Top Ten Films in 2008

The weather is nice and warm, like Spring or Summer. Before the flowers on my table finally faded, I took more pictures of the flamboyant blossoms.

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Soon enough, the San Francisco Botanical Garden will filled with splendid flowers, if we will get more rain soon.

I am counting the days before I have to leave for North Carolina beginning this coming weekend. I am prepared by stock up a few films, in case I have no place to go in the evenings but staying in the hotel.

Almost half of January is gone, even the Golden Globe is over. I finally get a chance to take a moment to look back the films I watched in 2008.

In 2008, I watched a total of 264 feature films, including 30 films that I screened for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival that are not listed and the reviews about them are not published.

As always, because it has become very difficult to classify which year a movie should belong to, I put together my top-ten films among those I saw in 2008.

Top Ten Films in 2008

Never Forever (두 번째 사랑, South Korea/USA 2007, 90 min., Review)
And the Spring Comes (立春, China 2007, 101 min., Review)
Frozen River (USA 2008, 97 min., Review)
A Gentle Breeze in the Village (天然コケッコー, Japan 2007, 121 min., Review)
Solos (Singapore 2007, 77 min.)
Happy-Go-Lucky (UK 2008, 117 min., Review)
Che: Part One (USA 2008, 128 min., Review)
Glasses (めがね, Japan, 2007, 106 min.)
The Unknown Woman (La sconosciuta, Italy 2006, 118 min., Review)
Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s (Maman est chez le coiffeur, Canada 2008, 97 min.)