The Best Films I Saw in January

I saw a total of 35 films in January. They included:  

First Viewing (Cinema) - The King's Speech, Restrepo, Black Swan, Somewhere, Unstoppable, The Fighter, True Grit, Another Year

First Viewing (DVD) - Moulin Rouge (2001), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Thin Blue Line (1988), A Single Man (2009), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Atonement (2007), The Proposition (2005), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Babel (2006), Monster (2003), Mary and Max (2009), Enter the Void (2010)

Repeat Viewing - Michael Clayton (2007), Blindness (2008), Amelie (2001), In the Year of Our Lord: 1974 (2009), In the Year of Our Lord: 1980 (2009), The Lives of Others (2006), Coraline (2009), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004), WALL-E (2008), In the Year of Our Lord: 1983 (2009), The Big Lebowski (1998), Finding Nemo (2003), A Bugs Life (1997)

Essential Viewing: 

The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) 

 

A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)

The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)

Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)

Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) 

Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)

Kill Bill Vol I and II (Quentin Tarantino, 2003/4)

The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, 2006)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Christin Mungiu, 2007)

WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009)

Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)

Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)