My 2008 Netflix Queue

Moviewise, 2008 was a year for old favorites and first time delights. The old films enjoyed again, some for the third or fourth time, were:

• Leap of Faith
• The Mission
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Amadeus
• Life Is Beautiful
• Crash
• Being There
• The Third Man

There were also a number of older films I had never seen before, but which I finally got around to watching:

Innocent Voices

Lonesome Dove

The Silence

Through a Glass Darkly

Persona

Saraband

End of the Spear

Saints and Soldiers

The Nativity Story

The Butterfly

The Long Walk Home

Jane Eyre: BBC Version

Gone Baby Gone

And then there were newer films that I managed to squeeze in. Among the best of these were:

The Kite Runner

Bella

Dark Knight

Charlie Wilson's War

Vantage Point

Babel

Most

No Country for Old Men

Kung Fu Panda

Facing the Giants

All of the above were, in my opinion, good to very good films, and I'd recommend them all with the caveat that some are R-rated.

Movies that ranged all the way from "okay" to "painful to watch" were:

Au Revoir Les Enfants

The Great Debaters

Night on Earth

8 1/2

Inside Man

The Brave One

Deja Vu

Man on Fire

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

There are many more good films out there, of course, and if anyone has any recommendations please don't be reticent about passing them along.

From Bill and I best wishes for a great 2009.

RLC