The Short List of Things to Do
A guide to what you should see and what you should skip and what you won't be able to avoid
Full List
Week of November 19
Week of November 12
- The Lady Killer
- You Are What You Read
- Full Dark, No Stars
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- The Elia Kazan Collection
Week of November 5
- Frank Sinatra Concert Collection
- Naomi Watts in Fair Game
- The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
- Great Migrations
- I Remember Nothing
Week of October 29
- Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy
- Apocalypse Now: Full Disclosure Edition
- 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
- All Songs 24/7
- La Bête
Week of October 22
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
- My Year of Flops
- The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
- Come Around Sundown
- Compass Rose
Week of October 15
Week of October 8
Week of October 1
Week of September 24
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
- Fantômas: Five Film Collection
- The Tenth Inning
- Disconnect
Week of September 17
Week of September 3
- A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
- Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection
- Invisible
- thewildernessdowntown.com
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Week of August 27
Week of August 20
- Lost: The Complete Collection
- Charles Ludlam on Film
- Half.com
- Three Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
- Let's Take the Long Way Home
Week of August 13
- Animal Kingdom
- Madden NFL 11
- The Good, the Bad, the Weird
- King of the Beach
- Max Headroom: The Complete Series
Week of August 6
- The Suburbs
- Patricia Clarkson in Cairo Time
- Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
- Thumbplay
- Presenting Sacha Guitry
Week of July 30
- Dinner for Schmucks
- Huge
- Super Sad True Love Story
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
- The Kim Novak Collection
Week of July 23
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Faithful Place
- Life During Wartime
- Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
- Red Hook Road
Week of July 16
- Dark Night of the Soul
- Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
- Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
- Future: News from the Year 2137
- Brilliant
Week of July 9
- Sir Lucious Left Foot ... The Son of Chico Dusty
- Touching Evil: The Complete Collection
- The Cookbook Collector
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- Black Narcissus
Week of July 2
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
- Fela!
- Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II
- Street Songs of Love
Week of June 25
Week of June 18
Week of June 11
Week of June 4
- Green Day: Rock Band
- Not the Messiah
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
- Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories
- The Green Room with Paul Provenza
Week of May 28
- The ArchAndroid
- The Special Relationship
- Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
- Passion Play
- The Man with No Name Trilogy
Week of May 14
Week of May 7
Week of April 16
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- The Secret in Their Eyes
- Blockade Billy
- The Tom Lehrer Collection
- Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
Week of April 9
- Here Lies Love
- White Egrets, by Derek Walcott
- A Thousand Sisters
- I Learned the Hard Way
- The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind
Week of April 2
Week of March 26
Week of March 19
Week of March 12
Week of March 5
Week of Feb. 26
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Ask
- El Turista
- Silk Parachute
- George Bernard Shaw on Film
- Lauren Graham's Short List
Week of Feb. 19
Week of Feb. 12
- Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years
- A Prophet
- Close-Up: Vol. 1, Love Songs
- Lola Montes
- How to Make It in America
Week of Feb. 5
- Zombieland
- The Sarah Silverman Program
- Mickey Rooney: The Long & Short of It
- Ajami
- Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vols. 1 and 2
- Rickie Lee Jones' Short List
Week of Jan. 29
Week of Jan. 22
- Caprica
- Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
- Mass Effect 2
- A Room and a Half
- Patton Oswalt
- Lily Tomlin's Short List
Week of Jan. 15
- The Last Station
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- Bayonetta
- Collapse
- Transference
- How to Couch-Surf Sundance
Week of Jan. 8
- Big Love
- You Are Not a Gadget
- Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- America's Film Legacy
Week of Jan. 1
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