Thursday, January 1, 2009

2007












85 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A

Atonement (Joe Wright) 3
Hairspray (Adam Shankman) 6
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)

A-

2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) 2
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Joshua (George Ratliff)

Sicko (Michael Moore)
Zodiac (David Fincher) 2

B+

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel) 2
Grindhouse: Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) 2
Juno (Jason Reitman)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
Superbad (Greg Mottola) 2
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
We Own the Night (James Gray)

B

Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) 2
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) 2
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) 2
Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz) 2
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
Talk to Me (Kasi Lemmons)

B-

3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Paris, Je T'Aime (Various Directors)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)

C+

American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon and Will Speck) 2
The Brave One (Neil Jordan)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols) 2
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) 2
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)

C
Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré)
Fracture (Gregory Hoblit)
Freedom Writers (Richard Lagravenese)
In the Land of Women (Jonathan Kasdan)
Into the Wild
(Sean Penn)
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan)
A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
Mr. Woodcock (Craig Gillespie)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
Snow Cake (Marc Evans)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelley)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)

C-
300 (Zack Snyder)
Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
Once (John Carney)
Rendition (Gavin Hood)
Reno 911: Miami (Robert Ben Garant)
The Ten (David Wain)

D+
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
High School Musical 2 (Kenny Ortega) 3
Premonition (Mennan Yapo)

D
Disturbia (D.J. Caruso)
Hannibal Rising (Peter Webber)
Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence)

D-
Becoming Jane (Julian Jarrold)
Eagle vs. Shark (Taikia Waititi)
Fred Claus (David Dobkin)
Lucky You (Chris Hanson)
Reign Over Me (Mike Binder)
Shooter (Antoine Fuqua)

F
Blind Dating (James Keach)
The Bucket List (Rob Reiner)
I Know Who Killed Me (Chris Sivertson)
Wild Hogs (Walt Becker)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Hairspray
No Country for Old Men

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
David Fincher, Zodiac
Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Joe Wright, Atonement

Best Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Don Cheadle, Talk to Me
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Sam Riley, Control

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Jodie Foster, The Brave One
Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding
Ellen Page, Juno
Tang Wei, Lust, Caution

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
Ben Foster, 3:10 to Yuma
James Marsden, Enchanted, Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg, I'm Not There
Romola Garai, Atonement
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Amy Ryan, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

2 comments:

Michael Parsons said...

No James McAvoy??? I am shocked!

Dame James said...

He was in my Top 10, if that's any consolation.