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The American Film Institute has come out with their top ten films of 2006, and it did not include "Apocalypto." It did include ETP fan-favorites "Dreamgirls" (we're guessing) and "The Devil Wears Prada" (oh, please, you try not dropping a month's rent on clothes after watching this), plus the evidently-better-than-Oliver-Stone's-version "United 93," Brad Pitt starrer (and disappearer) "Babel," Rachel MacAdam's-boyfriend-on-heroin indie "Half Nelson," evil environmental propaganda cartoon "Happy Feet," Spike Lee's "Inside Man," Clint Eastwood WWII drama "Letters From Iwo Jima" (which tosses Clint a bone after a disappointing box office), indie road-trip super-hit "Little Miss Sunshine" (Steve Carrell supporting-nom watch?) and the succinctly-titled "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Also missing from the list is Scorcese Oscar bait "The Departed."
"Dreamgirls" gets the red carpet treatment from the NYT's The Carpetbagger, incidentally, in really nice-looking and fun-to-watch video featuring David Carr (and a ridiculously lovely Beyonce). ETP was so excited that we decided to check out the trailer on Newsweek, which we'd discovered in the course of our previous post, and we noticed something interesting: The singing in the background is from the 1981 "Dreamgirls" original cast recording, sung by Jennifer Holliday. In the full theatrical trailer it's all Jennifer Hudson, of course (watch it here, it looks pretty sweet); still, it's odd that they would promote the film with the old, highly recognizable version. "Dreamgirls" minutiae for those who care!
AFI also had a panel select the top TV shows of 2006, delighting critics shouting into the wind with "Friday Night Lights" nerds the world 'round by choosing "Battlestar Galactica."
