Guillaume Canet's Tell No One left us breathless. A fast paced thriller and a heartrending love story, the French sleeper hit is out this week on DVD. Also available: the biggest success story of 2008, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, and the restored edition of Andrzej Wajda's classic Danton, featuring a searing performance by French superstar Gérard Depardieu.
1. Tell No One (2008)
Music Box Films
One of our favorites of 2008, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One offers both hair-raising chase scenes and unabashed romance. Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben's best-seller and stars an extraordinary ensemble cast, including François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Nathalie Baye, and Jean Rochefort.
2. Danton (1983)
Criterion Collection
Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda’s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to the Polish "solidarity" movement, which was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajda drags history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.
3. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Fox Searchlight
You don't need us to tell you about Slumdog Millionaire. Danny Boyle's Bollywood-inspired fable about the adorable orphan who rises from rags to riches when he wins big on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire enacted its own underdog story, culminating in a triumphant Best Picture Win at the Acamemy Awards.
