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2011

Below is a list of all the eligible independent films for the year 2008. Many visitors to the site have e-mailed asking for recommendations and/or reviews of independent movies. The members of the Chlotrudis Awards Nominating Committee see lots of independent films and on the Chlotrudis Comments page, we will share our thoughts or reviews of the year's movies. Underlined films lead to Chlotrudis reviews. If you have a suggestion, or a film you'd like to see commented on by Chlotrudis Members, send us an e-mail. Now let's get on with the comments!

Take a look at the reviews for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001

* indicates availability on DVD

ELIGIBLE FILMS



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* 13 Assassins * 1911



The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (d)
Albert Nobbs
* And Everything Is Going Fine (d)
Anonymous * Another Earth * Another Year
Answers to Nothing * The Arbor (d) * Armadillo (d)
* The Art of Getting By The Artist * Atlas Shrugged: Part One
* Attack the Block




* Bal (Honey)
* Barney's Version * Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (d)
* Beautiful Boy Beautiful Darling (d) * A Beautiful Life
* The Beaver * Beginners Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (d)
* Bellflower The Bengali Detective (d)
* Bereavement
* A Better Life * The Big Bang * Bill Cunningham New York (d)
* Biutiful * Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975 (d) * Blackthorn
Blank City (d) * Bobby Fischer Against the World (d) * Bride Flight
* Brighton Rock * Buck (d) El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (d)
* Burke & Hare * The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman



* Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (d)
* Carancho * Cave of Forgotten Dreams (d)
* Cedar Rapids Certified Copy Chasing Madoff (d)
* Circo (d) * Circumstance
The City Dark (d)
* City of Life and Death * Cold Fish * Cold Weather
* The Company Men * Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (d) The Conquest
* The Conspirator Crab Trap Curling



A Dangerous Method
The Dead The Descendants
* Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame * The Devil's Double The Double Hour



Eames: The Architect and the Painter (d)
* Elektra Luxx The Elephant in the Living Room (d)
* Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance * Even the Rain Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (d)
* Everything Must Go




Farmageddon: The Unseen War of American Family Farms (d)
* Film Socialisme
The First Beautiful Thing
* The First Grader Florent: Queen of the Meat Market (d) From the Back of the Room (d)
* The Future




Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Garbo: The Spy (d)
Girlfriend
* A Good Old Fashioned Orgy * The Grace Card * The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (d)
* Griff the Invisible * The Guard Gun Hill Road



* Happythankyoumoreplease
Happy Happy
Le Havre
* Heartbeats The Hedgehog * Henry's Crime
* Hesher * Hey Boo: Harper Lee and "To Kill a Mockingbird" (d) * Higher Ground
* Hobo with a Shotgun * A Horrible Way to Die * The Housemaid
* How I Ended This Summer
How to Live Forever (d) The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence



* I Saw the Devil
* I Will Follow
* If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (d)
* The Illusionist * Immigration Tango * In a Better World
* Incendies * Inside Hana's Suitcase (d)
The Interrupters (d)
Into the Abyss (d) * Ironclad



* Jane Eyre
Janie Jones
* Jig (d)
John Portman: A Life of Building (d)
Just Like Us (d)



* Kaboom
* Kidnapped
* Kill the Irishman
King of Devil's Island




* L'amour Fou (d)
* The Last Circus
* The Last Lions (d)
* The Last Mountain (d) * Last Night * Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
* Life, Above All * Life in a Day (d) Like Crazy
Limelight (d) * A Little Help Littlerock
A Lonely Place to Die Louder Than a Bomb (d) * Love Crime
Love, Etc. (d) * Lucky (d)



Machine Gun Preacher
* Magic Trip (d) The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (d)
Margaret * Margin Call Martha Marcy May Marlene
* Master Harold and the Boys * Meek's Cutoff Melancholia
Mia and the Migoo * Midnight in Paris The Mighty Macs
The Mill and the Cross * Miral * Monogamy
* Mooz-lum Mozart's Sister * Mr. Nice
* The Music Never Stopped My Afternoons with Margueritte My Perestroika (d)
My Week with Marilyn Mysteries of Lisbon * The Myth of the American Sleepover



* The Names of Love
* Nénette (d) * Nostalgia for the Light (d)



Octubre
* Of Gods and Men * Oranges & Sunshine
* Orgasm, Inc. (d) The Other F Word (d)
* The Other Woman
Outrage





* Page One: Inside the New York Times (d)
Pariah
Passione: A Musical Adventure
* Pearl Jam Twenty (d) * Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (d) Pianomania (d)
Pina (d)
* Poetry * Point Blank
* Potiche * The Princess of Montpensier Project Nim (d)



* Le Quattro Volte
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (d)
* Queen to Play



Le Rafle
* Rammbock: Berlin Undead
* Rapt
* Rejoice & Shout (d) Restless
Revenge of the Electric Car (d)
* The Robber * Rubber



* Sarah's Key
Savage Memory (d)
Saviors in the Night
Secret Museums: In Search of Hidden Erotic Art (d) * Senna (d) A Separation
* Septien * Seven Days in Utopia Shame
* Shaolin
* Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (d) Silent Souls
The Skin I Live In The Sky Turns (d) * The Sleeping Beauty
* Small Town Murder Songs * Snow Flower and the Secret Fan * A Somewhat Gentle Man
* Sons of Perdition (d) * Stake land * The Strange Case of Angelica
* Submarine * Summer Wars * Super
* Sympathy for Delicious





* Tabloid (d)
Take Shelter
* Terri
There Be Dragons * These Amazing Shadows (d) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
* Toast Tomboy * Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (d)
* The Tree * Tree of Life * Trespass
* Trigger * The Trip * Troll Hunter
* True Legend
* Tucker & Dale vs. Evil Tyrannosaur



* Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Unfinished Spaces (d)




Vincent Wants to Sea
* Viva Riva!



* The Ward
* The Warring States The Way
* The Way Back * Weekend * What Women Want
* When We Leave The Whistleblower * White Irish Drinkers
*Win Win * Winter in Wartime The Woman
The Women on the 6th Floor !Women Art Revolution (d) The Woodmans (d)



* YellowBrickRoad
Young Adult
Young Goethe in Love



* Zenith






Festival Films




Atomic Brain Invasion





A Boy and His Samurai




The Catechism Cataclysm
Chop The Corridor



Green





Helldriver





Luster





Machete Maidens Unleashed! (d)
Mangus!




On the Ice





The Perfect Family
Phase 7 Profane
Punished





Sedona
Son of God (d)



We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân (d)






Ineligible Films



The Debt Drive




The Ides of March





J. Edgar





Our Idiot Brother





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