Lists and awards, 12/17.

Tim Lucas unleashes his massive year-end best-of DVD list, which is actually a couple of lists. At the top of the "Single Film Releases" list is If...: "Of all the DVDs I viewed in 2007, this is the one that lifted my heart highest." Of the "Multi-Title Releases," Berlin Alexanderplatz takes the top spot; and "12 Notable Restorations" are, well, noted.

Tim's list follows more lists from Video Watchdog contributors not yet noted here: novelist, comics artist and blogger Steven R Bissette's (whose #1 is Kino's Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928 - 1954), novelist and audio commentator Kim Newman (site; an all-Region 2 list, topped by Life on Mars: Series One and Series Two and filmmaker Shane M Dallmann's (who goes alphabetical).

"Variety columnist and In Contention owner Kris Tapley has chosen his top ten films of 07," notes Jeffrey Wells. Tapley's #1: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

"Spain's foreign language Oscar candidate, Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage, has nabbed 14 nominations for the country's 22nd Goya Awards, in a tie with Emilio Martinez Lazaro's 13 Roses, also up for awards in 14 categories," report John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga for Variety, where they've got the full list of all the nominees.

Lauren Wissot opens her list at the House Next Door, "2007: Six Camp Highlights (and One Lowlight)," with an "Ultimate Rediscovery": "The many critics who panned Myra Breckinridge decades ago when it was first released were as clueless as John Huston's Buck Loner, for the film is nothing less than a brilliantly, thoughtfully, stupendously conceived work of art."

Edward Copeland's got the list of the International Press Academy's Golden Satellite award-winners.

Online browsing tip. AdFreak's "Freaky Ad Moments of 2007." Via Coudal Partners.

Online browsing and reading tip. Esquire's "What I've Learned" feature turns 10.

Online viewing tips. Pitchfork's "Top 50 Music Videos of 2007."

Posted by dwhudson at December 17, 2007 3:06 PM