Films seen in 2008: Ranked

  • 5.0

  • Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  • The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
  • La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
  • A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
  • Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
  • The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
  • Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
  • Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
  • 4.5

  • Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park, 2000)
  • Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 2007)
  • Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008)
  • The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1942 re-release)
  • Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008)
  • On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
  • Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
  • The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006)
  • Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960)
  • Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007)
  • To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
  • United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
  • Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
  • 4.0

  • Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
  • The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
  • Dear Zachary (Kurt Kuenne, 2008)
  • Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
  • Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936)
  • Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)
  • Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
  • In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)
  • Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)
  • The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
  • It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
  • Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
  • L'enfant sauvage/The Wild Child (François Truffaut, 1970)
  • Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
  • Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007)
  • Once (John Carney, 2007)
  • The Public Enemy (William Wellman, 1931)
  • Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton, 1928)
  • There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008)
  • Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
  • 3.5

  • Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, 1948)
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958)
  • Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
  • Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
  • Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961)
  • Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008)
  • Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2008)
  • A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 2008)
  • Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 2008)
  • Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, 2007)
  • Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986)
  • The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1970)
  • Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
  • Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, John Stevenson, 2008)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006)
  • Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
  • The Orphanage/El Orfanto (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007)
  • Our Hospitality (John Blystone, Buster Keaton, 1923)
  • Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007)
  • Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
  • The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
  • Sangre de Mi Sangre (Christopher Zalla, 2007)
  • Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008)
  • Tell No One (Guillaume Canet, 2006)
  • The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
  • This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006)
  • Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, 1975)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, 1957)
  • Un conte de Noël/A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, 2008)
  • The Visitor (Tom McCarthy, 2008)
  • Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957)
  • 3.0

  • Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta, 1958)
  • Bigger Stronger Faster* (Chris Bell, 2008)
  • Bomb It (Jon Reiss, 2007)
  • The Boy with Green Hair (Joseph Losey, 1948)
  • Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970)
  • The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
  • The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)
  • Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997)
  • The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges, 1940)
  • Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
  • Hancock (Peter Berg, 2008)
  • Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 2007)
  • Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
  • Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (Jonathan Demme, 2007)
  • The King of Kong (Seth Gordon, 2007)
  • Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri, 2008)
  • 101 Dalmations (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, 1961)
  • Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
  • Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
  • Role Models (David Wain, 2008)
  • The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
  • Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)
  • Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, 2007)
  • The Strangers (Bryan Bertino, 2008)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007)
  • Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
  • Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)
  • Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007)
  • 2.5

  • Baby Mama (Michael McCullers, 2008)
  • The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008)
  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
  • Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2007)
  • Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938)
  • The Car (Elliot Silverstein, 1977)
  • Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen, 2007)
  • Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen, 2007)
  • Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
  • Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)
  • Eagle vs. Shark (Taika Cohen, 2007)
  • Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1937)
  • The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)
  • Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 2008)
  • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Alex Gibney, 2008)
  • Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004)
  • I Married a Witch (René Clair, 1942)
  • The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969)
  • Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985)
  • Lou Reed's Berlin (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
  • Mister Foe (David Mackenzie, 2008)
  • My Sister Eileen (Alexander Hall, 1942)
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah Chechik, 1989)
  • Performance (Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell, 1970)
  • Redbelt (David Mamet, 2008)
  • Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, 2007)
  • A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon, 1938)
  • Speed Racer (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, 2008)
  • Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006)
  • Stranger Than Paradise (Marc Forster, 2006)
  • Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
  • 2.0

  • Babbitt (William Keighley, 1934)
  • Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008)
  • Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas, 2007)
  • Bug (William Friedkin, 2006)
  • Burn After Reading (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2008)
  • Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975)
  • Doomsday (Neil Marshall, 2008)
  • Film Geek (James Westby, 2005)
  • 1408 (Mikael Håfström, 2007)
  • Get Smart (Peter Segal, 2008)
  • My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai, 2007)
  • Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, 2008)
  • Stuck (Stuart Gordon, 2007)
  • Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
  • Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
  • Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007)
  • 21 (Robert Luketic, 2008)
  • 1.5

  • Age of Consent (Michael Powell, 1969)
  • Black Sheep (Jonathan King, 2006)
  • Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
  • The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)
  • Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman, 2008)
  • Smart People (Noam Murro, 2008)
  • The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, 2007)
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, 2007)
  • 1.0

  • Fool's Gold (Andy Tennant, 2008)
  • Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2008)
  • Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, 2008)
  • Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006)
  • The Ten (David Wain, 2007)
  • 0.5

  • Shoot 'Em Up (Michael Davis, 2007)
  • Worse than 0.5

  • No rating

  • Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)