Films of 2008

My favorites:

1. Frozen River
2. Happy Go Lucky
3. Trouble the Water
4. Slumdog Millionaire (sorry Brit)
5. Across the Universe (on DVD)

Why did I love these films? They were unusual, had that quality of “strangeness”* that sets a work of art apart from the merely “extremely well done.”

*Harold Bloom’s term/The Western Canon. Despite many disagreements with Bloom’s argument, I can adopt “strangeness” wholeheartedly.