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16 December 2008

What were your favorite movies of 2008? Here are mine in no perticular order. NOTE: Some are from 2007 but did not play here so I had to see them on DVD. →[More:]Persepolis, A girl coming of age in Iran under the ayatollahs.

The Band's Visit, Egyptian police band gets lost in the middle of nowhere Israel

Chop Shop, The dreams of a boy and his sister growing up in NYC's iron triangle.

Paranoid Park, Haunting picture about a boy involved in an acidental death.

Let the Right One In, A vampire movie about the lives of children.

Garage, Loneliness and misunderstanding

My Winnipeg, A tale of a city as only Guy Maddin can tell it.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A women helps her friend find an abortion in 1980's Romania

Bernard And Doris, Loopy story of Doris Duke and her servant and confidant Bernard.

A few really great Documentaries this year. Encounters At The End Of The World, A look at outsiders directed by an outsider.

Taxi To the Dark Side, Depressing but necessary.

Man on Wire. One of the most uplifting hopeful movies ever.

Honourable mentions. Rachel Getting Married, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Horton Hears a Who, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

post by: arse_hat at: 18:19 | 20 comments

I think the only new movie I saw in 2008, DVD or otherise, was Nobel Son, which I give 8/10.

posted by Ardiril 16 December | 18:24

I just saw Synechdoche, NY, which was definitely one of my top-10 movies of 2008. (I only saw two or three movies in theaters this year. The other one was Dark Knight, which was pretty good but a little gratuitous.)

posted by muddgirl 16 December | 18:32

(I've heard that some people thought that the end of Synecdoche dragged on a bit, but I found it to be very gripping the whole time).

posted by muddgirl 16 December | 18:33

I liked Twilight, campy and shitty filmmaking though it was, I still liked it.
I also dug Foxfire, considering the fact that I was banned from seeing it when I was younger because my mother thought it was 'inappropriate' but while I can see where she was coming from--the stick is still wayyyyyyy too far up her ass.

A friend of mine recommended Brick to me, which I really quite liked. Eastern Promises was quite good as well even though I wouldn't have thought that it would've been something I liked judging by the synopses.

posted by sperose 16 December | 18:56

Let the Right One In
Excellent vampire genre film. In Swedish.

I also enjoyed seeing Metropolis for the first time, though that is very not this year. :)

posted by sakura 16 December | 20:20

Paranoid Park dragged like hell for me. Van Sant's occasionally a little too enamored of fuzzy slo-mo montages for my taste.

posted by middleclasstool 17 December | 00:03

Man on Wire. One of the most uplifting hopeful movies ever.

I'm avoiding that one, because of the downlifting memories. I knew his little girl daughter, and we really got along well. What was she, 7 or 8? She had a headache one night at bedtime, dead from a brain aneurysm by morning.

posted by StickyCarpet 17 December | 00:34

As a lifelong Batman fan, "The Dark Knight" punched so many buttons for me that I find myself thinking about it literally almost every day since I saw it. It was like "Dog Day Afternoon" made as a superhero movie, and though I've come to really dislike superhero movies, this was a Batman movie... and it was also brilliant.

It also sorta cribbed from two of my favorite Batman comics, which helped.

So I loved it.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 December | 00:43

You know, I don't think I went to the movies once this year.

posted by Doohickie 17 December | 00:55

Yay for Persepolis! I got a book signed by Marjane Satrapi a couple of years ago. She's as awesome in person as you'd expect from her interviews.

posted by lukemeister 17 December | 01:02

I saw very few movies this year but I totally enjoyed Dark Knight and Quantum of Solace.

posted by deborah 17 December | 02:38

Agreed on Synechdoche, NY though like many I didn't really see enough films this year for that to mean much.

posted by kodama 17 December | 03:02

I'm pretty sure that the only new movie I saw this year was I Am Legend, which I really enjoyed, so I guess that was my favourite.

posted by dg 17 December | 03:28

Dark Knight is the only movie on this thread I've even seen. I have a terrifying feeling How To Lose Friends And Alienate People is the best new film I've seen all year.

(almost as terrifying as it must be for Simon Pegg to know it's the only good film he's been in)

Actually, scratch that. I'm A Cyborg (But That's OK) was this year.

posted by cillit bang 17 December | 04:58

Was No Country for Old Men this year? It's being put in people's Films of the Year list in the newspapers here. Anyway, it was the best thing I've seen for a long time. That and There Will Be Blood.

posted by altolinguistic 17 December | 05:39

Oh, I just remembered that I saw No Country for Old Men in January (it was released at the end of last December). That was excellent, although I liked There Will Be Blood better.

posted by muddgirl 17 December | 10:02

I liked Persepolis.
And The Visitor.
Charlie Wilson's War was ok. (was that this year?)

Aandddd..... I can't really think of anything else. I didn't see Dark Knight (I know, travesty), I read No Country for Old Men and didn't see the movie bc I hated the book, people told me There Will Be Blood was too violent for me so i didn't see that, I was most recently disappointed by Slumdog Millionaire, also by Rachel Getting Married. Indiana Jones sucked, Sex and the City sucked.

Maybe all the good movies this year were too violent for me so I missed them.
Oh wait! There was one I LOVED that I saw at an independent thing: I'll Come Running
If you are able to, rent it.

posted by rmless2 17 December | 16:37

I liked Heath Ledger in Dark Knight but I just can't take Christian Bale seriously as a tough guy. I really want to see Slumdog Millionaire and Synechdoche, NY.

I'll look for I'll Come Running and Nobel Son.

Apparently it was not a big year to get bunnies into the theaters.

posted by arse_hat 18 December | 01:07

And a follow up to my mention of Chop Shop. Apparently Willets Point or the Iron Triangle will soon be no more.

posted by arse_hat 18 December | 01:11

Watched it last night, and really enjoyed it: In Bruges.

posted by gaspode 18 December | 09:05

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