BEST LISTS FOR 2007
BEST U.S. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) No Country for Old Men (Joel, Ethan Coen) Zodiac (David Fincher) Into the Wild (Sean Penn) I’m Not There (Todd Haynes) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel) Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) The Namesake (Mira Nair) The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie) The Lookout (Scott Frank)
BEST FOREIGN Once (John Carney) Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel) Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran) The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) Flanders (Bruno Dumont) Offside (Jafar Panahi) Control (Anton Corbijn) Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré) This Is England (David MacDonald) La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (Olivier Dahan)
SHORTLISTED Away from Her (Sarah Polley) The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) Juno (Jason Reitman) Superbad (Greg Mottola) Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez) Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton)
BEST DOCUMENTARIES Sicko (Michael Moore) No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson) Nanking (Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman) Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning) An Unreasonable Man (Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan) Billy the Kid (Jennifer Venditti) Kurt Cobain About a Son (AJ Schnack) Murch (Edie, David Ichioka) UNRELEASED: Trumbo (Peter Askin) NOT SEEN: This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick) 51 Birch Street (Doug Block) Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye)
BEST UNRELEASED Along the Ridge (Anche libero va bene, Kim Rossi Stewart) Daratt (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
OVERRATED Ratatouille (Brad Bird) Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
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