Movie Moments 2008

Netflix is both a blessing and a curse. Looking back through my Netflix history, I found that I have watched over 130 movies through that service alone in 2008. Here are some of the highlights:

TV Series we caught up on DVD: Big Love, Weeds, The Wire*, Mad Men*, Burn Notice*, Baldwin Hills, Entourage, Battlestar Gallactica*, Spaced, The Tudors, The Staircase, The Farmers Wife, Country Boys, Flight of the Conchords*, and Big Love.

Foreign Films that we Watched: The Edge of Heaven (German), Man on Wire (French), Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton (French), Black Book (Swedish?), The Deal (British- almost too much), Beaufort (Israeli), Please Vote For Me (Chinese), The Band's Visit (Arabic), In Bruges (Irish), The Counterfeiters* (German?), Into Great Silence (French), Merry Christmas (French), Vitus (Swiss), Terror's Advocate (French), To Be and To Have (French), Persepholis (French/Iranian), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French), La Vie en Rose (French), Paris Je'Taime (French), The Orphanage* (Spanish), Diva (French), Steal a Pencil For Me (German), and Once* (Irish).

Movies I Teared Up In: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Steal a Pencil for Me, The Farmer's Wife, Young @ Heart*, Nanking, 51 Birch Street, Into Great Silence (from boredom), Autism the Musical, Sister Helen, Lars and the Real Girl*, and Once*.

Movie that Made me Cry because it pulled my heart out, stomped on it and makes me sad just thinking about it (though it is brilliant): Dear Zachary*

Movies Seen with Parents or In-Laws: The Dark Knight*, Quantum of Solace, Elaine Strich at Liberty, Into the Wild. Renae and my mom both bravely started an episode of The Wire. They didn't last long.

Favorite Documentaries: The King of Kong* (a man tried to beat the high score in Donkey Kong), The Staircase (did the famous Florida author kill his wife or not? I still don't know), An American Teen* (follows 5 high school kids their senior year), Hiding and Seeking (about a family that hid a Jewish man in their barn for years during WW2), My Kid Could Paint That (is the little girl an artistic genius?), Sister Helen (a nun that runs a halfway house for men in NYC)), Autism the Musical (Autistic children in LA put on a show), Confessions of a Superhero (weirdos in Hollywood), 51 Birch Street (did our parents actually love each other?), What Would Jesus Buy (Silly), Where in the World is Osama Bin Landen (by the same guy that did Super Size Me), Young at Heart* (a choir made of elderly people that do covers of Coldplay and Metallica), Surfwise (crazy hippie doctor and their 8 kids that lived in a van at the beach), and Life After Tomorrow (what happens after you play Annie on Broadway?)

Movies Seen in Theatre: Role Models*, Quantum of Solace, Mamma Mia!, The Dark Knight*, Horton Hears a Who*, WALL-E*, Charlie Wilson's War*, Iron Man*, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and An American Teen*.

* means highly recommended