MC Yearly Consensus - 2008 (Revision)

[Spinal]

I did updated versions of 2007 and 2009. But never a second look at 2008. Let's see how it looks.

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. If you want to edit, make a new post and tell me what you've changed.

You may begin now.

[Spinal]

1. Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Let the Right One In
3. Burn After Reading
4. Repo! The Genetic Opera
5. City of Ember

[MadMan]

1. The Wrestler
2. The Dark Knight
3. Burn After Reading
4. Frost/Nixon
5. Tropic Thunder

The rest of the list:

6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Frygtelig lykkelig (Terribly Happy)
8. Wallace and Gromit in a Matter of Loaf or Death
9. Gran Torino
10. Waltz With Bashir

HM: The Baader Meinhof Complex, Pinapple Express

PS: I originally made this list a while back before seeing Terribly Happy, Waltz With Bashir, or The Baader Meinholf Complex. Funny how things change a little over a couple years.

[Raiders]

1. Two Lovers (James Gray)
2. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
3. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
4. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
5. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

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6. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
7. Somers Town (Shane Meadows)
8. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
9. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
10. Hunger (Steve McQueen)

[Melville]

1. Two Lovers
2. Hunger
3. Waltz with Bashir
4. Synecdoche, New York
5. Love Exposure

HMs: Burn After Reading, The Class, Let the Right One In

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. A Christmas Tale
2. Summer Hours
3. Still Walking
4. Wall-E
5. 35 Rhums

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Dark Knight
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Let The Right One In
4. Revolutionary Road
5. Cloverfield
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6. Tropic Thunder
7. Two Lovers
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. W.
10. Slumdog Millionaire

[soitgoes...]

1. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
3. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
4. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen)
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6. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne)
7. Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
8. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
9. My Only Sunshine (Reha Erdem)
10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)


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11. Two Lovers (James Gray)
12. Speed Racer (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski)
13. Love Exposure (Shion Sono)
14. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
15. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

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[Stay Puft]

1. 35 rhums
2. Summer Hours
3. Tokyo Sonata
4. Burn After Reading
5. Birdsong

[B-side]

1. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
2. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
3. Two Lovers (Gray)
4. Wall-E (Stanton)
5. Cloverfield (Reeves)

[Lazlo]

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
4. Let the Right One In
5. Rachel Getting Married

[StanleyK]

1. Two Lovers (James Gray)
2. WALL·E (Andrew Stanton)
3. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Presto (Doug Sweetland)

I feel bad voting for only three films, but everything else I liked from 2008 I either don't like anymore or need to watch again.

[Boner M]

1. Tokyo Sonata
2. 35 Rhums
3. Love Exposure
4. Hunger
5. Two Lovers

HM: Wall-E, Of Time and the City, Momma's Man, Let the Right One In, Somer's Town, Three Blind Mice, Ballast

[kopello]

1. Rachel Getting Married
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Flight of the Red Balloon
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Waltz with Bashir

6. My Winnipeg
7. Happy-Go Lucky
8. Speed Racer
9. Two Lovers
10. Hunger

[Watashi]

1. Speed Racer
2. WALL-E
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
4. Two Lovers
5. The Class

Fucking phenomenal year.

[Ezee E]

1. Dark Knight
2. Two Lovers
3. Let the Right One In
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. Dear Zachary

[Stay Puft]

3. Flight of the Red Balloon

This is 2007. Otherwise it'd be at the top of my list!

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. In Bruges
02. Let the Right One In
03. Wall-E
04. Tokyo Sonata
05. The Dark Knight
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06. Transsiberian
07. Stepbrothers
08. Repo: The Genetic Opera
09. Pineapple Express
10. Cloverfield

With apologies to The Good the Bad the Weird, Speed Racer, The Ruins, Trick 'r Treat, and The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

[B-side]

1. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
2. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
3. Two Lovers (Gray)
4. Wall-E (Stanton)
5. Cloverfield (Reeves)

I'm awful with modern foreign cinema, so this list is shamefully narrow in scope. I've got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to the supposedly great foreign language cinema of the past decade.

[soitgoes...]

I don't know if it's still underseen or a lot of just don't have good taste in movies like me, but Still Walking needs to be on more lists.

[B-side]

I don't know if it's still underseen or a lot of just don't have good taste in movies like me, but Still Walking needs to be on more lists.

I've seen it. It's not great.

[dmk]

1 . Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
2 . Un lac (Philippe Grandrieux)
3 . Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
4 . Momma’s Man (Azazel Jacobs)
5 . La Ventana (Carlos Sorin)

PS. The Dark Knight sucks.

[Stay Puft]

I've seen it. It's not great.

Agreed.

35 rhums is where it's at this year. Glad there's at least a couple other people throwing support behind that one.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Speed Racer
2. Let the Right One In
3. Wall-E
4. Two Lovers
5. Revolutionary Road

[Henry Gale]

1. Synecdoche, New York
2. Let The Right One In
3. The Dark Knight
4. WALL-E
5. The Wrestler

And yes, Speed Racer would be #6.

Either way, looking over these lists and my own, I'm kinda disappointed as to how many movies from this year I still need to get around to, long after the fact.