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2008 Screening Log

For the sake of year-end convenience, 2008 films seen in 2007 (except those seen at festivals) are stuck at the beginning of the list. Also for my convenience, a movie's year is determined either by original North American release date or, if the film is never released commercially, by the date of its North American premiere, to the best of my knowledge.


"^" after a film indicates a repeat viewing.

"*" after a film indicates a home viewing.

000. (27-Dec) 27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher, 2008) C+
001. (2-Jan) P.S. I Love You (Richard LaGravanese, 2007) C-
002. (3-Jan) The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)* Masterpiece
003. (3-Jan) One Missed Call (Eric Valette, 2008) D+
004. (4-Jan) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2006)^* Masterpiece
005. (5-Jan) The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber, 2004)^* B+ [director's cut, first viewing]
006. (5-Jan) Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)* B
007. (5-Jan) Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)^* A- [extended version]
008. (6-Jan) The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis, 2007)^* A-
009. (6-Jan) The Lookout (Scott Frank, 2007)^* A-
010. (7-Jan) Breach (Billy Ray, 2007)^* A
011. (8-Jan) Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Malcolm D. Lee, 2008) D+
012. (8-Jan) Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)* A
013. (9-Jan) Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen, 2008) B
014. (9-Jan) Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit, 2008) C-
015. (9-Jan) Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992)* B-
016. (10-Jan) Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks, 2008) B
017. (11-Jan) In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Uwe Boll, 2008) D-
018. (11-Jan) The Hole (Nick Hamm, 2001)* C
019. (15-Jan) Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008) B-
020. (19-Jan) Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007) B
021. (22-Jan) Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2008) C
022. (23-Jan) Charlie Bartlett (Jon Poll, 2008) B+
023. (23-Jan) Rambo (Sylvester Stallone, 2008) B-
024. (26-Jan) Mad Money (Callie Khouri, 2008) C
025. (27-Jan) How She Move (Ian Aqbal Rashid, 2008) B
026. (30-Jan) The Air I Breathe (Jieho Lee, 2008) F
027. (31-Jan) The Spiderwick Chronicles (Mark Waters, 2008) C+
028. (4-Feb) The Eye (David Moreau & Xavier Palud, 2008) C-
029. (5-Feb) Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman, 2008) D+
030. (9-Feb) Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie, 2008)* B- [idiotically remonikered Mister Foe for American release]
031. (9-Feb) Honeydripper (John Sayles, 2008) B
032. (11-Feb) Jumper (Doug Liman, 2008) B-
033. (12-Feb) Vantage Point (Pete Travis, 2008) B
034. (14-Feb) Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)* B+
035. (14-Feb) Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)^* Masterpiece
036. (15-Feb) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri, 2008) B
037. (15-Feb) The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1964)* A
038. (16-Feb) Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2008) B-
039. (18-Feb) Step Up 2: The Streets (Jon M. Chu, 2008) C+
040. (19-Feb) Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008) B
041. (20-Feb) In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008) B
042. (23-Feb) Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949)* B
043. (25-Feb) Never Back Down (Jeff Wadlow, 2008) D+
044. (26-Feb) The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwick, 2008) B+
045. (26-Feb) Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 2008) C
046. (26-Feb) Penelope (Mark Palansky, 2008) B+
047. (27-Feb) Run Fatboy Run (David Schwimmer, 2008)* B+
048. (29-Feb) Then She Found Me (Helen Hunt, 2008)* C+
049. (29-Feb) The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1964)^* A
050. (2-Mar) Storyville (Mark Frost, 1992)* C+ [pan-and-scan]
051. (4-Mar) The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin, 2008) C
052. (5-Mar) City of Men (Paulo Morelli, 2008) C+
053. (5-Mar) 10,000 BC (Roland Emmerich, 2008) D-
054. (6-Mar) The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)* C+ [pan-and-scan]
055. (7-Mar) Humboldt County (Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs, 2008) C-
056. (7-Mar) 21 (Robert Luketic, 2008) C
057. (7-Mar) Otis (Tony Krantz, 2008) C
058. (8-Mar) Secrecy (Peter Gallison & Rob Moss, 2008) C+
050. (8-Mar) The Toe Tactic (Emily Hubley, 2008) C
060. (8-Mar) American Teen (Nanette Burstein, 2008) B
061. (8-Mar) Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg, 2008) B
062. (8-Mar) Shuttle (Edward Anderson, 2008) B+
063. (9-Mar) They Killed Sister Dorothy (Daniel Junge, 2008) B-
064. (9-Mar) At the Death House Door (Peter Gilbert & Steven James, 2008) B
065. (9-Mar) The Promotion (Steve Conrad, 2008) A-
066. (9-Mar) Dance of the Dead (Gregg Bishop, 2008) B
067. (10-Mar) Crawford (David Modigliani, 2008) C+
068. (10-Mar) 'Bama Girl (Rachel Goslins, 2008) B
069. (10-Mar) Explicit Ills (Mark Webber, 2008) B-
070. (10-Mar) Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 2008) B+
071. (10-Mar) Battle in Seattle (Stuart Townsend, 2008) D+
072. (11-Mar) We Are Wizards (Josh Koury, 2008) B-
073. (11-Mar) FrontRunners (Caroline Suh, 2008) B+
074. (11-Mar) Second Skin (Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza, 2008) B
075. (12-Mar) New Orleans Mon Amour (Michael Almereyda, 2008) C-
076. (12-Mar) Choke (Clark Gregg, 2008) C
077. (14-Mar) Doomsday (Neil Marshall, 2008) C+
078. (14-Mar) Assassination of a High School President (Brett Simon, 2008) C+
079. (15-Mar) Young @ Heart (Stephen Walker, 2008) C
080. (18-Mar) The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008) B
081. (21-Mar) Mongol (Sergei Bodrov, 2008) B
082. (25-Mar) Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2008) B
083. (26-Mar) Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen, 2008) B+
084. (27-Mar) Sleepwalking (William Maher, 2008) D+
085. (28-Mar) My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai, 2008) B+
086. (28-Mar) Superhero Movie (Craig Mazin, 2008) C+
087. (28-Mar) Shutter (Masayuki Chiai, 2008) D
088. (1-Apr) Leatherheads (George Clooney, 2008) C+
089. (2-Apr) Married Life (Ira Sachs, 2008) C
090. (3-Apr) Horton Hears a Who (Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino, 2008) B-
091. (5-Apr) I Just Didn't Do It (Matsayuki Suo, 2007) B-
092. (5-Apr) Stuck (Stuart Gordon, 2008) B
093. (6-Apr) The Deal (Steven Schachter, 2008) C-
094. (6-Apr) Deadline-U.S.A. (Richard Brooks, 1952) B
095. (9-Apr) Horse Thieves (Micha Wald, 2007) B- [a.k.a. In the Arms of My Enemy] [projected DVD]
096. (10-Apr) The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette, 2008) B-
097. (11-Apr) Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 2008) B+
098. (11-Apr) Beautiful Loser (John Nolte, 2008) C
099. (11-Apr) Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo, 2008) B+
100. (12-Apr) Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2008) B
101. (12-Apr) What We Do is Secret (Rodger Grossman, 2007) C
102. (13-Apr) The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff, 2008) C+
103. (16-Apr) The Ruins (Carter Smith, 2008) B
104. (17-Apr) Street Kings (David Ayer, 2008) B-
105. (18-Apr) Nim's Island (Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin, 2008) B-
106. (18-Apr) Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 2008)^ B+
107. (19-Apr) Pathology (Marc Schoelermann, 2008) B
108. (20-Apr) 88 Minutes (Jon Avnet, 2008) D+
109. (20-Apr) Smart People (Noam Murro, 2008) B-
110. (22-Apr) Baby Mama (Michael McCullers, 2008) C+
111. (23-Apr) CJ7 (Stephen Chow, 2008) B
112. (23-Apr) Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese, 2008) B- [bump that at least a letter grade if you're a big Stones fan]
113. (24-Apr) The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn, 2008) B
114. (29-Apr) Made of Honor (Paul Weiland, 2008) F
115. (2-May) Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008) B+
116. (3-May) What Happens in Vegas (Tom Vaughan, 2008) D
117. (4-May) Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)^ B+
118. (4-May) Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)* A
119. (5-May) Deception (Marcel Langenegger, 2008) C
120. (5-May) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)^* Masterpiece
121. (6-May) Speed Racer (The Wachowski Brothers, 2008) B
122. (7-May) My Brother is an Only Child (Daniele Luchetti, 2008) B
123. (7-May) The Life Before Her Eyes (Vadim Perelman, 2008) C-
124. (8-May) Under the Same Moon (Patricia Riggen, 2008) C+
125. (8-May) The Visitor (Tom McCarthy, 2008) A
126. (14-May) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984)* A
127. (17-May) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)* B
128. (18-May) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) B+
129. (19-May) In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)* B-
130. (20-May) Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2008) C-
131. (20-May) Roman de Gare (Claude Lelouch, 2008) B
132. (20-May) Bigger Stronger Faster*: The Side Effects of Being American (Christopher Bell, 2008) B+
133. (21-May) Noise (Henry Bean, 2008) B-
134. (21-May) Redbelt (David Mamet, 2008) A-
135. (22-May) Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)* B+
136. (22-May) Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)* A- [standalone cut, first viewing]
137. (23-May) Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)* C+
138. (24-May) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)* B+
139. (25-May) The Winslow Boy (David Mamet, 1999)^* A
140. (25-May) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andre Adamson, 2008) C
141. (27-May) Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King, 2008) C+
142. (28-May) The Strangers (Bryan Bertino, 2008) B+
143. (31-May) Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne & John Stevenson, 2008) C+
144. (1-Jun) Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008) B
145. (4-Jun) You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan, 2008) D+
146. (6-Jun) Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2008) C
147. (7-Jun) When Will I Be Loved (James Toback, 2004)* B+
148. (7-Jun) Meet Bill (Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann, 2008) B [What's everyone's problem?]
149. (11-Jun) Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (Dario Argento, 2008) C+
150. (13-Jun) The Promotion (Steve Conrad, 2008)^ A-
151. (13-Jun) The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008) B-
152. (14-Jun) 13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick, 2004)* C+
153. (15-Jun) Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, 2008) B-
154. (15-Jun) The Fall (Tarsem, 2008) C+ 155. (17-Jun) The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 2008) B-
156. (18-Jun) The Love Guru (Marco Schnabel, 2008) C-
157. (21-Jun) The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008)^ B-
158. (22-Jun) Get Smart (Peter Segal, 2008) B-
159. (24-Jun) Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008) A-
160. (26-Jun) Wanted (Timur Bekhambetov, 2008) B
161. (28-Jun) Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2008) C+
162. (29-Jun) Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)^ A-