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Last updated:
January 7, 2011
Copyright
2006 Michael R. Colford.
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2008
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, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001
* indicates availability on DVD
ELIGIBLE FILMS |
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| * 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days | ||
| Alexandra | Alice's House | Allah Made Me Funny (d) |
| * American Teen (d) | Angel | Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (d) |
| * Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! | At Home in Utopia (d) | * August Evening |
| The Axe in the Attic (d) | ||
| * Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul | * Baghead | Ballast |
| * The Band's Visit | Battle in Seattle | * Be Kind Rewind |
| * Beaufort | Beautiful Losers (d) | Beauty in Trouble |
| * Before I Forget | * Before the Rains | The Betrayal (Nerakhoom) (d) |
| * Beyond Belief (d) | * Bigger, Stronger, Faster (d) | * Billy the Kid (d) |
| * Black and White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (d) | * Blindsight (d) | * Body of War (d) |
| * Bodysong (d) | Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (d) | Bottle Shock |
| * Boy A | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | * Bra Boys (d) |
| Breakfast with Scot | * Brick Lane | * Brideshead Revisited |
| Cadillac Records | * Caramel | * Cassandra's Dream |
| * Chaos Theory | * Chicago 10 | * Children of Huang Shi |
| Choke | * Chop Shop | Chris & Don: A Love Story (d) |
| * Christmas on Mars | A Christmas Tale | Ciao |
| * City of Men | * CJ7 | Clouds Over Conakry |
| * Constantine's Sword (d) | * The Counterfeiters | * CSNY Deja Vu (d) |
| Dark Matter | Days and Clouds | The Dhamma Brothers (d) |
| The Duchess of Langeals | ||
| Eden | * The Edge of Heaven | Elegy |
| Elegy of Life: Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya (d) | * Elsa & Fred | * Encounters at the End of the World (d) |
| The End of America (d) | ||
| * The Fall | Family Hero | Fear(s) of the Dark |
| Filth and Wisdom | * Finding Amanda | Fireproof |
| The First Saturday in May (d) | * Flawless | * Flight of the Red Balloon |
| * Flow: For Love of Water (d) | * Fly Me to the Moon | * The Foot Fist Way |
| Forever (d) | Forgiveness | * A Four Letter Word |
| * Frontrunners (d) | Frownland | Frozen River |
| Fugitive Pieces | * Funny Games | |
| A Girl Cut in Two | * The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Girls Rock! (d) |
| Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (d) | The Golden Boy | * Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (d) |
| * Grace is Gone | * The Grand | * The Grocer's Son |
| * Hair Extensions | Happy-Go-Lucky | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (d) |
| * Hell Ride | * Henry Poole Is Here | Hollywood Chinese (d) |
| * Honeydripper | How About You | |
| I Served the King of England | I.O.U.S.A. (d) | * Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (d) |
| * In Bruges | In Search of a Midnight Kiss | * Irina Palm |
| * Itty Bitty Titty Committee | I've Loved You So Long | |
| JCVD | * Jellyfish | A Jihad for Love (d) |
| * Khadak | * Kings | |
| * Lagerfeld Confidential (d) | Last Chance Harvey | The Last Mistress |
| La León | Let the Right One In | * The Life Before Her Eyes |
| * Lou Reed's Berlin (d) | Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (d) | Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (d) |
| * Love Comes Lately | * Love Songs | The Lucky Ones |
| Mad Detective | * A Man Named Pearl (d) | * Man on Wire (d) |
| * Married Life | The Midnight Meat Train | * Military Intelligence and You |
| Milk | * Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | * Mister Foe |
| * Mister Lonely | Momma's Man | * Mongol |
| Monkey Warfare | Morning Light (d) | * Mother of Tears |
| Moving Midway (d) | * My Blueberry Nights | * My Brother is an Only Child |
| * My Father My Lord | My Name is Bruce | My Winnipeg |
| * Nanking (d) | Never Apologize (d) | * Never Forever |
| The Night James Brown Saved Boston (d) | Nobel Son | Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (d) |
| On Broadway | * On the Doll | * Operation Filmmaker (d) |
| * The Order of Myths (d) | * The Orphanage | * OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies |
| The Other End of the Line | * Otto; or, Up with Dead People | |
| * Paranoid Park | * Patti Smith: Dream of Life (d) | Ping Pong Playa |
| * Planet B-Boy (d) | The Pool | Pray the Devil Back to Hell (d) |
| Praying with Lior | * Priceless | * The Promotion |
| * Quantum Hoops (d) | ||
| Rachel Getting Married | Reader, The | * Red |
| Red Roses and Petrol | * Redbelt | Refusenik (d) |
| Religulous (d) | * Repo! The Genetic Opera | * Reprise |
| Revolutionary Road | Richard Serra: Thinking On Your Feet (d) | * Rocknrolla |
| Roman de Gare | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (d) | The Romance of Astrea and Celadon |
| * Romulus, My Father | ||
| * Savage Grace | * Save Me | Saving Marriage (d) |
| Secrecy (d) | A Secret | * Shelter |
| * Shine a Light (d) | The Singing Revolution (d) | Sixty Six |
| * Sleepwalking | Slumdog Millionaire | * Snow Angels |
| * Son of Rambow | * Sputnik Mania (d) | * Standard Operating Procedure (d) |
| Stealing America: Vote by Vote (d) | * Steep (d) | Still Life |
| Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (d) | Stuck | * Surfwise (d) |
| * Sukiyaki Western Django | Synecdoche, New York | |
| * Taxi to the Dark Side (d) | * Teeth | Tell No One |
| * Then She Found Me | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | * Towelhead |
| * Tracey Fragments, The | * Transsiberian | Transylvania |
| Traveling with Pets | Trouble the Water (d) | Trumbo (d) |
| * Tuya's Marriage | ||
| U2 3d (d) | * Under the Same Moon | * The Unforeseen (d) |
| The Universe of Keith Haring (d) | The Unknown Woman | * Up the Yangtze (d) |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona | * Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show (d) | * Visitor, The |
| * The Wackness | Waltz with Bashir (d) | * War, Inc. |
| * Water Lilies | We Are Wizards (d) | Wendy and Lucy |
| Were the World Mine | What Just Happened? | * What We Do Is Secret |
| * When Did You Last See Your Father? | * Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (d) | Who Does She Think She Is? (d) |
| * Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (d) | * The Witnesses | The Wrestler |
| * XXY | ||
| * The Year My Parents Went on Vacataion | Year of the Fish | * Young@Heart (d) |
| * Young People Fucking | ||
| * Zombie Strippers | ||
Festival Films |
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| 24 City | 35 Rhums | Adventures of Power |
| Algeria, Unspoken Stories (d) | Antena, La | Aquarium, The |
| Assembly | At the Edge of the World (d) | Blind Sunflowers |
| Blood Car | Class, The | Dean Spanley |
| Dot.com | End, The | Eye in the Sky |
| Fear Me Not | Flame & Citron | Foster Child |
| Frontrunner (d) | Handle Me with Care | |
| How to Get Rid of the Others | Hunger | Idiots and Angels |
| I'm a Cyborg, but That's Okay | Jetsam | Krabat |
| Linguists, The (d) | Lovely Still | May 18 |
| Medicine for Melancholy | My Effortless Brilliance | The New Year Parade |
| Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (d) | O'Horten | Of Time and the City |
| One Week | Pandora's Box | Los Paranoicos |
| Passchendaele | Quiet Chaos | The Rest of the Night |
| Sad Vacation | The Secret of the Grain | Serbis |
| Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America | Sex Positive | Le Silence de Lorna |
| The Sky Crawlers | Spine Tingler: the William Castle Story (d) | Still Walking |
| Strangers | Substitute, The | Summer Hours |
| Tony Manero | Le Tueur | Turn the River |
| Two Mothers | Vexille | White Night Wedding |
| Wild Blue Yonder | The Wizard of Gore | Wonderful Town |
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (d) | ||
| Ineligible Films |
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| Ashes of Time Redux | Blindness | Doubt |
| Iron Man | Quiet City | Smart People |
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