Friday, January 30, 2009

The Top 25 Films of 2008

I've been posting my year-end lists over on Livejournal and there's a handy dandy link on one of the sidebars.

Here's the quickie version of my top 25 films of 2008. You can read a more detailed version on my LJ blog.

1. The Dark Knight (Dir. Christopher Nolan)
2. Iron Man (Dir. Jon Favreau)
3. Wall-E (Dir. Andrew Stanton)
4. Let the Right One In (Dir. Tomas Alfredson)
5. The Wrestler (Dir. Darren Aronofsky)
6. Gran Torino (Dir. Clint Eastwood)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Dir. Kelly Reichardt)
8. Milk (Dir. Gus Van Sant)
9. Slumdog Millionaire (Dir. Danny Boyle)
10. In Bruges (Dir. Martin McDonagh)
11. Hunger (Dir. Steve McQueen)
12. Tropic Thunder (Dir. Ben Stiller)
13. The Visitor (Dir. Thomas McCarthy)
14. Shotgun Stories (Dir. Jeff Nichols)
15. Waltz with Bashir (Dir. Ari Folman)
16. Frozen River (Dir. Courtney Hunt)
17. Happy-Go-Lucky (Dir. Mike Leigh)
18. My Winnipeg (Dir. Guy Maddin)
19. Synecdoche, New York (Dir. Charlie Kaufman)
20. Frost/Nixon (Dir. Ron Howard)
21. Doubt (Dir. John Patrick Shanley)
22. Man on Wire (Dir. James Marsh)
23. Changeling (Dir. Clint Eastwood)
24. Chop Shop (Dir. Ramin Bahrani)
25. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Dir. Nicholas Stoller)

1 comment:

Roadside Attractions said...

I'm so glad you dug 'Chop Shop.' Be sure to check out Bahrani's latest film 'Goodbye Solo' when it opens in theaters on March 27th. Roger Ebert calls it "a force of nature" and The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has "an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world." You can check out the trailer and theater listings at www.goodbyesolomovie.com.