Golden Globes have been awarded (I guess I’m OK with Babel, but I still can’t believe Bobby was even in the running), Oscar nominations will be announced next week (I’ve a feeling the fun-but-flawed Dreamgirls will be up for Best Picture), and as we enter late January I’m probably the last major American film critic (hee) to post a best-of list.

But I’ve been busy, and ’06 deserves a bit more than a haiku intro.

Because it was a damn interesting year in cinema.

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The winners in the TIG Best Northwest Releases of 2006 Readers' Poll, including BOAT, the Decemberists, the Long Winters, Band of Horses, the Thermals, and um, 45 more.

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The Knife breathe life (which is on odd phrase to use with this) into a genre that seemed to be floundering in the death-throes of Trent Reznor's bloated Nine Inch Nails and the remains of Ministry.

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