2007’s BEST…   FIVE LIVE EVENTS • Joanna Newsom, Olympia Theatre • Lisa Germano, Douglas Hyde Gallery • This Dancing Life, choreographed by Sara Rudner, St Michael and John’s Church • Ibsen’s Nora, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, the Schaubuehne, Berlin • Jenny Lindfors, Crawdaddy FIVE EXHIBITIONS • “Zero Degree: The New Image of Thought” curated by Esperanza Collado, Thisisnotashop gallery • “Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection (films, videos and installations from 1963 to 2005)” curated by Gabriele Knapstein and Joachim Jäger, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin • “Michael Snow: Cinema, Installazioni, Video e Arti Visuali” curated by Vittorio di Fagone, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy • “Villes/Cities/Städte”, Raymond Depardon, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin • “Tulsa” and “Teenage Lust”, Larry Clark, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin FIVE LECTURES • Pip Chodorov, “Free Radicals: the story of the Avant-Garde”, Lucca Film Festival • Christopher Doyle, “What I Do When I’m Where I Am”, Kimchi Bar, DEAF • Brian Winston, closing speech at Documentary in the 21st Century conference, DLIADT • Dr. Harvey O’Brien, “Electrocuting the Elephant” at Documentary in the 21st Century conference, DLIADT • Derrick Jensen, “Endgame” (click here and here to listen) FIVE NEW FILMS • Inland Empire (David Lynch) • Nightshots (Stephen Dwoskin) • Medea (Tonino de Bernardi) • We Own the Night (James Gray) • Into the Wild (Sean Penn) FIVE OLD FILMS • Le Lit de la Vierge (Philippe Garrel, 1969) • Route One / USA (Robert Kramer, 1989) • Back and Forth (Michael Snow, 1969) • Carpicci (Carmelo Bene, 1969) • Manuel on the Island of Wonders (Raul Ruiz, 1984) ONE NEW IRISH FILM • Garage (Lenny Abrahamson) FIVE NEW ALBUMS • Ys, Joanna Newsom • In the Maybe World, Lisa Germano • Into the Wild, Eddie Vedder • Modern Times, Bob Dylan • Kala, M.I.A. FIVE OLD ALBUMS • The Absent and the Distant, Corrina Repp, 2006 • Countless Times, Diane Cluck, 2005 • Oh Vanille/Ova Nil, Diane Cluck, 2005 • In My Own Time, Karen Dalton, 1971 • Transatlanticism, Death Cab for Cutie, 2003