CHRIS KNIPP'S BEST MOVIE LISTS FOR 2006
(Alphabetical within category)
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH DIRECTORS
Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick 2006) The Departed (Martin Scorsese 2006) Eastwood’s Iwo Jima Diptych (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima 2006) The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro 2006) The History Boys (Nicholas Hytner 2006) Inland Empire (David Lynch 2006) Little Children (Todd Field 2006) The Queen (Stephen Frears 2006) A Scanner, Darkly (Richard Linklater 2006)
BEST FOREIGN
The Aura (El Aura, Fabián Bielinsky 2005) DVD Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu 2006) The Child (L’Enfant, Dardennes brothers 2005) DVD Clean (Oliver Assayas 2005) DVD Days of Glory (Indigènes, Raschid Boucharib 2005) Fateless (Sorstalanság, László Koltai 2005) DVD Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau 2005) DVD The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu 2005) DVD Le Petit Lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois 2005) DVD Volver (Pedro Almóvar 2006)
SHORTLISTED
Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe 2006) The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel 2006) Duck Season (Temporada de patos, Fernando Eimbecke 2006) Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck 2006) Heading South (Vers le sud, Laurent Cantet 2006) Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski 2005) The Prestige (Christopher Nolan 2006) Three Times (Hou Hsiau-hsien 2005) United 93 (Paul Greengrass 2006) Venus (Roger Mitchell 2006) Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark 2006)
BEST 2006 FILMS YET UNRELEASED IN THE US
Bug (William Friedkin 2006) Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré 2006) Flanders (Bruno Dumont 2006) Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurasmaki 2006) Singer, The (Quand j'étais chanteur, Xavier Giannoli 2006) News from Afar (Ricardo Benet 2004) Play (Alicia Scherson 2005) The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach 2006) Zim & Co. (Pierre Jolivet 2005)
BEST LONG-DELAYED U.S. FOREIGN RELEASE
Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres, Jean-Pierre Melville 1969)
BEST DOCUMENTARIES
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim 2006) Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine 2006) Iraq in Fragments (James Longley 2005) The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom 2006)
MOST OVERRATED
Borat (Larry Charles) Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón 2006) Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck 2006) Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno, Guillermo del Toro 2006
WISH I'D SEEN BEFORE I MADE THESE LISTS
Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo, Carlos Reygadas 2006)
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