Top 10’s of 2007

Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top 10 movie lists of 2007 on the website. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top 10 of the year and we’ll include it here.

Peg Aloi’s Top 10 Movies of 2007 (not necessarily in order)

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 
• Lady Chatterley 
• I’m Not There
• Glastonbury
• Factory Girl
• Hot Fuzz

Honorable Mentions: The Case of the Grinning Cat, After the Wedding, 28 Weeks Later

 

Philip Bahr’s Top 10 Movie of 2007!

1. The Lives of Others
2. Away from Her
3. The Bubble
4. Stephanie Daley
5. Paris je T’aime
6. The Year of the Dog
7. This is England
8. Broken English
9. Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
10. Red Without Blue

 

 

 

Tony Brighton’s Top 10 Movies of 2007!

1. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2. Unconscious
3. 12:08 East of Bucharest
4. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
5. Fido
6. Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple
7. Protagonist
8. God Grew Tired of Us
9. Maxed Out
10. Live-In Maid

 

 

Thom Bowser’s Top 14 Movies of 2007! 

1. Big Bad Love, Juvenile A
2. Syndromes and a Century
3. Atonement
4. I’m Not There
5. The Babysitters
6. My Winnipeg
7. No Country for Old Men
8. Nothing is Private
9. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
10. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
11. Paprika
12. Gabrielle
13. Hate (La Haine)
14. Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

 

Kim Brown’s Top 10 Movies of 2007! (in alphabetical order)

• 3:10 to Yuma
• Air Guitar Nation
• Fierce People
• Hairspray
• Hot Fuzz
• I Am Legend
• The King of Kong: A Fistful or Quarters
• Once
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Wristcutters: A Love Story

 

Michael Colford’s Top 14 Movies of 2007!

1. Protagonist
2. Linda Linda Linda!
3. Away from Her
4. Lars & the Real Girl
5. The Wayward Cloud
6. Juno
7. Waitress
8. I’m Not There
9. The Secret Lives of Words
10. There Will Be Blood
11. Margot at the Wedding
12. The Bubble
13. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
14. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

Ten Best Festival Films (not yet released theatrically in the U.S.)

1. The Tracy Fragments
2. Jellyfish
3. Monkey Warfare
4. My Winnipeg
5. The Visitor
6. A Gentle Breeze in the Village
7. Breakfast with Scot
8. Brick Lane
9. Help Me, Eros
10. Ploy

 

 

 

Scot Colford’s Top 10 Movies of 2007!

1. Protagonist
2. Lars and the Real Girl
3. Juno
4. There Will Be Blood
5. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
6. Margot at the Wedding
7. Brand Upon the Brain
8. Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
9. Linda Linda Linda!
10. Once

 

 

Thomas Guttadauro’s Top Movies of 2007!

Best Not to Make it to a U.S. Screen

• Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone

The Best (Tie)

• Once
• In the Shadow of the Moon

Best of the Rest

• No Country for Old Men
• Sunshine
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Ratatouille
• The Host
• Linda Linda Linda! (making it to the list of the third consecutive year!)

The Rest of the Best

• 28 Weeks Later
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• Paprika
• Time
• Hot Fuzz

Best Movie No One Saw

• The Golden Door

Honorable Mention for Kicking Ass

• Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz

Best of the Fests

• I’m a Cyborg but That’s Okay
• Super Theater Edition Keroro Gunso 2

Best sig from a Movie

“It’s Like Looking in a Smelly Mirror!”

 

Bruce Kingsley’s Top 10 Movies of 2007!

1. The Lives of Others
2. Away From Her
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Lars and the Real Girl
5. Protagonist
6. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
7. Charlie Wilson’s War
8. The Wayward Cloud
9. The Case of the Grinning Cat
10. Killer of Sheep

 

 

 

 

TC Kirkham’s Top 15 Movies of 2007! (in alphabetical order)

• Across the Universe
• Air Guitar Nation
• Beowulf
• Black Irish
• Fierce People
• Hairspray
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• Man in the Chair
• Once
• Ratatouille
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Wristcutters: A Love Story

 

Chris Kriofske’s Top 10 Movies of 2007!

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
3. Away From Her
4. I’m Not There
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. Persepolis
7. Day Night Day Night
8. The Host
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Brand Upon the Brain

Honorable Mentions: Autism the Musical, Climates, The Golden Door, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, In The Shadow of the Moon, Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, Linda Linda Linda, The Lives of Others, Red Road

Best Festival Films (w/o U.S. distribution): Audience of One, The Banishment, Monkey Warfare

Best Chlotrudis Non-eligible: Ratatouille, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Superbad, Zodiac

Barbara Lonergan’s Top 10 Movies of 2007!

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Away From Her
4. Juno
5. After the Wedding
6. Letters from Iwo Jima
7. Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
8. The Secret Life of Words
9. Once
10. Waitress

 

Hilary Nieukirk’s Top 10 Movies of 2007!

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Into the Wild
5. The Lives of Others
6. La Vie en Rose
7. Persepolis
8. Crazy Love
9. Juno
10. Hot Fuzz

 

Marilyn O’conner’s Top 10 Movie of 2007 (in no particular order)

• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• There Will Be Blood
• The Diving Bell and the Buttefly
• Letters From Iwo Jima
• The Lives of Others
• No Country For Old Men
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• The Savages
• Sicko
• In the Valley of Elah

 

Toni Pennacchia’s Top Movies of 2007!

Top Narratives

1. The Orphanage
2. Persepolis
3. Just Like a Son
4. At Night
5. Paprika
6. Man From Earth
7. The Lives of Others

Top Docs

1. The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
2. Border
3. War/Dance
4. Incest: A Family Tragedy
5. 49 Up