Now that the festival rush of Fall 2025 is behind me I've been feeling the nagging sensation to check back into our long long too-long running series of "Siri Says" posts -- the last one I did was back in January! These posts have gotten increasingly sporadic as the remaining years have dwindled -- when I checked what's left this morning I saw there were only five years out of one hundred left for us to do. Do what, you ask since it's been so long since I've done one? Well the idea is that I had my phone choose a random number between 1 and 100 and then I picked my five favorite movies from the year that corresponds. Once we got down to the teens the process changed a little because it took too long for Siri to get to a number I hadn't already done, so I wrote the remaining years on slips of paper and picked one with my eyes shut. And that's how we ended up with the year 2008 today.
It's the last year of the Aughts we had left to do -- another decade crossed off! And this is another year when I was actively blogging here at MNPP so there's documentation of my thoughts on 2008's movies already -- click here to see what my favorite movies were at that moment. My list now, seventeen years later, has changed a little! Not entirely, but some. So let's get to it. I give you...
My 5 Favorite Movies of 2008
(dir. Charlie Kaufman)
-- released on October 24th 2008 --
(dir. Tomas Alfredson)
-- released on December 12th 2008 --
(dir. Martin McDonagh)
-- released on February 29th 2008 --
(dir. Tarsem Singh)
-- released on May 30th 2008
(dir. Joel Anderson)
-- released on June 18th 2008 --
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Runners-up: Wall*E (dir. Andrew Snanton), The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky), Wendy & Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt), Mister Lonely (dir. Harmony Korine), Funny Games U.S. (dir. Michael Haneke), The Chaser (dir. Na Hong-jin), Timecrimes (dir. Nacho Vigalondo), Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh), [REC] (dir. Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza)...
... Teeth (dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein), Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog), The House Bunny (dir. Fred Wolf), The Ruins (dir. Carter Smith), Doomsday (dir. Neil Marshall), Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves), Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen), Reprise (dir. Joachim Trier)
What are your favorite movies of 2008?
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3 comments:
Yay to these being back!!! So sad that there are so few years left to do!
Oh geez, I’ve only seen two of your top five though your top two have been on my to see list for a long time.
The two I have seen “In Bruges” & “The Fall” were quite different films but each excellent in their own ways.
For me this isn’t a year loaded with great films though there are some very good ones. It feels a bit thin, but I obviously have work to do! There were some amazing things on offer but the majority, such as the John Adams miniseries with Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, were on television.
Unlike my usual run on lists a simple top ten was a stretch this time around.
Top 10
Frost/Nixon-My only 5-star film of the year. Both leads are terrific.
Milk
I’ve Loved You So Long
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Man on Wire
In Bruges
On the Other Hand, Death
Ice Blues
Quantum of Solace
Me & Orson Welles
It’s sort of a tie for me. In Bruges works fine on a tv but The Fall really needs a big screen. Other wise I agree with Joel, not a great year for me.
I'd add The Brothers Bloom [which plays like Rian Johnson's homage to Hal Ashby] and The Visitor [three great performances in a film that hits even harder these days].
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