Sunday, October 12, 2008

Festival Round-Up 2008

Peerless Favourites - films that have affected me deeply, modified my personality, and provoked an enduring eagerness to watch them again

Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)

Timeless Experiences - films with exceptional qualities that have resonated with me one way or another

Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

Fun Times - films that I find entertaining and will watch again whenever convenient

Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (Eric Rohmer)
[REC] (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza)
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Helen (Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor)
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza)
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)
Waiting for Sancho (Mark Peranson)

Admirable Accomplishments - films that I admire for their greatness but do not feel enough personal connection

El Cant dels ocells (Albert Serra)
Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
RR (James Benning)

Distant Memories - films that I enjoy and appreciate but have no intention to watch again

Chouga (Darezhan Omirbayev)
Four Nights With Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Achilles and the Tortoise (Kitano Takeshi)
Momma's Man (Azazel Jacobs)
Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
süden (Gastón Solnicki)

Mediocrities

Night and Day (Hong Sang-Soo)
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Good the Bad the Weird (Kim Ji-Woon)

Walkouts

24 City (Jia Zhang-Ke) - because it will come back later
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes) - due to my lack of vocabulary
God's Puzzle (Miike Takashi) - because.. it's bad

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