1) No Country for Old Men - Four of my ten were from 2007 (1, 2, 8, 9). Three are photographic masterpieces (1, 2, 9). Two are masterpieces across the board (1, 2). And one is without a doubt my favorite movie of all time. So call it Friendo.
2) There Will be Blood - Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick had a baby and named him Daniel Plainview...oh yeah, and then Johnny Greenwood scored the whole thing
3) The Proposition - It's violent, desolate, and hard to swallow just like every good Western should be. Almost all of the films on my list are really beautifully shot movies (3 of them by Roger Deakins), but something about the rawness of the cinematography here really draws me in. It's the kind of thing I'd like to shoot one day. Nick Cave's score and John Hurt's role are big bonuses.
4) Fargo - So many memorable scenes, lines, and characters wound into a powerful, unsettling and/or hilarious film about the worst and ocassionally best in people by the Coens Brothers and company.
5) Memento - There are so many reasons to come back to this movie again and again.
6) An American Werewolf in London - John Landis wrote his first draft of this at age 19. I wrote a little picture called The Dinner Guest...ever heard of it?
7) House of the Devil - There are so many things to admire in Ti West's throwback to 70's occult horror. Plus, it will scare the Hell out of you.
8) Superbad - Hilarious, dirty, dumb, and slightly homoerotic. Sounds like high school to me.
9) The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Roger Deakins doing his thing in Andrew Domink's Malick-esque meditation on the fame monster. It wanders for a long time, maybe too long, but the last hour of this film is incredible.
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