Some friends and I have been having a discussion about our  favorite movies from 2007. Sometimes it’s difficult for me to tell if a movie actually came out in 2007 because movies take a while to make it to the Tri Cities. And good movies, anything out of the mainstream, don’t stay long.

So, it’s really been a discussion of movies we saw for the first time in 2007. For first place, I’d choose The Lives of Others–a great film about the power of beauty and art to transforms lives. It won the Best Foreign Film 2006, but I didn’t see it until 2007. Without a good car chase, it had little hope of getting to the Tri Cities its first year out. Then I’d pick Once– A small jewel of a film with great music and a refreshingly moral ending.

Atonement, Juno–I saw them both last week, and wonderful as they are, I can’t count them on my 2007 list.