2007

1. There Will Be Blood- Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Zodiac- David Fincher
3. No Country For Old Men- Joel and Ethan Coen
4. Silent Light- Carlos Reygadas C.
5. In the City of Sylvia- Jose Luis Guerin
6. Ne Touchez Pas la Hache / The Duchess of Langeais- Jacques Rivette
7. Gone Baby Gone- Ben Affleck
8. Chicago 10- Brett Morgen
9. Rehearsals for Retirement- Phil Solomon [short]
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- Andrew Dominik
11. The Secret of the Grain- Abdel Kechiche
12. Joshua- George Ratliff
13. Stuck- Stuart Gordon
14. Profit motive and the whispering wind- John Gianvito
15. The Hunting Party- Richard Shepard
16. Paranoid Park- Gus Van Sant
17. You, the Living- Roy Andersson
18. My Winnipeg- Guy Maddin
19. Shotgun Stories- Jeff Nichols
20. I’m Not There- Todd Haynes
21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- Julian Schnabel
22. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street- Tim Burton
23. Hot Fuzz- Edgar Wright
24. Ratatouille- Brad Bird
25. A Girl Cut In Two- Claude Chabrol
26. We Own the Night- James Gray
27. Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037- Ben Niles
28. Michael Clayton- Tony Gilroy
29. The Loves of Astrea and Celadon- Eric Rohmer

Other notable shorts: Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski), Framing (Bert Gottschalk), Don't (Edgar Wright)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Redacted (Brian De Palma), Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong), Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)

Need to see: Angel (Francois Ozon), The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev), Chouga (Darezhan Omirbaev), La France (Serge Bozon), Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano), Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara), Import Export (Ulrich Seidl), It’s a Free World… (Ken Loach), The Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase), Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway), The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen), Tout Est Pardonne (Mia Hansen-Løve), The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Atonement (Joe Wright)
César Awards, Best Film: The Secret of the Grain
Cannes, Palme d’Or: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Venice, Golden Lion: Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Tuya’s Marriage (Wang Quan’an)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Padre Nuestro (Christopher Zalla)
Toronto, Audience Award: Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Skandies, Best Film: There Will Be Blood
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: No Country for Old Men