Films of The Year
Posted by David Sutherland on 30 November 2007 - 8:46pm.
It is mainly music chat here but would be interested in hearing from fellow Wordies on their cinematic favourites of the year.
If you are interested here are mine
1. Once - gorgeous music and a "love" story chucked in on a low budget
2. No Country for Old Men - if Javier Bardem doesn't win an Oscar there is no justice...The Coen Brothers back to their best.
3. American Gangster - Denzel Washington on top form as always.
4. Bourne Identity - non-stop "blink and you'll miss it" action
5. Michael Clayton - an intelligent thriller with great performances from Clooney, Wilkinson and Swinton.
...and you?
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Can't take any list that dosen't include...
The Lives Of Others on it somewhere seriously I'm afraid.
Best film of the year for me hands down.
Apart from one thing...
The premise that Gerd Wiesler's character would be able to snoop on people without his own work being monitored is ludicrous - East Germany 'worked' for so long precisely because this kind of freedom was never allowed to develop, at any level.
It's a huge, plot-destroying flaw, but then I'm almost certainly being train-spottery. And it would still probably be my film of the year if The Diving Bell and the Butterfly wasn't.
Improbable rather than
Improbable rather than ludicrous, I would have said: venal, power-hungry human nature dictates that all political regimes (and the instruments thereof) are corruptible in one way or another, even in Teutonic Communist states. Besides which, he didn't exactly get away with it in the end, did he?
Back to the main topic (gosh, it's a bit quiet round here, isn't it?). I'd like to add The Science of Sleep, Night of the Sunflowers, The Illusionist and, yes, Hot Fuzz!
Music Films
"The Future Is Unwritten" and no doubt the Joy Division film, the latter I must still see.
I really liked Dreamgirls,
I really liked Dreamgirls, 300, INLAND EMPIRE, Curse of the Golden Flower, Zodiac, Hostel Part II, Die Hard 4.0, The Bourne Ultimatum & Death Proof.