Chicagoist: 10 Movies We Wish We'd Seen This Year

three

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:25:54 -0600

"let the right one in" is pretty good. funny, even, at some points. "milk" is a must see.

Rob Christopher

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:21:29 -0600

Looks like "Savage Grace" is going in my rental queue!

Albanyparkour

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:58:15 -0600

"Let The Right One In" and "Savage Grace" were just amazing. "Benjamin Button" was the best film of the year for me, but those two are right up there.

Ingrid

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:45:50 -0600

Loved Savage Grace, and of course it's all the more fascinating because it's based on a true story. This mother truly mind-fucked her son right into insanity (another good movie with the same theme of 'mother mind-fucking her son is "Spanking The Monkey") Did not care for A Christmas Tale. I didn't even finish it. I usually love slow-moving- fly-on-the-wall-dysfunctional-family-foreign-movies, but this one just went nowhere for me, although you just can't complain about Catherine Deneuve! Haven't see Milk, but it's on my top-priority list. I also can't wait to rent Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express. From Israel "Nina's Tragedies" is on my list as well. I don't really enjoy the whole movie theatre experience, so I regret not seeing a LOT of movies when they come out. I usually wait til they're on dvd or On Demand, so I actually have a pretty long list of movies to be seen.

that_girl

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:03:19 -0600

Mike, how did you guess? :) Yes, it's about adultery in a Russian Mennonite community in Mexico... which is part of why it appeals to me, admittedly, being vaguely Mennonite myself.

Mike G

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:53:46 -0600

I'd skip most of those (maybe not Man on Wire) and stay home and watch my Murnau and Borzage at Fox box set. So That Girl, if it's set in Mexico and it's in platdeutsch, is it about Mennonites?

that_girl

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:47:46 -0600

While I do in fact love Pixar movies in general (come on, the second layer of humor in Toy Story 1 & 2 is brilliant), even if you don't, you should absolutely see Wall-E. It is wonderful. I don't know a single person who didn't love it. (oh, and it features the film Hello Dolly, not so much that particular song.) For myself, I too have not yet seen Milk; also on my list is a probably hard-to-find German-language (Plautsdeutch, actually) movie filmed in Mexico called Silent Light (Stille Licht).