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Last updated:
January 12, 2011
Copyright 2006 Michael R. Colford.
All rights reserved
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
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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) |
| Angels Crest |
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 | |
| * Baaria |
* 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 | * Beware the Gonzo |
| * 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) | * Bunraku |
| * Burke & Hare | * The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman | |
| * Cameraman: The Life
and Work of Jack Cardiff (d) |
* Carancho | Carnage |
| The Catechism Cataclysm | * Cave of Forgotten Dreams (d) | * Cedar Rapids |
| * Certifiably Jonathan |
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 | * Cracks |
| 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 | * Every Day |
| 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) | * Forks Over Knives (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 | Hell
and Back Again (d) |
| * 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 |
| In the Land of Blood and
Honey |
* Incendies | * Inside Hana's Suitcase (d) |
| The Interrupters (d) | Into the Abyss (d) | The Iron Lady |
| * 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) | Love in Space |
* Lucky (d) |
| Machine Gun
Preacher |
* Magic Trip (d) | * Main Street |
| 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 |
| * Meet Monica Velour |
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 Kingdom | My Perestroika (d) |
| My Piece of the Pie | My Reincarnation (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 |
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| * Page One:
Inside the New
York Times (d) |
Pariah |
Passione: A Musical Adventure |
| Paul Goodman Changed My
Life (d) |
* Pearl Jam Twenty (d) | * The Perfect Host |
| * Phase 7 | * Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (d) | Pianomania (d) |
| Pina (d) | * Poetry | * Point Blank |
| * Potiche | * Primal | * The Princess of Montpensier |
| Project Nim (d) | ||
| * Le Quattro Volte |
Queen of
the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (d) |
* Queen to Play |
| Ra.One |
La Rafle | * Rammbock: Berlin Undead |
| * Rapt | * Red State |
* Rejoice & Shout (d) |
| Restless | Resurrect Dead: Mystery of
Toynbee Tiles (d) |
Revenge of the Electric Car (d) |
| * The Robber | * Rubber | |
| * Sarah's Key |
Satan Hates
You |
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) |
| Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (d) | Silent Souls | Sint |
| The Skin I Live In | The Sky Turns (d) | Sleeping Beauty (Leigh) |
| * The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat) | * 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 |
* Tales from the Golden Age |
| * 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 Adolescents |
* True Legend |
| * Tucker & Dale vs. Evil | Tyrannosaur | |
| * Uncle
Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives |
Unfinished Spaces (d) |
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| Vincent Wants to Sea |
* Viva Riva! | |
| * The Ward |
* The Warring States | The Way |
| * The Way Back | * We Are What We Are |
We Were Here (d) |
| * Weekend | * What Women Want | * When We Leave |
| The Whistleblower | * White Irish Drinkers | * Win Win |
| * Winter in Wartime | The Woman | The Woman with the 5 Elephants (d) |
| The Women on the 6th Floor | !Women Art Revolution (d) | The Woodmans (d) |
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YellowBrickRoad |
Young Adult |
Young Goethe in Love |
| * Zenith |
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Festival Films
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| Atomic Brain
Invasion |
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| A Boy and His Samurai | Buddha
Mountain |
Bullhead |
| Chop | The Corridor | |
| The Dead Inside |
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| Frankie in
Blunderland |
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| Gantz |
Green | |
| Helldriver |
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| Legend of
the Millennium Dragon |
Luster | |
| Machete
Maidens Unleashed! (d) |
* The Man
From Nowhere |
Mangus! |
| Milocrorze: A Love Story | ||
| Ninja Kids!!! |
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| On the Ice |
One Big Hapa
Family |
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| The Perfect
Family |
Profane | |
| Punished |
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| The Reef |
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| Sedona |
Son of God (d) | |
| We Still Live
Here: Âs Nutayuneân (d) |
Windfall
(d) |
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| Zonad |
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Ineligible Films
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| The Debt | Drive |
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| The Ides of
March |
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| J. Edgar |
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| Our Idiot
Brother |
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| Source Code |
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