BC’s Best Picture of 2007….
…has been chosen. I’m not posting the Top Ten of the Year until I see a few other things (expect it in about a week) but I’m pretty confident that the number one spot is no longer up for grabs. Like many Best movies of the year, this film simply grabs you and says “There are plenty of great movies but I am, most certainly, the ONE.”
Of course, I spilled the beans over at Craig Kennedy’s wonderful site, Living in Cinema, a few days ago, so why am I still being so coy? Probably because my ego needs that much more massage, therapy is in fact one of my New Year’s resolutions.
Next week Bowen’s Cinematic will be doing a mini theme, an appreciation of the director of the 2007’s best film’s prior work. Hint: there are four prior films. Hint, Hint: This director is one of the guys to come of age in the 1990s.
Oh, fuck it. The best film of the year is There Will Be Blood. Tune in for a Paul Thomas Anderson fest next week.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
It’s no surprise to you I’m sure that I support your choice 100%.
I seriously went back and forth between NCfOM and TWBB for a month. Ultimately the Coen film edged ahead because…well it’s the Coens damnit and also there was a certain poetry to it. A thoughtful vagueness.
If NCfOM was a stilleto inserted into your brain at the base of your skull, TWBB was a shovel blow to your noggin. A similar result, but a different experience.
I wish I had to make choices like these every year.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I love NCfOM too, but it tells you something about my feelings for BLOOD that the decision wasn’t hard for me at all. I think BLOOD spoke to me in that intangible way that No Country spoke to you. Something that has less to do with craft and more to do with “this is one of the movies I’ve always wanted to see.”
What that says about me is highly debatable.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
It’s definitely a certain intangible something. Comparing the level of craft between the two films would be fruitless. To some, one simply speaks louder than the other.