Top Films of 2008

Best in the theatres
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, USA)
In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis, USA),
The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Khechiche, France)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, France/Taiwan)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, USA)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van sant, USA)
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, Germany)
The Square (Nash Edgerton, Australia)
The Good the Bad, The Weird ((kim Jie-woon, South Korea)
Il Divo (Paolo Sorretino, Italy)
Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA),
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, France/Rumania)
Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold, UK)

At the Sydney Film Festival were
Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
Foster Child (Brillante Mendoza, Phillipines)
Heartbeat Detector (Nicholas Klotz.France)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, UK)
Fujian Blue (Robin Weng, China)

At Vancouver were:
United Red Army (Wakamatsu Koji)
All Around Us (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)
Still Walking (Kore-eda Hirokazu)
Crossing (Kim Tae-kyun)
RR (James Benning)
Mime-Mime (Sode Yukiko)
Three Monkeys (nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Service (Brillante Mendoza)
Sweet Food City (Gao Wendong)

The best old films in theatres of some kind
Adieu Phillipine (Jacques Rozier)
Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet)
So This is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch)
Love on the Dole (John Baxter)
A Page of Madness (Kinoshita Teinosuke)
Ashes of Time(Wong Kar-wai)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
Life and Nothing But (Bertrand Tavernier)

Best DVDs
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
32A (Marian Quinn)
Musketeers of Pig Alley (D W Griffith)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
Kaytn (Andrzej Wajda)
Mafiosi (Alberto Lattuada)
Secret Sunshine (lee Chang-dong)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
Dragon Swamp (Lo Wei)
The Chaser (Ha Nong-jin)
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson)
Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
Daisy Kenyon & Margin for Error (Otto Preminger)
They Made Me a Fugitive & Nicholas Nickelby (Alberto Cavalcanti)
Gone to Earth (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Mr Arkadin (Orson Welles, comprehensive Criterion edition)

What's the fuss about?
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
You The Living (Roy Andersson)