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San Bernardino County Sun - 2006 started out badly, but fall brought the winds of change

San Bernardino County Sun - 2006 started out badly, but fall brought the winds of change
Penny Ditch  |  by www.sbsun.com. All rights reserved. 27.12 | 18:04

  • The sea of hands fighting for control of the airliner in the final shot of ``United 93.''
  • Clive Owen's long-take dash through a battle zone, baby in arms, in ``Children of Men.''
  • The first appearance of Davy Jones and his motley crew from the Flying Dutchman in ``Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

    '' (The Kraken was pretty cool, too.)

  • The eye-searing nude wrestling match between Borat and Azamat that goes on forever in ``Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.''
  • The Pale Man waving his stigmata eye hands while chasing the young heroine in ``Pan's Labyrinth.

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  • Peter O'Toole's beautifully ravaged face in ``Venus.''
  • Pedro Almodovar making fine use of what he calls ``cinema's most spectacular cleavage'' (i.e.

    Penelope Cruz) in ``Volver.''

  • Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen in ``The Queen.''
  • Daniel Craig and Eva Green in ``Casino Royale.

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  • Ryan Gosling and Sharika Epps in ``Half Nelson.''
  • Peter O'Toole and Jodie Whitaker in ``Venus.''
  • Michael Caine playing the wise and funny Flower Power radical in ``Children of Men.

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  • David Bowie as German physicist Nikola Tesla in ``The Prestige.''
  • Grace Zabriskie as the agent of doom paying a neighborly visit in ``Inland Empire.''
  • Fiona Shaw, shredding scenery with an alarming and most entertaining glee, in ``The Black Dahlia.

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  • Clint Eastwood, directing ``Flags of Our Fathers'' and ``Letters From Iwo Jima.''
  • Meryl Streep in ``A Prairie Home Companion'' and ``The Devil Wears Prada.''
  • Bill Nighy in ``Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' and ``Notes on a Scandal.

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  • Richard Linklater with the provocative, if flawed, two-fer ``A Scanner Darkly'' and ``Fast Food Nation.''
  • Sacha Baron Cohen in ``Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' and ``Borat.''
  • Al Gore in ``An Inconvenient Truth.

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  • Harrison Ford in ``Firewall.''
  • An overwhelmed Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane in ``Superman Returns.''
  • M.

    Night Shyamalan as a visionary writer whose work would ``change the world'' in ``Lady in the Water.''

  • Aaron Eckhart and Josh Hartnett making like a practice squad Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce in ``The Black Dahlia.''
  • Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as a real-life couple as opposed to the pretend one they played far more convincingly in ``The Break-Up.

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  • M. Night Shyamalan the director with M. Night Shyamalan the writer in ``Lady in the Water.

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  • Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou in ``The Da Vinci Code.''
  • Russell Crowe and light comedy in ``A Good Year.''
  • Hilary and Haylie Duff in ``Material Girls.

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  • McG and honest emotions in ``We Are Marshall.''
  • ``We support your war of terror!'' Kazakhstan journalist Borat to a Virginia rodeo crowd, much to their delight in ``Borat''
  • ``When you decide to be something, you can be it.

    That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

    '' Michael Sheen, playing a Tony Blair exasperated by the royals in ``The Queen''

  • ``Brad showered quickly, sensing a rare opportunity to have sex with his wife.'' The narrator, summing up the lives of the young married parents of ``Little Children''
  • ``Always do what is right because it is right.

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