5 for 2008

Couldn't really come up with TEN great films from 2008. It was really a sub-par year for great films. When the likes of THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, and THE WRESTLER being insanely overpraised by critics everywhere....it smacks of grasping at straws.

I'll stick with five great films the year managed to give us....in no particular order.....

James Marsh's Man On Wire

Martin McDonagh's IN BRUGES

Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNIGHT

Gus Van Sant's MILK

Roger Donaldson's THE BANK JOB

It's a new year Dude.

Jack Benny - Mel Blanc Classic Routine

Quote

One Sunday a gentleman, who is a great inventor, called at my house. Only a few words had passed between us, when he arose, saying that he must go as it was time for church. Wondering that a man of his mental wealth could enjoy the intellectual poverty of the pulpit, I asked for an explanation, and he gave me the following: “You know that I am an inventor. Well, the moment my mind becomes absorbed in some difficult problem, I am afraid that something may happen to distract my attention. Now, I know that I can sit in church for an hour without the slightest danger of having the current of my thought disturbed.”

Robert Green Ingersoll - “Men, Women, And God” (1885)

Dog Can*t Get Out

Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD

Oscars

Hunter & George