List of Best Overlooked Movies 2008 by Karina - Movie & Film Lists

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This weird but warm, painfully funny while often heartbreaking contemporary fairy tale of sorts features a cast full of some of France's biggest movie stars. Christmas stars Catherine Deneuve as family matriarch Junon, who calls her adult children home for the holidays upon learning that she's in need of a bone marrow transplant. In limited theatrical release Winter '08.

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog (2008)

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From field trips out to document the undeniable natural marvels of the Arctic region to encounters with "abominations" like ATMS and yoga studios on the icy continent's research base, GRIZZLY MAN director Werner Herzog catalogs it all in his patented, dramatically-phrased deadpan. Currently on DVD

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi (2008)

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Produced by Spike Jonze, Baghdad is a documentary on Acrassicauda, a Metallica-inspired Iraqi metal band who are forced to run for their lives when their hometown is upended by war. Tailored to short-attention spans, it defies so-called Iraq movie fatigue by making the experience of everyday Iraqis truly relatable. Currently on DVD and SnagFilms.com.

Medicine For Melancholy

Barry Jenkins (2009)

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Inverting the typical romantic comedy structure, Jo and Micah meet drunkenly and then share an awkward morning-after breakfast. Though her first instinct is to pretend like the night before never happened, Jo is eventually charmed by Micah's persistence, and the two end up spending the day walking and talking, flirting and arguing, and exploring the complex social divisions of San Francisco. Nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. In theaters and VOD February 2009.

Paranoid Park

Gus Van Sant (2007)

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His biopic MILK is getting all the Oscar buzz, but the visually stunning and disturbing PARANOID PARK represents the opposite pole of director Gus Van Sant's output: small, truly independent portraits of sad young men dealing with life and death.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Lloyd Kaufman (2007)

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From the people who brought you THE TOXIC AVENGER comes this satire about zombie chickens rising from a fast food dump built over a Native American burial ground. Currently on DVD.

Timecrimes

Nacho Vigalondo (2008)