#142: Top 5 Performances of 2006

Adam

1. Maggie Gyllenhaal — SHERRYBABY

Forest Whitaker — LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

2. Helen Mirren — THE QUEEN

Leonardo DiCaprio — THE DEPARTED

3. Penelope Cruz — VOLVER

Ryan Gosling — HALF NELSON

4. Lee Young-Ae — LADY VENGEANCE

Daniel Craig — CASINO ROYALE

5. Gretchen Mol — NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE

Clive Owen — CHILDREN OF MEN

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Sam

1. Gretchen Mol — NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE

Gael Garcia Bernal — THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP

2. Meryl Streep — DEVIL WEARS PRADA

Ryan Gosling — HALF NELSON

3. Evan Rachel Wood — DOWN IN THE VALLEY

Forest Whitaker — LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

4. Jennifer Aniston — THE BREAK-UP

Ed Norton — DOWN IN THE VALLEY

5. Helen Mirren — THE QUEEN

Will Smith — PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

#141: Top 5 Supporting Performances of 2006

Adam

1. Maggie Gyllenhaal — WORLD TRADE CENTER / STRANGER THAN FICTION

Ray Winstone — THE PROPOSITION

2. Carmen Maura — VOLVER

James McAvoy — THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

3. Abigail Breslin — LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Ben Sliney — UNITED 93

4. Meryl Streep — PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION

Paul Giamatti — THE ILLUSIONIST

5. Rinko Kikuchi — BABEL

Jackie Earle Hailey — LITTLE CHILDREN

* Recorded before seeing Dreamgirls

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Sam

1. Adriana Barraza / Rinko Kikuchi — BABEL

Phillip Seymour Hoffman — M:I:3 

2. Shareeka Epps — HALF NELSON

John C. Reilly — TALLADEGA  NIGHTS

3. Charlotte Gainsbourgh — SCIENCE OF SLEEP

Paul Giamatti — THE ILLUSIONIST

4. Abigail Breslin — LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Oscar Isaac — NATIVITY STORY

5. Nora Zehetner — BRICK

Ben Sliney — UNITED 93

#140: DVDs of 2006

Adam

1. All the President’s Men/Network/Dog Day Afternoon

2. Seven Samurai (Criterion)

3. Wayne-Ford Collection

4. Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition

5. Oldboy (3-Disc)

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Sam

1. Elevator to the Gallows

2. The Conformist

3. Brazil

4. Apocalypse Now: Complete Dossier

5. Talladega Nights/Clerks II

#139: Good Films From 'Bad' Directors

Adam

1. Boyz n’ The Hood

2. Tombstone

3. The Manchurian Candidate

4. Bull Durham

5. Tigerland

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Sam

1. Cinderella Man

2. Big Fish

3. Election

4. Blow Out

5. Get Shorty

#138: Ambitious Movies

Adam

1. Apocalypse Now

2. Reds

3. Breathless

4. Man With a Movie Camera

5. Lord of the Rings Trilogy

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Sam

1. Brokeback Mountain

2. Shortbus

3. Harold & Maude

4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

5. Magnolia

#137: Adrenaline Rushes

Adam

1. The Wild Bunch

2. The Bourne Identity

3. The French Connection

4. Full Metal Jacket/Saving Private Ryan

5. The Hunt for Red October

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Sam

1. Stagecoach

2. Unforgiven

3. Oldboy

4. The Matrix

5. Henry V

#135: Culture Clashes

Adam

1. Treasure of the Sierra Madre

2. Touch of Evil

3. In the Heat of the Night/My Cousin Vinny

4. The Dreamers

5. Stromboli

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6. Witness

7. The Passenger

8. Brother From Another Planet

9. The Last King of Scotland

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Sam

1. The New World

2. Purple Rose of Cairo

3. Fitzcarraldo

4. Dead Man

5. Babel/The Road to Guantanamo

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6. Marie Antoinette

7. The Limey

8. Cabaret

9. Starman

10. Babe: Pig in the City

#134: Sophomore Efforts

Adam

1. Boogie Nights

2. The Elephant Man

3. Drugstore Cowboy/My Own Privatel Idaho

4. Trust

5. Days of Heaven

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Sam

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Adaptation

3. The Graduate

4. Rushmore

5. Shortbus

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Matty Ballgame

1. Jaws

2. Reds

3. Big

4. Raising Arizona

5. Major League