Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2006

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2006.

In order to understand the color-coding, the purpose, and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**

2006

The New World* (2nd review)
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Little Children
Paprika
Once
Syndromes and a Century
Army of Shadows*
The Lives of Others
Little Miss Sunshine
Paris Je T’aime
United 93
Miami Vice
The Queen
Babel
This is England
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Still Life*
Casino Royale
The Prestige
The Science of Sleep
The Departed
Stranger Than Fiction
The Host
Cars
Marie Antoinette

The Fall
Half Nelson
The Painted Veil
A Prairie Home Companion (review)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Marie Antoinette
Offside
Away from Her
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
The Namesake
Amazing Grace (review)
Inland Empire
The Illusionist
Tell No One*
The Wind that Shakes the Barley*
Rescue Dawn*
The Fountain
Old Joy
A Scanner Darkly (review)
Flags of Our Fathers
Private Fears in Public Places
Longford
Climates
Inside Man
Perfume: Story of a Murderer
Black Snake Moan
Manufactured Landscapes
Volver
Bella
Monster House
For Your Consideration
God Grew Tired of Us
The Black Dahlia
Mission: Impossible III
The Devil Wears Prada
Wordplay
Notes on a Scandal
Penelope (review)
Fay Grim
The Second Chance
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Akeelah and the Bee

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2006

10 Items or Less 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) 16 Blocks (Richard Donner) 300 A Comedy of Power (Claude Chabrol) Adama Meshuga’at After the Wedding American Dreamz Americanese An Inconvenient Truth An Unreasonable Man Art School Confidential Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) Been Rich All My Life Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike) Billy Wilder Speaks Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) Blame it on Fidel Bled Number One (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) Bobby Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin) Breaking and Entering Broken Trail (Walter Hill) Bug (William Friedkin) Catch a Fire Click Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) Crank (Neveldine/Taylor) Curious George Curse of the Golden Flower Dans Paris Daratt Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) Days of Glory Death of a President Deep Water Deja Vu (Tony Scott) Delirious Deliver Us from Evil Distant (Zeki Demirkubuz) Dreamgirls Dreamland Driving Lessons Ejforija Enemies of Happiness Exiled (Johnny To) Fallen Fast Food Nation Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet) First Flight Flandres Flandres (Bruno Dumont) Flicka Flushed Away Flyboys Friends with Money Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams Hamilton (Matthew Porterfield) Happy Feet Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess (Lav Diaz) Hollywoodland I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang) I Served the King of England Ice Age: The Meltdown Idiocracy (Mike Judge) I’m a Cyborg But That’s Okay (Park Chan-wook) In the Pit Industrial Strength Keaton Infamous Invincible Keeping Up with the Steins Klimt (Raul Ruiz) La Stella che non c’è Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran) Lake of Fire Last Holiday Lights in the Dusk Longing (Valeska Grisebach) Memories of Tomorrow Millions: A Lottery Story Miss Potter Monkey Warfare Mukhsin (Yasmin Ahmad) Mushi-Shi My Best Friend My Country My Country Neil Young: Heart of Gold Open Season Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho) Priceless Private Property Puccini for Beginners Quei loro incontri Quinceañera Rain Dogs (Ho Yuhang) Rang De Basanti Red Road Renaissance Reprise Roving Mars RV Saving Shiloh Scoop Shortbus Shut Up and Sing Snakes on a Plane Something New Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akın) South Pacific: In Concert from Carnegie Hall Stardust: The Bette Davis Story Stephanie Daley Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut Superman Returns Svend Asmussen: The Extraordinary Life and Music of a Jazz Legend The Astronaut Farmer The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier) The Break-Up (Peyton Reed) The Bridge The Da Vinci Code The Dead Girl The Golden Door The Good German (Steven Soderbergh) The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro) The Ground Truth The Guardian The History Boys The Hoax The Holiday The Lake House The Last Winter The OH in Ohio The Omen The Pink Panther The Poet Laureate of Radio The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair The Pursuit of Happyness The Queen The Road to Guantanamo The Teacher (Brillante Mendoza) The U.S. vs. John Lennon The Untouchable The World of Nat King Cole This Film Is Not Yet Rated Time (Kim Ki-duk) Todo todo teros (John Torres) Toots Vanaja Venus Vitus Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo) World Trade Center You Called Me (Sky Hirschkron)

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