NEW RELEASES SEEN,
2008
All films from
U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.
(- seen on video;
[v] video piece; [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; *
grade changed upon repeat viewing; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)
[10]
[9]
-Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, France)
Jerichow (Christian Petzold, Germany)
-Origin of the Species (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s]
/Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China / Hong Kong) [v]*
When It Was Blue (Jennifer Reeves, U.S. / Iceland) [p/m]
[8]
Birdsong (Albert Serra, Spain)
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, U.S. / U.K. / France)*
-The Duchess of Langeais [Ne touchez pas la hache] (Jacques Rivette, France / Italy)
-1859 (Fred Worden) [v/s]
-Exiled (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
-Hunger (Steve McQueen, U.K. / Ireland)
-La France (Serge Bozon, France)
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina / France / The Netherlands / Spain)
-Mukhsin (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia)
-Public Domain (Jim Jennings) [s]
7915 KM (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
-Speechless (Scott Stark) [s]
-The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen, China / Hong Kong)
Suspension (Vanessa O'Neill) [s]
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
WALL·E (Andrew Stanton)
/-Zodiac (David Fincher)
[7]
-The Acrobat (Chris Kennedy, U.S. / Canada) [s]
-Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s]
-All Through the Night (Michael Robinson) [v/s]
At Sea (Peter Hutton)
-Ballast (Lance Hammer)
-Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
-Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas, France)
-The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien, Norway / Iceland)
-Les Chaises (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada) [v/s]
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
-Contre Toute Espérance [Summit Circle] (Bernard Émond, Canada)
-Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges)
-Days and Clouds (Silvio Soldini, Italy / Switzerland)
-Definintely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
-The Diptherians Episode Two: The Rhythm That Forgets Itself (Lewis Klahr) [v/s]*
-Eat, For This Is My Body (Michelange Quay, France / Haiti)
-The Edge of Heaven [Auf der anderen Seite] (Fatih Akin, Germany / Turkey / Italy)
-Flash in the Metropolitan (Rosalind Nashashibi / Lucy Skaer, U.K.) [s]
-Garden/ing (Eriko Sonoda, Japan) [v/s]
Le Genou d'Artemide (Jean-Marie Straub, Italy / France) [s]
-Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara, U.S. / Italy)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, Italy)
-The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina / France / Italy / Spain)
-Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill) [s] [2008 revision]
-I Served the King of England (Jirí Menzel, Czech Republic / Slovakia)
-In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France)
-Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri, France / Luxembourg / Belgium)
-Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Journey of a Woman (Pradeep Sarkar, India)
-The Last Mistress [Une vieille maîtresse] (Catherine Breillat, France / Italy)
-Mad Detective (Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai, Hong Kong)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
-Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin) [v]*
-Mosaik Méchanique (Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Austria) [s]*
-My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong / China / France)
-My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada)
-The Namesake (Mira Nair, India / U.S.)
-No End In Sight (Charles Ferguson)
-Operation Filmmaker (Nina Davenport, U.S. / U.K. / Canada / Australia / Finland)
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald, Canada) [v]
Presto (Doug Sweetland) [s]
-Prosperity for 2008 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/s]
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
-Radiant City (Jim Brown and Gary Burns, Canada)
-Right (Scott Stark) [v/s]
-Rodakis (Olaf Nicolai, Germany) [s]
-Role Models (David Wain)
-The Romance of Astreé and Céladon (Eric Rohmer, France / Italy / Spain)
Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky) [s]
/-Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza, The Philippines / France)
-Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico / France / The Netherlands)
-Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
-SkateBang (Damon Packard, U.S. / U.K.) [v/s]
-Sparrow (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
-Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, France)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, France)
-The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, Canada)
-Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin and Carl Deal)
-Trypps #5 (Dubai) (Ben Russell, U.S. / United Arab Emirates) [s]
24 City (Jia Zhang-ke. China) [v]
-Waiting For Sancho (Mark Peranson, Canada / Spain) [v]
-When Worlds Collude (Fred Worden) [v/s]
Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky) [s]
-The Witnesses (André Téchiné, France)
[6]
-Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia / France)
-Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
-Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot, France)
-CJ7 (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
-Une catastrophe (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland / Austria) [v/s]
-Chocolate (Prachya Pinkaew, Thailand)
-Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
\-Daratt (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Chad / France / Belgium / Austria)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Dernier Maquis (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France / Algeria)
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy / France)
-Elite Squad (José Padilha, Brazil)
-Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
-4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
-A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan)
-A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol, France / Germany)
-Happiness (Hur Jin-ho, South Korea)
-Jar City (Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland / Germany / Denmark)
-The Juche Idea (Jim Finn) [v/m]
Juno (Jason Reitman)
-Just Anybody (Jacques Doillon, France / Belgium)
-The King of Kong (Seth Gordon)
-Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne and John Stevenson)
-Lakeview Terrace (Neil LaBute)
-The Last 15 (Antonio Campos) [s]
-The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky , France / Germany / Hungary)
-Man on Wire (James Marsh, U.K.)
-Momma's Man (Azazel Jacobs)
-My Brother Is an Only Child (Daniele Luchetti, Italy / France)
-Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, France / U.S.)
-Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann, Austria)
-Sad Vacation (Shinji Aoyama, Japan)
-Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, U.S. / France / Spain)
-Singh Is Kinng (Anees Bazmee, India)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, U.S. / U.K.)
-Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan / The Netherlands / Hong Kong)
-The Unknown Woman [La Sconosciuta] (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy / France)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)*
-Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold, The Netherlands / Belgium)
[5]
-And Along Come Tourists (Robert Thalheim, Germany)
-Atonement (Joe Wright, U.K. / France)
-Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
-Big Man Japan [Dai-Nipponjin] (Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan)
-Block B (Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia / Canada / Japan) [v/s]
-The Brothers Solomon (Bob Odenkirk)
Che (Steven Soderbergh, U.S. / Spain)
-Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen)
-Dust (Hartmut Bitomsky, Germany)
-Elegy (Isabel Coixet)
-Ex Drummer (Koen Mortier, Belgium)
Fear Me Not (Kristian Levring, Denmark)
-Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, U.S. / U.K. / France)
-Frownland (Ronald Bronstein)
Funny Games [U.S.] (Michael Haneke, U.S. / U.K. / France / Austria)
-Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
-Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson) [v/s]
-How is Your Fish Today? (Guo Xiaolu, China / U.K.)
-Inside (Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, France)
-Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, Sweden)
-Lost In Beijing (Li Yu, China)
-Love Songs (Christophe Honoré, France)
-Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Married Life (Ira Sachs)
-O' Horten (Bent Hamer, Norway / Sweden / Germany)
-The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly (Charlotte Pryce) [s]
-Princess (Anders Morgenthaler, Denmark / Germany)
-The Ruins (Carter Smith)
-Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
-Summer Palace (Lou Ye, China / France)
-Tale 52 (Alexis Alexiou, Greece)
-Tell Me On Tuesday (Astrid Ofner, Austria) [s]
-Tziporah (Abraham Ravett) [s]
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany / Switzerland / Kazakhstan / Russia / Poland)
Under The Tree (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)
Unspoken (Fien Troch, Belgium)
-Useless (Jia Zhang-ke, China / Hong Kong) [v]
-Vacancy (Nimród Antal)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, U.S. / Spain)
-The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
-Yella (Christian Petzold, Germany)
-Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith)
\-Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, France / Iceland)
[4]
Acné (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay / Argentia / Spain / Mexico)
-Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella, U.K.)
-Breath (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)
-Cochochi (Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán, Mexico / U.K. / Canada)
-The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria / Germany)
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
-Days of Darkness (Denys Arcand, Canada / France)
Delta (Kornél Mundruczó, Hungary / Germany)
-Dig (Robert Todd) [s]
-The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
-Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, U.K.)
I'm Gonna Explode [Voy a Explotar] (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico)
-In Memory of Me (Saverio Costanzo, Italy)
-Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, Germany)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
-Lossless #2 (Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin) [v/s]
-Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, Taiwan / U.S.)
-Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, France / Ireland / U.K. / U.S.)
-The Mosquito Problem & Other Stories (Andrey Paounov, Bulgaria / U.S. / Germany / U.K. / The Netherlands / Finland)
-The Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase, Japan / France)
-Nights and Weekends (Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig)
-Once (John Carney, Ireland)
-L'Ora di Punta (Vincenzo Marra, Italy)
A Perfect Day (Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy)
-Quiet As Kept (Charles Burnett) [v/s]
-Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, U.S. / U.K.)
-W. (Oliver Stone, U.S. / Hong Kong / Germany / U.K. / Australia)
-Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, France)
[3]
-Blind Mountain (Li Yang, China / Germany / Hong Kong)
-Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
-Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
-Parícutin (Erika Loic, Canada) [s]
-Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle / Loveleen Tandan, U.K. / U.S. / India)
-The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Chris Carter, U.S. / Canada)
Zift (Javor Gardev, Bulgaria)
[2]
-Dr Plonk (Rolf de Heer, Australia)
-Joshua (George Ratliff)
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, France / Canada)
[1]
[W/O]
The Burrowers (JT Petty) (0:35)
Dioses (Josué Méndez, Peru / Argentina / France / Germany) (0:35)
The Memory of Angels (Luc Bourdon, Canada) [v] (0:24)
Teza (Haile Gerima, Ethiopia / Germany / France) (1:35)
Two Legged Horse (Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran) (1:15)