It's that time of year, and because of my day job -- errr, my freelance career -- I get asked for film recommendations a lot. So here's my favorite 12.5 films of 2008, mostly in order:
The Visitor
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Waltz With Bashir
Man On Wire
Rachel Getting Married
Gone Baby Gone (may have been an 07 release in US but was 08 in UK!)
In Bruges
Genova
Burn After Reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Hunger
Wall-E (first half)
and the book I loved the most: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (belated thanks for the bday present Louise)
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Waltz With Bashir was wonderful. The morbid disco scene with PIL playing 'This is not a love song' stuck with me so much I went out an bought This is what you, this is what you get.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the Wrestler - heard Mickey Rourke talking about it. Sounds like a good un
Wendy--
ReplyDeleteI don't read that much of reviews anymore due to the "spoiler" factor, so I often just scan first and last paragraphs. Consequently, there may be more folk out there than just you and I who found the first half of Wall-E terrific but not the remainder. Can't tell you how happy I was to encounter your inclusion of only the first half on your "Best" list because i was beginning to think I was crazy for finding the latter section so typical and tiresome.
--James van Maanen www.TrustMovies.com