I only have five days left to screen as many 2007 films as possible and give them a write-up for Playback's Best of 2007. I've already finished my 'Worst of 2007' film list, but it's the best of... that's giving me the most trouble. In the past five days I've watched ten films (There Will Be Blood, The Savages, Michael Clayton, Starting Out in the Evening, The Orphanage, Lust, Caution, Once, Margot at the Wedding, The Simpsons Movie (which blows), and Paranoid Park) and the entire third season of Lost. Here's what I have left of the possible viewings: Juno, 17 December 2007
Crunch Time
I only have five days left to screen as many 2007 films as possible and give them a write-up for Playback's Best of 2007. I've already finished my 'Worst of 2007' film list, but it's the best of... that's giving me the most trouble. In the past five days I've watched ten films (There Will Be Blood, The Savages, Michael Clayton, Starting Out in the Evening, The Orphanage, Lust, Caution, Once, Margot at the Wedding, The Simpsons Movie (which blows), and Paranoid Park) and the entire third season of Lost. Here's what I have left of the possible viewings: Juno, 
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How can I not resist, you left off the new Rivette film from your list.
Though I wonder if its available to critics yet. It may not be.
It's not.
In an ideal world, I'd have the opportunity to see everything I needed to that was officially released in 07, but that isn't possible. Particularly for foreign titles. One I'm particularly bummed that I don't have access to is the new Catherine Breillat.
Seconded on The Wire, I was going to double feature American Gangster after seeing another movie, but after twenty minutes or so, I was like "why does this movie exist?" Two episodes out from the end of the fourth season of The Wire, why was I watching this totally cliched look at the drug game when I had the wonderfully nuanced world of The Wire waiting.
The show, and other really good long form TV shows, has changed the way I look at movies, pushed my tastes away from traditional narratives out towards the avant garde, simply because a two hour movie can't come close to the complexity and emotion of The Wire. American Gangster looked alright, but it had no real reason to exist.
Touche, Patrick.
I almost don't want to watch anything crime-related any more. And that's probably a good thing. Damn HBO for making me question my faithfulness to the cinema.
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