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Boner M
12-31-2007, 12:39 PM
Excellent year for me, w/ ten 10/10's, compared with last year's 4 (and I saw a few more films this year than last).

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie [135 min. cut] (Cassavetes, 1976)
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
The Son (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002)

And the 9's (near-masterpieces)

Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
Dawn of an Evil Millennium (Damon Packard, 1988)
No Country For Old Men (Joen & Ethan Coen, 2007)
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Late August at the Hotel Ozone (Jan Schmidt, 1967)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, 1964)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 1996)
La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962)
Oh Dem Watermelons (Robert Nelson, 1965)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2006)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Neighbors (Buster Keaton, 1920)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)
Light is Calling (Bill Morrison, 2004)
Mikey & Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan, 1994)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005)

Ezee E
12-31-2007, 12:53 PM
This doesn't count movies that were released theatrically. I may also be missing a few since this is only the rentals from Netflix.

These are movies that I rated 4 or higher on Netflix (probably ***1/2+)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Road Warrior
Max
Rope
They Call Her One Eye
Deep Red
El Topo
The Thin Blue Line
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
In The Bedroom
The Great Escape
La Haine
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Man with the Golden Arm
Night of the Hunter
Piano Teacher
The Up Series
Hearts of Darkness
The Shape of Things

Raiders
12-31-2007, 02:21 PM
If I avoid films actually released in 2007...

(ranked in order of preference)

None Shall Escape (1944)
Force of Evil (1948)
Beloved (1998)
Mouchette (1967)
The Playhouse (1921) [short]
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
The Agronomist (2003)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Kids Return (1996)
The Fury (1978)
Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
7 Women (1966)
King of the Hill (1993)

Weeping_Guitar
12-31-2007, 02:33 PM
(in rough order of preference, excluding 2007 films)

The Double Life of Veronique
Children of Men
Red
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
Green For Danger
Through a Glass Darkly
12 Angry Men
Bob Le Flambeur
Rome: Open City
Fanny & Alexander
What’s Up, Doc?
Metropolitan
Blue
Winter Light
Army of Shadows
The Decalogue
Faraway, So Close
A Matter of Life and Death
Ivan’s Childhood
Fail-Safe
Radio Days
The Man Who Loved Women
Sugarland Express
Scenes From a Marriage
The Prestige
The Dreamers
The Fountain
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Virgin Spring
Badlands
The Ox-Bow Incident
Cleo From 5 to 7
Claire’s Knee
Babel

origami_mustache
12-31-2007, 03:53 PM
O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
City of Sadness (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 1989)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964)
The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963)
Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
Il Conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 1957)
Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
PaisÃ* (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
The Spirit of the Beehive (VÃ*ctor Erice, 1973)
The Cool World (Shirley Clarke, 1964)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)

Ivan Drago
12-31-2007, 03:55 PM
Only 10's:

Superbad
Pleasantville
Unbreakable
No Country For Old Men
Grindhouse

Li Lili
12-31-2007, 04:29 PM
I've seen 146 films this year, I'm not counting the films seen at film festivals, or for film festivals, nor the ones of this year.

(not counting films produced in 2007):
New Woman (Cai Chusheng, China, 1934)
Queen of Sport (Sun Yu, China, 1934)
Daybreak (Sun Yu, China, 1933)
Loving Blood of the Volcano (Sun Yu, China, 1932)
I guess I was in a silent mood at the beginning of the year.
Legend of Bailiff Sansho (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1954)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, US, 2006)
Mee Pok Man (Eric Khoo, Singapore, 1995)
Sepet (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, 2004)
In Expectation (Zhang Ming, China, 1996)
C’est la vie, Mon Chérie (Derek Yee, HK, 1994)
Vengeance of a Snow Girl (Lo Wei, HK, 1972)
Barking Dogs Never Bark (Bong Joon-ho, Korea, 2001)
No Mercy for the Rude (Park Cheol-hie, Korea, 2006)
Tazza : The High Rollers (Choi Dong-hun, Korea, 2006, perhaps 2007?)
JSA (Park Chan-wook, Korea, 2000)
Exils (Tony Gatlif, France, 2004)

It's a bit mixed up, not in order. I've seen better films last year.

Sycophant
12-31-2007, 04:40 PM
I must've seen something like 200-300 films over the past year, the vast majority of which were not of this year. I'm missing several, I'm sure, and they're in no particular order:

Playtime
Ming Game
Ikiru
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Sans Soleil
Miike's Dead or Alive trilogy
Cure
Sullivan's Travels
Unfaithfully Yous
The Shop Around the Corner
Citizen Dog
The Band Wagon
2001: A Space Odyssey
Linda Linda Linda
The Taste of Tea
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Allegro non Troppo
Tampopo
Sansho the Bailiff
In the Company of Men
Le Samourai
Man With a Movie Camera
The Awful Truth
Defending Your Life

Mysterious Dude
12-31-2007, 06:17 PM
Jean de Florette/Manon des sources (1986)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Salesman (1968)
Story of a Prostitute (1966)
Army of Shadows (1969)
The Sniper (1951)
Rain (1932)
Martin (1977)
Near Dark (1987)
Oedipus Rex (1967)
Cul-de-Sac (1966)
Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Overlord (1975)
The Loves of a Blonde (1965)
The Fire Within (1963)
Faces of Children (1925)
Casque d'or (1952)

I'm probably forgetting some. I write down every movie I see, but I don't write down when I saw them.

soitgoes...
12-31-2007, 08:18 PM
By Imdb dates. Included are all 9.5/10 and 10/10 films. This is by memory, so some might be missing.

The Idle Class (Chaplin 1920)
Big Business (Horne, McCarey 1929)
Wooden Crosses (Bernard 1932)
Pygmalion (Asquith, Howard 1938)
Shoeshine (De Sica 1946)
King-Size Canary (Avery 1947)
Los Olvidados(Buñuel 1950)
The Browning Version (Asquith 1951)
Madame de... (Ophüls 1953)
El (Buñuel 1953)
Sound of the Mountain (Naruse 1954)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman 1955)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Buñuel 1955)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa 1956)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Tashlin 1957)
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico 1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols 1966)
Walkabout (Roeg 1971)
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (Schroeder 1974)
Manon des Sources (Berri 1986)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Back 1987)
The Seventh Continent (Haneke 1989)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski 1991)
Dancer in the Dark (Trier 2000)
Elephant (Van Sant 2003)
L'Enfant (Dardenne, Dardenne 2005)
The Descent (Marshall 2005)
Once (Carney 2006)
Exiled (To 2006)

My favorite film seen this year would have to be Elephant.

Spinal
12-31-2007, 08:27 PM
Who came up with the thread title? Prince?

Sycophant
12-31-2007, 08:33 PM
29 minutes before posting this thread:

Anyway, it's 2008 in Australia as of 9 minutes ago, and I'm listening to The Wind-Up Bird, slightly drunk, and posting on match-cut. Rock on.

Watashi
12-31-2007, 08:39 PM
The 10's I gave out in 2007:

28 Days Later (2002)
A Man Escaped (1957)
The Battle of Algiers (1965)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Ratcatcher (1998)
Ratatouille (2007)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Seven Chances (1925)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Umberto D. (1952)
Winter Light (1963)

dreamdead
12-31-2007, 08:51 PM
Tens given out in '07...

My Neighbors the Yamadas
The Taste of Tea
Edward II
Punishment Park
The Awful Truth
Muriel's Wedding
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Cyclo
Ratcatcher
Sansho the Bailiff
Deep Red
The Son
Scenes from a Marriage (tv)
Last Temptation of Christ
The Battle of Algiers

Philosophe_rouge
12-31-2007, 09:42 PM
Excluding 2007 releases here are the best films I've seen this year ... also not in order. A very good year for me.
The Browning Version (1951)
Madame de... (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967)
Scarface (1932)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Cluny Brown (1946)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Jules et Jim (1962)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Umberto D. (1952)
Fanny och Alexander (1982)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Partie de campagne (1936/I)
'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945)
Conformista, Il (1970)
Nashville (1975)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Diaboliques, Les (1955)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Pas de deux (1968)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Big Heat (1953)
Vérités et mensonges (1974)
Homme qui plantait des arbres, L' (1987)
The Searchers (1956)

chrisnu
12-31-2007, 10:04 PM
In order of when I saw them:

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Sturges, 1944)
Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
Angel Heart (Parker, 1987)
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)
ivansxtc (Rose, 2002)
Bunny Lake is Missing (Preminger, 1965)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Eastwood, 2006)
Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985)
Old Joy (Reichardt, 2006)
Mutual Appreciation (Bujalski, 2006)
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
Black Snake Moan (Brewer, 2007)
Come and See (Klimov, 1985)
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
Three Kings (Russell, 1999)
Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007)
Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948)
The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2007)
Black Book (Verhoeven, 2007)
Sleuth (Branagh, 2007)
No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)
Shoot the Moon (Parker, 1982)
Paprika (Kon, 2007)

I would rate each of these at least 8/10.

Boner M
12-31-2007, 11:00 PM
Who came up with the thread title? Prince?
Nothin' wrong with that. I mean, dat.

Yxklyx
12-31-2007, 11:19 PM
All 9/10 in order that I saw them:

Night Train
The Wedding Banquet
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Mother Joan of the Angels
Sleeping Dogs Lie
The Well
The Holy Mountain
The Tempest
My Dinner with Andre
Stairway to Heaven
Asphalt
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Ace in the Hole
The Diary of Anne Frank
Side Street
Death Proof
Planet Terror
Nashville
King Lear
Shadows
Ratatouille

So, my new discovery this year was Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

jenniferofthejungle
01-01-2008, 12:35 AM
Memories of Murder

Spinal
01-01-2008, 01:13 AM
Nothin' wrong with that. I mean, dat.

Who would have guessed that Boner and Prince would be so closely connected?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/prince_culture498x341.jpg

transmogrifier
01-01-2008, 01:14 AM
29 minutes before posting this thread:

CSI: Match-Cut

megladon8
01-01-2008, 04:44 AM
I have to second Memories of Murder.

Anyone who hasn't seen that should do so immediately.