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Dkaz Notables
An evolving catalog of the year's best. Notables for past years are on file for viewing.
Favorite New Films; Seen and theatrically released in the U.S. in 2008 (in order of preference)
Don't Touch the Axe (Rivette, France)
Still Life (Jia, China)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou, France)
Woman on the Beach (Hong, South Korea)
La France (Bozon, France)
Wall-E (Stanton, USA)
Before I Forget (Nolot, France)
The Silence Before Bach (Portabella, Spain)
Mad Detective (To/Wai, HK/China)
Boarding Gate (Assayas, France)

Favorite New Films; Seen and currently unreleased in the the U.S. in 2008 (in order of preference)
Sparrow (To, HK/China)
Night and Day (Hong, France)
United Red Army (Wakamatsu, Japan)
Le Premier venu (Doillon, France)
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (de Oliveira, Portugal)
Wolfsbergen (Leopold, Netherlands)

Cast, Crew, & Accolades
Director: Jacques Rivette (Don't Touch the Axe)


Favorite Films Previously Unseen; Theatrically Screened in 2008 (in chronological order)
Die Gezeichneten (Dreyer, Germany, 1921)
Mauprat (Epstein, France, 1926)
Air Mail (Ford, USA, 1932)
Man from Aran (Flaherty, UK, 1934)
History is Made at Night (Borzage, USA, 1937)
Blood of the Beasts (Franju, France, 1949)
Hôtel des Invalides (Franju, France, 1951)
Untamed (Naruse, Japan, 1957)
La Première nuit (Franju, France, 1958)
Judex (Franju, France, 1963)
Mad Fox (Uchida, Japan, 1963)
The Brig (Mekas, USA, 1964)
Man's Favorite Sport? (Hawks, USA, 1964)
Sympathy for the Devil (Godard, UK, 1969)
Le Cochon (Eustache, France, 1970)
Du côté d'Orouët (Rozier, France, 1973)
Mes petites amoureuses (Eustache, France, 1974)
Shift (Gehr, USA, 1974)
Doomed Love (de Oliveira, Portugal, 1979)
Francisca (de Oliveira, Portugal, 1981)
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa (Depardon, France, 1983)
'Non', or the Vain Glory of Command (de Oliveira, Portugal, 1990)
J'entends plus la guitare (Garrel, France, 1991)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Gehr, USA, 1991)
Abraham's Vale (de Oliveira, Portugal, 1993)
Portrait of a Young Woman at the End of the 1960s in Brussels (Akerman, France, 1994)
U.S. Go Home (Denis, France, 1994)
Late Autumn, Early September (Assayas, France, 1998)

Favorite Films Previously Unseen; Screened on video in 2008 (in chronological order)
Passing Fancy (Ozu, Japan, 1933)
Wild Boys of the Road (Wellman, USA, 1933)
The Secret Bride (Dieterle, USA, 1934)
The Roaring Twenties (Walsh, USA, 1939)
The Seventh Victim (Robson, USA, 1943)
Oyu-sama (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1951)
Nightfall (Tourneur, USA, 1956)
Day of the Outlaw (De Toth, USA, 1959)
The House is Black (Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963)
Le Belle noiseuse (Rivette, France, 1991)
Van Gogh (Pialat, France, 1991)
When It Rains (Burnett, USA, 1995)
L'Origine du XXIème siècle (Godard, France, 2000)