Best of 2007 - the top five!
Just time to finish this off before I disappear for a couple of days...
If you've been reading my blog carefully and for long enough, you'll already know what my favourite two movies of 2007 were. But here's the top five anyway...
5. THIS IS ENGLAND
Shane Meadows follows up the brilliant Dead Man's Shoes with this equally brilliant tale of an English youth who loses his dad in the Falklands war and falls in with a gang of skinheads in Thatcher's Britain.
4. SUNSHINE
This spectacular space adventure from Danny Boyle would probably have featured even higher were it not for a slightly flawed ending, but it's still one of my favourites for the year.
3. AWAY FROM HER
Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie are both superb as a couple whose marriage is torn apart by premature senility in this incredible directing debut from indie favourite actress Sarah Polley.
2. PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
This documentary charts how a group of Chinese children learning about democracy turn into a bunch of savage political backstabbers with hilarious results.
1. ONCE
Plain and simple love story with great music, a lovely setting (Dublin, for once looking like the magical city it is, rather than a haven for gangsters and junkies) and characters that you can't help but warm to. Low on budget, high on charm.
If you've been reading my blog carefully and for long enough, you'll already know what my favourite two movies of 2007 were. But here's the top five anyway...
5. THIS IS ENGLAND
Shane Meadows follows up the brilliant Dead Man's Shoes with this equally brilliant tale of an English youth who loses his dad in the Falklands war and falls in with a gang of skinheads in Thatcher's Britain.
4. SUNSHINE
This spectacular space adventure from Danny Boyle would probably have featured even higher were it not for a slightly flawed ending, but it's still one of my favourites for the year.
3. AWAY FROM HER
Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie are both superb as a couple whose marriage is torn apart by premature senility in this incredible directing debut from indie favourite actress Sarah Polley.
2. PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
This documentary charts how a group of Chinese children learning about democracy turn into a bunch of savage political backstabbers with hilarious results.
1. ONCE
Plain and simple love story with great music, a lovely setting (Dublin, for once looking like the magical city it is, rather than a haven for gangsters and junkies) and characters that you can't help but warm to. Low on budget, high on charm.
Labels: Best of 2007, documentaries, Irish film, science fiction films
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