Lists and awards, 1/15.

At indieWIRE, Peter Knegt's got the list of the nine finalists in the running for the foreign language Oscar: "The Academy's dismissal of heavily favored duo Persepolis, from France, and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, from Romania, is sure to cause considerable criticism." Yep. Nathaniel R comments.

Reverse Shot's "'Two Cents' for 2007," a slew of annotated misc awards.

Ryland Walker Knight has several points to make before revealing his list. Also at the House Next Door, Steve Boone and Odienator start out talking about American Gangster and end up talking about all of 2007.

"Anyone saying 2007 was a terrific year for movies is full of it," argues David Cornelius, introducing his list of "Best and Worst Films of 2007." The year "was, simply, a perfectly average year: a handful of truly great movies, a handful of truly awful movies, and whole lot in the middle." Also at Hollywood Bitchslap, Greg Ursic presents a list of "10 Films that almost made me forget Because I Said So."

Sean Axmaker presents "the results of the Axman's Tenth Annual Seattle Film Critics Top Ten Party, an unofficial, purely personal event that in no way stands in for the critical consensus of the Seattle Film Critics at large, merely those few critics that I prefer to spend a few hours arguing with." Collectively, they go for No Country for Old Men; the individual lists posted further down that entry get a little more varied.

For Robert Levin, writing at cinemaattraction, "The Lives of Others, this list's headliner and the one film I saw in theaters during the past year that did affect me in the sort of visceral, immediate fashion one associates with a future classic, stands far above the pack."

At IFC News, Alison Willmore lists "Five Films in Which Women Actually Go Through With Abortions."

Barry Lloyd at Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: "10 Great Up-Chucks."

Posted by dwhudson at January 15, 2008 2:49 PM