Cannes 2008 Festival

Watched (18):
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) 95/100
The Class (Entre Les Murs) (Laurent Cantet) 93/100
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) 93/100
Leonera (Pablo Trapero) 88/100
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino) 87/100
The Silence of Lorna (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 84/100
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel Roubaix!) (Arnaud Desplechin) 83/100
Three Monkeys (Uk Maymun) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 83/100
24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) (Zhang Ke Jia) 82/100
Gomorra (Matteo Garrone) 78/100
Adoration (Atom Egoyan) 73/100
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) (Lucrecia Martel) 73/100
Che Part One (Steven Soderbergh) 71/100
Linha de passe (Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas) 69/100
Che Part 2 (Steven Soderbergh) 66/100
Two Lovers (James Gray) 62/100
Changeling (Clint Eastwood) 58/100
Delta (Kornél Mundruczó) 55/100

Eager to Watch (5):
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
Frontier of Dawn (La frontière de l'aube) (Philippe Garrel)
My Magic (Eric Khoo)
Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders)
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza)

Edits:
Moved Delta from Eager to Watch to Watched 12/1/10
Moved Leonera from Eager to Watch to Watched 27/3/10
Moved 24 City from Eager to Watch to Watched 12/4/10

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)

January 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile) (Cristian Mungiu) 87/100
American Gangster (Ridley Scott) 76/100
August Rush (Kirsten Sheridan) 14/100
The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) (Eran Kolirin) 63/100
Don't Touch the Axe (Ne touchez pas la hache) (Jacques Rivette) 77/100
Half Moon (Niwemang) (Bahman Ghobadi) 49/100
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis) 61/100
Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford) 57/100
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant) 86/100
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) 67/100
We Own the Night (James Gray) 81/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney)
Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
Things We Lost in the Fire (Susanne Bier)

Might Possibly Watch:
Bee Movie (Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith)
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis)
He Was a Quiet Man (Frank A. Cappello)
Interview (Steve Buscemi)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
30 Days of Night (David Slade)
Anna M. (Michel Spinosa)
The Brothers Solomon (Bob Odenkirk)
Chromophobia (Martha Fiennes)
Code Name: The Cleaner (Les Mayfield)
Daddy Day Camp (Fred Savage)
The Dark Is Rising (David L. Cunningham)
Feast of Love (Robert Benton)
The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
The Killing of John Lennon (Andrew Piddington)
The Last Legion (Doug Lefler)
The Nines (John August)
Saawariya (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Saw IV (Darren Lynn Bousman)
Sea Monsters A Prehistoric Adventure (Sean MacLeod Phillips)
Silk (François Girard)

Edits:
Moved The Band's Visit from Eager to Watch to Watched. 30/6/09
Moved Paranoid Park from Eager to Watch to Watched 2/7/09
Moved Don't Touch the Axe from Eager to Watch to Watched 19/7/09
Moved Lions for Lambs from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 27/7/09
Moved The Savages from Will Watch to Watched 31/7/09
Moved American Gangster from Eager to Watch to Watched 20/8/09
Moved 4 Weeks, 3 Months and 2 Days from Eager to Watch to Watched 9/1/10
Moved We Own The Night from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 10/1/10
Moved Half Moon from Eager to Watch to Watched 4/4/10
Moved In The valley of Elah from Will Watch to Watched 10/3/11

March 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson) 62/100
Breach (The 11th Hour) (Billy Ray) 71/100
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry) 53/100
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols) 68/100
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) (Fatih Akin) 86/100
Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) (Chris Kraus) 48/100
Helvetica (Gary Hustwit) 67/100
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence) 65/100
My Blueberry Nights (Kar Wai Wong) 50/100
St. Trinian's (Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson) 48/100
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton) 64/100
The Boss of It All (Direktøren for det hele) (Lars von Trier) 41/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield)
Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Bucket List (Rob Reiner)
Change of Address (Changement d'adresse) (Emmanuel Mouret)
Intimate Enemies (L'ennemi intime) (Florent Emilio Siri)
Princesses (Princesas) (Fernando León de Aranoa)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (Tim Hill)
Annie Leibovitz Life through a Lens (Barbara Leibovitz)
Arctic Tale (Adam Ravetch, Sarah Robertson)
Asterix at the Olympic Games (Astérix aux jeu olympiques) (Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann)
AVPR Aliens Vs Predator Requiem (Colin Strause, Greg Strause)
Freebird (Jon Ivay)
Frontier(s) (Xavier Gens)
Man of the Year (Barry Levinson)
National Treasure Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
Penelope (Mark Palansky)
Sharkwater (Rob Stewart)
Shot in Bombay (Liz Mermin)
U2 3D (Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington)
The Ugly Duckling and Me (Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich)
W Delta Z (Tom Shankland)
Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)
We Are Together (Paul Taylor)
The Workshop (Jamie Morgan)
Zoo (Robinson Devor)

Edits:
Moved The Edge of Heaven from Eager to Watch to Watched (19/8/09)
Moved The Bank Job from Might Possibly Watch to Watched (30/8/09)
Moved The Boss of It All from Eager to Watch to Watched (20/4/10)
Moved Four Minutes from Eager to Watch to Watched (9/5/10)
Moved Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street from Will Watch to Watched (5/3/11)

February 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) 62/100
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (Julian Schnabel) 81/100
El violín (Francisco Vargas) 80/100
Juno (Jason Reitman) 87/100
The Kite Runner (Marc Forster) 78/100
Lust, Caution (Se, jie) (Ang Lee) 90/100
My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev) 78/100
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 93/100
Silent Light (Stellet licht) (Carlos Reygadas) 94/100
Still Life (Sanxia haoren) (Zhang Ke Jia) 86/100
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) 98/100
Youth without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) 55/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Back to Normandy (Retour en Normandie) (Nicolas Philibert)
The Italian (Italianetz) (Andrei Kravchuk)
A Comedy of Power (L'ivresse du pouvoir) (Claude Chabrol)
Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot) (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)

Might Possibly Watch:
Azur & Asmar (Michel Ocelot)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Earth (Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
The Wedding (Wesele) (Wojciech Smarzowski)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Ahlaam (Mohamed Al Daradji)
Balls of Fury (Robert Ben Garant)
Black Water (David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki)
Closing the Ring (Richard Attenborough)
Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges)
Fred Claus (David Dobkin)
The Good Night (Jake Paltrow)
Hitman (Xavier Gens)
Infinite Justice (Jamil Dehlavi)
Lady Godiva (Vicky Jewson)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Zach Helm)
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan)
P.S. I Love You (Richard LaGravenese)
This Christmas (Preston A. Whitmore II)
Underdog (Frederik Du Chau)
A Very British Gangster (Donal MacIntyre)
The Water Horse (Jay Russell)
You Kill Me (John Dahl)

Edits:
Moved The Diving Bell and the Butterfly from Eager to Watch to Watched 13/9/09
Moved Silent Light from Eager to Watch to Watched 7/1/10
Moved Still Life from Eager to Watch to Watched 18/4/10
Moved El violín from Eager to Watch to Watched 21/8/10
Moved My Kid Could Paint That from Will Watch to Watched 6/1/11
Moved Youth Without Youth from Will Watch to Watched 17/3/11

April 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
City of Men (Cidade dos homens) (Paulo Morelli) 43/100
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves) 62/100
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge) (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 91/100
Garage (Leonard Abrahamson) 71/100
I'm a Cyborg but that's OK (Saibogujiman kwenchana) (Chan-wook Park) 63/100
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie) 86/100
Out of the Blue (Robert Sarkies) 61/100
Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings) 74/100
Vantage Point (Pete Travis) 39/100
Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) (Céline Sciamma) 41/100
You, the Living (Du levande) (Roy Andersson) 91/100

Eager to Watch:
California Dreamin' (Endless) (Cristian Nemescu)
The Orphanage (El orfanato) (Juan Antonio Bayona)

Will Watch:
Children of Glory (Szabadság, szerelem) (Krisztina Goda)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
My Brother Is an Only Child (Mio fratello e figlio unico) (Daniele Luchetti)
Under the Bombs (Sous les bombes) (Philippe Aractingi)

Might Possibly Watch:
Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwick)
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Baker (Gareth Lewis)
The Book of Revelation (Ana Kokkinos)
Bunny Chow Know Thyself (John Barker)
The Cottage (Paul Andrew Williams)
Drillbit Taylor (Steven Brill)
Escape from Luanda (Phil Grabsky)
Fade to Black (Oliver Parker)
The Game Plan (Andy Fickman)
GamerZ (Robbie Fraser)
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds Concert (Bruce Hendricks)
Jumper (Doug Liman)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Mike Newell)
Midnight Talks (-)
Over Her Dead Body (Jeff Lowell)
Rambo (Sylvester Stallone)
River Queen (Vincent Ward)

Edits:
Moved Water Lilies from Will Watch to Watched (2/8/09).
Moved Out of the Blue from Eager to Watch to Watched (3/8/09).
Moved You, The Living from Eager to Watch to Watched (18/8/09).
Moved I'm a Cyborg but That's OK from Eager to Watch to Watched (15/1/10).
Moved City of Men from Eager to Watch to Watched (10/4/10).
Moved Flight of the Red Balloon from Eager to Watch to Watched (5/5/10).

July 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is taken from Sight & Sound

Watched:
Banquet (Ye Yan) (Xiaogang Feng) 49/100
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen) 60/100
Couscous (La graine et le mulet) (Abdel Kechiche) 90/100
The Edge of Love (John Maybury) 49/100
Iron Man (Jon Favreau) 70/100
Married Life (Ira Sachs) 53/100
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin) 80/100
Speed Racer (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) 60/100
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney) 81/100
The Mist (Frank Darabont) 73/100
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy) 77/100

Eager to Watch:
Her Name Is Sabine (Elle s'appelle Sabine) (Sandrine Bonnaire)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Adulthood (Noel Clarke)
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (Chris Waitt)
Doomsday (Neil Marshall)
Female Agents (Les femmes de l'ombre) (Jean-Paul Salomé)
21 (Robert Luketic)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
Deception (Marcel Langenegger)
The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff)
In Memory of My Father (Christopher Jaymes)
Made of Honour (Paul Weiland)
Mouth to Mouth (Alison Murray)
Nim's Island (Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin)
Numb (Harris Goldberg)
The Oxford Murders (Álex de la Iglesia)
Pathology (Marc Schölermann)
Prom Night (Nelson McCormick)
Rebellion The Litvinenko Case (Bunt. Delo Litvinenko) (Andrei Nekrasov)
RFK Must Die The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (Shane O'Sullivan)
The Ruins (Carter Smith)
Shutter (Masayuki Ochiai)
Superhero Movie (Craig Mazin)
Timber Fall (Tony Giglio)
What Happens in Vegas (Tom Vaughan)

Edits:
Moved The Visitor from Eager to Watch to Watched (18/7/09)
Moved My Winnipeg from Eager to Watch to Watched (18/12/09)
Moved Couscous from Eager to Watch to Watched (3/4/10)
Moved Cassandra's Dream from Will Watch to Watched (3/9/10)
Moved Taxi to the Dark Side from Eager to Watch to Watched (16/9/10)
Moved Speed Racer from Will Watch to Watched (12/3/11)
Moved Married Life from Might Possibly Watch to Watched (28/3/11)
Moved The Mist from Will Watch to Watched (21/8/11)

May 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) 83/100
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) 82/100
Honeydripper (John Sayles) 66/100
Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal) 71/100
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) 74/100
Private Property (Nue propriété) (Joachim Lafosse) 79/100
Redacted (Brian De Palma) 77/100
Smart People (Noam Murro) 52/100
The Go Master (Wu Qingyuan) (Zhuangzhuang Tian) 55/100
The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse) (Catherine Breillat) 76/100
XXY (Lucía Puenzo) 84/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Assembly (Ji jie hao) (Xiaogang Feng)
Caramel (Sukkar banat) (Nadine Labaki)
Joy Division (Grant Gee)
[Rec] (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese)
Terror's Advocate (Barbet Schroeder)

Might Possibly Watch:
Beaufort (Joseph Cedar)
The Devil Came on Horseback (Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg)
Heartbeat Detector (La question humaine) (Nicolas Klotz)
Hope (Nadzieja) (Stanislaw Mucha)
Lonesome Jim (Steve Buscemi)
Protégé (Moon to) (Tung-Shing Yee)
Son of Man (Mark Dornford-May)
Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Accidental Husband (Griffin Dunne)
Awake (Joby Harold)
Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (Simon DaVison)
Cashback (Sean Ellis)
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino)
The Eye (David Moreau, Xavier Palud)
The Hottie & the Nottie (Tom Putnam)
Jodhaa Akbar (Ashutosh Gowariker)
Meet the Spartans (Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer)
P2 (Franck Khalfoun)
Ruby Blue (Jan Dunn)
Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (Mark Waters)
Step Up 2 The Streets (Jon Chu)
10,000 BC (Roland Emmerich)

Edits:
Moved Smart People from Might Possibly Watch to Watched (28/7/09).
Moved XXY from Eager to Watch to Watched (18/8/09)
Moved Honeydripper from Eager to Watch to Watched (21/8/09).
Moved Manufactured Landscapes from Eager to Watch to Watched 23/10/09
Moved The Go-Master from Will Watch to Watched 24/12/09
Moved The Last Mistress from Eager to Watch to Watched 10/1/10
Moved Private Property from Eager to Watch to Watched 24/4/10
Moved Redacted from Will Watch to Watched 9/1/12

2008 Viewing Log

Total Viewed: 163 (5 Short)

90+
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman) 95/100
Afterschool (Antonio Campos) 94/100
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) 94/100
The Class (Entre Les Murs) (Laurent Cantet) 93/100
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies) 93/100
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) 93/100
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 92/100
35 Shots (35 rhums) (Claire Denis) 91/100
Burma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country (Burma VJ Reporter i et lukket land) (Anders Østergaard) 90/100
Ponyo on the Cliffs by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo) (Hayao Miyazaki) 90/100
Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) (Hirokazu Koreeda) 90/100

80-89
Night and Day (Bam guan nat) (Sang-soo Hong) 89/100
Séraphine (Martin Provost) 89/100
Song of Sparrows (Avaze gonjeshk-ha) (Majid Majidi) 89/100
Lion’s Den (Leonera) (Pablo Trapero) 88/100
My Only Sunshine (Hayat var) (Reha Erdem) 88/100
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino) 87/100
Revanche (Götz Spielmann) 87/100
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) 87/100
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) (Philippe Claudel) 86/100
Is Anybody There? (John Crowley) 86/100
The Reader (Stephen Daldry) 85/100
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (Tomas Alfredson) 84/100
The Silence of Lorna (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) 84/100
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton) 84/100
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel Roubaix!) (Arnaud Desplechin) 83/100
Burn after Reading (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 83/100
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) 83/100
Hunger (Steve McQueen) 83/100
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 83/100
Three Monkeys (Uk Maymun) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 83/100
24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) (Zhang Ke Jia) 82/100
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) 82/100
Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi) (Shion Sono) 82/100
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi) 81/100
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson) 81/100
The Way We Are (Tin shui wai dik yat yu ye) (Ann Hui) 81/100
Summer Hours (L'heure d'été) (Olivier Assayas) 80/100
The Beaches of Agnes (Les plages d'Agnès) (Agnès Varda) 80/100
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim) 80/100
Trouble the Water (Carl Deal, Tia Lessin) 80/100

70-79
El somni (Christophe Farnarier) 79/100
Hellboy II The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro) 79/100
Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) (Jan Troell) 78/100
Flame & Citron (Flamen e Citrón) (Ole Christian Madsen) 78/100
Gomorra (Matteo Garrone) 78/100
Shifty (Eran Creevy) 78/100
Helen (Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy) 77/100
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (Jean-François Richet) 77/100
Red Cliff (Chi bi) (John Woo) 76/100 (Note Rating for Chinese version of Part 1)
Rough Aunties (Kim Longinotto) 76/100
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood) 75/100
Kisses (Lance Daly) 75/100
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (L'ennemi public n°1) (Jean-François Richet) 75/100
Seven Pounds (Gabriele Muccino) 75/100
Ashes of Time Redux (Kar Wai Wong) 74/100
Heaven on Earth (Deepa Mehta) 74/100
Jerichow (Christian Petzold) 74/100
Man on Wire (James Marsh) 74/100
Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo) (Antonio Luigi Grimaldi) 74/100
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley) 74/100
Adoration (Atom Egoyan) 73/100
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt) 73/100
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) (Lucrecia Martel) 73/100
Milk (Gus Van Sant) 73/100
Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck) 73/100
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman) 72/100
Julia (Erick Zonca) 72/100
Presto (Doug Sweetland) 72/100
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) 72/100
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes) 72/100
Che Part One (Steven Soderbergh) 71/100
Departures (Okuribito) (Yôjirô Takita) 71/100
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley) 71/100
Elegy (Isabel Coixet) 71/100
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris) 71/100
Tyson (James Toback) 71/100
Appaloosa (Ed Harris) 70/100
Food Inc. (Robert Kenner) 70/100
Iron Man (Jon Favreau) 70/100
Johnny Mad Dog (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire) 70/100

60-69
Linha de passe (Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas) 69/100
Cry Me A River (Heshang aiqing) (Zhang Ke Jia) 68/100
Four Nights With Anna (Cztery noce z Anna) (Jerzy Skolimowski) 68/100
Good (Vicente Amorim) 68/100
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster) 68/100
Somers Town (Shane Meadows) 68/100
Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain) 68/100
Body of Lies (Ridley Scott) 67/100
sleep furiously (Gideon Koppel) 67/100
Che Part 2 (Steven Soderbergh) 66/100
Leatherheads (George Clooney) 66/100
The Mark of an Angel (L'Empreinte de l'ange) (Safy Nebbou) 65/100
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) 64/100
Home (Ursula Meier) 64/100
Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke) 64/100
Let's Talk about the Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (Agnès Jaoui) 64/100
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) 64/100
Lakeview Terrace (Neil LaBute) 63/100
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) 63/100
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson) 62/100
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves) 62/100
Dream (Bi-mong) (Ki-duk Kim) 62/100
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater) 62/100
Two Lovers (James Gray) 62/100
Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn) 61/100
French Roast (Fabrice Joubert) 61/100
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan) 61/100
I'm Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar) (Gerardo Naranjo) 61/100
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 61/100
W. (Oliver Stone) 61/100
Black Breackfast (Zhang Ke Jia) 60/100
Speed Racer (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) 60/100
The Burning Plain (Guillermo Arriaga) 60/100
Transsiberian (Brad Anderson) 60/100
Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy) 60/100
Valkyrie (Bryan Singer) 60/100

50-59
A Film With Me In It (Ian Fitzgibbon) 59/100
Ballast (Lance Hammer) 59/100
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard) 59/100
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso) 59/100
Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs) 59/100
Anything for Her (Pour elle) (Fred Cavayé) 58/100
Changeling (Clint Eastwood) 58/100
Disgrace (Steve Jacobs) 58/100
Genova (Michael Winterbottom) 58/100
Soul Power (Jeffrey Levy-Hinte) 58/100
Hancock (Peter Berg) 57/100
Skin (Anthony Fabian) 57/100
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher) 57/100
Gigantic (Matt Aselton) 56/100
Delta (Kornél Mundruczó) 55/100
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett) 55/100
Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón) 55/100
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry) 53/100
Examined Life (Astra Taylor) 53/100
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller) 53/100
Answer Me (Anri Sala) 52/100
Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) (Eran Riklis) 52/100
The Desert Within (Desierto adentro) (Rodrigo Plá) 52/100
Smart People (Noam Murro) 52/100
1234 (Giles Borg) 51/100
Dot (Nokta) (Dervis Zaim) 51/100
Je veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige) 51/100
Trucker (James Mottern) 51/100

40-49
The Edge of Love (John Maybury) 49/100
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith) 48/100
The Candidate (Kandidaten) (Kasper Barfoed) 46/100
Donkey Punch (Oliver Blackburn) 46/100
Eagle Eye (D.J. Caruso) 46/100
Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando (Huseyin Karabey) 46/100
New Town Killers (Richard Jobson) 46/100
Choke (Clark Gregg) 45/100
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg) 45/100
Righteous Kill (Jon Avnet) 45/100
Zift (Javor Gardev) 42/100
The Beautiful Person (La belle personne) (Christophe Honoré) 41/100
I Know You Know (Justin Kerrigan) 40/100

30-39
Vantage Point (Pete Travis) 39/100
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, John Stevenson) 38/100

20-29
Religulous (Larry Charles) 29/100
Telstar (Nick Moran) 26/100

10-19
Possibility of an Island (La possibilité d'une ile) (Michel Houellebecq) 11/100

0-9

To Watch (46):
8 (Jane Campion, Gael García Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders)
Achilles and the Tortoise (Akiresu to kame) (Takeshi Kitano)
Two-Legged Horse (Asbe du-pa) (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
Boogie (Radu Muntean)
White Night Wedding (Brúðguminn) (Baltasar Kormákur)
Chelsea on the Rocks (Abel Ferrara)
CJ7 (Cheung Gong 7 hou) (Stephen Chow)
Involuntary (De ofrivilliga) (Ruben Östlund)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel)
Derek (Isaac Julien, Bernard Rose)
Empty Nest (El nido vacío) (Daniel Burman)
If You Are The One (Fei Cheng Wu Rao) (Xiaogang Feng)
Routine Holiday (Huangjin zhou) (Hongqi Li)
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)
The Good, The Bad and the Weird (Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom) (Ji-woon Kim)
Joy (Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy)
Kabei: Our Mother (Kâbê) (Yôji Yamada)
Cherry Blossoms (Kirschblüten - Hanami) (Doris Dörrie)
Frontier of Dawn (La frontière de l'aube) (Philippe Garrel)
Anger (La rabia) (Albertina Carri)
The Window (La ventana) (Carlos Sorin)
Lady Jane (Robert Guédiguian)
Sparrow (Man jeuk) (Johnnie To)
Maradona by Kusturica (Emir Kusturica)
Forever Enthralled (Mei Lanfang) (Kaige Chen)
Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)
My Magic (Eric Khoo)
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital (Alexander Kluge)
Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders)
Paris (Cédric Klapisch)
Later (Plus tard) (Amos Gitai)
Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto) (Gianni Di Gregorio)
Milk (Süt) (Semih Kaplanoglu)
Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami)
Worlds Apart (To verdener) (Niels Arden Oplev)
Tokyo! (Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry)
Cloud 9 (Wolke Neun) (Andreas Dresen)

The Northern Land (A Corte do Norte) (João Botelho)
Our Beloved Month of August (Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto) (Miguel Gomes)
Modern Life (La vie moderne) (Raymond Depardon)
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza)
Chouga (Shuga) (Darezhan Omirbayev)
Soi Cowboy (Thomas Clay)
The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch)
Bullet in the Head (Tiro en la cabeza) (Jaime Rosales)

June 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Charlie Bartlett (Jon Poll) 64/100
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) 73/100
I Served The King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) (Jirí Menzel) 73/100
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Alex Holdridge) 56/100
Leatherheads (George Clooney) 66/100

Eager to Watch:
Colossal Youth (Juventude Em Marcha) (Pedro Costa)

Will Watch:
La Antena (Esteban Sapir)
Irina Palm (Sam Garbarski)
Mongol (Sergei Bodrov)

Might Possibly Watch:
Dangerous Parking (Peter Howitt)
Death Note (Desu nôto) (Shusuke Kaneko)
Flashbacks of a Fool (Baillie Walsh)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Garbage Warrior (Oliver Hodge)
Night Bus (Notturno bus) (Davide Marengo)
Priceless (Hors de prix) (Pierre Salvadori)
Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
A Secret (Un Secret) (Claude Miller)
Three and Out (Jonathan Gershfield)
Vexille (Bekushiru: 2077 Nihon sakoku) (Fumihiko Sori)
Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) (Dany Boon)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Air I Breathe (Jieho Lee)
Badland (Francesco Lucente)
Botched (Kit Ryan)
Chemical Wedding (Julian Doyle)
First Sunday (David E. Talbert)
Fool's Gold (Andy Tennant)
How She Move (Ian Iqbal Rashid)
Never Back Down (Jeff Wadlow)
One Missed Call (Eric Valette)
Outpost (Steve Barker)
Strange Wilderness (Fred Wolf)
Street Kings (David Ayer)
Tovarisch I Am Not Dead (Stuart Urban)
The Waiting Room (Roger Goldby)
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Morgan Spurlock)

Edits:
Moved I Served The King of England from Eager to Watch to Watched (3/8/09)
Moved Charlie Bartlett from Might Possibly Watch to Watched (1/9/09)

August 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda as sharm foru rikht) (Hana Makhmalbaf) 82/100
DonkeyPunch (Oliver Blackburn) 46/100
Hancock (Peter Berg) 57/100
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg) 45/100
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) 80/100
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, John Stevenson) 38/100
Mad Detective (Sun taam) (Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai) 70/100
Man on Wire (James Marsh) 74/100
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris) 71/100
Summer Hours (L'heure d'été) (Olivier Assayas) 80/100
The Pope's Toilet (El baño del Papa) (César Charlone, Enrique Fernández) 30/100
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton) 84/100

Eager to Watch:
Substitute (Vikash Dhorasoo, Fred Poulet)

Will Watch:
Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma monogatari) (Tetsuya Nakashima)
Paris (Cédric Klapisch)
Puffball (Nicolas Roeg)

Might Possibly Watch:
Before the Rains (Santosh Sivan)
Berlin (Julian Schnabel)
Desu nôto: The last name (Shusuke Kaneko)
The Fox and the Child (Le Renard et l'Enfant) (Luc Jacquet)
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg)
The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier)
Memories of Matsuka (Kiraware Matsuko no isshô) (Tetsuya Nakashima)
Mes amis, mes amours (Lorraine Levy)

No Interest In Whatsoever:
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Gurinder Chadha)
Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
Bosta (Philippe Aractingi)
Cass (Jon S. Baird)
Crazy Love (Dan Klores)
Death Defying Acts (Gillian Armstrong)
A Letter to True (Bruce Weber)
Origin Spirits of the Past (Gin-iro no kami no Agito) (Keiichi Sugiyama)
Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King)
The Unwinking Gaze (Joshua Dugdale)
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Malcolm D. Lee)

Edits:
Moved Mad Detective from Eager to Watch to Watched 20/8/09
Moved Summer Hours from Eager to Watch to Watched 23/10/09
Moved Hancock from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 23/12/09
Moved Standard Operating Procedure from Eager to Watch to Watched 3/1/10
Moved Kung Fu Panda from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 14/1/10

Moved The Pope's Toilet from Eager to Watch to Watched 30/4/10

September 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following information is from Sight & Sound magazine.

Watched:
Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz) 57/100
Elegy (Isabel Coixet) 71/100
Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) (José Padilha) 33/100
Hellboy II The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro) 79/100
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (Jonathan Demme) 68/100
Somers Town (Shane Meadows) 68/100
The Banishment (Izgnanie) (Andrei Zvyagintsev) 81/100
Times and Winds (Bes vakit) (Reha Erdem) 82/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
Angel (François Ozon)
The Wackness (Jonathan Levine)

Might Possibly Watch:
Blindsight (Lucy Walker)
CSNY/Déjà Vu (Neil Young)
The Duchess (Saul Dibb)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri)
Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
Routes Dancing to New Orleans (Alex Reuben)
Sakuran (Mika Ninagawa)
Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)

No Interest in Whatsoever:
Ben X (Nic Balthazar)
College Road Trip (Roger Kumble)
Daylight Robbery (Paris Leonti)
Eden Lake (James Watkins)
Get Smart (Peter Segal)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Eric Brevig)
The Love Guru (Marco Schnabel)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)
Meet Dave (Brian Robbins)
The Rocker (Peter Cattaneo)
RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie)
Space Chimps (Kirk De Micco)
Wild Child (Nick Moore)
You Don't Mess WithThe Zohan (Dennis Dugan)

Edits:

Moved The Banishment from Eager to Watch to Watched 9/1/10
Moved Elite Squad from Eager to Watch to Watched 4/4/10
Moved Jimmy Carter Man From Plains from Will Watch to Watched 6/1/11
Moved Elegy from Will Watch to Watched 25/1/11
Moved Dance Party, USA from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 6/3/11

October 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Aleksandra (Aleksandr Sokurov) 76/100
Ashes of Time Redux (Kar Wai Wong) 74/100
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) 94/100
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) (Philippe Claudel) 86/100
Jar City (Mýrin) (Baltasar Kormákur) 77/100
Linha de passe (Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas) 69/100
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg) 57/100

Eager to Watch:
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)

Will Watch:
The Chaser (Chugyeogja) (Hong-jin Na)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)
Triangle (Tie saam gok) (Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui)

Might Possibly Watch:
BlackWhite + Gray (James Crump)
Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold)
Face Addict (Edo Bertoglio)
The Girl who Leapt Through Time (Toki o kakeru shôjo) (Mamoru Hosoda)
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti)
Partition (Vic Sarin)
Then She Found Me (Helen Hunt)

No Interest In Whatsoever:
Babylon AD (Mathieu Kassovitz)
The Cool School (Morgan Neville)
Faintheart (Vito Rocco)
The Foot Fist Way (Jody Hill)
Free Jimmy (Christopher Nielsen)
Good Dick (Marianna Palka)
Heavy Load (Jerry Rothwell)
Little Box of Sweets (Meneka Das)
Live! (Bill Guttentag)
Love Story 2050 (Harry Baweja)
Make it Happen (Darren Grant)
The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rob Cohen)
The Putin System (Jean-Michel Carré)
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch)
Star Wars The Clone Wars (Dave Filoni)
Steep (Mark Obenhaus)
Step Brothers (Adam McKay)
Swing Vote (Joshua Michael Stern)
A Walk into the Sea (Esther Robinson)
The X Files I Want to Believe (Chris Carter)

Edits:
Moved Ashes of Time Redux from Eager to Watch to Watched 29/6/09
Moved Linha de Passe from Eager to Watch to Watched 1/7/09
Moved I've Loved You So Long from Eager to Watch to Watched 3/7/09
Moved The Dark Knight from Eager to Watch to Watched 10/7/09
Moved Aleksandra from Eager to Watch to Watched 31/3/10
Moved Unrelated from Will Watch to Watched 5/3/11

November 2008 UK & Ireland Releases

The following information about the months releases is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman) 72/100
Burn after Reading (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) 83/100
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone) 78/100
Hunger (Steve McQueen) 83/100
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies) 93/100
Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo) (Antonio Luigi Grimaldi) 74/100
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller) 53/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:
The Wave (Die Welle) (Dennis Gansel)
Young@Heart (Stephen Walker)
La Zona (Rodrigo Plá)

Might Possibly Watch:
Bigga than Ben A Russians' Guide to Ripping Off London (Suzie Halewood)
A Bloody Aria (Shin-yeon Won)
CJ7 (Stephen Chow)
Outlanders (Dominic Lees)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
Rock On!! (Abhishek Kapoor)
Sweet Land (Ali Selim)
Taken (Pierre Morel)
What Just Happened? (Barry Levinson)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Afro Saxons (Mark Currie, Rachel Wang)
Bangkok Dangerous (Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang)
El Cantante (Leon Ichaso)
Disaster Movie (Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer)
88 Minutes (Jon Avnet)
Fear(s) of the Dark (Peur(s) du noir) (Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire)
Flawless (Michael Radford)
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (Adam Yauch)
The House Bunny (Fred Wolf)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (Robert B. Weide)
Love Letters and Live Wires Highlights from the GPO Film Unit (-)
Mirrors (Alexandre Aja)
Stone of Destiny (Charles Martin Smith)
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)
Sydney White (Joe Nussbaum)
Tu£sday (Sacha Bennett)
The Women (Diane English)
Zero An Investigation into 9-11 (Franco Fracassi, Francesco Tre, Francesco Trento)

Edits:
Moved Quiet Chaos from Eager to Watch to Watched 27/6/09
Moved Tropic Thunder from Will Watch to Watched 15/1/10