Watch This: Two Great 2010 Movie Retrospectives

Every year, film fans/video editors piece together the most touching and memorable moments of the previous months, but nobody does it better than Matt Shapiro and Kees van Dijkhuizen. Here are their video retrospectives.

The first is the annual compilation by Matt Shapiro, titled“2010: The Cinescape” and set to the song“A Dustyland Fairytale” by The Killers. If you’re curious about a particular clip featured in the video,here is the linkto the included movies in chronological order.

Click here for“2009: The Cinescape.”

The second, and my personal favorite, is editor Kees van Dijkhuizen’s comprehensive creation“Cinema 2010,” which he says took him over 300 hours to complete. Here’s thedetailed listof films included (viaSlashfilm).

Dijkhuizen had this to say about the video:

We’ve reached the end of yet another unforgettable year of movies. Not only did this years movies push boundaries even further, they did so with impeccable risks. In a time of recession and playing-it-safe, films like Inception and The Social Network still found a great audience. But smaller films also, like Blue Valentine, Splice, Buried and Breaking Upwards found a loving audience. It’s crazy to think that all these films came out in one year, and so I tried my best do give them each a moment of glory in my latest film retrospective, Cinema 2010.

It’s the follow-up to the successful Cinema 2009, which obtained almost a million views on YouTube. 60,000 film fanatics used it to reflect on their year of film on New Years Eve. It was also screened in front of over 300 directors, producers and distributors in Amsterdam. Cinema 2010 perfects what2009 accomplished; a personal, stylish and extensive summary of a year in film. Hopefully it will surpass Cinema 2009′s success, but even if it doesn’t, it’s still something to look out for. It premiered during the Houston Film Critics Society’s annual Award Show on December 18th and was available on YouTube December 21st. The broadcast of the award show on national television will feature Cinema 2010 as well.

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