At last . . .
My previous observation about 2006 being a weak year for movies has held true through the end of the movie season, so I am forced to break with tradition and combine my Top Ten List with my Best Foreign Films list, to bring you my TOP 15 MOVIE LIST. It is top-heavy with foreign films, but that's not my fault!
Only one movie this year earned the title of "Best Film of the Year," and that film is . . . . . .
1. PAN'S LABYRINTH (Mexico) - amazing and unforgettable
the rest:
2. THE QUEEN (UK)
3. TSOTSI (South Africa 2005)
4. VOLVER (Spain)
5. Cache (France)
6. The Departed
7. Stranger Than Fiction
8. La Moustache (France)
9. Running With Scissors
10. Children of Men
11. Inside Man
12. Little Children
13. The Painted Veil
14. Notes On A Scandal
15. Flags of our Fathers
Honorable mention (alpha):
Brick
Casino Royale
The Good Shepherd
Hollywoodland
Letters From Iwo Jima
Miss Potter
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
V for Vendetta
Saw & Enjoyed:
All the King's Men
The Good German
The Illusionist
The Lake House
The Last King of Scotland
Mission: Impossible: 3
A Prairie Home Companion
World Trade Center
Significant film missed: United 93
Notable documentaries:
1. An Inconvenient Truth
2. Wordplay
3. The Bridge
Coming soon: Worst Movies of 2006 !
I'll try to keep my comments brief! A few observations:
ReplyDelete1. You don't mention two stupid-Oscar nominees -- Babel and Little Miss Sunshine? (By that I mean the Oscars are stupid, not the films .. necessarily.)
2. Documentaries? Inconvenient Truth, Shut Up & Sing?
3. I can endorse Pan's Labyrinth, but I would move Volver to a close #2!
4. I would also move Little Children way up and put Painted Veil in the top 15.
5. Did you see Heading South? I would rank it, if it's a 2006 qualifier.
6. What, no Dreamgirls? ;-)
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ReplyDeleteAsk for it, and it will be done!
ReplyDelete(for #4 anyway)