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Last updated:
January 12, 2011
Copyright
2006 Michael R. Colford.
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2010
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 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001
* indicates availability on DVD
ELIGIBLE FILMS |
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| [Rec] 2 | * 8: The Mormon Proposition (d) | 16 to Life |
| * 44 Inch Chest | 127 Hours | * 180 South (d) |
| 759: Boy Scouts of Harlem (d) | 2012: Time for Change (d) | 9500 Liberty (d) |
| 45365 (d) | ||
| Action Replayy | * After.Life | After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United (d) |
| The Afterlight | Aftershock | The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (d) |
| * Agora | Ahead of Time (d) | Air Doll |
| * Ajami | * Alamar | All Good Things |
| * All My Friends Are Funeral Singers | * Alpha and Omega | Altiplano |
| Amer | * American Grindhouse (d) | * American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (d) |
| The Anchorage | Animal Kingdom | Anton Chekhov's The Duel |
| Applause | * The Army of Crime | Around a Small Mountain |
| * The Art of the Steal (d) | * As Good As Dead | |
| * Babies (d) | * Backyard | * Bass Ackwards |
| * BearCity | Beautiful Islands (d) | * Beautiful Kate |
| Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (d) | Behind the Burly Q (d) | Beijing Taxi (d) |
| Beneath the Dark | * Best Worst Movie (d) | Bhutto (d) |
| * Bitch Slap | Bitter Feast | The Black Waters of Echo's Pond |
| * Blood Done Sign My Name | Blue Valentine | * Blue Beard |
| * Boogie Woogie | Boxing Gym (d) | Bran Nue Dae |
| A Brand New Life | Break ke Baad | * Breaking Upwards |
| Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin (d) | * Broken Embraces | * Brotherhood |
| Bunny and the Bull | Budrus (d) | * Buried |
| Burzynski (d) | ||
| * Cairo Time | Carlos | Carmo, Hit the Road |
| The Cartel (d) | * Ca$h | * Casino Jack and the United States of Money (d) |
| Catfish | Cell 211 | * Centurion |
| Chain Letter | * Chance Pe Dance | Change Nothing (d) |
| Cherry | * Children of Invention | * Chloe |
| Circle | * City Island | * The City of Your Final Destination |
| Clear Blue Tuesday | Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (d) | * Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky |
| Come Undone | Con Artist (d) | The Concert |
| Convention (d) | Conviction | Cool It (d) |
| * Countdown to Zero (d) | Country Strong | * Crazy on the Outside |
| * Creation | * Cropsey (d) | * Cummings Farm |
| * Cyrus | ||
| * Dabangg | Daddy Longlegs | Daddy's Home |
| * Dancing Across Borders (d) | * Daniel and Ana | * Dark and Stormy Night |
| De Mai Tinh | Deadfall Trail | * Defendor |
| The Desert of Forbidden Art (d) | * Dil Bole Hadippa | * The Disappearance of Alice Creed |
| Disco and Atomic War (d) | * District 13: Ultimatum | Do it Again (d) |
| Dogtooth | * Don McKay | * Double Take (d) |
| Double Tide (d) | Douchebag | * Down Terrace |
| * Dream Boy | Dreamkiller | * The Dry Land |
| * Dulha Mil Gaya | ||
| * Easier with Practice | * Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl | * The Eclipse |
| Endhiran (The Robot) | Enemies of the People (d) | Enter the Void |
| Etienne! | * Everyone Else | * Exit Through the Gift Shop (d) |
| * The Exploding Girl | * The Extra Man | * Eyes Wide Open |
| Fair Game | Falling Awake | Farewell |
| The Father of My Children | A Film Unfinished (d) | * Finding Bliss |
| Fish Tank | * Flipped | Floored (d) |
| * For My Father | * Formosa Betrayed | Four Lions |
| Freakonomics (d) | * The Freebie | Fresh |
| * Frozen | ||
| * Gasland (d) | Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (d) | Gerrymandering (d) |
| Get Low | GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up? | * The Ghost Writer |
| The Girl | * The Girl on the Train | * The Girl Who Played with Fire |
| * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | God of Vampires |
| * Godspeed | Going Blind (d) | * The Good Guy |
| * The Good Heart | * The Good, the Bad, the Weird | Great Directors (d) |
| * The Greatest | * Greenberg | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench |
| Guzaarish | ||
| * Handsome Harry | * Happiness Runs | The Happy Poet |
| * Happy Tears | The Harimaya Bridge | * Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess (d) |
| * Harmony and Me | * Harry Brown | Hatchet II |
| * The Headless Woman | * Heartbreaker | Heartless |
| * Helen | Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (d) | * Here and There |
| Hideaway | Hiding Divya | * High Life |
| * Holy Rollers | * Home | Honeymoons |
| Hot Summer Days | * Howl | Hubble 3D (d) |
| * Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel (d) | * The Human Centipede | Hyman Bloom: The Beauty of All Things (d) |
| * I Am Love | I Killed My Mother | I Love You Phillip Morris |
| I Spit On Your Grave | * I Want Your Money (d) | * I'm Still Here (d) |
| Idiots and Angels | In My Sleep | In Search of Memory (d) |
| * Inhale | * Ink | Inside Job (d) |
| * Inspector Bellamy | * Ishqiya | * It Came from Kuchar (d) |
| It's Kind of a Funny Story | ||
| Jack Goes Boating | * Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (d) | * Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (d) |
| * John Rabe | Johnny Mad Dog | Jolene |
| * The Jonses | The Joy of Singing | The Juche Idea (d) |
| * Just Say Love | ||
| * Karthik Calling Karthik | Kawasaki's Rose | * The Kids Are All Right |
| The Kids Grow Up (d) | * The Killer Inside Me | Klling Kastzner (d) |
| * Kimjongilia (d) | The King's Speech | * Kings of the Evening |
| Kings of Pastry (d) | * Kisses | Kites |
| * The Korean | ||
| * La Mission | The Last New Yorker | The Last Play at Shea (d) |
| * The Last Station | Last Train Home (d) | Lbs. |
| * Leaves of Grass | Leaving | * Lebanon |
| The Legend of Pale Male (d) | * Legendary | * Leslie, My Name is Evil |
| Letters to Father Jacob | * Letters to God | Life During Wartime |
| Like Dandelion Dust | The Little Traitor | Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (d) |
| * The Living Wake | * Looking for Eric | * The Lost Skeleton Returns Again |
| * The Lottery (d) | Louis | * Louis C.K.: Hilarious (d) |
| Lourdes | * Love Ranch | * Lovely Still |
| Made in Dagenham | * Mademoiselle Chambon | Make Out with Violence |
| Making Plans for Lena | * Manuela and Manuel | Mao's Last Dancer |
| A Marine Story | Mars | Marwencol (d) |
| * Mary and Max | A Matter of Size | * Mercy |
| Meskada | Mesrine: Killer Instinct | Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 |
| * Metropia | * Micmacs | * Mid-August Lunch |
| Middle Men | * The Milk of Sorrow | * Mine (d) |
| * Misconceptions | * The Misfortunates | Modern Love is Automatic |
| Modus Operandi | Monsters | * The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (d) |
| * Mother | * Mother and Child | A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism (d) |
| * Mugabe and the White African (d) | * Multiple Sarcasms | * Murder in Fashion |
| My Dog Tulip | * My Name is Khan | * My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? |
| My Tale of Two Cities (d) | * My Year Without Sex | * Mystery Team |
| N-Secure | * The Nature of Existence (d) | Neil Young Trunk Show (d) |
| Never Let Me Go | The New Year | Night Catches Us |
| No One Knows About Persian Cats | Nobody's Perfect (d) | Nora's Will |
| * North Face | Northern Comfort | Nothing Personal |
| Nowhere Boy | ||
| * The Oath (d) | Ocean of Pearls | * October Country (d) |
| * Off and Running (d) | * Ondine | * Only When I Dance (d) |
| Open Five | * Operation: Endgame | * Order of Chaos |
| * OSS 117: Lost in Rio | The Other City (d) | Our Beloved Month of August |
| The Paranoids | The Parking Lot Movie (d) | * Passenger Side |
| * Patrik Age 1.5 | * Peepli Live | The People I've Slept With |
| The Perfect Game | * Perrier's Bounty | Phish 3D |
| * Phyllis and Harold (d) | Pianomania (d) | Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies (d) |
| * Picture Me: A Model's Diary (d) | Playing Columbine (d) | * Please Give |
| * Pornography: A Thriller | The Portuguese Nun | * Preacher's Kid |
| * Pressure Cooker (d) | Prince of Broadway | * Princess Kaiulani |
| * The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | * Prodigal Sons (d) | * A Prophet |
| Punching the Clown | ||
| Queen of the Lot | ||
| Raavan | Rabbit Hole | Race to Nowhere (d) |
| Rachel (d) | * Rajneeti | * Rann |
| Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | Red Alert: The War Within | * The Red Baron |
| * Red Hill | * Red Riding: 1974 | * Red Riding: 1980 |
| * Red Riding: 1983 | Red, White & Blue | * Restrepo (d) |
| Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors (d) | The Romantics | A Room and a Half |
| * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead | * The Runaways | * Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (d) |
| * S&Man | * Saint John of Las Vegas | Salt of This Sea |
| * The Secret in Their Eyes | * The Secret of Kells | * Seven Days |
| * Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | Shanghai Red | Shutterbug |
| * The Sicillian Girl | * Smash His Camera (d) | * Solitary Man |
| Somewhere | * Soul Kitchen | * Soundtrack for a Revolution (d) |
| * South of the Border (d) | Speed-dating | * Spoken Word |
| * Spring Fever | * The Square | Standing Ovation |
| * Stolen | * Stone | Stonewall Uprising (d) |
| Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the MAgnetic Fields (d) | * Stuck! | * Suck |
| * The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (d) | * Survival of the Dead | * Sweetgrass (d) |
| Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (d) | ||
| * Tales from the Script (d) | Tamara Drewe | The Taqwacores |
| The Tempest | The Temptation of St. Tony | Terkel in Trouble |
| * Terribly Happy | * The Thorn in the Heart (d) | Thy Will Be Done (d) |
| Tibet in Song (d) | Ticked Off Trannies with Knives | The Tillmann Story (d) |
| Tiny Furniture | To Die for Tano | * To Save a Life |
| Today's Special | * Toe to Toe | Touching Home |
| * Trash Humpers | * Triage | * The Trial |
| * The Trotsky | * Twelve | Two in the Wave (d) |
| * Udaan | * Under the Mountain | Undertow |
| Urville (d) | ||
| * Valhalla Rising | * Valley of the Heart's Delight | Veer |
| * Vengeance | * The Vicious Kind | * Videocracy (d) |
| * Vincere | Violet Tendencies | The Virginity Hit |
| Vision | ||
| Wah Do Dem | * Waiting for Armageddon (d) | Waiting for Superman (d) |
| * Waking Sleeping Beauty (d) | * The Warlords | Waste Land (d) |
| * Watercolors | * We Are Family | * The Weathered Underground |
| Welcome to the Rileys | What if... (d) | * What's Your Raashee? |
| * When You're Strange (d) | White Material | * The White Stripes Under Northern Lights (d) |
| * White Wedding | Whiz Kids (d) | * Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (d) |
| * Who Killed Nancy? (d) | * Wild Grass | Wild Target |
| The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everst (d) | Willets Point | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (d) |
| * The Wind Journeys | * Winnebago Man (d) | * The Winning Season |
| * Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. New York (d) | * Winter's Bone | A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop |
| Women Without Men | * Wonderful World | |
| The Yellow Handkerchief | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | You Won't Miss Me |
Festival Films |
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| Asylum Seekers | At World's End | |
| Beautiful Darling | Bodyguards and Assassins | |
| Caller ID | Colony | Cracks |
| The Death of Alice Blue | ||
| Echoes of the Rainbow | Enjoy Poverty (d) | The Executioner |
| Friends (with Benefits) | A Frozen Flower | |
| Hipsters | ||
| Ip Man 2 | ||
| The Life and Death of a Porno Gang | Locked In | Lola |
| Love on the Rocks | Lunopolis | |
| Machotaildrop | Mutant Swinger from Mars | My Normal |
| NY Export: Opus Jazz | ||
| Pelada (d) | ||
| Rapt | The Revenant | |
| Storm Warriors | ||
| Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (d) | Tears for Sale | |
| Vidal Sassoon: the Movie (d) | ||
| War Don Don (d) | The Worst Company in the World (d) | |
| Ineligible Films |
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| Black Swan | Easy A | Hereafter |
| Peacock | Sherlock Holmes | Splice |