Best Movies of 2006

Looking back at 2006 I think it was a pretty good year for movies. I've managed to come up with a nice big list of cool movies that I quite liked from that year - and still plenty of quality movies I'm sure are out there. Of course these movies all have the benefit of being fresh to me. Most of them I saw only last year. It'll be interesting to see if these movies can handle five years of time.

1. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
   
2. Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman)
   
3. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
   
4. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
5. Day Watch (Timur Bekmambetov)
   
6. The Departed (Martin Scorcese)
   
7. Scoop (Woody Allen)
   
8. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
   
9. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
   
10. Brick (Rian Johnson)
    
11. The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien)
    
12. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
    
13. V For Vendetta (James McTeigue)
    
14. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Foster)
    
15. Cars (John Lasseter & Joe Ranft)
    
16. Running With Scissors (Ryan Murphy)
    
17. Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
    

Best Movies of 2007

One thing that obsesses me is the constant battle of ranking my favourite things. So I've decided to embark on a journey of ranking my favourite movies of all time. I'm going to do this at a painfully slow pace - year by year. I'll start with last year - not that this list means much as I've yet to see a lot of 2007 movies. I rarely venture to the theatre and mainly watch movies by renting them on $3 or $1 days at the rental places. I've seen a few though - enough to put together a collection of more than ten movies that I enjoyed last year. So I haven't started too badly.

1. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
   
2. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
   
3. Juno (Jason Reitman)
   
4. Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton)
   
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
   
6. Eagle vs. Shark (Taika Cohen)
   
7. Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
   
8. Death at a Funeral (Frank Oz)
   
9. Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
   
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
    
11. Zodiac (David Fincher)
    

Thank You For Smoking