Lists, 12/15.

"Put together by the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) Canada's Top 10 was established a few years back as a way to issue press release that yea, Canada has a film industry outside of granting Hollywood studios tax breaks to film in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal," writes Kurt Halfyard. Also at Twitch: "Logboy's Five Best for 2007."

Video Watchdog contributor, author (J-Horror) and All Day Entertainment head David Kalat puts Dr Who: The Complete Third Series at the top of his DVDs-of-the-year list, while VW contributor and Movie Morlocks blogger Richard Harland Smith tops his list with Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.

Jim Emerson presents his Exploding Head Awards, given for moments or some aspect of a movie that "made my head feel that it might explode."

At the AV Club, Keith Phipps writes up his favorite movie year: 1967.

Michael Z Newman offers "a collection, in no particular order, of some favorite movies, TV shows, videos, recordings, websites, books, etc, of 2007."

"The trouble with cinema in 2007 has not been the films themselves," writes Ryan Gilbey in the New Statesman. "On the contrary, you could never be sure which part of the world would yield the next pleasurable surprise - it might be Chad (Daratt), Egypt (The Yacoubian Building), France (Beyond Hatred, Lady Chatterley), Germany (Yella), Turkey (Climates) or even those impoverished marketplaces, the US (Letters from Iwo Jima) and the UK (Hallam Foe). But few of these titles made it very far out of specialist cinemas - and when they did, you had to move fast to catch the few randomly scheduled screenings on offer." He then looks ahead to 2008.

For the Guardian John Patterson looks back on the year stateside: "With the exception of marvellous movies by established auteurs, including David Fincher and the Coen brothers, most of the action was in the independent sector, or in the DVD reissue section." Also, the Guardian's got a list of superlatives along to lines of "Most Dignified Comeback" (Michelle Pfeiffer in Stardust), "Dodgiest History Award" (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and so on.

Cinematical's "Lamest of 2007." Quite a roundup.

ScreenGrab lists the 13 "Greatest Long-Ass Movies of All Time."

The Independent's critics pick the best and worst Christmas movies; more from Matthew Sweet in the Guardian.

DanceCrasher's counting down the "100 greatest Rocksteady tunes." Via Andrew at gmtPlus9 (-15).

Posted by dwhudson at December 15, 2007 3:46 PM