I’m generally not a fan of year-end “best of” lists but on the other hand, I always seem to have an opinion on every other list I see so it’s only fair that I try to put together my own. It’s bound to be a little idiosyncratic, since I see most of my films at film festivals. There are a number of significant films that I haven’t (yet) seen but I wanted to limit my list to what I actually saw in 2008. Since I see so many documentaries, they get their own list, although I think the hard boundary between documentary and fiction is becoming more permeable all the time. I’ve limited myself to ten in each category, though there is no ranking.
Documentaries
- Man on Wire (review)
- Up the Yangtze (review)
- Blind Loves (review)
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil (review)
- Food Inc. (review)
- Of Time and the City (review)
- Trouble the Water (review)
- At the Death House Door (review)
- Waltz with Bashir (review)
- The Order of Myths
Dramatic Features (and One Short)
- Hunger (review)
- Doubt (review)
- WALL-E
- Wendy and Lucy (review)
- Entre les murs (The Class) (review)
- The Most Beautiful Night in the World (review)
- Le silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence) (review)
- Carlston za Ognjenku (Tears for Sale) (review)
- Un conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale) (review)
- 2 Birds (Smáfuglar) (the short film) (review)