wonga's filmblog

i have a wonderful picture of all my movie ticket stubs from this year in a pile but i can’t get it transferred to my filmblog (yes, i save my ticket stubs and scrapbook them at the end of the year…i know, it’s sad really)! armed with discount movie coupons, i saw 118 movies this year at the theater and, as usual, it was really hard to narrow them down but here’s my list, for what it’s worth. some are from 2006 that i didn’t see until later.

my 15 favorite movies at the theater in 2007

1. the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford
2. the diving bell and the butterfly
3. the lives of others
4. juno
5. the painted veil
6. once
7. no country for old men
8. the darjeeling limited
9. waitress
10. starting out in the evening
11. sunshine
12. first snow
13. zodiac
14. in the shadow of the moon
15. across the universe

honorable mention (alphabetically)

1. 2 days in paris
2. 3:10 to yuma
3. 51 birch street
4. dirty dancing (20th anniversary)
5. dreamgirls
6. hairspray
7. into the wild
8. the jane austen book club
9. killer of sheep
10. knocked up
11. lars and the real girl
12. letters from iwo jima
13. the lookout
14. talk to me
15. wristcutters: a love story

2007 movies i still want/need to see

1. king of kong
2. the savages
3. sweeney todd
4. there will be blood

2007 movies I didn’t like so well

1. before the devil knows you’re dead
2. feast of love
3. i now pronounce you chuck and larry
4. la vie en rose
5. martian child
6. old joy
7. ratatouille
8. spider-man 3

other movies (on video) that I fell in love with this year

1. the dead girl
2. lonesome jim
3. look both ways