What I've Been Watching, 2008-style: UPDATED

Because I tend to be absent-minded, I thought I'd post a running list of the 2008 films (as per US release date) I've been viewing. It'll help me out when I have to make that annual best of, and perhaps keep you up to date on what I'm watching even if I'm not writing about them. I've divided them into three categories: La Crème (aka, the shining gems), The Bad (self-explanatory), and Les Autres (which are films that are fine, neither amazing nor awful, or for films that are sort of void of such distinctions, like Mother of Tears). And just for the sake of my own annoyance, please don't post on here about my feelings toward The Dark Knight. I'm resisting throwing myself anywhere near that potato, and if you really are interested in my feelings toward it, feel free to e-mail me. I'd rather this not turn into a discussion of that film. So here they are:

UPDATED: With Elegy and Shutter.

La Crème

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired - dir. Marina Zenovich - USA/UK - HBO/ThinkFilm

Tell No One [Ne le dis à personne] - dir. Guillaume Canet - France - Music Box Films - with François Cluzet, André Dussollier, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, François Berléand, Gilles Lellouche, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort, Marina Hands, Philippe Lefebvre, Guillaume Canet

The Witnesses [Les Témoins] dir. André Téchiné - France - Strand Releasing - with Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu, Johan Libéreau

Les Autres

Before I Forget [Avant que j'oublie] - dir. Jacques Nolot - France - Strand Releasing - with Jacques Nolot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Marc Rioufol, Bastien d'Asnières, Gaetano Weysen-Volli

The Dark Knight - dir. Christopher Nolan - USA - Warner - with Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts

Elegy - dir. Isabel Coixet - USA - Red Envelope/Samuel Goldwyn - with Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Deborah Harry, Peter Sarsgaard

Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal - dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato - USA - HBO

Recount - dir. Jay Roach - USA - HBO - with Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, John Hurt, Laura Dern, Denis Leary, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Wilkinson

The Bad!

Jellyfish [Meduzot] - dir. Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret - Israel/France - Zeitgeist - with Sarah Adler, Gera Sandler, Noa Knoller, Ma-nenita De Latorre, Zaharira Harifai

Shutter - dir. Masayuki Ochiai - USA - 20th Century Fox - with Rachael Taylor, Joshua Jackson, Megumi Okina

The Wackness - dir. Jonathan Levine - USA - Sony Pictures Classics - with Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen, Jane Adams, Mary-Kate Olsen, Method Man

Updates!

Warner will release documentary about Annie Leibovitz entitled, Life Through a Lens, which was directed by her sister Barbara; the disc streets on 28 October. Zeitgeist will release two films in October: the wonderful documentary Billy the Kid and Up the Yangtze, which has gotten across-the-board acclaim, both on the 18th.

Criterion's October releases include Jean-Pierre Melville's Le deuxième souffle and Le doulos, as well as Costa-Gavras' Missing with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.

Music Box Films will release, through MPI, Tuya's Marriage on 28 October and Guillaume Canet's mystery Tell No One [Ne le dis à personne] on 25 November. Dokument Films will have the German comedy Eight Miles High on the same day as Tuya.

New Yorker is releasing Jia Zhang Ke's Still Life on 14 October. First Look has Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, with Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Eduardo Noriega, Thomas Kretschmann and Ben Kingsley, on 4 November, as well as Priceless [Hors de prix] with Audrey Tautou on 18 November.

Kino will release the uncut television version of Pascale Ferran's 2006 adaptation of Lady Chatterley on 14 October. And finally, PeaceArch will have a biopic of punk rocker Darby Crash entitled What We Do Is Secret on 4 November. The film stars Shane West, Bijou Phillips and Ashton Holmes.