It's that time again, my fellow Match Cutting cronies. It's time to look back at the year before and celebrate and ridicule it and putting our own factual stamp on what were truly the best that cinema had to offer. Is this the most definitive Top 10 list out there. Damn straight it is. Armond White ain't got nothing on me!
So what did 2007 have to offer? A bucket list of great films. I know it's a broken record to say that X year has been excellent or Y year has been terrible, but dammit, 2007 was one helluva year. We got a new Brad Bird film, for cryin' out loud! That's like the accumulative of 20 great years rolled into one. 2007 saw the resurrection of the western in many different formats from traditional outlaw shoot-em' up, man vs. nature, and the anti-western of greed and faith. It's awesome. We saw the return of Fincher, Paul and Wes Anderson, the Coens, Zemeckis, and... Affleck? Yes, Ben and Casey Affleck were perhaps at the top of their game in 2007 and the best part was that no new Kevin Smith film came out!
I've seen pretty much every film I wanted to see this year except one: The Assassination of Jesse James. It never came near me and I'm sure there's a spot on my list for it when I do eventually see it.
Honorable Mentions:
Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)
Offside (dir. Jafar Panahi)
The Bourne Ultimatum (dir. Paul Greengrass)
The Host (dir. Joon-ho Bong)