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My 10 films to see asap

About 5 years ago, I had a conversation with my sister where we were both moaning about all these great films having been and gone at the cinema and we still hadn't seen them. So, we came up with the idea of drawing up a list of 10 films we wanted to see and running a competition to encourage us to watch them. Each had their own individual list of 10 films, and the winner (the person who watched all 10 first) would be taken to the cinema by the loser to see the film of the winner's choice.

We are on Round 3 now, but have been for about 2 years, as we keep forgetting about the whole thing. So, as an aide-memoire, having just refound the list in the depths of my room, I'm going to post my list of 10 which will hopefully spur me into action!

2046

Adaptation

21 Grams

The Royal Tenenbaums

Mar adentro



The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Return

The White Balloon

The Motorcycle Diaries

Million Dollar Baby

Videos of 2006 - Who's the winner

I've embedded a youtube playlist of the nominated videos from the PLUG Independent Music Awards here. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the majority, many of which I had never seen before. Take a look for yourself:



In order my top 3 though have to be:

3. Wolf Parade - "I'll Believe in Anything" (dir. Matt Moroz)

2. The Knife - "We Share Out Mother's Health" (dir. Motomichi Nakamura)

1. Danielson - "Did I Step On Your Trumpet?" (dir. Christian Palladino)

The Wolf Parade video is very well made, and great acting whereas the Knife seemed intensely visually inventive and mesmerising, very much in keeping with the mood of their music.
However, and maybe this is the lo-fi sensibilities that I've had since I fell in love with Pavement's Watery Domestic, the Danielson video made me smile from ear to ear and was just a wonderful visual treat - simple and effective and very relevant to the quirky lyrics of the song.

Plug Independent Music Awards 2007

I've only just today heard of this, but it appears it's time to get voting in the PLUG Independent Music Awards, you can do so here.

Coincidentally, the winners of last year's awards (Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective) have formed a main part of my listening during 2006 so I'm voraciously checking out the nominees for this year's awards with interest. I'll hold off from posting my choices until I have vigorously researched the nominations' efforts, but it'll take something special to stop Beirut cleaning up for me.