2007
Below is a list of all the eligible independent films
for the year 2007. Many visitors to the site have e-mailed asking for
recommendations and/or reviews of independent movies. The members of
the
Chlotrudis Awards Nominating
Committee see lots of independent films and on the Chlotrudis Comments
page, we will share our thoughts or reviews of the year's movies. Underlined
films lead to Chlotrudis reviews. If you have a suggestion, or a film
you'd like to see commented on by Chlotrudis Members, send us an e-mail.
Now let's get on with the comments!
Take a look at the reviews for 2006, 2005, 2004,
2003, 2002,
and 2001
* indicates availability on DVD
ELIGIBLE FILMS |
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| * 2 Days in Paris |
* 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (d) |
* 12:08
East of Bucharest |
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| Across the Universe |
* Adam's
Apples |
* After
the Wedding |
| Agnes
Martin: With My Back to the World (d) |
* Air Guitar Nation (d) |
Alice
Neel (d) |
| * Angel-A |
Angels in the Dust (d) |
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (d) |
| * Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres |
* Arctic Tale (d) |
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The |
| Atonement |
Autism:
the Musical (d) |
* Avenue
Montaigne |
| * Away
From Her |
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| Bamako |
Band's
Visit, The |
Before
the Devil Knows You're Dead |
| * Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon |
Bella |
Belle
Toujours |
| * Beyond
the Gates |
* Black Book |
* Black Irish |
| * Blame it on Fidel |
* Blood
and Tears (d) |
* Boss of It All, The |
| * Boy Culture |
* Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down, The |
Brand
Upon the Brain |
| * Breaking
and Entering |
* Broken
English |
* Brooklyn Rules |
| Bubble,
The |
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| * Cantante, El |
Case of the Grinning Cat, The (d) |
* Casting About (d) |
| Cats
of Mirikitani, The (d) |
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Cautiva |
* Chalk |
| China
Blue (d) |
* Civic Duty |
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Climates |
| * Close
to Home |
* Colma:
The Musical |
* Color Me Kubrick |
| * Comedy of Power, The |
Control |
Cool School, The (d) |
| * Crazy
Love (d) |
* Czech Dream (d) |
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| Dans
Paris |
Darfur Now (d) |
Darjeeling
Limited, The |
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Day Night Day Night |
* Day Watch |
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Days of Glory |
| * Dead
Girl, The |
Death
at a Funeral |
* December Boys |
| Delirious |
* Devil
Came on Horseback, The (d) |
*
Diggers |
| * Disappearances |
* District, The |
Diving
Bell and the Butterfly, The |
| Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (d) |
* Dreaming Lhasa |
Duck |
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| * Eagle vs. Shark |
* Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds |
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Election |
| * Everything's Gone Green |
* Exiled |
* Exterminating Angels |
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| * Factory
Girl |
* Fay
Grim |
* Fido |
| Fierce
People |
* First Snow |
* Flanders |
| * Flying Scotsman, The |
For the Bible Tells Me So (d) |
Forever (d) |
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| * Ghosts
of Cité Soleil (d) |
* Glastonbury (d) |
* God Grew Tired of Us (d) |
| * Golden
Door, The |
Goya's Ghosts |
* Grbavica:
The Land of My Dreams |
| Great
World of Sound |
Gypsy Caravan (d) |
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| Half Moon |
Hannah
Takes the Stairs |
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Helvetica (d) |
| Hip Hop Project, The (d) |
Hollywood Dreams |
Honeydripper |
| * Host, The |
* Hot Fuzz |
* How Much Do You Love Me? |
| How to
Cook Your Life (d) |
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| * I
Don't Want to Sleep Alone |
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With |
* Illegal Tender |
| I'm Not
There |
In
Search of Mozart (d) |
* In the Pit |
| In the Shadow of the Moon (d) |
In the Valley of Elah |
* Interview |
| * Into Great Silence (d) |
Into
the Wild |
Introducing the Dwights |
| Ira and Abby |
Islander |
* Italian, The |
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| Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (d) |
Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (d) |
* Jindabyne |
| Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (d) |
* Jonestown:
The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (d) |
* Joshua |
| * Journey from the Fall |
Juno |
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| * Kettle of Fish |
Kiki
Smith: Squatting the Palace (d) |
King Corn (d) |
| King of California |
King
of Kong, The: A Fistful of Quarters (d) |
Kurt
Cobain: About a Son (d) |
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| * Lady Chatterley |
Lake
of Fire (d) |
Lars
and the Real Girl |
| Last
Winter, The |
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Letters from Iwo Jima |
Life
of Reilly, The (d) |
| * Lights
in the Dusk |
* Linda,
Linda, Linda |
* Live Free or Die |
| * Live-in
Maid |
* Lives
of Others, The |
Look |
| * Lookout, The |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Lust,
Caution |
| Lynch (one) (d) |
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| * Man of My Life, The |
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Manufactured Landscapes (d) |
Margot
at the Wedding |
| * Matthew Barney: No Restraint (d) |
* Maxed
Out (d) |
* Method, The |
| Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint |
* Miss Potter |
Moliere |
| Monastery,
The: Mr. Vig & the Nun (d) |
Music Within |
* My
Best Friend |
| My Kid Could Paint That (d) |
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| * Namesake, The |
No
Country for Old Men |
* No End
in Sight (d) |
| * Nomad |
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| O Jerusalem |
* Offside |
* Once |
| * Opal Dream |
* Operation Homecoming (d) |
Orphanage, The |
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| * Page Turner, The |
* Pan's Labyrinth |
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Paprika |
| * Paris,
Je T'aime |
* Perfume: The Story of a Murderer |
Persepolis |
| Pete Seeger: the Power of Song (d) |
* Petit
Lieutenant, Le |
* Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman |
| Pixar Story, The (d) |
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Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (d) |
Price
of Sugar, The (d) |
| * Prisoner, The: Or, How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (d) |
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Private Fears in Public Places |
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind |
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Protagonist (d) |
* Provoked |
* Puccini for Beginners |
| Punk's Not Dead (d) |
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| Rails & Ties |
Rape of Europa, The (d) |
* Red
Doors |
| * Red
Road |
Redacted |
* Rescue
Dawn |
| Reservation
Road |
Right
at Your Door |
Rocket Science |
| Romance
& Cigarettes |
* Romantico (d) |
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| * Sacco and Vanzetti (d) |
Savages,
The |
* Screamers (d) |
| * Secret
Life of Words, The |
Self-Medicated |
* Severance |
| Sharkwater (d) |
* Show Business: The Road to Broadway (d) |
* Sicko
(d) |
| Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace |
Singing Revolution, The (d) |
* Situation, The |
| * Skinwalkers |
Sleuth |
* Smiley Face |
| * Snow
Cake |
Sound of the Soul (d) |
Southland
Tales |
| * Starter for 10 |
Starting
Out in the Evening |
* Steal a Pencil for Me (d) |
| Steel City |
Steep (d) |
* Stephanie
Daley |
| Strength
and Honour |
Summercamp!
(d) |
*
Sunshine |
| * Syndromes and a Century |
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| * Talk
to Me |
* Tears
of the Black Tiger |
* Ten,
The |
| * Ten Canoes |
Terror's Advocate (d) |
Them |
| There
Will Be Blood |
* This is England |
* Tierney Gearon: the Mother Project (d) |
| * Time |
Trade |
* Treatment, The |
| * Triad
Election |
* TV Set, The |
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Unconscious |
*
Unreasonable Man, An (d) |
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| * Valet,
The |
* Venus |
* Vie
En Rose, La |
| * Vitus |
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Waitress |
Walk into the Sea, A (d) |
Walker, The |
| War/Dance (d) |
Wayward
Cloud, The |
What Love Is |
| What
Would Jesus Buy? (d) |
* Who
the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (d) |
* Wild
Tigers I Have Known |
| * Wind Chill |
* Wind
That Shakes the Barley, The |
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (d) |
| Wristcutters:
A Love Story |
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| Yacoubian
Building, The |
* Year of the Dog, The |
Yokohama
Mary |
| * You Kill Me |
Youth Without Youth |
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| Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (d) |
* Zoo (d) |
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Festival Films |
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| 4
Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days |
7
Years |
200
Pounds Beauty |
| America
the Beautiful (d) |
American
Crime, An |
Audience
of One (d) |
| Banishment,
The |
Banquet,
The |
Barcelona
(A Map) |
| Big
Bang Love: Juvenile A |
Billo |
Black
and White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
(d) |
| Black
Butterfly |
Born
Again (d) |
Chansons
d'Amour, Les |
| Clouds
Over Conakry |
Congorama |
Cowboy
Angels |
| Custodio,
El |
Dasepo
Naughty Girls |
Devil
Dared Me To, The |
| Encounters
at the End of the World (d) |
Euphoria |
Everybody
Wants to Be Italian |
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Falafel |
Fiestapatria |
| First
Time I Was Twenty, The |
Four
Sheets to the Wind |
Fräulein |
| Full
Grown Men |
Gradually |
Guest
of Life, A |
| Help
Me, Eros |
High
and Outside (d) |
Hollywood
Chinese (d) |
| I
Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single |
In
the Land of Merry Misfits |
Inner
Life of Martin Frost, The |
| Isabella |
Jihad
for Love, A (d) |
Last
Man, The |
| Little
Kiss, A |
Love
and Honor |
Love
Comes Lately |
| Love
for Sale |
Man
From London, The |
Man
of Two Havanas (d) |
| Meanwhile |
Metrosexual,
The |
Million
Calorie March (d) |
| Miss
Universe 1929 (d) |
Mo |
Monkey
Warfare |
| Murderers |
My
Son |
My
Winnipeg |
| Narrow
Path, The |
Once
in a Summer |
Only
One, The |
| Optimists,
The |
Past,
The |
Perfect
Creature |
| Picture
of Dorian Gray, The |
Ping
Pong Playa' |
Pink |
| Ploy |
Poet,
The |
Pope's
Toilet, The |
| Primo
Levi's Journey |
Reprise |
Retribution |
| Rome
Rather Than You |
Row
Hard No Excuses (d) |
Salty
Air |
| Show
Must Go On, The |
Silence,
The |
Slingshot |
| Spiral |
Stealth |
Summer
Palace |
| Taxidermia |
Team
Everest: A Himlayan Journey (d) |
Tekkon
Kinkreet |
| Tell
No One |
Teranga
Blues |
Tracey
Fragments, The |
| Trade |
Tuya's
Marriage |
Union:
the Business Behind Getting High (d) |
| Unknown
Woman, An |
Vieille
Maîtresse, Une |
War
of Flower, The |
| With
Your Permission |
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| Ineligible Films |
| Charlie
Wilson's War |
Elizabeth:
the Golden Age |
Gone
Baby Gone |
| A Mighty
Heart |
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