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HP's TOP 10 FILMS OF 2007

1. BLADE RUNNER-FINAL CUT-RIDLEY SCOTT.
When it was leaked to the press that HP's #1 film of 2007 was actually made in 1982, the outrage was palpable. To our critics we say "WAKE UP... TIME TO DIE!" Since its creation BR has been the pinnacle of existential sci-fi art films. However one thing always kept it from greatness. That damn scene with the replicant ZHORA crashing through a plate glass store front, played by a burly stunt person in a Ronald McDonald wig (instead of Joanna Cassidy). The Final Cut corrects this horrendous oversight, finally making Bladerunner perfect, and therefore the best thing on the big screen in 2007.

2. THERE WILL BE BLOOD-P.T. ANDERSON.
A marvelous study in greed and fanaticism. The final scene with DD Lewis beating to death a preacher who is an analogy for the very things he hates in himself, (yet is unable to see) is so cathartic you feel like you just had the best guilt laden sex you've ever had. Packer fans will argue he beat on the wrong Eli. Others (Z) might theorize that the courageous Mr. Plainfield was simply killing a vampire, as the young preacher didn't seem to age.

3. SWEENEY TODD-TIM BURTON
The best Burton/Depp team up since Ed Wood. As the gap between the rich and poor continues to widen this film will serve as a blue print for those of us on the bottom.

4.NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN-COHEN BROS.
Death is coming and there is nothing you can do about it. Is this movie about chance? fate?, or the effects of modernity on the archetype of the cowboy? All we know is that it was a better adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel than All the Pretty Horses.

5. BLACK BOOK-PAUL VERHOEVEN
This film was one part Shindler's List, one part The Eagle Has Landed and a dash of Belle de jour. With that mix how could it not make the list. And like Starship Troopers it has lots of good-looking people in uniform.

6.NO END IN SIGHT-CHARLES FERGESON.
What makes this Doc amazing is that it bypasses the whole question of whether or not the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do in the first place, giving even those who thought it was a good idea a reason to be pissed. As mistake after mistake was made in the aftermath, there were people screaming who knew better. Too bad hubris prevented anyone from listening

7. STARDUST-MATHEW VAUGHN.
We here at HP owe a great deal to Neil Gaiman and feel its our responsibility to shamelessly let bias take over in the Top 10 list whenever there is a project released he's associated with. However Bobby Deniro's performance as a gay sky pirate would probably have landed the film here anyway.

8. JUNO-JASON REITMAN.
This film captured that cool "indie" film vibe of the 90's (remember My New Gun). It also gets credit for letting us Arrested Development fans get our fix by putting Bateman and Cera back together (sort of). Besides it was written by that hip ex-stripper from the City Pages and we Minnesotans support our own.

9. HEIMA-DEAN DE BLOIS.
Sigur Ros playing small towns in Iceland interspersed with beautiful shots of the countryside and the people who live there. This was made with us in mind.

10. (TIE) EASTERN PROMISES-CRONENBERG/ RESCUE DAWN-HERZOG.
Two films made by our two favorite directors. While both had fleeting moments of brilliance, both somehow felt HALF ASSED. Put them together and you have the equivalent of one great film.

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