Best of 2008

By: Manny Lage

I haven’t seen all the films of 2008 and until then this is a work in progress. FIlms by premiere, not U.S. release dates.

Trailer for De la guerre HERE
Hypnotic, a masterpiece by Bonello.

By far Kurosawa’s best work.

SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!

• 01
  Melancholia
  Lav Diaz
• 02
  Liverpool
  Lisandro Alonso
• 03
  Shirin
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 04
  Frontier of Dawn
  Philippe Garrel
• 05
  On War
  Bertrand Bonello
• 06
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 07
  Jerichow
  Christian Petzold
• 08
  Lorna's Silence
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 09
  A Lake
  Philippe Grandrieux
• 10
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 11
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 12
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 13
  Afterschool
  Antonio Campos
• 14
  Momma's Man
  Azazel Jacobs
• 15
  Treeless Mountain
  So Yong Kim
• 16
  Revanche
  Götz Spielmann
• 17
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 18
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 19
  A Cross the Universe
  Gaspard Augé
• 20
  The Headless Woman
  Lucrecia Martel
• 21
  Ponyo
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 22
  Goodbye Solo
  Ramin Bahrani
• 23
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 24
  Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Woody Allen
• 25
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 26
  Revolutionary Road
  Sam Mendes
• 27
  Mid-August Lunch
  Gianni Di Gregorio