Lists. IFC News.

You'll find three top tens all on one page at IFC News. Matt Singer's whittled his down from a first draft of 49 movies. The #1 he's settled on: No Country for Old Men. Alison Willmore concurs on that one, but she's got a #2 that doesn't even appear on Matt Singer's list: Rescue Dawn. And Michael Atkinson tops his list with Syndromes and a Century.

Aaron Hillis lists "Five Shamefully Overlooked Performances," among them, Kate Winslet in Romance & Cigarettes and Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood.

Nick Schager lists the "Five Best Directorial Debuts": "Amidst all the new features from established auteurs, it would be easy to overlook the fact that 2007 was a banner year for debuts."

R Emmett Sweeney lists the "Five Best Retreads": "From the silent period when film serials were the rage, whether it be The Perils of Pauline to Les Vampires, to the Charlie Chan and Mr Moto cycles of the 1930s, the Thin Man films of the 1940s, and all the way up to the James Bonds and Jason Bournes of today - the film business is built on regurgitation - and the key is in how it is presented rather than what."

And there's about half an hour of listening to go with all this. Matt Singer and Alison Willmore discuss "the trends and themes of 2007."

Posted by dwhudson at December 17, 2007 3:48 PM