Thursday, December 21, 2006

Armond White's Top Ten Films of the Year and Other Favorites

As announced in Indiewire's 2006 Critics' Poll:

Best Film
1. Broken Sky
2. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
3. A Prairie Home Companion
4. World Trade Center
5. Nacho Libre
6. The Promise
7. Infamous
8. Akeelah and the Bee
9. Bobby
10. Running Scared

Best Performance
Toby Jones, Infamous
Paul Walker, Running Scared
Chris Evans, London
Sook-Yin Lee, Shortbus
Marlon Wayans, Little Man

Best Supporting Performance
Laurence Fishburne, Bobby
Daniel Craig, Infamous
Sharon Stone, Bobby
Lily Tomlin, A Prairie Home Companion
Maria Bello, World Trade Center

Best Director
Julian Hernandez, Broken Sky

Best Screenplay
Douglas McGrath, Infamous

Best First Film
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Dito Montiel

Best Documentary
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, Adam Yauch

Best Cinematography
Alejandro Cantu, Broken Sky

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. What?

Do you think he picked movies no one saw so that no one could challenge his judgement?

Nellie

Jeff said...

The most egregiously wrong thing here is mistaking Paul Walker in Running Scared for anything other than stiff-as-a-board. Hell, he was better in Eight Below, but he was still outacted by most of the dogs.

Anonymous said...

No Spielburg films were released this year, so yeah, the list is pretty obscure :)

I thought "Changing Times" would be the film the beat, based on his review:

http://nypress.com/19/28/film/ArmondWhite.cfm

It wasn't even on the Top 10 list!

Terrence Briggs

Nursing Home Furniture said...

Interesting choices. I have to say i was very disappointed with Nacho Libre.