Here are my favorite movies from 2006, thought keep in mind I STILL haven't seen Dreamgirls, Letters from Iwo Jima, Pan's Labyrinth, and The Lives of Others, not to mention other small movies.
1. Children of Men
2. United 93
3. Half Nelson
4. Babel
5. Little Children
6. Little Miss Sunshine
7. Volver
8. The Departed
9. Infamous
10. Heading South
11. L’Enfant
12. Notes on a Scandal
13. The Queen
14. Devil Wears Prada
15. Borat
16. An Inconvenient Truth
17. Twelve and Holding
18. Casino Royale
19. The Last King of Scotland
20. Shortbus
I would have given the Oscars this way:
Picture: Children of Men
Actor: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson (Honorable Mention: Clive Owen, Children of Men)
Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen (though Meryl and Judi and Kate and Penelope were amazing and justly nominated, but also Charlotte Rampling in Heading South)
Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children (Honorable Mention: Michael Caine, Children of Men)
Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Director: ah, hell, give it to Martin Scorcese already, so we can stop hearing about it. And The Departed was a good movie, will edited, exciting, fun.
And, well, they did give it to Marty.
But Children of Men. Wow. It blew me away. It was bleak, exciting, funny, beautifully filmed, brilliantly acted. Go see it. Or rent it.
1 comment:
I am very suprised you rated Borat in your top movies, especially because it beat Twelve and Holding.
Twelve and Holding was a great coming-of-age tale, while Borat seemed to rely on male nudity and was no where near as funny as the Borat segments from the Ali G show.
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