Phil Morehart, catalog editor/writerTop 10 Films*
1. Taxidermia (Gyorgy Palfi)
2. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
3. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
4. The Queen (Stephen Frears)
5. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
6. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
7. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
8. Marebito (Takeshi Shimizu)
9. Time (Kim Ki-Duk)
10. I Like Killing Flies (Matt Mahurin)
Honorable Mentions:
1. What Is It? (Crispin Hellion Glover)
2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Top DVDs (in no order and subject to change – it was a good year)
1. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
2. Dracula 75th Anniversary Edition (Tod Browning)
3. Frankenstein 75th Anniversary Edition (James Whale)
4. Delicatessen (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
5. The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (Zbynek Brynych)
6. 49 Up (Michael Apted)
7. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Masters of Horror: Imprint (Takashi Miike)
10. Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell and Kenyon
11. An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Worst Film of the Year
The Lost City (Andy Garcia) - I can smell this stinker still.
*for commentary on each, head to The Bone Machine blog.
Alissa Simon, writer/researcherBest Films Seen in the Cinema in 2006
1. Army Of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
2. Brick (Rian Johnson)
3. The Queen (Stephen Frears)
4. Man Push Cart (Rahmin Bahrani)
5. The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Best DVD Releases (from Facets, naturally)
1. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
2. Adelheid (Frantisek Vlacil)
3. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
4. School of Senses (Andras Solyom)
5. Tickets (Ettore Scola, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach)
Brian Elza, catalog writer/researcher1. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
2. The Descent (Neil Marshall)
3. The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
4. Brick (Rian Johnson)
5. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
7. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
8. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
9. Nacho Libre (Jared Hess)
10. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Justin Brink, sales assistantMy Top Picks (in no order)
1. Running Scared (Wayne Kramer)
2. 13 Tzameti (Gela Babluani)
3. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
4. Hard Candy (David Slade)
5. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
6. Brick (Rian Johnson)
7. Calvaire (Fabrice Du Welz)
8. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-Wook)
9. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
10. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
11. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
Worst of the Year
1. Harsh Times (David Ayer)
2. Black Christmas (Glen Morgan)
3. Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)
4. Beerfest (Jay Chandrasekhar)
Tiffany Giammona, customer servicePretty Good:
1. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
2. Dans Paris (Christophe Honore)
3. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
4. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
5. Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello)
6. When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
7. Elizabeth I (Tom Hooper)
Not So Good:
1. Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
2. Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener)
3. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
2 comments:
I'm surprised to see the Stalker DVD in your top ten. The movie is of course a classic, but it's the same subpar transfer. That's not a minor mistake for a director and a movie that depends on the transport experienced through his images and mood.
Hello anonymous-
I appreciate and share your concern regarding the DVD quality of Kino's edition of Tarkovsky's Stalker. I looked beyond that, however, and included it on my list because of the significance of the film itself. I would rather see a subpar transfer of Stalker than to not see Stalker at all.
- Phil Morehart
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