Sunday, February 1, 2009

2008












105 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

My Top 10 List

A
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) 2
Reprise (Joachim Trier)

A-
American Teen (Nanette Burstein)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton) 2
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 2


B+
Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
Boy A (John Crowley)
The Edge of Heaven (Faith Akin)
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke)
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne and John Stevenson)
Milk (Gus Van Sant) 2

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
Religulous (Larry Charles) 2
Shelter (Jonah Markowitz) 2

B
Birds of America (Craig Lucas)
Choke (Clark Gregg)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) 2
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Kenny Ortega) 2
The House Bunny (Fred Wolfe) 2

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri)
Otto; or, Up With Dead People (Bruce La Bruce)

Role Models (David Wain)
Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce) 2
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller) 2
W. (Oliver Stone) 2
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

B-
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
Bolt (Bryon Howard and Chris Williams)
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
Les Chansons d'Amour [Love Songs] (Christophe Honoré)

Cranford (Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Finding Amanda (Peter Tolan)
Hamlet 2 (Andrew Fleming)

Horton Hears a Who! (Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Man on Wire (James Marsh)
Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Sex and the City: The Movie (Michael Patrick King)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (Tyler Perry)
The Witnesses (André Téchiné)

C+
27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher) 3
Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg)
Il y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime [I've Loved You So Long] (Philippe Claudel)
Lakeview Terrace (Neil LaBute)
Leatherheads (George Clooney)
Married Life (Ira Sachs)

The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwicke)
The Reader (Stephen Daldry) 2
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Snow Angels
(David Gordon Green)
Valkyrie (Bryan Singer)

C
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Une Fille Coupée un Deux [A Girl Cut in Two] (Claude Chabrol)
Get Smart (Peter Segal)
Iron Man
(Jon Favreau)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Never Back Down (Jeff Wadlow)
Penelope (Mark Palansky)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Then She Found Me (Helen Hunt)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)
2
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)

C-
Defiance (Edward Zwick)
Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
Elegy (Isabel Coixet)
Picture This! (Stephen Herek)
RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie)
The Secret Life of Bees (Gina Prince-Blythewood)
Step Up 2 the Streets (John Chu)
Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman)
Smart People (Noam Murro)

D+
21 (Robert Luketic)
Charlie Bartlett (Jon Poll)
The Foot Fist Way (Jody Hill)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)

D
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)
Righteous Kill (Jon Avnet)
Were the World Mine (Tom Gustafson)

D-
Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold)
Jumper (Doug Liman)
Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit)

F
Camp Rock (Matthew Diamond)
Prom Night (Nelson McCormick)
The Wackness (Jonathan Levine)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

A Christmas Tale
In Bruges
Rachel Getting Married
Reprise
WALL-E

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas Tale
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Joachim Trier, Reprise

Best Actor

Colin Farrell, In Bruges
Andrew Garfield, Boy A
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress

Anna Faris, The House Bunny
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Brittany Snow, Finding Amanda

Best Supporting Actor

Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married
Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading

Best Supporting Actress

Hiam Abbass, The Visitor
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Ashley Tisdale, High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler