My Boring Top 10 12/21/2008
 


My favorite films of 2008 (notably absent - the incredibly overrated and downright annoying Rachel Getting Married):

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, dir. Cristian Mungiu
2. Paranoid Park, dir. Gus Van Sant
3. Happy-Go-Lucky, dir. Mike Leigh
4. Encounters at the End of the World, dir. Werner Herzog
5. Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh
6. A Christmas Tale, dir. Arnaud Desplechin
7. Milk, dir. Gus Van Sant
8. Wall-E, dir. Andrew Stanton
9. Step Brothers, dir. Adam McKay
10. Synechdoche, New York, dir. Charlie Kaufman

Near miss: Burn After Reading.
Films I haven't seen that might've counted: Che, Doubt, Frozen River, W., The Wrestler, My Winnipeg.

 


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12/28/2008 07:03

step brothers? for realzies!?

and thank you for mentioning the overratedness of RGM. i don't know why everyone is all over it. i even almost walked out on it - not because it was bad in some meaningful way, but because it's seriously fucking annoying and ordinary in every way where it's not annoying.

and you might be re-editing your list after you see the wrestler. i just saw it last night and it's grrreat!

lastly, no dark knight = single tear...

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