TopPicks Index
Top 10 Most-Anticipated May/June 2007 DVD Movie Releases
A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the May/June 2007 DVD movie releases. Some enjoyed these films so much on the big screen, they want to see them again at home. Others missed these movies in theaters and want to catch them for the first time on DVD. While some of these films were panned by a majority of critics, viewers have their own ideas about what they want to watch. In order of release date, here are some of the most-anticipated DVD movie releases for May/June 2007.
Top 10 Most-Anticipated March/April 2007 DVD Movie Releases
A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the March/April 2007 DVD movie releases. Some enjoyed these films so much on the big screen, they want to see them again at home. Others missed these movies in theaters and want to catch them for the first time on DVD. While some of these films were panned by a majority of critics, viewers have their own ideas about what they want to watch. In order of release date, here are some of the most-anticipated DVD movie releases for March/April 2007.
Top 10 Most-Anticipated April /May 2007 DVD Movie Releases
A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the April/May 2007 DVD movie releases. Some enjoyed these films so much on the big screen, they want to see them again at home. Others missed these movies in theaters and want to catch them for the first time on DVD. While some of these films were panned by a majority of critics, viewers have their own ideas about what they want to watch. In order of release date, here are some of the most-anticipated DVD movie releases for April/May 2007.
Top 10 Most-Anticipated January/February 2007 DVD Movie Releases
A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the January/February 2007 DVD movie releases. Some enjoyed these films so much on the big screen, they want to see them again at home. Others missed these movies in theaters and want to catch them for the first time on DVD. While some of these films were panned by a majority of critics, viewers have their own ideas about what they want to watch. In order of release date, here are some of the most-anticipated DVD movie releases for January/February 2007.
Top 10 Most-Anticipated Fall 2006 DVD Movie Releases
A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the Fall 2006 DVD movie releases. Some enjoyed these films so much on the big screen, they want to see them again at home. Others missed these movies in theaters and want to catch them for the first time on DVD. While some of these films were panned by a majority of critics, viewers have their own ideas about what they want to watch. In order of release date, here are some of the most-anticipated DVD movie releases for Fall 2006.
Top 10 Drama Movies
Conflict is essential to drama. The movies that move me deeply are those where the conflict grows out of what's at stake for the characters. This is true even in the case of "2001," where the most interesting character is a computer, and what's at risk is the next step in human evolution. This is my personal, idiosyncratic list of favorites, and it doesn't necessarily reflect the popular wisdom on drama movies. For the sake of focus, I've limited my choices to English-language talkies.
Top 8 Memorable Movies About Grads
I've always thought of graduation as not just a ceremony, but as a time of life on the threshold of change and discovery. But graduation almost inevitably forces major decisions about what to do next. Advanced schooling? Get a job? Relocate? Rethink romantic relationships? Take some time off? In alphabetical order, here's an idiosyncratic list of movies that come to mind about the joys and pitfalls awaiting high school and college grads.
Top 10 Memorable Best Picture Oscar Winners
A friend of mine once suggested a movie's greatness can be measured by how much you think about it after seeing it, along with the way it lingers in your memory over time. I'm not sure if I agree with this, but it's an intriguing idea. The movies here aren't necessarily my favorites of the Best Picture Academy Award winners, but they are all films I've found memorable for various reasons. I've organized this list in reverse chronological order by year of theatrical release.
Top 10 DVD Releases of 2005
The year 2005 has seen the release of some outstanding DVD's, and I've made a list of those I found to be the best. My criteria included the artistic merit of the movie, the enhancement value of the bonus materials, and the picture and sound quality. I applied these criteria in a completely subjective fashion, and the result is a personal, idiosyncratic list of my own favorites that doesn't necessarily reflect the popular wisdom.
Top 10 Ingmar Bergman Movies
I have long been intrigued by dreams, myth, and psychology, and perhaps that explains my attraction to the movies of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Below I've given brief descriptions of 10 of my favorites, ordering them according to the date of their initial theatrical release. I've also tried to sketch an outline of the most productive part of Bergman's filmmaking career. As one who loves humanistic movies, I have found the body of work summarized here to be immensely rewarding
Top 10 Summer Movies
Summer can be a great time for movies that are entertaining, light, fluffy, fun, and don't necessarily require a lot of thought. Watching diverting summer movies on DVD is a great way to relax and keep cool. Listed in alphabetical order, here are a few suggestions.
Top 10 DVD Releases of 2004
The year 2004 has seen the release of some outstanding DVDs, and I've made a list of those I found to be the best. My criteria included the artistic merit of the movie, the enhancement value of the bonus materials, and the picture and sound quality. I applied these criteria in a completely subjective fashion, and the result is a personal, idiosyncratic list of my own favorites that doesn't necessarily reflect the popular wisdom.
Top 10 Action Movies
Movies can show fierce battles, high-speed chases, and horrific explosions that most of us will never experience in real life, and I think such sequences properly used make films far more emotionally engaging. Here I've selected movies containing action that is well-integrated into the story. This is my personal, idiosyncratic list of favorites, and it doesn't necessarily reflect the popular wisdom on action movies. For the sake of focus, I've limited my choices to English-language talkies.
Top 10 Comedy Movies
In addition to making us laugh, comedy movies make us think about our lives and the world around us in new ways. My choices of films here are an eclectic mix ranging over a variety of comedy sub-genres, including parody, screwball, and dark comedy. This is my personal, idiosyncratic list of favorites, and it doesn't necessarily reflect the popular wisdom on comedy movies. For the sake of focus, I've limited my choices to English-language talkies
Top 10 Foreign Movies
I think foreign-language films can show us things about the world we will never see if we watch only movies where the dialogue is in English. Here's a list of ten of my favorite foreign-language films by ten different filmmakers. Three of the movies are in French, two are in Japanese, two in Italian, and one each in Bengali, Russian, and Swedish. In my opinion, the films listed below are among the greatest in all of cinema.