UPDATED: TOP FILMS OF 2007

Here is my top 30 for 2007.

I should note that I saw I'M NOT THERE, the wild, ambitious Bob Dylan collage-of-a-film from writer/director Todd Haynes. My full review will be up soon, but I will say that while it's not my favorite movie of the year, it's a blast to watch and always engrossing and fascinating.

I would have seen BEOWULF had the 3-D projector at the Arclight not broken down; very sloppy over there last Friday. I will be catching it soon, maybe this weekend.

Anyways, here's my top 30 for the year:

Andrew Dominik’s THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
Joel & Ethan Coen’s NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Sean Penn’s INTO THE WILD
David Fincher’s ZODIAC
Ridley Scott’s AMERICAN GANGSTER
Susanne Bier’s THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
David Cronenberg’s EASTERN PROMISES
Sidney Lumet’s BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
Tony Gilroy’s MICHAEL CLAYTON
Peter Berg’s THE KINGDOM

Zack Snyder’s 300
Paul Greengrass’s THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS
Jimmy Mangold’s 3:10 TO YUMA
Judd Apatow’s KNOCKED UP
John Carney’s ONCE
Werner Herzog’s RESCUE DAWN
Todd Haynes’s I’M NOT THERE
Ben Affleck’s GONE BABY GONE
Dan Klores’s CRAZY LOVE

James Gray’s WE OWN THE NIGHT
Paul Haggis’s IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
Gavin Hood’s RENDITION
Gore Verbinski’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 WEEKS LATER
Billy Ray’s BREACH
Jake Kasdan’s THE TV SET
Peter Hedges’s DAN IN REAL LIFE
Michael Moore’s SICKO
Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED