Ten Best Films of 2007
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Here is the third part of my list of films seen this year. From mid October to late December. No films rated 5 or 4 stars during this period.
****1/2
Ex Drummer (Keon Mortier)
***1/2
Atonement (Joe Wright)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
An Old Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
Taking Liberties (Chris Atkins)
***
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis)
Conversations with My Gardener (Jean Becker)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
Rogue (Greg McLean)
2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy)
Vacancy (Nimrod Antal)
**1/2
The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
Ecoute le Temps (Vera Stroyeva)
Hunting and Gathering (Claude Berri)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
**
Angel (Francois Ozon)
The Brave One (Neil Jordan)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Day Watch (Timur Bekmambetov)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
1408 (Mikael Hafstrom)
The Heartbreak Kid (Bobby & Peter Farrelly)
I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Moliere (Laurent Tirard)
*1/2
I Think I Love My Wife (Chris Rock)
Introducing the Dwights (Cherie Nowlan)
Interview (Steve Buscemi)
*
Halloween (Rob Zombie)
Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford)
Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
30 Days of Night (David Dobkin)
½
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
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****1/2
Ex Drummer (Keon Mortier)
***1/2
Atonement (Joe Wright)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
An Old Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
Taking Liberties (Chris Atkins)
***
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis)
Conversations with My Gardener (Jean Becker)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
Rogue (Greg McLean)
2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy)
Vacancy (Nimrod Antal)
**1/2
The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
Ecoute le Temps (Vera Stroyeva)
Hunting and Gathering (Claude Berri)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
**
Angel (Francois Ozon)
The Brave One (Neil Jordan)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Day Watch (Timur Bekmambetov)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
1408 (Mikael Hafstrom)
The Heartbreak Kid (Bobby & Peter Farrelly)
I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Moliere (Laurent Tirard)
*1/2
I Think I Love My Wife (Chris Rock)
Introducing the Dwights (Cherie Nowlan)
Interview (Steve Buscemi)
*
Halloween (Rob Zombie)
Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford)
Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
30 Days of Night (David Dobkin)
½
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
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Who doesn't like balls? I mean men like them because they make sex more fun. Women like them because they contain the seed of life.
I say "Balls for everyone!" this holiday season
I say "Balls for everyone!" this holiday season
Wesley Lovell
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
My estimation of 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead' has fallen so much. I still can't give it less than ** but everything except Ethan Hawke's charming performance is pretty balls, especially the cinematography. This is the fucking Genesis, they shot on! This is what they did 'Superman Returns' on. Also 'Superbad', so I guess there you go.
(FYI - the reason that 'Superbad' looked so equally balls is that they had to airbrush Jonah Hill into relatively adolescence again. That dude is a fat, ragged piece of shit. What you are seeing is the digital equivalent of Baba Wawa vaseline.)
(FYI - the reason that 'Superbad' looked so equally balls is that they had to airbrush Jonah Hill into relatively adolescence again. That dude is a fat, ragged piece of shit. What you are seeing is the digital equivalent of Baba Wawa vaseline.)
"How's the despair?"
Therer's no contradiction in calling Before The Devil Knows You're Dead "one of Lumet's best films ever" and giving it one star.Tree18 wrote:Wow, putting Before the Devil Knows you're Dead, perhaps one of Lumet's best films ever at one star, you must of been in a bad mood this movie year Eric.
"Y'know, that's one of the things I like about Mitt Romney. He's been consistent since he changed his mind." -- Christine O'Donnell
Wow, putting Before the Devil Knows you're Dead, perhaps one of Lumet's best films ever at one star, you must of been in a bad mood this movie year Eric. Your ratings make it like it has been a bad movie year, when in fact it has been one of the best.Eric wrote:***½
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
***
trailers from Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez/Rob Zombie/Edgar Wright/Eli Roth)
The Life of Reilly (Frank L. Anderson and Barry Poltermann)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
**½
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
**
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
main features from Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
Redacted (Brian De Palma)
*½
Atonement (Joe Wright)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Once (John Carney)
Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner)
First Snow (Mark Fergus)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Mary Jordan)
Padre Nuestro (Christopher Zalla)
Congorama (Philippe Falardeau)
Talk To Me (Kasi Lemmons)
*
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
The Man Of My Life (Zabou Breitman)
½
300 (Zach Snyder)
Rome Rather Than You (Tariq Teguia)
•
Creepshow III (Ana Clavell & James Glenn Dudelson)
The Bucket List (Rob Reiner)
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Leading Performance
Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Olivier Gourmet, Congorama
Julie Kavner, The Simpsons Movie
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding
Charles Nelson Reilly, The Life of Reilly
Supporting Performance
Taraji P. Henson, Talk To Me
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Paola Mendoza, Padre Nuestro
Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement
Kristen Wiig, Knocked Up