bw
Gormenghast (2000)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Green Zone (2010)
Half Moon (2006) France-Iraq-Iran
Happy Feet (2006)
His Girl Friday (1940) bw
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Il Postino (1995), Italy
I'm Not There (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Into the Wild (2007)
Invictus (2009)
The Italian (2005) Russia
It's Complicated (2009)
Jeff Beck: Live at Ronnie Scott's (2007)
Junebug (2005)
Kapó (1959) Italy, bw
King's Row (1941) bw
The Kite Runner (2007)
La Dolce Vita (1960) Italy, bw
The Last Station (2009)
Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
The Major and the Minor (1942) bw
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Micmacs (2009) France
Millions (2004)
Mystic River (2003)
The Namesake (2006)
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995), France
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Nine (2009)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Oklahoma! (1955)
Olympia (1938) Germany, bw
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) [photo rt]
The Pacific (2010)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Pi (1998)
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (2003-07)
The Promise (2005) China
Quinceañera (2006)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Australia
Rashomon (1954) Japan, bw
Red Cliff (2008) China
Rendition (2007)
Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962) bw
Return of Martin Guerre (1982) France
Runaway Jury (2003)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) Argentina
Seven Days in May (1964) bw
Shutter Island (2010)
Singles (1992)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995) [photo rt]
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003) Germany
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Tea With Mussolini (1999)
Temple Grandin (2010)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
Together (2002) China
Touch the Sound (2004) Germany
Transsiberian (2006)
The Triplets of Belleville (2003) France-Belgium-Can.-UK
Triumph of the Will (1935) Germany, bw
The Two of Us (1967) France, bw
Under the Sun (1998), Sweden
United 93 (2006)
Up (2009)
Up In the Air (2009)
Vantage Point (2008)
Vatel (2000) France
Vera Drake (2004)
Warriors (Guerreros, 2007) Spain
Water (2005) India-Canada
We of the Never Never (1982) Australia
Whale Rider (2003) New Zealand
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009) Germany
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
The Women (1939)
Youth Without Youth (2007)
Zhou Yu's Train (2004) China

2008, A Great Year in Films

Make no mistake, 2008 was one of the best years ever in total number of quality films released. These are the 31 films from that year that we’ve reviewed thus far [06.06.10], each links to our review at 1000 Dvds to See. These are all worth seeing, and the Oscars® should have been expanded to 10 best films in 2008 (2009 was too late), because those left off the ballot for picture (In Bruges, The Visitor, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Gran Torino, A Wednesday, Star Trek, Revolutionary Road) were as good as those nominated (Benjamin Button, Frost-Nixon, Milk, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire). If you include John Adams for tv, there were also some great documentaries: The Memory Loss Tapes (for HBO), Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, and Man on Wire, and docudramas: Che, Milk, Frost-Nixon, Valkyrie. This was a great year for non-fiction.

A Wednesday (2008) India
The Assassination of Jesse James (2008)
Australia (2008)
Che (2008)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Defiance (2008)
Eagle Eye (2008)
The Fountain (2008)
Frost-Nixon (2008)
Gran Torino (2008)
In Bruges (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
John Adams (2008, tv)
Man On Wire (2008)
The Memory Loss Tapes (2008, tv)
Milk (2008)
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
The Reader (2008)
Red Cliff (2008) China
Revolutionary Road (2008)
The Sleeping Dogs Lie (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Star Trek (2008)
Valkyrie (2008)
Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008)
The Visitor (2008)
W. (2008)
Wall-E (2008)
Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
The Wrestler (2008)

My favorites for 2008, my top 15:

(1)Wall-E (2)In Bruges (3)Slumdog Millionaire (4)Gran Torino (5)A Wednesday (6)The Visitor (7)The Fountain (8)Star Trek (9)Revolutionary Road (10)Milk (11)The Memory Loss Tapes (12)John Adams (13)The Dark Knight (14)The Reader (15)tie: The Wrestler; Australia

New Reviews at 1000 DVDs to See

We recently added these to the DVD's reviewed at "1000 DVDs to See"
(Updated: 2/22/09)

30 Rock (2006)
American History X (1998)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Avengers (1964-67) tv
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) Canada, tv
Born Yesterday (1950) bw
Burn After Reading (2007)
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Frequency (2000)
Gloomy Sunday (1999) Germany
The Golden Compass (2007)
Gone With the Wind (1939) Germany
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Hard Eight (1997)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
In Cold Blood (1967) bw
Jodhaa Akbar (2007) India
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Mongol (2007) Russia
Monsoon Wedding (2000) India
The More the Merrier (1943) bw
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) bw
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983) tv
Requiem for a Dream (2000) *10*
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.. and Spring (2003) Korea
The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Canada
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
The Twilight Samurai (2002) Japan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Wall-E (2008) *10*