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Every year I usually compile a list of the best films but since I started doing regular DVD roundups it was clear that there was a lot of re-issues and special editions of films worth compiling in an end of year list.
This is my selection of the best films to come out on DVD during 2008 and all of these titles are ones that I would recommend to buy or put in your online rental queue.
When you click on the title of each entry it will take you to my original post on it or the entry in Amazon where you can buy the DVD.
JANUARY
- The Michael Moore Collection (Optimum)
- Living in Oblivion (Second Sight)
- Ingmar Bergman’s The Faith Trilogy (Tartan)
FEBRUARY
- Once (Icon)
- Michael Clayton (Pathe)
- Midnight Express (Sony)
- Control (Momentum)
- Ratatouille (Disney)
MARCH
- In the Shadow of the Moon (4DVD)
- Why We Fight (Axiom)
- The Stanley Kubrick Special Edition 10 Disc Box Set (Warner Bros)
- Into the Wild (Paramount)
APRIL
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner)
- Breach (Fox)
- Rescue Dawn (Pathe)
- Silent Light (Tartan)
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Sony)
- The Mike Leigh Feature Film Collection (Spirit Entertainment)
MAY
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Artificial Eye)
- In the Valley of Elah (Optimum)
- Alice in the Cities (Axiom)
- My Kid Could Paint That (Sony)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Warner)
- The Jim Jarmusch Collection – Volume 1 (Optimum)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Paramount)
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (EIV)
JUNE
- No Country for Old Men (Paramount)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Pathe)
- Taxi to the Dark Side (Revolver)
- The Dirty Harry Collection (Warner)
- L’Avventura (Mr Bongo Films)
JULY
- I’m Not There (Paramount)
- There Will Be Blood (Disney)
- The Orphanage (Optimum)
- The Mummy (Universal)
- The Patrice Leconte Collection (Optimum)
- The Jeunet & Caro Collection (Optimum)
- Paris, Texas (Axiom)
AUGUST
- Funny Games US (Tartan)
- The Terence Davies Trilogy (BFI)
- Wings of Desire (Axiom)
- The Elephant Man (Optimum)
- In Bruges (Universal)
- Son of Rambow (Optimum)
- [REC] (Contender)
- Persepolis (Optimum)
- Lars and the Real Girl (Fox)
- The Band’s Visit (Sony)
- Vampyr (Eureka / Masters of Cinema)
- Still Life (BFI)
- The Satyajit Ray Collection – Volume 1 (Artificial Eye)
- The David Lynch Collection (Optimum)
SEPTEMBER
- Cool Hand Luke (Warner)
- Shotgun Stories (Revolver)
- Zodiac – Director’s Cut (Warner)
- Mongol (Universal)
OCTOBER
- Gone Baby Gone (Disney)
- In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Revolver)
- John Carpenter: The Collection (Optimum)
- Festen (Metrodome)
- Rashomon (Optimum)
- The Last House on the Left (Metrodome)
- Vertigo (Universal)
- Reservoir Dogs (Lionsgate)
- Eraserhead (Scanbox)
- Iron Man (Paramount)
- Wim Wender’s Documentaries (Axiom)
- The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration DVD Collection (Paramount)
- Flight of the Red Balloon (Network)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (Optimum)
- Silkwood (Fremantle)
- Orphée (BFI)
NOVEMBER
- The Princess Bride (Lionsgate)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Second Sight)
- Savage Grace (Revolver)
- Black God, White Devil (Mr Bongo Films)
- The Mist (Momentum)
- Kung Fu Panda (Paramount)
- WALL-E (Disney)
- L’Argent (Eureka)
DECEMBER
- The Dark Knight (Warner)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Universal)
- Man on Wire (Icon)
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N.B. As I’m based in the UK, all of these DVDs are UK titles but if you live in a different region of the world check out Play.com or your local Amazon site and they should have an equivalent version of the film.
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> Amazon US pick their best DVDs of 2008 (these are Region 1 DVDs)