My 2008 favorites – maha’s blog

best (older) movie I watched in 2008 and hadn’t seen before: Dr. Strangelove, closely followed by The Player,
best newly released movie: Michael Clayton, closely followed by Interview, unfortunately I didn’t see the original verson of this film, but only the US remake.
weirdest movie I watched in 2008: Inland Empire,
best animated movie: Persepolis,
best TV serial: Desperate Housewives, as the years before, closely followed by Heroes,
best book I read in 2008: The Judgement of Paris by Ross King, which deals with the history of Impressionism,
best podcast, as in 2007: Der Tag, on Hessischer Rundfunk, esp. Wenn tumbe Typen Terror machen (When dim dudes do terror) & Das BKA-Gesetz: Selbstmord aus Angst vor dem Tod (The German anti-terror law: Suicide for fear of death),
best Compact Disk I bought in 2008: Judy at Carnegie Hall by Judy Garland,
best Web 2.0 idea: last.fm, I could have discovered it before… (Wikipedia on last.fm),
best music I discovered in 2008: Charles Ives: Central Park in the Dark.