What are your most anticipated films of 2008?

[Spinal]

After doing a little research, I have a list of 20. Some are 2007 films that will likely get to my area in 2008. At least a couple are films that will only arrive in 2008 through the help of a small miracle.

1. Antichrist (Trier)
2. Nightwatching (Greenaway)
3. Burn After Reading (Coens)
4. Leatherheads (Clooney)
5. Stop-Loss (Peirce)
6. Mammoth (Moodysson)
7. Funny Games (Haneke)
8. S.O.P.: Standard Operating Procedure (Morris)
9. Zonad (Carney)
10. Blindness (Meirelles)
11. Repo! The Genetic Opera! (Bousman)
12. Une vieille maîtresse (Breillat)
13. Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog)
14. Breath (Kim)
15. WALL*E (Pixar)
16. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
17. Life During Wartime (Solondz)
18. Bright Star (Campion)
19. The H-Man Cometh (Russell)
20. The International (Tykwer)

And you?

[D_Davis]

1. Missing - Tsui Hark
2. An Empress and the Warriors - Ching Siu Tung
3. Hope (Long River 7) - Stephen Chow
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Weird - Ji-Woon Kim
5. The Sky Crawlers - Mamoru Oshii
6. Judge Di - Tsui Hark
7. The Mummy 3 - shut up
8. Call Me Left - Chiu Leung-Chun


That's all I can think of right now...

[Watashi]

Not in any particular order:

WALL-E (Stanton)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher)
Lincoln (Spielberg)
Iron Man (Faverau)
Indiana Jones IV and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Spielberg)
Be Kind Rewind (Gondry)
Burn After Reading (Coens)
Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
The Happening (Shyamalan)
The Changeling (Eastwood)
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Del Toro)
The Dark Knight (Nolan)
Valkyrie (Singer)
Doomsday (Marshall)

[lovejuice]

i want to see how they approach blindness. one of those wonderful books you think it's impossible to imagerize.

[Gizmo]

not sure what's even on the docket, but I think there's a Batman film that will be worth catching. Isn't there another Narnia movie in production? I think Harry Potter 6 is out next year too. I'll say those.

[Stay Puft]

Assuming they are actually released in 2008:

I Come With The Rain (Tran Anh Hung)
Mei Lanfang (Chen Kaige)

[soitgoes...]

I really should start paying attention to what will be coming out a few months in advance, but since I don't tend to watch too many movies in theaters I find it hard to get pumped for something that I might not see until 2009. I'm only now paying attention to what's coming out as Oscar-bait this year.

[soitgoes...]

I Come With The Rain (Tran Anh Hung)

Ooo, I do want to see this one though.

[Gizmo]

I really should start paying attention to what will be coming out a few months in advance, but since I don't tend to watch too many movies in theaters I find it hard to get pumped for something that I might not see until 2009. I'm only now paying attention to what's coming out as Oscar-bait this year.

same here... aside from the occasional outing, mostly for blockbusters, I don't watch much at all until it's been on DVD for a while, or more likely, being shown on a free preview weekend of Random Film Channels.

[Sycophant]

Is Spielberg's Lincoln actually set to come out next year? Wild.

Okay, some of these are 2007 films I really want to see in 2008.
Crows Zero (Miike)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Miike)
Be Kind Rewind (Gondry)
A Hope (Chow)
Mad Detective (To)
Sparrow (To, if it finishes)
L'illusioniste (Chomet)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa)
Now Showing (Pang)
The Visitor (McCarthy)
WALL*E (Stanton)

And isn't Miyazaki's Ponyo on the Cliff coming out next year? Might we see Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, finally?

[Derek]

1. Missing - Tsui Hark
2. An Empress and the Warriors - Ching Siu Tung
3. Hope (Long River 7) - Stephen Chow
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Weird - Ji-Woon Kim
5. The Sky Crawlers - Mamoru Oshii
6. Judge Di - Tsui Hark
7. The Mummy 3 - shut up
8. Call Me Left - Chiu Leung-Chun


That's all I can think of right now...

But what Asian films are looking forward to?

Do you know anything about the Chow film? This is the first I've heard of it, but I'll definitely keep it on my radar.

[Sycophant]

But what Asian films are looking forward to?

Do you know anything about the Chow film? This is the first I've heard of it, but I'll definitely keep it on my radar.

The Chow film... no one really knows exactly what it's about. Here's some stills. Apparently, there's poverty, a young boy, aliens, alien technology, an alien teacher, or something like that. Trying to get accurate news from sites trying to round up the stuff that appears in Chinese gossip rags can be a chore.

[Derek]

The Chow film... no one really knows exactly what it's about. Here's some stills. Apparently, there's poverty, a young boy, aliens, alien technology, an alien teacher, or something like that. Trying to get accurate news from sites trying to round up the stuff that appears in Chinese gossip rags can be a chore.

Good enough, I'm sold for now.

[D_Davis]

Good enough, I'm sold for now.

www.monkeypeaches.com is probably the best site for upcoming Asian film news.

[D_Davis]

But what Asian films are looking forward to?

Mummy 3 isn't Asian.
(But it has Jet Li in it...)

[eternity]

The Brothers Bloom, and The Brothers Bloom.

[Ezee E]

Will The Lovely Bones be ready by next year?

Hmm... I can't think of a #1. Probably The Dark Knight.

[KK2.0]

L'illusioniste (Chomet)

i think this is set for 2009, no?

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Dark Knight
2. WALL-E
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Be Kind Rewind
5. Lincoln
6. Where The Wild Things Are
7. The Dark Knight
8. Iron Man
9. The Dark Knight
10. 1-18-08

[SpaceOddity]

Does the next Bond come out in 2008?
*pines for Daniel Craig*

[Bosco B Thug]

Pretty much the only film I'm anxious about at the moment is The Lovely Bones. I'm very anxious to see how Peter Jackson does with his first non-epic fantasy film in years.

[Mysterious Dude]

I think I'm going to stop anticipating movies months in advance. My favorite movies always end up being something I've never heard of.

[Spinal]

My favorite movies always end up being something I've never heard of.

Yeah, I agree. The reason I start these threads is because I like to see the difference between what people think will be good and what actually turns out to be good.

[Mysterious Dude]

I am anticipating Steven Soderbergh's Guerrilla, which was once my most-anticipated film of 2005, if I remember correctly.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I'm still anticipating A Confederacy of Dunces. :|