Sure, we could spend this awards-and-ten-best-lists season arguing about the virtues of There Will Be Blood versus those of No Country for Old Men or pitting Persepolis against Ratatouillie, and we'd have fun. But ultimately, arguing about movies that people actually had the chance to see in theaters is for sissies. There is another world where critics and geeks have it out in their equivalent to one of Pynchon's secret wars, debating over which great unknown movie's failure to be snatched up for proper distribution constitutes the biggest disgrace, and no fewer than 106 of these worthies performed the public service of voting in indieWIRE's seventh annual on-line poll to select the best undistributed film of 2007.
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