Films of 2008

[faustus]

The final listing, cut for length. I'm surprised it's so few - I slowed down.


I: Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2001)
II: Catch and Release (Susannah Grant, 2007)
III: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
IV: Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957)
V: The Kite Runner (Marc Forster, 2007)
VI: Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
VII: Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
VIII: My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin, 1940)
IX: Penny Serenade (George Stevens, 1941)
X: No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
XI: Kidulthood (Menhaj Huda, 2006)
XII: Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
XIII: Walk Don't Run (Charles Walters, 1966)
XIV: Ned Kelly (Gregor Jordan, 2003)
XV: Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
XVI: The Illusionist (Neil Burger, 2006)
XVII: Jumper (Doug Liman, 2008)
Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton, 2007)
XIX: Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century (Daniel Haller, 1979)
XX: Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
XXI: An Evening with Kevin Smith II: Evening Harder (J.M. Kenny, 2006)
XXII: I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes, 2007)
XXIII: Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007)
XXIV: State of the Union (Frank Capra, 1948)
XXV: Buster Complete Shorts 1917-1923 volume 1 (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)


XXVI: Pat and Mike (George Cukor, 1952)
XXVII: The Good German (Steven Soderbergh, 2006)
XXVIII: Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
XXIX: Derek (Isaac Julien, 2008)
XXX: The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman (Fred Barney Taylor, 2007)
XXXI: The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2006)
XXXII: The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström, 1999)
XXXIII: Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
XXXIV: Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
XXXV: Last Orders (Fred Schepisi, 2001)
XXXVI: Imagining October (Derek Jarman, 1984)
XXXVII: Herbie Fully Loaded (Angela Robinson, 2005)
XXXVIII: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
XXXIX: Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)
XL: Le Pacte des loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Christophe Gans, 2001)
XLI: Szabadság, szerelem (Children of Glory, Krisztina Goda, 2006)
XLII: Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
XLIII: L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
XLIV: Safe Men (John Hamburg, 1998)
XLV: Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
XLVI: A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
XLVII: They're a Weird Mob (Michael Powell, 1966)
XLVIII: Ruby Blue (Jan Dunn, 2007)
IL: Run Fatboy, Run (David Schwimmer, 2007)
L: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)


LI: Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007)
LII: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982 - workprint)
LIII: Pierre le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
LIV: Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (Charles de Lauzirika, 2007)
LV: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 2007)
LVI: Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
LVII: Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 2007)
LVIII: Disturbia (D.J. Caruso, 2007)
LIX: La Règle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
LX: Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
LXI: SiCKO (Michael Moore, 2007)
LXIX: Du Levande (You, The Living, Rory Andersson, 2007)
LXIII: In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Alex Holdridge, 2007)
LXIV: Hors de Prix (Priceless, Pierre Salvadori, 2006)
LXV: The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 2008)
LXVII: Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
LXVIII: An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey, 1957)
LXIX: Tideland (Terry Gilliam 2005)
LXX: My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
LXXI: Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
LXXII: Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov, 2008)
LXXII: Honeydripper (John Sayles, 2007)
LXXIV: The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)
LXXV: Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman, 2002)


LXXVI: Hancock (Peter Berg, 2008)
LXXVII: Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
LXXVIII: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
LXXIX: The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
LXXX: Changement d'adresse (Change of Address, Emmanuel Mouret, 2006)
LXXXI: The Edge of Love (John Maybury, 2008)
LXXXII: Amadeus (swell consopio) (Tacita Dean, 2008)
LXXXIII: The Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander MacKendrick, 1957)
LXXXIV: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
LXXXVI: Destination Tokyo (Delmer Daves, 1943)
LXXXVII: Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966)
LXXXVIII: 49th Parallel (Michael Powell, 1941)
LXXXIX: The Oxford Murders (Álex de la Iglesia, 2008)
XC: Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
XCI: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Ted Post, 1970)
XCII: Quatermass and t'Pit (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)
XCIII: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (Don Taylor, 1971)
XCIV: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (J. Lee Thompson, 1972)
XCV: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
XCVI: Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, 2004)
XCVII: Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Gurinder Chadha, 2008)
XCVIII: Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
LXXXIX: Les Femmes de l'ombre (Female Agents, Jean-Paul Salomé)
C: The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2008)


CI: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson, 2008) )
CII: Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, 2008)
CIII: Cold and Dark (Andrew Goth, 2005)
CIV: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
CV: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
CVI: La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
CVII: Sans Soleil (Sunless, Chris Marker, 1983)
CVIII: The Serpent's Egg (Ingmar Bergman, 1977)
CIX: Endgame (Gary Wicks, 2001)
CX: Il Gatto a Nove Code (The Cat o' Nine Tails, Dario Argento, 1971)
CXI: Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985)
CXII: Il Buono, Il brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, 1966)
CXIII: Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad, José Padilha, 2007)
CXIV: Somers Town (Shane Meadows, 2008)
CXV: Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949)
CXVI: The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
CXVII: Ben X (Nic Balthazar, 2007)
CXVIII: Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007)
CXIX: Grace Quigley (Anthony Harvey, 1984)
CXX: A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (Chris Waitt, 2008)
CXXI: Dirty Love (John Asher, 2005)
CXXII: A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
CXXIII: Death Defying Acts (Gillian Armstrong, 2007)
CXXIV: Donkey Punch (Oliver Blackburn, 2008)
CXXV: Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold, 2008)


CXXVI: In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)
CXXVII: Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2008)
CXXVIII: Macbeth (Geoffrey Wright, 2006)
CXXIX: Die Welle (The Wave, Dennis Gansel, 2008)
CXXX: Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
CXXXI: Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster, 2008)
CXXXII: Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
CXXXIII: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman, 2008)
CXXXIV: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro, 2008)
CXXXV: Blithe Spirit (David Lean, 1945)
CXXXVI: Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, 2008)
CXXXVII: Married Life (Ira Sachs, 2007)
CXXXVIII: He Was A Quiet Man (Frank A. Cappello, 2007)
CXXXIX: Keeper of the Flame (George Cukor, 1942)
CXL: Woman of the Year (George Stevens, 1942)
CXLI: Appaloosa (Ed Harris 2008)
CXLII: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel (2008)
CXLIII: Peur(s) du Noir (Fear(s) of the Dark (Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire, 2007)
CXLIV: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park and Steve Box, 2005)
CXLV: Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

Comments

[kayxh.livejournal.com]

Just to say I enjoy your reviews, and rented Catch and Release as a result of one of them.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Thank you - hope you enjoyed that. I guess I do this to try and lock my thoughts down as much as anything else (memory like a ... like a ...), but always good to get feedback.