Dynamic Top Tens of 2007

["membrillo"]

1 - Silent Light
2 - Killer of Sheep
3 - This is England
4 - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5 - No Country for Old Men
6 - 4 Weeks, 3 Months and 2 Days
7 - The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
8 - There Will be Blood
9 - Control
10 - Zodiac

11 - The Darjeeling Limited / Hotel Chevalier

WTF, are you kidding me??????? - Juno, Ratatouille, Hot Fuzz.

[david_f]

1. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
2. Le Scaphandre et le papillon (Julian Schnabel)
3. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud/Marjane Satrapi)
4. Auf der anderen Seite (Fatih Akin)
5. Cover boy: L'ultima rivoluzione (Carmine Amoroso)
6. Le voyage du ballon rouge (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
7. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
8. Kremen (Aleksei Mizgiryov)
9. 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (Cristian Mungiu)
10. J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster (Samuel Benchetrit)

[denti alligator]

Yes, Auf der anderen Seite was really impressive. I caught that while in Berlin last month. Beautiful film.

[klee13]

1) Zodiac (Fincher)
2) There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
3) Black Book (Verhoeven)
4) No Country for Old Men (Coen)
5) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet)
6) Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)
7) The Host (Joon-ho)
8) Hot Fuzz (Wright)
9) Time (Ki-duk)
10) Southland Tales (Kelly)

[pauling]

1. Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
2. No Country For Old Men (Coens)
3. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
4. Zodiac (Fincher)
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
6. Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)
7. Sicko (Moore)
8. Black Sheep (King)
9. Ratatouille (Bird & Pinkava)
10. Grindhouse (Rodriguez & Tarantino)

[planetjake]

Going by Chicago releases:

1. Two Wrenching Departures (Ken Jacobs)
+The Surging Sea of Humanity
2. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
3. (john wayne blinks) (Jake Barningham)
4. 365 Films by Jonas Mekas (Jonas Mekas)
5. Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russel)
6. Exiled (Jonnie To)
+Triad Election
7. Glass Lips (Lech Majewski)
8. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Renais)
9. Youth Without Youth (Francis Coppola)
10. Rescue Dawn (The Herzog)

[rs98762001]

I'm Not There
Lust, Caution
Syndromes and a Century
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Ratatouille
The Host
Zodiac (Dir. Cut)
No Country For Old Men

Two spots still to fill...

[flyonthewall2983]

A bit late, but what the hell

1. (tie) No Country For Old Men/There Will Be Blood
3. Zodiac
4. Michael Clayton
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. American Gangster (director's cut)
7. (tie) Hot Fuzz/The Simpsons Movie
9. Superbad
10. The Assassination Of Jesse James

Honorable mention: I'm Not Here, Ocean's Thirteen, Gone Baby Gone, Eastern Promises.

[Murdoch]

Late as well, but I didn't get to see some of these until last week

1. Margot at the Wedding
2. Black Book
3. INLAND EMPIRE
4. Zodiac
5. No Country For Old Men
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Rescue Dawn
8. Brand Upon the Brain!
9. Bug
10. Blade Runner: The Final Cut

[Tom Hagen]

1. There Will Be Blood
2. I'm Not There
3. Zodiac
4. Into The Wild
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Ratatouille
8. Michael Clayton
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Margot at the Wedding

Honorable mentions: Across the Universe, Control, The Darjeeling Limited, Death Proof, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Eastern Promises, Knocked Up, No End In Sight, Once, Persepolis

Biggest disappointment: Atonement

The late post is a combination of being relatively new to posting on the forum and to a delay in seeing many of the great films that were released in 2007. Last year was the finest year in American cinema since at least 1999.

[domino harvey]

01 Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
02 Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
03 Helvetica (Gary Hustwit)
04 Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
05 Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
06 Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
07 Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)
08 Atonement (Joe Wright)
09 No Country For Old Men (Coen Brothers)
10 the Savages (Tamara Jenkins)


UPDATED 07/02/2018

[mfunk9786]

01. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
02. Zodiac (Fincher)
03. No Country for Old Men (J. Coen/E. Coen)
04. The Darjeeling Limited (W. Anderson)
05. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
06. Black Snake Moan (Brewer)
07. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
08. Hot Fuzz (Wright)
09. Ratatouille (Bird, Pinkava)
10. Away From Her (Polley)

LAST UPDATED: 11/21/2016

[Lemmy Caution]

International films?
Did you see any of the Romanian films from that year?

[tarpilot]

.

[mfunk9786]

International films?
Did you see any of the Romanian films from that year?

Yes.

[Lemmy Caution]

I had 4, 3, 2; The Paper Will Be Blue and California Dreamin' all in my Top 10. I think Juno and Sicko were the only American films on my list.
You spurred me to revise my 2007 post in this thread, based on the list in my computer.

[Michael]

You, the Living
INLAND EMPIRE
In the City of Sylvia
Brand Upon the Brain!
There Will Be Blood
The Darjeeling Limited
Children of Men
Broken Sky
Volver
Zodiac

[mfunk9786]

I had 4, 3, 2; The Paper Will Be Blue and California Dreamin' all in my Top 10. I think Juno and Sicko were the only American films on my list.
You spurred me to revise my 2007 post in this thread, based on the list in my computer.

4, 3, 2 barely missed my top ten, but would have made it in other years along with some other films.

Good point below, Domino. I might revisit and revise that list eventually and there might be more room for it there, who knows

[domino harvey]

4 Months... didn't come out in America until 2008, it's on my list for next year

[Brian C]

Here's what I came up with at the time (US release dates). I might flip a spot or two now, but it still seems like a good list:

1. Into the Wild (Penn)
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
3. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Loach)
5. Ratatouille (Bird)
6. Control (Corbijn)
7. No Country for Old Men (Coen & Coen)
8. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
9. Michael Clayton (Gilroy)
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)

[Tom Hagen]

1. Sound of Silver
2. Boxer
2. In Rainbows
4. Neon Bible
5. Person Pitch
6. For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. White Chalk
9. Graduation
10. †

[reno dakota]

Joining the fun . . .

1. Once
2. There Will Be Blood
3. You, the Living
4. The Mourning Forest
5. Silent Light
6. Secret Sunshine
7. Syndromes and a Century
8. Eastern Promises
9. The Edge of Heaven
10. Zodiac

[LQ]

What the hey:

1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country For Old Men
3 Death Proof
4 In The City of Sylvia
5 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6 Brand Upon The Brain!
7 Hot Fuzz
8 Zodiac
9 Children of Men
10 Inland Empire

[carax09]

1. Inland Empire
2. Darjeeling Limited
3. You, The Living
4. Control
5. The Paper Will Be Blue
6. Youth Without Youth
7. Michael Clayton
8. Paranoid Park
9. My Winnipeg
10. Zodiac

An extraordinary year. I'm somewhat disturbed by my north american bent, but I keep waiting for a blu release of In The City of Sylvia, and I keep being disappointed, and the film remains unseen.

[knives]

Cinema Guild is releasing it on DVD.