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)

/Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China / Hong Kong) [v]*

[8]

-The Duchess of Langeais [Ne touchez pas la hache] (Jacques Rivette, France / Italy)

-Exiled (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

-Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)

-La France (Serge Bozon, France)

-The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen, China / Hong Kong)

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)

/-Zodiac (David Fincher)

[7]

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)

-Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges)

-Eat, For This Is My Body (Michelange Quay, France / Haiti)

-In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France)

-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)

-Mock Up on Mu (Craig Baldwin) [v]*

-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)

-Prosperity for 2008 (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) [v/s]

-Radiant City (Jim Brown and Gary Burns, Canada)

-The Romance of Astreé and Céladon (Eric Rohmer, France / Italy / Spain)

/-Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)

-Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)

-The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, Canada)

-The Witnesses (André Téchiné, France)

[6]

-Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia / France)

-Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot, France)

-CJ7 (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)

-Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)

\-Daratt (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Chad / France / Belgium / Austria)

-Elite Squad (José Padilha, Brazil)

-4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)

-A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan)

-Jar City (Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland / Germany / Denmark)

Juno (Jason Reitman)

-The King of Kong (Seth Gordon)

-The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky , France / Germany / Hungary)

-My Brother Is an Only Child (Daniele Luchetti, Italy / France)

-Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, France / U.S.)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, U.S. / U.K.)

-The Unknown Woman [La Sconosciuta] (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy / France)

[5]

-Atonement (Joe Wright, U.K. / France)

-Big Man Japan [Dai-Nipponjin] (Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan)

-The Brothers Solomon (Bob Odenkirk)

-Ex Drummer (Koen Mortier, Belgium)

-Frownland (Ronald Bronstein)

Funny Games [U.S.] (Michael Haneke, U.S. / U.K. / France / Austria)

-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)

-Princess (Anders Morgenthaler, Denmark / Germany)

-Useless (Jia Zhang-ke, China / Hong Kong) [v]

-Vacancy (Nimród Antal)

-Yella (Christian Petzold, Germany)

[4]

-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)

-In Memory of Me (Saverio Costanzo, Italy)

-Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, Germany)

Into the Wild (Sean Penn)

-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)

-Once (John Carney, Ireland)

-Quiet As Kept (Charles Burnett) [v/s]

-Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, France)

[3]

-Blind Mountain (Li Yang, China / Germany / Hong Kong)

-Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)

[2]

-Joshua (George Ratliff)

[1]

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