Thursday, October 29, 2009

Sight & Sound Best Films of 2008

I went through the pdf file of all the votes that Sight & Sound received from their worldwide contributors. I've ordered this list of films (170+!) in order of the number of votes they received.

18
Hunger (McQueen)

11
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, PT)

10
Wall-E (Stanton)

9
Gomorrah (Garrone)

8
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)
The Class (Cantet)

7
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)
Of Time And The City (Davies)

6
Let The Right One In (Alfredson)

5
In Bruges (McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (Nolan)
Waltz with Bashir (Folman)
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
The Headless Woman (Martel)

4
Man On Wire (Marsh)
Persepolis (Satradi)
Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
Still Walking (Koreeda)
Summer Hours (Assayas)
The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
United Red Army (Wakamatsu)

3
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet)
Che (Soderbergh)
Liverpool (Alonso)
The Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
The Silence of Lorna (Dardenne)
Itineraire de Jean Bricard (Straub & Huillet)
Le Genou d'Artemide (Straub)
Our Beloved Month of August (Gomes)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien)
Unrelated (Hogg)

2
35 Shots of Rhum (Denis)
Be Kind, Rewind (Gondry)
Frost/Nixon (Howard)
I've Loved You So Long (Claudel)
Il Divo (Sorrentino)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Holdridge)
Lake Tahoe (Eimbecke)
Lust, Caution (Lee)
Milk (Van Sant)
No Country for Old Men (Coen)
Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher)
Three Monkeys (Ceylan)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa)
Tony Manero (Larrain)
24 City (Zhang-ke)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
A Week Alone (Murga)
Appaloosa (Harris)
Bullet in the Head (Morales)
Colossal Youth (Costa)
Couscous (Ketiche)
End of the Rainbow (Nugent)
Heartbeat Detector (Koltz)
Import/Export (Seidl)
Julia (Zonca)
Le premier venu (Doillon)
Parque via (Rivero)
RR (Benning)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Gibney)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)
Tyson (Toback)

1
Adoration (Egoyan)
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (Zhang)
Burn After Reading (Coen)
Charlie Wilson's War (Nichols)
Cloverfield (Reeves)
Edge of Heaven (Akin)
Generation Kill (Simon)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)
Helen (Lawlor/Molloy)
Hellboy II (del Toro)
I Served The King of England (Menzel)
In The City of Sylvia (Guerín)
Iron Man (Favreau)
Jar City (Kormakur)
Juno (Reitman)
Katyn (Wajda)
Lars and the Real Girl (Gillespie)
Mad Detective (To)
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Sollett)
Offside (Panahi)
Sleep Furiously (Koppel)
The Changeling (Eastwood)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
The King of Kong (Gordon)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen)
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
You, The Living (Andersson)
99 francs (Kounen)
300 (Snyder)
Altar (Ilarde)
Ano Una (Cuaron)
Ballast (Hammer)
Birdwatchers (Bechis)
California Dreamin' (Endless) (Nemescu)
Camino (Fesser)
Caramel (Labaki)
Chaos Theory (Siega)
Chelsea on the Rocks (Ferrera)
Chop Shop (Ghobadi)
Client (Balasko)
Death In The Land of Encantos (Diaz)
Emerald (Weerasethakul)
Fine, Totally Fine (Yosuke)
Frownland (Bronstein)
Good Cats (Liang)
Half Moon (Ghobadi)
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (Alvi)
Hotel Diaries (Smith)
I'm Going To Explode (Naranjo)
I'm Not There (Haynes)
In The Valley of Elah (Haggis)
In The Woods (Vester)
JCVD (El Mechri)
Johnny Mad Dog (Sauvaire)
Joy Division (Gee)
L'aimée (Desplechin)
La Rabia (Carri)
La Terza madre (Argento)
La Vie Moderne (Depardon)
Laila's Birthday (Masharawi)
Last Days (Ponce)
Lawrence of Belgravia (Kelly)
Le Dernier Macquis (Ameur-Zaimeche)
Le Diexieume Souffle (Corneau)
Let's Make Money (Wagenhofer)
Los Bastardos (Escalante)
Love and Other Crimes (Arsenijevic)
Mamma Mia! (Lloyd)
Melancholia (Diaz)
Mongol (Bodrov)
Patria mia, nomad direction (Zagorac)
Prisoner, Terrorist (Masao)
Puffball (Roeg)
Redbelt (Mamet)
Rembrandt's J'accuse (Greenaway)
Revanche (Spielmann)
Savage Grace (Kalin)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Serbis (Mendoza)
Shine a Light (Scorsese)
Shirin (Kiarostami)
Si le vent souleve les sables (Hansel)
Snow (Begic)
Stalags (Libsker)
Step Brothers (McKay)
Stop-Loss (Peirce)
Stranded (Arijon)
Subramanyapuram (Kumar)
Sweeney Todd (Burton)
The Banishment (Zvyagintsev)
The Gift to Stalin (Abdrashev)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru)
The Good, The Bad and the Weird (Kim)
The Happening (Shyamalan)
The Lie of the Land (Dineen)
The Mist (Darabont)
The Orphanage (Bayona)
The Solitary Life of Cranes (Weber)
The Witnesses (Techine)
Tout est pardonne (Hansen-Love)
Tropic Thunder (Stiller)
Trouble The Water (Lessen/Deal)
Tulpay (Dvortsevoy)
Two-Legged Horse (Makhmalbaf, S.)
Uprise (Aguilar)
We Own The Night (Gray)
Years When I Was A Child Outside (Torres)
Yumurta (Kaplanoglu)
Z32 (Mograbi)

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