This is a dynamic list, so it’ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2007 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.
- In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
- Zodiac (David Fincher)
- RR (James Benning)
- The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Ratatouille (Bird)
- Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
- No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Other 2007 films I’ve seen
- Across the Universe (Julie Taymore)
- The Aerial (Esteban Sapir)
- Afternoon (Angela Schanelec)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
- At Sea (Peter Hutton)
- Atonement (Joe Wright)
- Because I Said So (Michael Lehmann)
- Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
- Boy A (John Crowley)
- Casting a Glance (James Benning)
- The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
- Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
- Don’t Touch the Axe (Jacques Rivette)
- Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
- Eggs (Semih Kaplanoglu)
- Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
- Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- Ghost Rider (Mark Steven Johnson)
- The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
- Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
- Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino)
- Hairspray (Adam Shankman)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
- Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
- Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
- Juno (Jason Reitman)
- Katyn (Andrzej Wajda)
- Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
- The Man From London (Béla Tarr)
- Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
- The Mist (Frank Darabont)
- Munyurangabo (Lee Isaac Chung)
- My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)
- My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
- Ocean’s Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
- O’Horten (Bent Hamer)
- Our Private Lives (Denis Côté)
- Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
- Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski)
- Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
- Sicko (Michael Moore)
- Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
- Some Photos In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin)
- Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
- The State of the World (omnibus)
- Stomp the Yard (Sylvain White)
- Summit Circle (Bernard Émond)
- Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
- Superbad (Greg Mottola)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
- Tearoom (William E. Jones)
- Things We Lost in the Fire (Susanne Bier)
- To Each His Own Cinema (omnibus)
- Vacation (Thomas Arslan)
- The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)
- We Own the Night (James Gray)
- Wonderful Town (Aditya Assarat)
- You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
- Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)