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ELIGIBLE TITLES FOR 2007

VOTE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30

Please post in this thread if you think anything needs to change about the list of eligible titles

Can the following films be added?

The Visitor
In the Valley of Elah
Mr. Brooks
Arranged

I have The Visitor as 2008. I've added the rest

Can you please add

Elvis and Anabelle
Roman de gare

Can you please add

Chaotic Ana (Julio Medem)
Story from North America (​​Kirsten Lepore and Garrett Davis)

I've added all of those

Thanks! I honestly don’t think anyone here will like Elvis and Anabelle (I’m not sure even I would if I rewatched it). Roman de gare may fare only slightly better as it withholds so much information to play with the audience that it’s a coin flip at best whether that delights or infuriates you in practice. Lelouch actually does this a few times in his career and I fucking hated the other times he did it, so I get it if you watch this and get upset, but man this one is just really amusing to me and kinda worth him failing at fucking with us all those times to get it right here (and it’s not an “It’s all a dream” movie, to be clear, but spoiling this movie in advance would 100% render watching it useless)

Some adds please:

Lee Kang-sheng, Help Me Eros [Tsai Ming-liang did the production design for this, and it's great]
Aoyama Shinji, Sad Vacation
Anno Hideaki, Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
Ishii Yûya, Bakemono moyou [Of monster mode]
Miike Takashi, Tantei monogatari [Detective Story] [Better, for me, than the two other 2006 Miikes currently on the list, Crows and Sukiyaki]

Too bad one the great "experimental" films of the year, Jeanne Liotta's "Observando el cielo", is impossible to see. It demands viewing on a big screen in a completely dark theater, the only movie I've seen that made me feel I was on a spinning planet.

Added

Thank you, kind sir.

Could the following be added:

Clapham Junction (Adrian Shergold)
Darling (Christine Carriere)
Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold)
Chris & Don: A Love Story (Tina Mascara & Guido Santi)

Added but I put Chris & Don in 2008

Can you add this?

For anyone in SF Bay area, White Light/Black Rain is screening this Friday at BAMPFA.

Thanks

Added

A few addition requests:

I-Be Area
Cat Piss

Hell yeah, Ryan Trecartin and Giuseppe Andrews. Love to see it. May as well add Garbanzo Gas too. I want chips.

I've added all of those, thanks!

Can Mio fratello è figlio unico (Daniele Luchetti) be added? Thanks!

Done

Can you add
Disturbia
Jane Eyre
Channel Z
?

Thanks

I've added Disturbia but what are those other two? The closest I can find to those are:

Jane Eyre (Susanna White, 2006)
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes, 2004)

Shorts and experimental recs? Overlooked gems?

denti alligator wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 7:46 pm Shorts and experimental recs?

Alexandra (Radu Jude)
La parure (Claude Chabrol)
Story from North America (​​Kirsten Lepore and Garrett Davis)

denti alligator wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 7:46 pm Overlooked gems?

Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
Phantom Love (Nina Menkes)
La Recta Provincia (Raul Ruiz)
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)

IMDB has original air date for Jane Eyre as January 21, 2007. Not aware of any festival screening/award.

Is this another desktop vs. mobile discrepancy? It's a British miniseries that aired on BBC One from 24 Sep-15 Oct 2006. 21 Jan 2007 was when it started airing on U.S. TV. IMDb (on a desktop), Letterboxd, and Wikipedia all put it in 2006