Notable DVDs from 2008

It seems everywhere everybody is busily listing their "best XXX of 2008", so I decide to create my own list for the DVDs I had watched in 2008 (according to my Netflix record, I rented 90 DVDs, I also rented about 10 from Blockbuster). They are not in any specific order.

1. The Life Before Her Eyes (see my blog)
   
2. XXY - really challenge the gender definition
   
3. Transsiberian - finally a good thriller in a long time
   
4. The Visitor - friendship in the time of illegal immigration
   
5. Water Lilies - best coming of age movie this year
   
6. The Life and Work of Sally Mann - what it takes to be a great photographer
7. The Savages - what really happens in unhappy family
   
8. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead - a great drama like Shakespeare's King Lear
   
9. Rivers and Tides - it's amazing to see Andy Goldsworthy working
   
10. Away From Her - Julie Christie's glowing performance as an old lady with Alzheimer