{"id":611,"date":"2008-12-10T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:08:40","slug":"top-10-films-of-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/top-10-films-of-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Films of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a dynamic list, so it\u2019ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2006 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

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  1. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)<\/li>\n
  2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/li>\n
  3. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)<\/li>\n
  4. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)<\/li>\n
  5. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)<\/li>\n
  6. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)<\/li>\n
  7. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)<\/li>\n
  8. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)<\/li>\n
  9. Time (Kim Ki-duk)<\/li>\n
  10. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     
    \nOther 2006 films I’ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Away From Her (Sarah Polley)<\/li>\n
    • Babel (Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu)<\/li>\n
    • Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)<\/li>\n
    • Bled Number One (Rabah Ameur-Za\u00efmeche)<\/li>\n
    • Blockade (Sergei Loznitsa)<\/li>\n
    • Borat (Larry Charles)<\/li>\n
    • Broken Sky (Juli\u00e1n Hern\u00e1ndez)<\/li>\n
    • Bug (William Friedkin)<\/li>\n
    • Cages (Olivier Masset-Depasse)<\/li>\n
    • Cars (John Lasseter)<\/li>\n
    • Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)<\/li>\n
    • Charlie Says (Nicole Garcia)<\/li>\n
    • Charlotte’s Web (Gary Winick)<\/li>\n
    • Children of Men (Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n)<\/li>\n
    • Clerks II (Kevin Smith)<\/li>\n
    • Click (Frank Coraci)<\/li>\n
    • Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)<\/li>\n
    • The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)<\/li>\n
    • The Departed (Martin Scorsese)<\/li>\n
    • Destricted (Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Cecily Brown, Larry Clark, Sante D’Orazio, Marilyn Minter, Gaspar No\u00e9, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Johnson, & Tunga)<\/li>\n
    • The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)<\/li>\n
    • Dong (Jia Zhang Ke)<\/li>\n
    • drama\/mex (Gerardo Naranjo)<\/li>\n
    • Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)<\/li>\n
    • Election 2 (Johnnie To)<\/li>\n
    • Failure to Launch (Tom Dey)<\/li>\n
    • Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso)<\/li>\n
    • Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)<\/li>\n
    • Flandres (Bruno Dumont)<\/li>\n
    • For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest)<\/li>\n
    • The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)<\/li>\n
    • Glory Road (James Gartner)<\/li>\n
    • Glue (Alexis Dos Santos)<\/li>\n
    • Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)<\/li>\n
    • The Hawk Is Dying (Julian Goldberger)<\/li>\n
    • Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (Albert Serra)<\/li>\n
    • The Host (Bong Joon-ho)<\/li>\n
    • I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)<\/li>\n
    • Idiocracy (Mike Judge)<\/li>\n
    • Inside Man (Spike Lee)<\/li>\n
    • Jupiter’s Dance (Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye)<\/li>\n
    • Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1) (Nathaniel Dorsky)<\/li>\n
    • Kodak (Tacita Dean)<\/li>\n
    • Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan)<\/li>\n
    • Little Children (Todd Field)<\/li>\n
    • Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton)<\/li>\n
    • Longing (Valeska Grisebach)<\/li>\n
    • Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)<\/li>\n
    • Miami Vice (Michael Mann)<\/li>\n
    • Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams)<\/li>\n
    • Offside (Jafar Panahi)<\/li>\n
    • Once (John Carney)<\/li>\n
    • Over There (Chantal Akerman)<\/li>\n
    • Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)<\/li>\n
    • Paris, je t’aime (Olivier Assayas, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan & Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, G\u00e9rard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalyd\u00e8s, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, & Gus Van Sant)<\/li>\n
    • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)<\/li>\n
    • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski)<\/li>\n
    • A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)<\/li>\n
    • Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)<\/li>\n
    • Reprise (Joachim Trier)<\/li>\n
    • Reverberlin (Michael Snow)<\/li>\n
    • The Right of the Weakest (Lucas Belvaux)<\/li>\n
    • A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)<\/li>\n
    • The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)<\/li>\n
    • She’s the Man (Andy Fickman)<\/li>\n
    • Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)<\/li>\n
    • Slither (James Gunn)<\/li>\n
    • Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis)<\/li>\n
    • Suely in the Sky (Karim A\u00efnouz)<\/li>\n
    • Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)<\/li>\n
    • Taxidermia (Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi)<\/li>\n
    • This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick)<\/li>\n
    • 300 (Zack Snyder)<\/li>\n
    • United 93 (Paul Greengrass)<\/li>\n
    • Volver (Pedro Almod\u00f3var)<\/li>\n
    • Wild Tigers I Have Known (Cam Archer)<\/li>\n
    • The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)<\/li>\n
    • Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This is a dynamic list, so it\u2019ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2006 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch) Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) Old Joy (Kelly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19830,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/19830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}