The Valley Record. A cozy little archive for all my random by-year stuff.
and yes, the shorts noted don't count for the totals.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

2008

100 films seen.

★★★★★
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) [x2]
Milk (Gus Van Sant) [x3]
WALL•E (Andrew Stanton) [x2]

★★★★½
Australia (Baz Luhrmann) [x3]
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin) [x2]
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher) [x2]
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) [x4]
The Fall (Tarsem Singh) [x2]
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki) [x2]
The Reader (Stephen Daldry) [x2]
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) [x2]
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) [x2]

★★★★
American Teen (Nanette Burstein)
La Belle Personne (Christophe Honoré)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles) [x2]
Boy A (John Crowley)
Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Go-Getter (Martin Hynes)
Man on Wire (James Marsh) [x2]
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett) [x2]
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) [x2]
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Marina Zenovich)
Speed Racer (Andy & Larry Wachowski) [x4]
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)

★★★½
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel)
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Bolt (Byron Howard/Chris Williams)
Charlie Bartlett (Jon Poll)
City of Ember (Gil Kenan)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
The Duchess (Saul Dibb)
Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott)
Eden Lake (James Watkins)
Elegy (Isabel Coixet)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
Futurama: Bender's Game (Dwayne Carey-Hill) [x5]
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz/Hayden Schlossberg)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro)
In Bruges (Martin McDonaugh) [x2]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
I've Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel)
Julia (Erick Zonca)
Last Chance Harvey (Joel Hopkins)
Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis)
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne/John Stevenson)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Nothing But the Truth (Rod Lurie)
Paris (Cedric Klapisch)
Penelope (Mark Palansky)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
Role Models (David Wain)
Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón)
Sleepwalking (William Maher)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
Terribly Happy (Henrik Ruben Genz)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) [x2]

★★★
Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
Choke (Clark Gregg)
Defiance (Edward Zwick)
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (Peter Avanzino) [x5]
Get Smart (Peter Segal)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Alex Gibney)
The House Bunny (Fred Wolf)
Leatherheads (George Clooney)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwick)
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
Redbelt (David Mamet)
Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
Save Me (Robert Cary)
Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Were the World Mine (Tom Gustafson)

★★½
Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (Amy Heckerling)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)

★★
Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Taken (Pierre Morel)

★½
The Life Before Her Eyes (Vadim Perelman)
10,000 BC (Roland Emmerich)

♥♥♥♥♥
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Kenny Ortega) [x2]

Shorts:
Presto (Doug Sweetland)
Toyland (Jochen Alexander Freydank)

3 comments:

jorge vicente said...

it seems woody allen is going downhill

Anonymous said...

See Wendy and Lucy, please! :)

J.D. said...

Um, W&L is listed there. :)