Lists, 1/11.

"Welcome to our annual 11 Offenses, a proper wake-up call from the end-of-year lovefest that found us waxing on the greatness of contemporary cinema, as well as the only list you're likely to see that doesn't feature There Will Be Blood," announces Reverse Shot. "With a year as great as 2007 behind us, it took all we could muster to get out the knives and sharpen them up, but how could we deny our fans the pleasure?"

Anne Thompson lists Variety's "Ten Directors to Watch."

"Now, just to wrap up this whole 2007 wrap-up thing, I'm going to recommend some movies and (in munchable blurbs of 150 words or less - I hope) give you some idea of what I liked about them, without meaning to over-sell them." Jim Emerson presents a "Blurb-a-thon 2007."

At Twitch, Peter Martin revisits his year at the movies.

Scott Tobias's favorite movie year: 1955.

Andrew Bemis posts a top ten - for 1987.

Noel Vera has updated his 07 list as well as his ongoing list of Filipino films available on DVD.

At Cinematical, Jeffrey M Anderson lists seven "Great Films That Run Less Than 80 Minutes."

In his latest "Indie 500" column for the House Next Door, Vadim Rizov lists a "Top 10 of 2007 + remainders."

"Top Ten Best Ever," Peter Ferland, McSweeney's.

Posted by dwhudson at January 11, 2008 12:53 PM