The Best Films & Filmmakers of 2007

[ijaffery]

2007 will go down as the year American cinema stormed back to the fore. As foreign films saw a...

Click here to read the entire review

[barnaclelapse]

Eh...I'll probably still check out Lars.

The trailer made me giggle.

Heh.

Sad....but damn true.

And you know, I understand the Japanese have a high work ethic in their culture...but seriously...does Miike ever leave a film set? Does he just have a small tent that he brings with him whereever he goes?

I remember when I interviewed Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Films, and he brought up Miike like five times as a favorite filmmaker and high influence of the moment.

I always liked that.

[angielovesyou]

I cant get over your passion and commitment for film! Do you enjoy any of the online web series? How long did it take you to learn everything about all of those movies? My name is Angie by the way I am new

[indietalk]

angielovesyou.

[ijaffery]

Originally Posted by angielovesyou

I cant get over your passion and commitment for film! Do you enjoy any of the online web series? How long did it take you to learn everything about all of those movies? My name is Angie by the way I am new

Hi Angie, welcome!

Thank you for the kind words, though I wouldn't say I learned everything about all of those films...or any film for that matter. I did view them with an analytical eye but that's just a force of habit! What exactly do you mean by "web series"? Like that Quarterlife nonsense?

[barnaclelapse]

Quarterlife?

Dare I ask?

[moviesanddownloads]

I have not much an idea about this matter..... Everybody likes movies in different way of styles......

[WideShot]

Hi, is it Ian?

Curious, what did you think of Purple Violets?

[tomfoolery]

Originally Posted by ijaffery

A few more catch-ups from '07:

Lars and the Real Girl: An odd little film that's a bit too quirky for it's own good. Gosling is quite good here, but the script is half-baked.

I have to agree with you here. I was very excited for the film, just off of me having seen Gosling in Half Nelson and being wowed, and thought it seemed like a quirky/fun premise. It sadly fell a bit flat and I was convincing myself throughout the whole movie that "This is pretty good" "Not bad at all" and then finally admitted to myself - "Not so hot"....

Ah well....

[TheMoviesClub]

Originally Posted by tomfoolery

I have to agree with you here. I was very excited for the film, just off of me having seen Gosling in Half Nelson and being wowed, and thought it seemed like a quirky/fun premise. It sadly fell a bit flat and I was convincing myself throughout the whole movie that "This is pretty good" "Not bad at all" and then finally admitted to myself - "Not so hot"....

Ah well....

Agreed. After Half Nelson I thought this was going to be a Best of 2007, but just came out ok. Better than Fracture at least.

Otherwise i largely agree with the list. Makes for a long list of some great movies.
Though I would have expected to see some more Documentaries listed. Is it the poor box office they are getting, or are Documentaries going out of fashion?

[rarth boddomy]

This film was described to me by one of my friends, who i believed had a reputable grasp on film, as 'awesome' and 'one of the best films' he had 'ever seen', so naturally i looked into it. But, i agree entirely with you when you say it was one of the worst films of the year. i think perhaps, rather than relying on the distinctly 'I, Robot' esque CGI 'infected', which i found ineffective as it removed any sense of realism from the film, maybe Francis Lawrence could have taken the Danny Boyle route and used made-up extras, which in '28 Days Later' was vastly more horrifying.

apologies for any mistakes made when posting this reply, its my first post on this site (i signed up about 10 minutes ago!)

[nightcreature33]

Grindhouse
No Country For Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac____Top 5 best from the list in no particular order....we need more movies like grindhouse, which pay homage to the old skool b rated horror movies....

[jbron8]

American Gangster was a pretty good movie. I liked it. I haven't had time to watch tv or movies but some of these movies on here seem pretty cool.

[thefilmwall]

The Best Films & Filmmakers of 2007 is follow..............
1.John Cameron Mitchell:-
Mitchell directed, wrote and starred in the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), for which he the received Best Director and Audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Deauville Film Festival
2.Todd Ahlberg:-
Filmmaker Todd Ahlberg began his career in production in 1987 at San Francisco Production Group, a leading post and special effects house in San Francisco. Since then, he has worked as producer/ director on a number of film and online projects.
3.Brooke Sebold:-
Brooke Sebold has been producing, directing and editing documentary films in the Bay Area for the last four years. In late 2006, along with co-directors Benita and Todd Sills, Brooke completed her first feature length documentary Red Without Blue.
4.Arturo Perez Torres:-
Arturo was born in Mexico City and studied film in San Francisco and sociology in the Netherlands. After years of working in advertising he made his first documentary Wetback (2005).
5.Jonah Markowitz:-
Jonah Markowitz studied film at Emerson College in Boston, taking semesters abroad to study art history and film studies in Holland and The Czech Republic. Upon graduation, Markowitz moved to LA to pursue a career in film.
6. Philip Szporer:-
Philip Szporer is a freelance writer, filmmaker and international lecturer based in Montreal. He is Scholar in Residence at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and was awarded a Pew National Dance/Media Fellowship at UCLA.

[leave-em-laughn]

I don't understand why you think that I Am Legend is a terrible movie? I think that is actually a really good movie with a great point.

What is so terrible about it?