March 28, 2009

In honor of Ebertfest 2009

Indeed, since Roger Ebert used to call his festival the "Overlooked Film Festival", I figured it was appropriate to ask everyone what films they would select as being Overlooked in 2008 and that they would show at their own film festival. As a template, some of the things Ebert is showing this year include Frozen River, Let the Right One In, Chop Shop, My Winnipeg, Trouble the Water, Nothing But The Truth, and The Fall. As a starter, some of the films I would select as being overlooked and worthy of inclusion for myself would include, in no particular order:
The Go Getter
Wendy and Lucy
Choke
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Snow Angels
The Wackness
Charlie Bartlett
My Blueberry Nights
Synecdoche, New York
Stop Loss
-Now, what would be yours?


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  1. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 2:37 AM

    Che
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Snow Angels
    The Fall
    The Incredible Hulk
    Burn After Reading
    Hellboy II: The Golden Army

    -Andrew

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  2. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 3:56 AM

    Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Incredible Hulk, Burn After Reading, and Hellboy 2 hardly count as overlooked....

    mine would be Nothing But The Truth, The Ruins, and What Doesn't Kill You

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  3. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 4:29 AM

    I don't think so I think they were all vastly overlooked. Hulk deserved 5 nods, Editing, Score, Sound, Sound Editing, and it should have won FX, Sarah Marshall and Burn missed on screenplay nods and Supp Actor for Pitt, Hellboy missed an Art Direction and Costumes nods...therefore overlooked in my opinion...

    -Andrew

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  4. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 3:03 PM

    but certainly not in terms of finances, no? Maybe I'm just assuming money has something to do with this list because if it had a good box office, that means people saw it....idk, maybe Joey can confirm this at some point

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  5. Joey MagidsonMarch 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM

    I was thinking a combination of the two, but hey...it's all up to you guys and gals

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  6. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM

    choke
    where in the world is osama bin laden
    the visitor
    tell no one
    roman de gare
    australia (yes, australia)
    quarantine

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  7. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 5:29 PM

    Wendy and Lucy
    Stop Loss
    Miracle at St. Anna
    Zack and Miri
    Rachel Getting Married
    -Matt

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  8. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM

    Wendy and Lucy
    XXY
    Tell No One
    The Visitor
    Reprise
    I've Loved You So Long
    Synecdoche, NY
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Ballast
    Rachel Getting Married (so much better than I was expecting!)

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  9. AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 9:07 PM

    Smart People
    Diary of the Dead
    Gonzo
    The Wackness
    Revolutionary Road
    -Jeff

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  10. MarkMarch 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM

    Burn After Reading
    Pineapple Express
    Revolutionary Road
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Elegy
    The Visitor
    Zack & Miri Make a Porno

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  11. Josh P.March 28, 2009 at 11:32 PM

    Some that I liked that haven't been said yet (no order):

    Ghost Town
    Traitor
    Body of Lies
    Under the Same Moon
    Rocknrolla
    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

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  12. AnonymousMarch 29, 2009 at 2:47 AM

    Frozen River
    Chicago 10
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Transsiberian
    Stop Loss
    Paranoid Park
    Timecrimes
    Rambo
    The Hammer
    Swing Vote
    City of Ember

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  13. Joey MagidsonMarch 29, 2009 at 3:36 AM

    I would definitely include The Hammer as well...criminally underseen

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