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Essential Films of 2006
Favorites
Apocalypto
Borat
Casino Royale (007)
Children of Men
The Fountain
Little Children
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
The Holiday
Inside Man
Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
The Prestige
The Pursuit of Happyness
Honorable mention
Blood Diamond
Click
Idiocracy
The Illusionist
La Moustache (it really deserves a category of its own - thanks, Matt Westermeyer :) )
Little Miss Sunshine
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Stranger Than Fiction
All ages
Cars
Happy Feet
Guilty pleasures
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Holiday
The Holiday
Want to see
A Scanner Darkly
Babel
Dreamgirls
The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
Fast Food Nation
Flags of Our Fathers
The Good Shepherd
Half Nelson
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
The Last King of Scotland
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Lives of Others (Germany)
The Queen
Starter for 10
United 93
Underwhelming
The Guardian (Costner and Kutcher in the Coast Guard)
Superman Returns
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Essential music of 2006
Albums
Matthew Ryan - From A Late Night High Rise
Honorable mention
The Killers - Sam’s Town
The greatest songs of 2006
Babybird by Matthew Ryan
Cartoon Music for Superheroes - Albert Hammond Jr.
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
For the Actor by Mates of State
For Reasons Unknown - the Killers
How It Ends by DeVotchKa
In Transit - Albert Hammond Jr.
Knights of Cydonia by Muse
Like U Crazy by Mates of State
Over and Over by Hot Chip
The Past is a Grotesque Animal by Of Montreal
Read My Mind - the Killers
Remember Me by Cat Power
Rose Of My Heart by Johnny Cash
To Go Home by M. Ward
Yours to Keep by Teddybears f. Neneh Cherry
2006 Playlists by Month
January
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Sam’s Town - the Killers
Why Do I Keep Counting? - the Killers
February
Babybird - Matthew Ryan
How It Ends - DeVotchKa
Remember Me - Cat Power
To Go Home - M. Ward
Like U Crazy - Mates of State
March
Rose Of My Heart - Johnny Cash
June
For the Actor - Mates of State
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
July
Over and Over - Hot Chip
Yours to Keep - Teddybears f. Neneh Cherry
August
The Past is a Grotesque Animal - Of Montreal
Cartoon Music for Superheroes - Albert Hammond Jr.
Read My Mind - the Killers
September
In Transit - Albert Hammond Jr.
For Reasons Unknown - the Killers
October
Bling (Confession of a King) - the Killers
November
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
The River Is Wild - the Killers
December
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