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The Best Films of 2006

Written by Christopher Beaubien • April 26, 2008 • 1 Comment

Little Children (dir. Todd Field)
Pan’s Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon)
The Descent (dir. Neil Marshall)
The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
The Proposition (dir. John Hillcoat)
Man Push Cart (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
The King (dir. James Marsh)
Bug (dir. William Friedkin)


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Honourable Selection: AMERICA POST 9/11 TRILOGY

CITIZENFOUR (dir. Laura Poitras, 2014)
The Oath (dir. Laura Poitras, 2010)
My Country, My Country (dir. Laura Poitras, 2006)


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Honourable Selection: STEVE COOGAN VS. ROB BRYDON

The Trip to Italy (dir. Michael Winterbotom, 2014)
The Trip (dir. Michael Winterbotom, 2011)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
(dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2006)


United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass)
Longford (dir. Tom Hopper)
The Illusionist (dir. Neil Burger)
Edmond (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (dir. Larry Charles)
Day Night Day Night (dir. Julia Loktev)
The Queen (dir. Stephen Frears)
Helen (dir. Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor)
Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster)
Inland Empire (dir. David Lynch)


Red Road (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Climates (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Open Window (dir. Mia Goldman)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (dir. Cristi Puiu)
Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
Summer ’04 (Stefan Krohmer)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (dir. Mamoru Hosoda)
Casino Royale (dir. Martin Campbell)
Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre)
Requiem (dir. Hans-Christian Schmid)


Bubble (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Last King of Scotland (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
Offside (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Flags of Our Fathers | Letters from Iwo Jima (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Deliver Us from Evil (dir. Amy Berg)
The Notorious Bettie Page (dir. Mary Harron)
The Free Will (Der Freie Wille) (dir. Matthias Glasner)
Babel (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Marie Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola)


Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (dir. Stanley Nelson)
The Dead Girl (dir. Karen Moncrieff)
The Bridge (dir. Eric Steel)
The Killer Within (dir. Macky Alston)
Joyeux Noel (dir. Christian Carion)
Bamako (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (dir. Adam McKay)
Days of Glory (dir. Rachid Bouchareb)
Monster House (dir. Gil Kenan)
Sleeping Dogs Lie (Stay) (dir. Bobcat Goldthwait)


Blood Diamond (dir. Edward Zwick)
Trance (Transe) (dir. Teresa Villaverde)
Curse of the Golden Flower (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Half Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck)
Conversations with Other Women (dir. Hans Canosa)
Brick (dir. Rian Johnson)
A Prairie Home Companion (dir. Robert Altman)
This Is England (dir. Shane Meadows)
Mon Fils à Moi (dir. Martial Fougeron)
Slither (dir. James Gunn)


Strangers with Candy (dir. Paul Dinello)
Something New (dir. Sanaa Hamri)
The Good Shepard (dir. Robert De Niro)
Apocalypto (dr. Mel Gibson)
Come Early Morning (dir. Joey Lauren Adams)
Old Joy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Lassie (dir. Charles Sturridge)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet) (dir. Susanne Bier)
Rescue Dawn (dir. Werner Herzog)


Thin (dir. Lauren Greenfield)
Friends with Money (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
The Namesake (dir. Mira Nair)
12:08 East of Bucharest (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
The Night Listener (dir. Patrick Stettne)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (dir. Ken Loach)
12 and Holding (dir. Michael Cuesta)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (dir. Kirby Dick)
Hamilton (dir. Matt Potterfield)
The Hoax (dir. Lasse Hallström)


2:37 (dir. Murali K. Thalluri)
Shut Up & Sing (dir. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck)
I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With (dir. Jeff Garlin)
Venus (dir. Roger Michell)
Time (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Hollywoodland (dir. Allen Coulter)
Fast Food Nation | A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater)
Taking Lives (dir. D.J. Caruso)
Idiocracy (dir. Mike Judge)
Ten Canoes (dir. Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr and the People of Ramingining)


Black Snake Moan (dir. Craig Brewer)
Le Petit Lieutenant (dir. Xavier Beauvois)
Syndromes and a Century (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
An Inconvenient Truth (dir. Davis Guggenheim)
Breakfast on Pluto (dir. Neil Jordon)
Manderlay (dir. Lars von Trier)
V for Vendetta (dir. James McTeigue)
Sherrybaby (dir. Laurie Collyer)
Bobby (dir. Emilio Estevez)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (dir. Tom Tykwer)


Slumming (dir. Michael Glawogger)
The Prestige (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Fido (dir. Andrew Currie)
Mon Meilleur Ami (My Best Friend) (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Breaking and Entering (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Jesus Camp (dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady)
Dreamgirls (dir. Bill Condon)
Water (dir. Deepa Mehta)
Akeelah and the Bee (dir. Doug Atchison)
Manufactured Landscapes (dir. Jennifer Baichwal)


Flushed Away (dir. David Bowers and Sam Fell)
A Good Year (dir. Ridley Scott)
Clerks II (dir. Kevin Smith)
Das Fräulein (dir. Andrea Štaka)
Tekkonkinkreet (dir. Michael Arias)
Quinceañera (dir. Richard Glatzer)
Call Me Ahostino (dir. Christine Laurent)
Dark Blue Almost Black (dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo)


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  • Miss Soo

    perfume: story of a murder.. very much enjoyed.. the filming style reminded me of the fall. Even though he was the killer i was still on his side… haha that sounded bad

    pan’s labyrinth.. i love the director.. he also directed “the Devil’s backbone” that movie was good.. just scary, dark, evil, sad and good story…lets just say i’ve never watched a sad and scary movie combination before.. i’m glad i watched it with my sister and not alone in my room.