As an exercise, we decided to compile lists for our favorite films, DVDs, and discoveries from the past year. Being that listmaking is a largely ephemeral exercise, one characterized (for us) by ample second-guessing, we decided to display the results of our tally with some transparency. The results below are compiled from submissions from our contributors, with emphasis given to individual films that received mentions on multiple lists. This should not be construed as an officialized exhibition of our favorites from the past year, but rather an illustration of the gamut of our tastes.
Selections made by Simon Augustine, Adam Balz, David Carter,
Leo Goldsmith, Eva Holland, Jenny Jediny, Ian Johnston,
Evan Kindley, Andrew Schenker, Stephen Snart, & Rumsey Taylor
Results:
- 24 City
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Baby Mama
- Baghead
- Boarding Gate
- Burn After Reading
- A Christmas Tale
- The Class
- Confessionsofa Ex-DoofusItchyFooted Mutha
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Dark Knight
- Dear Zachary
- Definitely, Maybe
- Dhamma Brothers
- The Duchess of Langeais
- The Fall
- Flight of the Red Balloon
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Four Nights with Anna
- Frozen River
- Funny Games U.S.
- La France
- The Happening
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- The Headless Woman
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad
- Hunger
- In Bruges
- In the City of Sylvia
- Iron Man
- JCVD
- Let The Right One In
- Man on Wire
- Mamma Mia!
- Milk
- Mister Lonely
- My Winnipeg
- Night and Day
- Nights and Weekends
- Of Time and the City
- The Order of Myths
- Paranoid Park
- Passchendaele
- Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
- La Question Humaine/Heartbeat Detector
- Redbelt
- Reprise
- The Romance of Astree and Celadon
- Severed Ways: A Norse Discovery of America
- Shotgun Stories
- The Signal
- Silence Before Bach
- The Silence of Lorna
- Silent Light
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Snow Angels
- Still Life
- Synecdoche, New York
- The Strangers
- Tropic Thunder
- Useless
- WALL-E
- Waltz With Bashir
- War, Inc.
- Wendy and Lucy
- Woman on the Beach
- The Wrestler
- Young People Fucking
Legend:
- One mention
- Two mentions
- Three mentions
- Four+ mentions