My Top 10 of 2007
I have been putting off compiling my year-end list for 2007 because of the fact I had not seen a number of films I’d categorized as “must-sees” (and it’s a good thing I waited…one of them made the final cut!).
My list is as follows:
1. Grind House
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. Into the Wild
6. There Will Be Blood (The “Late Arrival” to the list)
7. Atonement
8. Zodiac
9. Away From Her
10. Eastern Promises
I suppose the one that might raise the most eyebrows is my putting Grind House in the #1 slot. For me, Grind House was the best experience I had in a movie house last year. I struggled with this one for some time (I am a huge fan of No Country for Old Men, and it was a hard decision to drop it to #2), but in the end I felt the need to give due credit to Messrs. Tarantino and Rodriguez for creating a work this entertaining. It was a bold move putting out a movie like that (and, if box office receipts are to judge, I guess it wasn’t an entirely successful venture), and I, for one, enjoyed the hell out of it.
