Films of 2007

After The Wedding - yaas. It lasted a week in the cinema i worked in but i managed to watch the whole thing on shift. It was just a really solid film - great character study. I kinda thought it would have got a lot more attention cos of Mads Mikkelsen/James Bond but i guess it only works FOR James Bond....

La Vie En Rose - you'd have to have no soul to not like this film. Marion Cotillard's performance was so powerful.

Atonement - a really solid adaptation of an extremely difficult book. Yes, pace was a problem but...

Inland Empire - the surprise film at the GFF. 100 people walked out of it. yes, David Lynch is as good as ever :) friends with Donovan too...

Sunshine - aside from the fact we should all know by now that Danny Boyle cannot conclude his films - this was really good. And the pretty colours :)

Blades Of Glory - yeah, bring on the slagging. :)

As for worst - i think the forum would collapse if i ranted.....probably most of the films where auditoriums were covered in popcorn and condoms or the entire audience were thrown out i.e -
Scary Movie 10000
Stomp The Yard
Are We done Yet? - unfortunately not
Epic Movie - the satire equated too Nacho Libre eating, wait for it, a nacho! Uh, Nobel Prize to the writers, please!
The Simpsons - Homer gets beyond stupid, takes most of the audience with him
Death Proof - QT proves once again he's incapable of making a film NOT on the back of a gimmick

Suprises -
Stardust - i dont care i liked it!
The Hoax - weirdly, I enjoyed this.

Dissappointments -
Elizabeth The Golden Age - a great big meh to shekhar kapur who obviously decided to burn all his history books (and possibly historians)....
Fred Claus - i'm beginning to wonder if Vince Vaughn was ever actually funny. And Kevin Spacey, WTF?!?!

there's probably more.....

To be honest, I deliberately avoided films that I thought would be bad this year. The only films that I saw in 2007 that were bad (that I can remember) were older films and not new releases (although I was disapointed with Atonement - overrated).

However, here's the films I rate this year, in order of beauteousness, starting from the best:

1. Lives of Others: Saw this early on the year. Best new release I've seen in ages, left me stunned and amazed. Also highly educational.

2. Science of Sleep: Another amazing film. My girlfriend recently bought me it on DVD, it was just as great a second time as when I saw it in the cinema. Don't have full access to my collection at the moment (comic, movie or music), but when I get back to Scotland I'm going to watch it many more times.

3. Control: Awesome biopic of Ian Curtis, as emotionally charged as Lives of Others, beautifully poetic and a great soundtrack. Wonderful.

4. Transformers: Hilarious. "ARE YOU USERNAME LADIESMAN217?!". Best line ever.

Man, I forgot that Days of Glory was released in 2007. That could sneak in ahead of Black Book maybe? I also can't believe that I didn't realise that one of the actors had to use a pistol rather than a rifle because in reality he only has one arm!

Claire - I agree that Mads is pretty cool. It's always great to see people like him getting a break in huge mainstream films. Have you seen him in Green Butchers? Shorn of his hair, he looks really nerdy, it's quite amusing.

That's alright, I didn't manage to get to the cinema once this past year!

The problem of having two small children - one of whom is very clingy - compounded with living in the middle of nowhere (45 minute drive to the nearest cinema, at least!) has put a stop to our cinema going for a while. Hopefully this coming year we'll be able to get out more, 'cos I really miss the whole cinema experience.

Ben - yup i have! Really rather funny film! The first i ever saw him was in this Danish detective/crime drama series "Rejseholdet." He's ridiculously huge in Scandinavia and my Swedish friend fancies the pants off him so we rented the entire series on DVD from the video store :)It's weird that now he's been in a big mainstream film i now recognise i've seen him in quite a few films - bit parts of course but...

best i can do is direct you to youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBc8Pq3Ds2s

there's a coupla clips there (really short though) or you can watch lego versions of the series! :) i think it was only shown in Scandinavia, Germany and Austrailia so its kinda impossible to get here....Sorry! Its a pretty good show too.

Control for me.

The fact that it appears to be getting ignored in the mainstream awards race (Globes / Oscars) is probably more down to Miramax's piss poor promotional and marketing campaign in the US than the quality of the film.

Will be interesting to see what gets the nods in the Baftas. Safe but unchallenging working title product like The Golden Age and Atonement or the likes of This Is England (which was also very good) or Control.

nobody beats Jim James!
the name, the beard....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLFG0i2_AE

I'm Not There. =) simply amazing film,.

Digital pianos+ good prices