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 The top five
(new films of 2007)
1. casting a glance (James Benning, USA)
2. Who Killed Cock Robin? (Travis Wilkerson, USA) [05/06/07]
{initial version 2005, re-edited 2006, new version first shown 2007}
3. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito, USA)
4. Control (Anton Corbijn, UK)
5. Blind Mountain (LI Yang, China)
UK wide-releases
1. Control (Anton Corbijn) [9/10] cert 15, Oct 5
2. The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) [8/10] cert 15, Nov 30
3. Zodiac (David Fincher) [8/10] cert 15, May 18 
4. We Own the Night (James Gray) [8/10] cert 15, Dec 14
5. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) [8/10] cert 15, Feb 14
UK limited-releases
1. Satan (aka Sheitan) (Kim Chapiron) [9/10] [06]
London only - cert 18, Feb 23
2. Yella (Christian Petzold) [8/10] countrywide - cert 12A, Sep 21
3. The Wedding (Wojciech Smarzowski) [8/10] [04]
countrywide - cert 15tbc, Dec 14
4. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) [2006]
[8/10] countrywide - cert 15, Aug 17
'2007 films' only shown in UK at film festivals
1. casting a glance (James Benning) [10?/10] London Film Festival
2. Who Killed Cock Robin? (Travis Wilkerson) [9/10] Bradford Int'l FF [05/06/07]
3. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito) [9/10] Brighton Cinecity
4. Blind Mountain (LI Yang) [9/10] Edinburgh Int'l FF
5. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl) [8/10] London FF
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu) [8/10] London FF
Guest lists
(sincere KÖSZÖNÖM to all contributors)
Bernd Buder : Germany
Armin (Ognjen Svilicic)
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
The Egg (Semih Kaplanoglu)
How To Do It (Marcel Lozinski) aka How It's Done
The Trap (Srdjan Golubovic)
Kieron Corless : UK
Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Bellavista (Peter Schreiner) [06]
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (TSAI Ming-Liang) [06]
The Light House (Maria Saakyan) [06] (aka The Lighthouse)
Yella (Christian Petzold)
Bill Daniel : USA
1. SpaceDisco-One (Damon Packard)
2. You're Gonna Miss Me (Keven McAlester) [05]
3. Deep Water (Louise Osmond & Jerry Rothwell) [06]
4. Who Killed the Electric Car (Chris Paine) [06]
... and one to follow
Shane Danielsen : Australia/Germany
1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
2. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
3. Don't Touch The Axe (Jacques Rivette) aka The Duchess of Langeais
4. No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Nigel Floyd : UK
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence) [06]
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) [06]
This Is England (Shane Meadows) [06]
Sabine Gebetsroither : Austria
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (TSAI Ming-Liang)
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Coen)
2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
John Gianvito : USA
1. You, The Living (Roy Andersson)
2. In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
3. Guda (K.J. Baby and the "Inmates of Kanavu") [03]
4. The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis) [TV]
5. Heartbeat Detector (Nicholas Klotz) aka La question humaine
Christoph Huber : Austria
1. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
2. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)
3. Cleopatra (Julio Bressane)
4. The Dead Bodies of the Living (Peter Kern)
5. The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella)
Stefan Ivancic : Spain
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
George A Romero's Diary of the Dead
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz) aka La question humaine
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional...(Raya Martin) [06]
Alex King : UK
1, 2, 3, Whiteout (James Schneider)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Who Killed Cock Robin? (Travis Wilkerson) [05/06/07]
Daniel Kasman : USA
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) [06]
Election 2 (Johnnie To) [06] aka Triad Election
The Host (BONG Joon-Ho) [06]
Syndromes and a Century (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul) [06]
The Wayward Cloud (TSAI Ming-Liang) [05]
Peter Keough (USA)
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
2. Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
3. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4. Red Road (Andrea Arnold) [06]
5. Zodiac (David Fincher)
Gabe Klinger : USA
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
The Romance of Astree and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)
The Trap : What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis) [TV]
Victor Erice -- Abbas Kiarostami : Correspondences
C.S.Leigh : UK
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer) [06]
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro) [06]
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Adrian Martin : Australia
Belle toujours (Manoel de Oliveira) [06]
The Host (BONG Joon-Ho) [06]
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais) [06]
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [06]
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
Jurij Meden : Slovenia
Charly (Isild le Besco)
Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz)
Kenedi Is Getting Married (Zelimir Zilnik)
Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
Urban Justice (Don E FauntLeRoy)
Martha Otte : Norway (/USA)
Asyl (KUMASAKA Izuru)
Flower in the Pocket (LIEW Seng Tat)
Nanking (Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman)
The Rebirth (KOBAYASHI Masahiro)
Wonderful Town (Aditya Assarat)
Adam Nayman : Canada
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) [06]
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) [06]
The Host (BONG Joon-Ho) [06]
The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden) [06]
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Vladan Petkovic : Serbia
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald)
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) [06]
Zodiac (David Fincher)
Simon Popek : Slovenia
Cargo 200 (Aleksei Balabanov)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Into Great Silence (Philip Groening) [05]
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais) [06]
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
Julia Pühringer : Austria
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) [06]
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
The Hunting Party (Richard Shepard)
No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Tim Robey : UK
The Fall (Tarsem) [06]
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Henning Rosenlund : Norway
The Free Will (Matthias Glasner) [06]
Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese) [06]
No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro) [06]
Tuya's Marriage (QUANAN Wang) [06]
Marcel Ruijters : The Netherlands
1. Adam's Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen) [05]
2. Aachi & Ssipak (JO Beom-Jin) [06]
3. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4. Control (Anton Corbijn)
5. Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe) [05]
Sheila Seacroft : UK
Control (Anton Corbijn)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
This Is England (Shane Meadows) [06]
Yella (Christian Petzold)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
Michael Sicinski : USA
1. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) [06]
2. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) [06]
3. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [06]
4. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
5. Tearoom (William E Jones)
Oana Stupariu : Romania
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristi Mungiu)
2. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
3. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
4. Euphoria (Ivan Vyrypaev) [06]
5. Ratatouille (Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava)
Matt Thorne : UK
1. Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans)
2. Zodiac (David Fincher)
3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch) [06]
4. The Nines (John August)
5. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Gorazd Trusnovec : Slovenia
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, etc.)
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) [06]
Zodiac (David Fincher)
Koen Van Daele : Belgium/Slovenia
August Days (Marc Recha) [06]
Bellavista (Peter Schreiner) [06]
Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz)
Gardens In Autumn (Otar Iosseliani) [06]
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee) [06]
Phil Van Tongeren : The Netherlands
1. Private Property (Joachim Lafosse) [06]
2. Dai Nipponjin (MATSUMOTO Hitoshi)
3. The Host (BONG Joon-Ho) [06]
4. Exiled (Johnnie To) [06]
5. 5 Centimeters Per Second (SHINKAI Makoto)
Tonio Van Vugt : The Netherlands
1. Adam's Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen) [05]
2. The Host (BONG Joon-Ho) [06]
3. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4. Forever Never Anywhere (Antonin Svoboda)
5. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre) [06]
Vern : USA
1. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) [06]
2. No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
3. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, etc.)
5. The Lookout (Scott Frank)
Tom Vincent : UK
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [06]
Ten Canoes (Rolf De Heer) [06]
Yella (Christian Petzold)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
When I asked people for their lists, I didn't stipulate any restrictions about what could or could not be included - apart from the fact that they should be what they regarded as "new films" of 2007, and not shorts (i.e. the films should have a run-time of at least 50 minutes or so). Several chose films which world-premiered in 2006 (or even 2005), but which were released or first-shown in their countries in 2007. On that basis, my list would look like this:
1. casting a glance (James Benning)
2. Who Killed Cock Robin? (Travis Wilkerson) [05/06/07]
3. Satan (Kim Chapiron) [06] aka Sheitan
4. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
5. Control (Anton Corbijn)
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films attracting multiple votes
1. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) (10 votes)
2. Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl) (6 votes, including one #2)
=. No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen) (6 votes, including one #2)
4. Zodiac (David Fincher) (6 votes, including one #2 and one #5)
5. 4 Month 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu) (5 votes, including one #1)
=. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito) (5 votes, including one #1)
7. The Host (BONG Joon-Ho) [06] (5 votes, including one #2)
8. You, the Living (Roy Andersson) (4 votes, including one #1)
9. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [06] (4 votes)
=. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) (4 votes)
3 votes :
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) [06]; Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) [06]; Control (Anton Corbijn); Yella (Christian Petzold)
2 votes :
Adam's Apples [05], The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bellavista [06], Death in the Land of Encantos, Grindhouse, Heartbeat Detector [aka La question humaine], I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, INLAND EMPIRE, In the City of Sylvia, Private Fears in Public Places, Silent Light, This Is England [06], The Trap : What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom [TV], Who Killed Cock Robin? [05/06/07]
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bonus track : Alexander Horwath's selections (Austria)
1. Double Feature: RR + casting a glance (James Benning)
2. Triple Feature: Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) + Import Export (Ulrich Seidl) + Yella (Christian Petzold)
3. Triple Feature: The Pool (Chris Smith) + Secret Sunshine (LEE Chang-dong) + La France (Serge Bozon)
4. Triple Feature: Heartbeat Detector (La question humaine) (Nicolas Klotz) + Zodiac (David Fincher) + State Legislature (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Double Feature: Ratatouille (Brad Bird) + Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
NEIL YOUNG / JIGSAW LOUNGE :
ADDITIONAL / SUPPLEMENTARY LISTS
UK wide-releases : 7/10
Atonement
Beowulf
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Darjeeling Limited
Gone
The Kingdom
The Last Mimzy
A Mighty Heart
Planet Terror
Ratatouille
Realm and Conquest (actual title Michael Clayton)
Rocky Balboa
The Simpsons Movie
Sunshine
This Is England
3:10 To Yuma
28 Weeks Later
UK limited-releases : 7/10
Black Book
Ex Drummer
The Family Friend
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Half Nelson
Not Here To Be Loved
A Prairie Home Companion
Southland Tales [05/07]
This Filthy World - John Waters
'2007 films' not yet released in UK : 7/10 or higher
Boxing Day (Kriv Stenders) [8/10] ## (=not yet shown in UK)
The Call of the Wild (Ron Lamothe) [8/10] ##
Fish Kill Flea (Cassidy / Hillis / Loeber) [8/10] ##
Little Moth (TAO Peng) [7+/10] ##
Milky Way (FLIEGAUF Benedek) [7+/10] London FF
... also
Attwenger Adventure [7/10] ##
August Evening [7/10] ##
Broke Sky [7/10] ##
Cthulhu [7/10] ##
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [7/10] London FF
Hohokam [7/10] ##
In Search of a Midnight Kiss [7/10] Edinburgh FF
Man in the Shadows [7/10] ##
Maurice Pialat ... Love Exists [7/10] ##
State Legislature [7/10] London FF
Vacation aka Holidays [7/10] ##
When Is Tomorrow [7/10] ##
NB : a '2007 film' in this context is a film which had its first public screening anywhere in the world during the calendar-year 2007.
Most overrated
Eastern Promises, I'm Not There, INLAND EMPIRE [06, UK 07], Into Great Silence [05, UK 07], Jindabyne [06, UK 07], The Lives of Others [06, UK 07], No Country For Old Men [07, UK 08], Once [06, UK 07], Paranoid Park, Silent Light, Syndromes and a Century [06, UK 07]
Wooden spoons (UK new-releases only; worst first)
1. The Pursuit of Happyness [1/10]
2. Paranoid Park [1/10]
3. Sugarhouse [2/10]
4. Wild Hogs [2/10]
5. The Hoax [2/10]
6. The Reaping [2/10]
then : Closing the Ring [3/10]; For Your Consideration [3/10]; Halloween [3/10]; Music and Lyrics [3/10]
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* Full disclosure : I also have not yet seen (among others)
Alatriste, Alexandra, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Away From Her, The Band's Visit, The Banishment, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Blades of Glory, Boarding Gate, The Brave One, Bridge to Terabithia, Charlie Wilson's War, Charly, Chicago 10, Chop Shop, Dai Nipponjin, Days and Clouds, Death in the Land of Encantos, Don't Touch the Axe, Dry Season, The Edge of Heaven, Encounters at the End of the World, Forever Never Anywhere, Four Minutes, The Free Will, Funny Games U.S.A., The Golden Compass, Golden Door, Gone Baby Gone, Grace Is Gone, Hairspray, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, In Between Days, In the City of Sylvia, In the Shadow of the Moon, Into the Wild, Juno, Knocked Up, Lady Chatterley, The Last King of Scotland, The Legacy, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Life of Reilly, Lions For Lambs, The Lookout, Lust Caution, Margot at the Wedding, The Mist, My Brother Is An Only Child, My Kid Could Paint That, My Winnipeg, The Namesake, The Nines, Ocean's Thirteen, The Orphanage, Perfume, Persepolis, Photos in the City of Sylvia, Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's End, Private Fears in Public Places, Redacted, Rescue Dawn, Reservation Road, The Romance of Astree and Celadon, Savage Grace, The Savages, Secret Sunshine, The Silence Before Bach, [Smiley Face], Son of Rambow, Spider-Man 3, Stuck, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, Things We Lost in the Fire, The Third Mother, Time, The Unknown, Urban Justice, La Vie en Rose, The Wayward Cloud, Wristcutters - A Love Story, You the Living, Zoo
"Festive Fifty" ballot
1 The Fall : Systematic Abuse
from the album Reformation Post-TLC
2 Bad Religion : Dearly Beloved
from the album New Maps of Hell
3 Von Sudenfed : The Rhinohead
from the album Tromatic Reflexxions |
