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Monday, December 31st, 2007
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10:44a - Top 50 seen in 2007
Following the same format as last year, I have compiled two lists of my favourite films that I saw for the first time in 2007, one list for newer films and one for older films.
Recent films (2005-2007)
1. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly | Le Scaphandre et le papillon | Julian Schnabel | France/USA, 2007 2. Sounds of Sand | Si le vent soulève les sables | Marion Hänsel | Belgium/France, 2006 3. Black Book | Zwartboek | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands/Germany/Belgium, 2006 4. An Inconvenient Truth | doc. | Davis Guggenheim | USA, 2006 5. Away from Her | Sarah Polley | Canada, 2006 6. Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | UK/Canada/USA, 2007 7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămîni şi 2 zile | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, 2007 8. No End in Sight | doc. | Charles Ferguson | USA, 2007 9. Sons | Sønner | Erik Richter Strand | Norway, 2006 10. My Kid Could Paint That | doc. | Amir Bar-Lev | USA/UK, 2007 11. Across the Universe | Julie Taymor | USA, 2007 12. Sicko | doc. | Michael Moore | USA, 2007 13. The Queen | Stephen Frears | UK/France/Italy, 2006 14. We Shall Overcome | Drømmen | Niels Arden Oplev | Denmark, 2006 15. War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death | doc. | Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp | USA, 2007 16. The Counterfeiters | Die Fälscher | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Austria/Germany, 2007 17. The Secret Life of Words | Isabel Coixet | Spain, 2005 18. Gone Baby Gone | Ben Affleck | USA, 2007 19. The Family Stone | Thomas Bezucha | USA, 2005 20. Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu | France/USA/Mexico, 2006 21. The Beheaded Rooster | Der Geköpfte Hahn | Radu Gabrea | Austria/Germany/Hungary/Romania, 2007 22. Atonement | Joe Wright | UK/France, 2007 23. Deja Vu | Tony Scott | USA, 2006 24. The Lookout | Scott Frank | USA, 2007 25. Conversations with Other Women | Hans Canosa | UK/USA, 2005
Older films (pre-2005) 1. A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | USA, 1957 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Milos Forman | USA, 1975 3. The Hill | Sidney Lumet | UK, 1965 4. California Split | Robert Altman | USA, 1974 5. The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | USA, 1964 6. The Seventh Continent | Der Siebente Kontinent | Michael Haneke | Austria, 1989 7. Serpico | Sidney Lumet | USA, 1973 8. Day of Wrath | Vredens dag | Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark, 1943 9. Miss Julie | Mike Figgis | USA/UK, 1999 10. Pinky | Elia Kazan | USA, 1949 11. Gilda | Charles Vidor | USA, 1946 12. Carnal Knowledge | Mike Nichols | USA, 1971 13. The Train | John Frankenheimer | USA/France/Italy, 1964 14. McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | USA, 1971 15. Black Rain | Kuroi ame | Shohei Imamura | Japan, 1989 16. Benny’s Video | Michael Haneke | Austria/Switzerland, 1992 17. Nô | Robert Lepage | Canada, 1998 18. Tigerland | Joel Schumacher | USA/Germany, 2000 19. High and Low | Tengoku to jigoku | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, 1963 20. The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | USA, 1973 21. Red Dawn | John Milius | USA, 1984 22. Boys Don’t Cry | Kimberly Peirce | USA, 1999 23. Seven Samurai | Shichinin no samurai | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, 1954 24. Rififi | Du rififi chez les hommes | Jules Dassin | France, 1955 25. Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | USA, 1980
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