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Still haven't seen a lot of the big contenders for 2007, but as is:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Zodiac
3. Once
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Eastern Promises
6. The Host
7. Hot Fuzz
8. Darjeeling Limited
9. Grindhouse
10. The Bourne Ultimatum

knives wrote:Cinema Guild is releasing it on DVD.

Yeah, I know. And it's to be in the proper AR this time, which is encouraging.

'Twas an excellent year for film, unlike 2011.

1. No Country For Old Men
2. The Lives of Others
3. Zodiac
4. Sunshine
5. Atonement
6. Into The Wild
7. Michael Clayton
8. Death Proof
9. Ratatouille
10. The Darjeeling Limited

HM: Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, Paranoid Park, Inland Empire, Cassandra's Dream, The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Pure meh: Juno

Aye, 'twere, 'twere.

No Country for Old Men
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood
(if 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days counts it would go here)
Children of Men
Michael Clayton
Zodiac
Paranoid Park
Control
No End in Sight
The Darjeeling Limited

1) ZODIAC (Fincher)
2) THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Anderson)
3) NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Coen)
4) I'M NOT THERE (Haynes)
5) 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Mungiu)
6) THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Dominik)
7) SECRET SUNSHINE (Lee)
8) INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch)
9) THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Schnabel)
10) EASTERN PROMISES (Cronenberg)

The top 10:
1. No Country For Old Men (Coen, Coen)
2. Ratatouille (Bird, Pinkava)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
4. Secret Sunshine (Lee)
5. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
6. Shotgun Stories (Nichols)
7. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
8. The Darjeeling Limited (Anderson)
9. Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)
10. Joshua (Ratliff)

The next 10:
Hot Fuzz (Wright)
Heima (DeBlois)
Juno (Reitman)
Spider (Edgerton)
Ben X (Balthazar)
The King Of Kong (Gordon)
Zodiac (Fincher)
Mad Detective (To)
You, The Living (Andersson)
The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche)

Most disappointing:
The Golden Compass (Weitz)
Spiderman 3 (Raimi)

Tom Hagen wrote: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. †

Uh... whaaaa?

They're albums, grandpa

domino harvey wrote:They're albums, grandpa

Well aware, kiddo, especially since I'd include a few of them in my own top 10 albums that year. Just figured this was a tread dedicated to top 10 movies. Guess there aren't any hard and fast rules.

I think it was a joke at the time, but if these threads divurge from movies only I will explode

It's just Tom's protest at the utter lack of substantial films released in 2007, the worst year for movies ever.

Every year is the worst year for movies. Let's talk about snowboarding instead

Where oh where can I post about my favorite sandwiches during 2007? Such a great year for sandwiches.

I was just joking at the time. The thread had been bumped and people were re-posting in it like it was . . . well, 2007 again, so I was adding to the absurdity. Now that it has been revived again (and the threads from other years are being re-posted in, too) it just seems inexplicable.

Also, I will still heartily defend the notion that the first Justice album was good.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Secret Sunshine
5. Zodiac
6. The Host
7. Grindhouse
8. Hot Fuzz
9. Silent Light
10. Brand Upon The Brain!

2007: A fantastic year, with a variety of quality offerings from narrative to documentary, foreign to domestic, genre to arthouse...

1. No Country For Old Men (Coens)
2. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
3. Zodiac (Fincher)
4. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck)
5. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
6. Lust, Caution (Lee)
7. Darjeeling Limited (W. Anderson)
8. Hot Fuzz (E. Wright)
9. Atonement (J. Wright)
10. A Mighty Heart (Winterbottom)

Notables: 1408, 2 Days in Paris, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Black Book, The Bourne Ultimatum, Breach, Death at a Funeral, Death Proof, Eastern Promises, Gone Baby Gone, The Host, Juno, In the Valley of Elah, The Kingdom, Knocked Up, Lars and the Real Girl, The Lookout, Michael Clayton, The Mist, Once, Ratatouille, Rescue Dawn, Sicko, Sunshine, Superbad, Talk to Me, Waitress, Walk Hard, We Own the Night, The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Documentaries: The King of Kong, Manda Bala, No End In Sight, Taxi to the Dark Side

Still missing: Alpha Dog, After the Wedding, Away From Her, Bug, Control, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I'm Not There, Into the Wild, The Invasion, Joshua, Kite Runner, La Vie En Rose, Margot at the Wedding, Mr. Brooks, The Orphanage, Paranoid Park, Persepolis, Rendition, The Savages, Shotgun Stories, Starting Out in the Evening, Things We Lost in the Fire

Well, since we're at it (and in case there will be a consensus list in the future) - alphabetically:

1. Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
2. Don't Touch the Axe (Jacques Rivette)
3. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
5. La France (Serge Bozon)
6. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
7. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
8. We Own the Night (James Gray)
9. Yella (Christian Petzold)
10. You the Living (Roy Andersson)

Bug and The Host would definitely be here but I count them as 2006.

Still in the kevyip: Mad Detective, Zodiac, Shotgun Stories, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Nachmittag (Schanelec), Cristovao Colombo (Oliveira), Tout est pardonné (Hansen-Løve)

repeat wrote:in case there will be a consensus list in the future

There won't, but thanks for playing!

Just too much of a hassle, swo17, or...?

Surprised I didn't do this one, it was an exceptional year for English-language films, there was a ton that just missed the cut. My top eleven, all getting their first theatrical distribution in the U.S. in 2007, with the number one pick actually made in the '70s:

1. Killer of Sheep
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Syndromes and a Century
4. Colossal Youth
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Zodiac
8. I'm Not There
9. Black Book
10. Eastern Promises
11. Offside

DarkImbecile wrote:Just too much of a hassle, swo17, or...?

As I've said before elsewhere, I consider the decade lists projects to produce much more meaningful results. We did the 2000s a few years ago and will be revisiting them again next year. The dynamic consensus lists thread is really just a stopgap to cover the most recent years while we wait to address them more properly.

As I've said before elsewhere, I consider the decade lists projects to produce much more meaningful results. We did the 2000s a few years ago and will be revisiting them again next year.

Ahhh... did not know those existed. I'll work on that list, then... Thanks!

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Zodiac
4. Funny Games U.S.
5. The Bourne Ultimatum

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
3:10 to Yuma
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Eastern Promises
Gone Baby Gone
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

01. Ex Drummer (Koen Mortier)
02. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungui)
03. The Witnesses (Andre Techine)
04. Zodiac (David Fincher)
05. The Edge of Heaven (Fatiah Akin)
06. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
07. Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
08. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
09. Les Chansons d’Amour (Christophe Honore)
10. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)