SIGHT & SOUND's Top Ten of 2008

[ronnierocketago]

To be published in their January 2009 issue:

1. “Hunger” (Steve McQueen)
2. “There Will Be Blood” (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. “WALL-E” (Andrew Stanton)
4. “Gomorrah” (Matteo Garrone)
=5. “A Christmas Tale” (Arnaud Desplechin)
=5. “The Class” (Laurent Cantet)
7. “Of Time and the City” (Terence Davies)
8. “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Mike Leigh)
=9. “The Headless Woman” (Lucrecia Martel)
=9. “Let the Right One In” (Tomas Alfredson)

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[Capo]

Before I entered this thread I predicted Hunger as their #1.

[pimppanda]

Don't think it's a very good list.

[Anasazie]

A pretty dull and conservative list if you ask me. No idea how so many people are fooled into thinking Hunger is brilliant by the admittedly impressive aesthetic. Are they only picking films that gained a release in the UK or something?

[Capo]

Dec 3, 2008 1:52:47 GMT Anasazie said:

A pretty dull and conservative list if you ask me. No idea how so many people are fooled into thinking Hunger is brilliant by the admittedly impressive aesthetic. Are they only picking films that gained a release in the UK or something?

Yeah, it's any film (and they usually include re-releases of restorations) released in the UK in 2008.

[RNL]

It must include festival runs too, since I don't think Let the Right One In is out until next April or something.

[Anasazie]

Maybe it's only films that play at the festival in London then because there's surely a lot of good stuff missing from the list.