2007
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2007 (MMVII) is the 7th year of the 3rd millennium, the 7th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.
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Art and culture
- The International Situationist : 1957 – 1972 exhibition opens in Switzerland.
Literature
- Le Rire de résistance by French author Jean-Michel Ribes
- Dandy in the Underworld by Sebastian Horsley
- Lucy, l'espoir by Tanino Liberatore
- Kiki de Montparnasse by Catel Muller & José-Louis Bocquet
- The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse, anthology by Dedalus
Visual culture
- documenta 12
- For the Love of God by Damien Hirst
Music
- † by French band Justice
- Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller by Jonny Greenwood
Film
Tops
- The Banishment by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- The Edge of Heaven by Fatih Akın
- Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg
- Terror's Advocate by Barbet Schroeder
- Funny Games by Michael Haneke
- Teeth by Mitchell Lichtenstein
- Ratatouille by Brad Bird
- Into the Wild by Sean Penn
Guilty pleasures
- Grindhouse by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
Documentary
- Great Expectations - A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture, a documentary film by Jesper Wachtmeister
Television
- The Trap by Adam Curtis
Births
Deaths
- Claude Faraldo, French actor, screenwriter and film director.
- Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author and film theorist.
- Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer.
- Roger Watkins, American film director of Midnight Heat, 1983
- Bob Clark, American film director of Porky's.
- Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist
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