At Filmcritic.com, Chris Cabin offers a highly eclectic list of the top unreleased (in the US, that is) films of 2007, ranging from Catherine Breillat's The Old Mistress (right) to Mamoru Oshii's The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters. Some of these titles will get a US release in 2008.
A sample commentary:
"For those with strong stomachs only: György Palfi's Taxidermia overloads with imagery that suggests an all-night orgy at a timeshare owned by Monty Python, Jim Henson, and Peter Jackson. A spectacle of the grotesque laid over a generational triptych, the set pieces in Palfi's film range from a pack of wildly-obese eating competitors vomiting into a festering abyss to a Red Army private blowing fire out of his penis while he lusts after the large wife of the general, and, finally, to an act of shocking self-taxidermy that ends up in a museum. Still, the best is a pair of world-class tubbies fornicating outside in rapture of other thoughts: He's eating while she stares at her husband. Palfi's vision is engrossing, extraordinarily visual, and really, really gross at times where most films would just go for gross-out. It's the kind of film Volker Schlöndorff might make if he still had the vitality of his 1970s output."
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Taxidermia, by the way, is Hungary's entry for the 2008 best foreign language film Oscar.