Roger Ebert's "Top Foreign Films of 2008"
As Ebert writes:
"These best 10 are arranged alphabetically; all should be considered on a par with the earlier 20, and can be described as "one of the year’s best films" (the only real value of such lists is to help worthy films finds audiences)."
Roger Ebert also added "In Bruges" to the foreign film list, "as a film of English speakers in a foreign land. Another fence-sitter. So it gets the Jury Prize, because, like "My Winnipeg," it falls outside easy categorization. If you think my reasoning is goofy, let me say I agree. But there would have been an Internet uproar of titanic proportions if I had issued two lists, one with 11 titles and one with nine."
I’m not sure what method of counting he’s using, but his total for top films of 2008 was 37 (20 American, 5 Documentary, 10 Foreign, and 2 "Special" films). You can view the other 26 films here:
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