Monday, August 04, 2008

My MIFF film classifications

This is a running list, using completely arbitrary classification, of films I've seen at MIFF 2008.

MUST SEE CINEMA!
Lorna's Silence
Three Monkeys
The Death of Mister Lazarescu
Secret Sunshine
Silent Light

VERY GOOD
The Paper Will be Blue
Katyn
O' Horten

QUIETLY SATISFYING
Tricks
On War
A Confucian Confusion
Occident
Momma's Man
Night and Day
My Marlon and Brando
Mahjong
24 City
12:08 East of Bucharest
Boogie
The Terrorizer

GOOD FUN
Surveillance
Roadgames
Long Weekend
Not Quite Hollywood
My Winnipeg
Dead End Drive-In

OK BUT DISAPPOINTING
The Devil Probably
Fata Morgana
Private Lessons
Taipei Story
Matewan
Fox and His Friends

MEH
Time to Die
Everything is Fine
The Pope's Toilet
Sleepwalking Land
California Dreamin' (Endless)

GIVE IT A MISS
40 x 15: The 40 Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Ashes of Time Redux
The Substitute
Of Time and the City
Lion's Den

WALKOUTS
Xiao Jia Going Home
The Desert Within
La Rabia
Just Anybody

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Agree. Three Monkeys is a masterpiece. Amazing cinema!