Gene Shalit, Roger Ebert or Me?

I am amazed to report that I have watched about 79 movies since joining Netflix just over a year ago. I credit this number mostly to the two months time I was home recuperating after my surgery earlier this year. At that point, I wished I could get instant replacements instead of having to wait a few days so added a third to our mix, not that it made much difference.

Anyway, following is a brief list under particular categories indicating those that impacted or impressed me most (you'll notice I didn't necessarily say I always enjoyed them the most).

Environmental

• Who Killed the Electric Car?
• An Inconvenient Truth

Foreign


The Chorus

• My Father's Glory (1)
• My Mother's Castle (2)
• Cinema Paradiso
• Children of Heaven
• Dear Frankie
• The Advocate
• Water
• Once
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Greenfingers
• Conspiracy
• Saint Ralph
• The Secret of Roan Inish
• This Is England
• Goya's Ghosts
• Tsotsi
• Hope and Glory

Independent or HBO

• The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Garden State
• Something the Lord Made

Classics

The Bridge on the River Kwai

• Life With Father
• The Manchurian Candidate (original)
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Nun's Story
• The Heiress
• Alice Adams
• Sullivan's Travels
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Regular Cinema

• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Jane Austen Book Club
• Becoming Jane
• The Lake House
• Memoirs of a Geisha

Some of these aren't the best movies you'll ever see but there's a good assortment here to appeal to most movie genres. Each of them is interesting or different at a minimum. Enjoy!