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1. Wall•E
2. The Wrestler
3. Let the Right One In
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. Synecdoche, New York
6. Man on Wire
7. Milk
8. In Bruges
9. Revolutionary Road
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona


Actually last edited on 7-19-12, despite:

1. (tie) Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) and Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
4. Don’t Touch the Axe (Jacques Rivette)
5. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
7. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
8. Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
9. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
10. The Betrayal (Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)

Wall*E (Stanton)
Helen (Desperate Optimists)
Still Life (Jia)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)
The Good, The Bad, and the Weird (Kim)
Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
Reprise (Trier)
Profit motive and the whispering wind (Gianvito)
The Unforeseen (Dunn)
CJ7 (Chow)
Everlasting Moments (Troell)

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Margot At the Wedding (Baumbach)
The Last Mistress (Breillat)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
Mister Lonely (Korine)
Role Models (Wain)

Once again, I play by Chicago dates.

1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
3. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
3. Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
4. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
5. Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)

-Toilet Dcuk

chaddoli wrote:Face (Tsai Ming Liang)

Anyone have some more info on this? It sounds great, perhaps too great. I'd like a better source than just some random guy on the IMDB message board. Some 2007 in here, some 2008:

1. My Winnipeg
2. Yumurta
3. Flowers in the Pocket
4. Ne touchez pas la hache
5. Exodus
6. Nachmittag
7. Happy-Go-Lucky
8. Margot at the Wedding
9. Wolfsbergen
10. Tennen Kokekko
11. Synecdoche, NY
12. Mister Lonely
13. Water Lilies
14. Silent Light
15. Boarding Gate
16. Mogari no Mori
17. Linger
18. My Blueberry Nights
19. Triangle
20. There Will Be Blood

1. Milk
2. Let the Right One In
3. The Beaches of Agnes
4. The Headless Woman

I really hope that Silent Light makes it to Portland. (The Portland International Film Festival is sort of being weird in that they have not released their schedule yet... and it opens Feb.7th!... PIFF is generally how I see the best films every year and I'm hoping they get Silent Light, The Man From London, Alexandra and Colossal Youth. The only thing I know for certain is that Paranoid Park is the opening night film)

Going by UK release dates:

Top:
There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
No Country For Old Men (Coen Bros)
Of Time And The City (Davies)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
Wall*E (Stanton)
Man On Wire (Marsh)
Happy Go Lucky (Leigh)

Middling:
In Bruges (McDonagh)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)
Be Kind Rewind (Gondry)

Also seen:
Lust, Caution (Lee)
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet)
Indiana Jones and the KOCS (Spielberg)
Body Of Lies (Scott)

1. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
2. La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel)
3. Two Lovers (James Gray)
4. Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
5. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
6. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
7. Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
8. Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
9. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
10. 35 Rhums (Claire Denis)

miless wrote:I really hope that Silent Light makes it to Portland. (The Portland International Film Festival is sort of being weird in that they have not released their schedule yet... and it opens Feb.7th!... PIFF is generally how I see the best films every year and I'm hoping they get Silent Light, The Man From London, Alexandra and Colossal Youth. The only thing I know for certain is that Paranoid Park is the opening night film)

They are up now at the nwfilm.org if you haven't noticed yet. A good deal of the site hasn't been fully updated from last year yet, but the films are up. Silent Night is the 17th and 19th. I suggest Taxidermia, Duchess..., You, the Living and Still Life also end up high on your itinerary.

But no Secret Sunshine or Colossal Youth or I Just Didn't Do It? The Man From London is also a glaring absence but not all that suprising.

By Australian release dates

1. Paranoid Park
2. Speed Racer
3. The Flight of the Red Balloon
4. We Own the Night
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Grain and Mullet (The Secret of the Grain)
7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
8. Be Kind Rewind
9. The Edge of Heaven
10. Sweeney Todd
Runner(s) Up: Gone Baby Gone, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Disappointing: Iron Man, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Avoid at all costs: Juno, The Kite Runner, and especially the vile Mongol

so far, this year, I have only seen four movies (that I don't consider to be from last year, such as Control). I have seen 3 films at the Portland International Film Festival and plan on seeing 17 more over the next 2 weeks. (I will, of course, be updating this)

in order

Silent Light
You, The Living
Import/Export
Breath
Still Life
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Milk
Wall*E
Synecdoche, New York
Pineapple Express
Paranoid Park
Flight of the Red Balloon
In The City of Sylvia
Taxidermia
Secret Sunshine
The Curios Case of Benjamin Button
My Winnipeg
Standard Operating Procedure
Burn After Reading
Momma's Man
Alexandra
California Dreamin'
The Dutchess of Langeis
The Counterfeiters
The Edge of Heaven
Chop Shop
Snow Angels
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Changeling
Jar City
Monks-Transatlantic Feedback
Mongol
The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Playing (loosely) by UK release dates & screenings.

Honour of the Knights / Birdsong (Serra)
Still Life (Jia)
Colossal Youth (Costa)
Summer Hours (Assayas) / A Christmas Tale (Desplechin) / Still Walking (Kore-eda)
Night & Day (Hong)
Mad Detective (To)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)

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In the City of Sylvia (Guerin)
The Last Mistress (Breillat)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)
Winter / Sarabande (Dorsky)
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Mungiu)
The Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
Alexandra (Sokurov)
Liverpool (Alonso)
RR (Benning)
Paraguayan Hammock (Encina)

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Boarding Gate (Assayas)
The Silence of Lorna (Dardennes)
Women from Antwerp in November [video installation] (Akerman)
Private Property (Lafosse)
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
Of Time & the City (Davies)

1. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2. The Wrestler
3. Paranoid Park
4. The Dark Knight
5. Wall-E
6. Let The Right One In
7. Mister Lonely
8. Pineapple Express
9. Be Kind Rewind
10. Rachel Getting Married

In no particular order:

There Will Be Blood
Snow Angels
Persepolis
Pineapple Express
Flight of the Red Balloon
Wall-E
The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Top Ten So Far:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Milk
3. The Wrestler
4. Wall*E
5. Synecdoche, New York
6. Snow Angles
7. Encounters at the End of the World
8. Frost/Nixon
9. Gonzo: The Life & Work of Hunter S. Thompson
10. Tropic Thunder

Runners Up:
In Bruges, Be Kind Rewind, Stop Loss, Shine a Light, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, My Blueberry Nights, Young@Heart, Under the Same Moon, The Visitor, Funny Games, Religulous, W., Iron Man, Grand Torino, Slumdog Millionaire, Rachel Getting Married, Happy-Go-Lucky, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Just Fun Popcorn Films That I Would Watch Again or Own:
Cloverfield, The Bank Job, Diary of the Dead, Leatherheads, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Speed Racer, Sex and the City, Fools Gold, Wanted, Quarantine, Body of Lies, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

The Worst or I want 2 hours of my life back
The Ruins *another great book that got screwed up*
Jumper *a cool concept that could have been a good film that just turn out all wrong, I fell asleep in part of it thats how bored I got*
American Teen *Takes it's ques from just about any cheap MTV show, feeling like the WHOLE film was staged, I felt like everything was done for the camera and NOTHING about this film was real at all, it felt like a midwest low rent version of The Hills*
The Happening *Or can we please have M. Night Shyamalan please stop writing his own films!*

1. Elite Squad (Padilha)
2. Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (Oliveira)
3. Revolutionary Road (Mendes)
4. Alexandra (Sokurov)
5. Speed Racer (Wachowskis)
6. The Man from London (Tarr)
7. Go Go Tales (Ferrara)
8. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
9. Parable (Jost)
10. We Own the Night (Gray)

Other great pics: The Brave One, Lust, Caution, Funny Games '08, Gran Torino, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, The Dark Knight, Eastern Promises, Wall-E, Sweeney Todd, Goya's Ghosts, Redbelt, In Memory of Myself, The Assassination of Jesse James

Surprisingly Good: Quantum of Solace, Eden Log, The Mist, Iron Man, In Bruges, Chaos Theory, Burn After Reading, American Gangster, Sunshine, Guantanamero, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Baghead

Let-Downs: Three Monkeys, The Headless Woman, Youth Without Youth, The Inner Life of Martin Frost, Redacted, Silent Light, Flight of the Red Balloon, Nightwatching, Snow Angels, Wendy and Lucy

Godawful: The Happening, Choke, The Life Before Her Eyes, The Fall, Surveillance, La Vie en Rose, Slipstream, Diary of the Dead, Across the Universe, Indiana Jones and the KOCS

Discoveries of the Year: Cutter's Way (Passer), Duet for One (Konchalovsky), El Segundo Nombre (Plaza), Close My Eyes (Poliakoff), Bugcrush (Smith), Pretty Baby (Malle), Exterminating Angels (Brisseau), James Gray's back catalogue

The So Bad It's Great Award: Perfect Hideout ("If You're On The Run, Make Sure Your Hostage Is Not A Serial Killer")

So far this year, among the movies released in NYC, I've really enjoyed, in preferential order:

Flight of the Red Balloon
Snow Angels
Boarding Gate
Cassandra's Dream
The Ruins
Woman on the Beach
In Bruges
Diary of the Dead
Funny Games
Stop-Loss
Water Lilies
Paranoid Park
My Blueberry Nights
The Duchess of Langeais

1. The Tracey Fragments
2. My Winnipeg
3. Revolutionary Road
4. Three Monkeys
5. Waltz with Bashir
6. The Wrestler
7. Burn After Reading
8. Up the Yangtze
9. Du Levande
10. JCVD

Hon. Mentions:
In Bruges; Milk; WALL•E

MOVIESSSSSS IN 2008

Tulpan*
Frownland
Wendy and Lucy
Secret Sunshine
Wall-E
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

The Wrestler
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Milk
Hunger*
Cloverfield
TDK

Still Life
Twilight
Speed Racer
Che

1. Hunger (Alan Clarke would have been proud)
2.
3. Flight of the Red Ballon
4. Un Conte De Noel
5. Mister Lonely
6. Funny Games (US)
7. The Duchess of Langeais
8. Paranoid Park
9. The Last Mistress
10. In Bruges

Biggest Letdown of 2008 - Gomorra - It is A W F U L

1. In the City of Sylvia - Jose Luis Guerin
2. Tokyo Sonata - Kurosawa Kiyoshi
3. A Christmas Tale - Arnaud Despleshin
4. The Fall - Tarsem Singh
5. The Tracey Fragments - Bruce McDonald
6. Rachel Getting Married - Jonathan Demme
7. Paranoid Park - Gus Van Sant
8. Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen
10. Teeth - Mitchell Lichtenstein

to date so far...

Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Stuck (Stuart Gordon)
Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke)
Transsiberian (Brad Anderson)
Speed Racer (Wachowski Bros)
Redbelt (David Mamet)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Diary of the Dead (George Romero)
Vexille (Fumihiko Sori)
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)

new contenders...

Los Cronocrímenes (Nacho Vigalondo)
Katyn (Andrzej Wajda)

1. WALL•E
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Summer Hours
4. Hunger
5. Standard Operating Procedure
6. Paranoid Park
7. Rachel Getting Married
8. Milk
9. A Christmas Tale
10. I Am So Proud of You

Honorable Mentions:
Doubt, Gran Torino, Encounters at the End of the World, The Dark Knight, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, A Girl Cut In Two, Iron Man, Pineapple Express, Redbelt, I Am So Proud of You, The Wrestler, The Reader