2007 Film Roundup

There are a few more films yet to be considered here, most notably There Will Be Blood. There are also several I need to see again, most notably The Assassination of Jesse James.

Released in theaters

1. No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros.)
2. Exiled (Johnnie To)
3. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
5. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
6. The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier)
7. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. The Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel)
9. Superbad (Greg Mottola)
10. Zoo (Robinson Devor)
11. Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg)
12. Control (Anton Corbijn)
13. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
14. Zodiac (David Fincher)
15. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
16. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
17. Once (John Carney)
18. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
19. Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
20. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
21. Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
22. The Assassination of Jesse James (Andrew Dominik)
23. 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
24. Triad Election (Johnnie To)
25. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
26. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
27. Juno (Jason Reitman)
28. The King of Kong (Seth Gordon)
29. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
30. This Is England (Shane Meadows)
31. The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)

Unreleased

1. Cruel Winter Blues (Lee Jeong-beom)
2. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
3. The Old Garden (Im Sang-soo)
4. Quietly on By (Frank V. Ross)
5. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
6. Hohokam (Frank V. Ross)
7. The Show Must Go On (Han Jae-rim)
8. Traces of Love (Kim Dae-sung)

Older

• Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
• Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
• Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

• Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
• The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)
• On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin)
• The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
• My Darling Clementine (John Ford)

• The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass)
• LOL (Joe Swanberg)
• Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
• Crash (David Cronenberg)
• Fargo (Coen Bros.)
• Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
• Hard Boiled (John Woo)
• The Big Red One (Sam Fuller)
• Monte Walsh (William Fraker)
• El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
• Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
• Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville)
• The Searchers (John Ford)
• Mister Roberts (John Ford/Joshua Logan)
• The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
• Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
• The films of Abbas Kiarostami

Top directors

• John Ford (8)
• Abbas Kiarostami (6)
• Johnnie To (5)
• Fritz Lang (5)

Theatrical screenings: 111 (includes film festivals)
MoMA screenings: 39
On DVD: 39
New movies: 75
Film of the year: Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)

To-see list from 2007

• There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
• Offside (Panahi)
• Black Book (Verhoeven)
• Persepolis (Paronnaud)
• Lady Chatterley (Ferran)
• Grindhouse
• Smiley Face (Araki)

Undistributed

• Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
• Useless (Jia Zhang-ke)
• In the City of Sylvia (Guerín)
• The Man from London (Tarr)
• Profit motive and the whispering wind (Gianvito)