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2010 movies which I may or may not see this year

(The Netflix Queue is much longer than what I can watch in a year, and things drop on and off the "Watch Instantly" catalogue, and sometimes I am fickle.)

On the Instant View Queue:
 

1. Unforgiveable Blackness
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Being There
4. 1776
5. Gattaca
6. No End in Sight
7. A Man for All Seasons
8. Paper Clips
9. Jesus of Montreal
10. Arranged
11. La Vie En Rose
12. Monsoon Wedding
13. Cashback
14. Making Waves
15. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
16. Heavy Metal in Baghdad
17. Marnie
18. Flawless
19. CSNY Deja Vu
20. The Motorcycle Diaries
21. The Candidate
22. IOUSA
23. A Walk to Beautiful
24. The Grocer's Son
25. El Bola
26. Defending Your Life
27. Terry Jones: Medieval Lives
28. Malcom X
29. Starting out in the Evening
30. The Constant Gardener
31. Best in Show
32. Serenity
33. The Last Temptation of Christ
34. Kinamand
35. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
36. March of the Penguins
37. Vanity Fair
38. 12 Monkeys
39. The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
40. The Boy in Striped Pajamas
41. Frozen River
42. Hair
43. Brick
44. The Cake Eaters
45. My Name is Bruce
46. Let the Right One In
47. Seven Pounds
48. Wuthering Heights (mini-series)
49. The Royal Tenenbaums
50. Bart Got A Room
51. Sin Nombre
52. Brokeback Mountain
53. My Life as a Dog
54. Tyson
55. Sunshine Cleaning
56. The Commitments
57. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

DVD Rental Queue

Some of these are movies I want to see; others are movies that kids have requested. I also have movies on her for the Friday movie for Tiger Claw (TC), but I haven't prioritized then yet so that every other movie is a TC kid flick.  I also have to add more kid flicks.

1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2. Step Brothers
3. Trekkies
4. Brother Bear 2 (TC)
5. Night at the Museum 2 (TC)
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (TC)
8. Over the Hedge (TC)
9. Adaptaion
10. A Fish Tale (TC)
11. My Life as a Dog
12. What Dreams May Come
13. Indentity
14. Bride and Prejudice
15. Clerks
16. Secretary
17. Recount
18. Y tu mama tambien
19. Charlie Wilson's War
20. Under the Same Moon
21. In Bruges
22. The Aviator
23. F**k: A Documentary
24. Young @ Heart
25. The Science of Sleep
26. Maria Full of Grace
27. Stir of Echoes
28. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
29. Requiem for a Dream
30. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
31. Big Fish
32. Gods and Monsters
33. Frida
34. Into the West
35. Schindler's List
36. Braveheart
37. American History X
38. The School of Rock
39. The Pink Panther
40. An American Werewolf in London
41. Pollock
42. Walk the Line
43. Michael Clayton
44. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
45. 9
46. Aliens in the Attic (TC)
47. Atonement
48. The Kite Runner
49. Wonderland
50. Mrs. Henderson Presents
51. The Prestige
52. Once
53. Boys Don't Cry
54. Monster
55. Boys on the Side
56. Garden State
57. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
58. Darkon
59. The Nun's Story
60. Like Water for Chocolate
61. Nowhere in Africa
62. Dark City
63. Rendition
64. Children of Men
65. Things Change
66. Big Night
67. Il Postino
68. Wag the Dog
69. Catch Me if You Can
70. La Dolce Vita
71. Autumn Sonata
72. Cinema Paradiso
73. A Walk to Remember
74. Howard's End
75. The Savages
76. The Butterfly Effect
77. I Heart Huckabees
78. Alien
79. Predator
80. Walking Ned Devine
81. The Last King of Scotland
82. End of the Spear
83. The Bucket List
84. Control
85. The Big Lebowski
86. The Bank Job
87. This Film is not yet Rated
88. A History of Violence
89. Good Night, and Good Luck
90. The Queen
91. Thank You for Smoking
92. 10 Items or Less
93. Hotel Rwanda
94. Snow Angels
95. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
96. Fight Club
97. The Fall
98. The Kid Stays in the Picture
99. Touching the Void
100. Burn After Reading
101. Girl with one Pearl Earring
102. Wilde
103. Crash
104. The Quiet American
105. Blast from the Past
106. George of the Jungle (TC)
107. School Ties
108. Immortal Beloved
109. Rushmore
110. The Pursuit of Happyness
111. We Are Marshall
112. The Golden Compass
113. Fireproof
114. Slumdog Millionaire
115. The Reader
116. Wonder Boys
117. Bedtime Stories
118. Sideways
119. Capote
120. The Hours
121. Emma
122. Open Season (TC)
123. I Love You, Man
124. Duplicity
125. Adventureland
126. Sugar
127. State of Play
128. Earth
129. Lymelife
130. Anvil: The Story of Anvil
131. Every Little Step
132. Star Trek
133. Army of Darkness
134. Memento
135. Unbreakable
136. Turn of the Screw
137. A Haunting in Connecticut
138. Anna and the King
139. The King and I
140. Anastasia
141. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (TC)

At Home:
From Hell
Juno

Recently viewed:
Jesus of Montreal * * * * *

projected books for 2010

1. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Kingsolver
2. Another Faust, Nayeri
3. Beggars and Choosers, Kress
4. Beggars' Ride, Kress
5. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, Pollen
6. The Burglar on the Prowl, Block
7. By the Mountain Bound, Bear
8. Changelings, McCaffrey
9. Crystal Line, McCaffrey
10. Daphne Deane, Hill
11. Deliverer, Cherryh
12. Deluge, McCaffrey
13. Destroyer, Cherryh
14. Dogs, Kress
15. Dragonflight, McCaffrey
16. Dragonquest, McCaffrey
17. Dust, Bear
18. Enna Burning, Hale
19. Farmer Boy, Wilder
20. The First Four Years, Wilder
21. Forest Born, Hale
22. Given Sugar, Given Salt, Hirshfield
23. The Goose Girl, Hale
24. Grandfather's Dance, MacLachlan
25. The Hedge Knight, Martin
26. Hell and Earth, Bear
27. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell
28. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Pollan
29. In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Valente
30. In the Night Garden, Valente
31. Ink and Steel, Bear
32. Inkspell, Funke
33. Killashandra, McCaffrey
34. The Last Prince of Ireland, Llywelyn
35. Lion of Ireland, Llewlyn
36. Maelstrom, McCaffrey
37. Maris, Hill
38. New Amsterdam, Bear
39. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Pllan
40. Phoebe Dean, Hill
41. Pigs in Heaven, Kingsolver
42. Power Lines, McCaffrey
43. Power Play, McCaffrey
44. Powers that Be, McCaffrey
45. Pretender, Cherryh
46. Pride of Lions, Llewyln
47. River Secrets, Hale
48. Seedfolks, Fleishman
49. Without: Poems, Hall
50. The White Dragon, McCaffrey

I have a lot of McCaffrey, many of which are rereads this year, along with a solid dose of Pollan and Bear.  If the reading goes quickly due to the rereads, I might add some of the classics which I've been meaning to read, but just never get around to reading.