High Hat. "Top Tens of 2007."

Gary Mairs has got the first film list in the High Hat's special year-end supplement (via Leonard Pierce at ScreenGrab; his own must-read list here is "Owning 2007: Ten Fragments from an Exploded Culture"). For Mairs, it was "A Very Good Year." His #1: I'm Not There.

"The best movie of the year was made for less than $10,000 in 1977 and unexpectedly got itself a theatrical and DVD release seventeen years after being inducted into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry," writes Phil Nugent. "The reminder it provides that a person with a camera and more inspiration and ideas than material resources can do astonishing things could not have come at a better time." That's right, his #1 is Killer of Sheep.

For George Wu, 2007 was "fairly average," but: "It was a remarkable year for performances, and one movie after another was raised to another level thanks to its actors." Shout-outs follow. Then, his #1, too, is Killer of Sheep; his #2: Manufactured Landscapes.

"The year in film produced a bumper crop of crap, and as always, it's up to your friendly neighborhood movie janitor to don the hazmat gear and sift through the odiferous offerings in search of the toxic ten." The bottomest of Scott Von Doviak's "Bottom Shelf": Bratz: The Movie.

Clips are all up and down Hayden Childs's "Top TV Tableaus of 2007."

Jon Morris's list: "The Good, The Bad and The Spandex: The Best and Worst Superhero Comics of 2007."

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