My favorite film from 2006 is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, which I had in my top 10 for the decade. I also love Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes of a Century and Jia Zhangke's Still Life. Those were my gateway films to two great directors. Haven't seen a lot of the mainstream stuff from 2006. 

On to 2007...to the extent I can remember any of the movies from that year.  Because I'm committed to finishing this thread.  

Hot Fuzz - This movie is just so damn much fun.  A brilliant follow-up to Shaun of the Dead as Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and company take on the "buddy cop" genre.  Jim Broadbent is brilliant (better than most of his award nominated roles).  And having Edward Woodward in the film is a stroke of genius.  I think this was the first time I really noticed Olivia Colman.  I really love this film. 



3:10 to Yuma - I liked, but didn't love this western.  It's really not the fault of the film, which is quite good.  And it's not as compared to the original film.  It's that I've read the original short story by Elmore Leonard...and it is absolutely AMAZING.  One of  the best westerns I've ever read.  I do think it's a very good modern western that harkens back to what Anthony Mann was doing in the 50s.  



Grindhouse - I think this is a movie (experience?) in which the whole is more than the sum of the parts.  I love what Tarantino and Rodriguez were doing here.  And overall I do like the end result quite a bit.  But it's really just the audacity of what they did that makes it so much better than the parts.  



Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - This movie absolutely ruined biopics (particularly musical biopics) for me.  It is absolutely spot-on satire and just makes me laugh like crazy every time.  I do think it may have been a bit too subtle and it was just not broad enough in its scope to really make it a hit.  But it slayed me.  




As usual there are many films I've either not seen or not seen in far too long. Including; most foreign films; No Country for Old Men (I loved this when I saw it...but I've only seen it the one time); There Will Be Blood (ditto); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (this is one I feel like I should see, but haven't); Zodiac (I liked this one, but only kind of remember it); Sunshine (I need to see it again); The Darjeeling Limited (ditto); 


So what's my favorite film of 2007? It's Hot Fuzz.  Even with the "prestige" movies that I remember liking but haven't seen in forever, it's going to be Hot Fuzz.  Just a super funny satire.  


And 2007 in film for those as need a look.

2007 had some pretty acclaimed movies like No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. It appears that I liked 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days the most, but given that I can't remember anything about it, it hasn't stuck with me. I also voted for Zodiac.

I never knew, or have totally forgotten, that there is an adaptation of Persepolis. There are a lot of films from directors I generally like that I never saw. I really need to get back into watching films on a regular basis. 

The most fun film of the year was The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. 

You must see them.  Especially Hot Fuzz.  

Lots of good movies but no real stand-outs that I see after a skim-through - unless I missed something, as I often do when looking through these lists. I might go with Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. No Country, Grindhouse, etc all solid flicks. Danny Boyle's Sunshine was a decent SF movie, I probably would have liked it better if Michelle Yeoh's part had been a bit bigger. There was a French movie with Cecile de France, A Secret, that I remember liking at the time but can't recall many details now. Hot Fuzz I should watch again as I saw it under bad circumstances - on my then pretty small computer screen.

It'd quite like to see that. I've pretty much found director Ridley Scott's work to be sadly lacking over at least the last couple of decades, but he was once called of making incredible cinema, so I live in hope! What did you like about it?

A pretty solid top 5 for 2005.

Serenity is a top 20 film of all time for me. I think the first hour of Batman Begins is perfect. Then is slowly dips in quality building to a weak climax. But Christopher Nolan is my favorite modern director and almost shares my name.

Great year for comic adaptations with A History of Violence and Sin City.

And yeah, Good Night and Good Luck rounds out a top 5.

Contenders are Pride & Prejudice and Lady Vengeance.