2007 Class of The World’s Most Beautiful Automobiles

The Lamborghini Reventón has been named L’Automobile più Bella del Mondo. Translation: The World’s Most Beautiful Automobile.
It earned this honor in the Special Models category of this annual automotive fashion show, recently held for the fifteenth time at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy.
There are eleven categories in all, though the Special Models category is generally considered to be the big winner. Other cats include your various sizes of sedans, coupes, convertibles, station wagons, crossovers, sports cars and concept cars.
The judging panel included artists, architects, designers, a historian, and a journalist.
We like the Reventón and would even buy one if we had €1 million — and an invitation — lying around, but we don’t know if it’s the most beautiful car in the world.
One vehicle we did expect to see on the list is the Aston Martin DBS in the Sports Car category, followed in second place by the supremely tasty Maserati GranTurismo.
Lexus should also be happy with its LS 460 deemed the second most beautiful large sedan in the world. What’s more beautiful than the LS 460? Why the LS 600h, of course. Follow the jump for the full list of this year’s winners.

L’Automobile piu Bella del Mondo Award winners:

Citycar and small car: Fiat 500 - 18 points
Second place: Mazda2, 5 points;

Medium sedan (2 volumes): Fiat Bravo - 15 points
Second place: Peugeot 308, 9 points

Medium sedan (3 volume): Mercedes C-Class - 14 points
Second place: Audi A4, 11 points

Large sedan: Lexus LS 600h - 11 points
Second place: Lexus LS 460, 6 points

Coupe: Audi A5 - 13 points
Second place: BMW 1-Series Coupe, 6 points

Convertible and Spider: Opel GT - 11 points
Second place: BMW 3-Series Convertible, 9 points

Sports car: Aston Martin DBS - 10 points
Second place: Maserati GranTurismo, 7 points

Station wagon: Mercedes C-Class SW - 12 points
Second place: Volvo V70, 6 points

Crossover: Volkswagen Tiguan - 8 points
Second place: Nissan Qashqai, 7 points

Special Edition: Lamborghini Reventón - 14 points

Concept car: Renault Laguna Coupe Concept - 12 points
Second place: Volvo XC60, 5 points

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World's Most Beautiful Girl in 2007

Hollywood's famous free spirit shows her true colors and spills (almost) all her beauty secrets There's something great about real life," says Drew Barrymore. "You know, what you see is what you get." Although in her case, you're never really sure what that's going to be. "Some days I feel preppy," she says. "Some days I feel rock 'n' roll. Some days I feel hippie. Some days I feel glamorous. Some days I feel like a rebellious 13-year-old boy. And I think all are acceptable." We're not the only ones in love with this cultural chameleon. Barrymore was recently named CoverGirl's newest model for her "fresh natural beauty" and "energetic yet authentic spirit." That kind of compliment lights up her face – and more. Being named PEOPLE's cover girl "made my peacock feathers shine in the golden-hour light and extend to the heavens," she says, giggling. The 32-year-old actress, whose drama Lucky You opens on May 4, got comfortable with PEOPLE's Alexis Chiu, plopping down on a hotel bed and revealing her loves (yellow eye shadow), hates (zits!) and other secrets to her low-key beauty philosophy. When do you feel most beautiful? Right after I've worked out and I'm sweating all over the place and my face is two different colors of white and red and my hair is half wet, half dry and I look like I'm about to have a heart attack. I feel like I've changed the shape of my body temporarily into something more flexible and strong. When do you feel least beautiful? When someone makes a really snap judgment. It just feels below the belt. . . . You just feel kind of corroded and gross inside. I think that ends up reflecting on the way your face looks. You love the natural look, but do you also love getting glam? We as girls have that Cinderella fantasy of dress-up. So whenever you get the opportunity to have people make your face up and do your hair and put you in an outfit, it's a fantasy. And it's just so much fun and such a luxury. How did your relationship with your looks change when you turned 30? For some reason, since I turned 30 this little crew comes in the middle of the night and they sew little sausages under my eyes! I found some great new eye patches that are so awesome. They're by Talika. They just take away the puffiness. You put them on for 20 minutes and they're genius.

What about skin care?
I'm trying to be better about sunblock. Whenever I get a tan, a mustache comes out! It's not sexy.

And makeup?
I wear a lot more eyeliner now. I used to be more about red lips and pale skin. Now I'm sort of more about nude lips and eyeliner.

What's your basic beauty routine?
I always wash my face at night. I'm a face-washing obsessive-compulsive. I'm of a one-track mind to have clear skin. It makes me feel good.

Any home beauty remedies?
No. If I get a zit, I pretty much just have to cry.

How does being happy contribute to looking good?
I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they're drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it's really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that's a whole other level of beauty.

What gets you through the times when being happy is a challenge?
I talk to my friends a lot. I go to therapy. It's about working through it, because if you don't, it'll rear its ugly head at some point.



Any beauty rules for dating?
The only fundamental rule for me is to just be yourself. Let your freak-flag fly, and if someone doesn't get you, move on. [Recently, Barrymore has been spending time with director Spike Jonze, but she declines to talk about the relationship.]

Have you picked up any beauty tips from your girlfriends?
White eyeliner is something my girlfriend just turned me onto, which I've kind of known about but hadn't really practiced. My girlfriends will teach me how to bronze properly so that I don't look like I'm in the sixth grade with, like, the chin line.

What about Cameron Diaz? Do you two share makeup or accessories?
We share lots of things. We get ready together and stuff – that's one of the best parts of being a girl.

How does your diet affect your looks?
If I eat healthy, I feel healthy. If I eat a bunch of crap, I feel like crap. But I can't be disciplined all the time. I love those days where I just pig out and have the biggest breakfast on the planet with all my girlfriends and we talk about the night before.

What are you insecure about?
I always wished I were taller [she's 5'4"]. Especially going to concerts – I really can't see! But I am what I am. I'm grateful. I'm not gonna complain.

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100 most beautiful films in the world

2007 - According to the film magazine Cahiers du cinema, the 100 most beautiful films in the world.



Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton
The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) - Jean Renoir
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (L’Aurore) - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
L’Atalante - Jean Vigo
M - Fritz Lang
Singin’ in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) - Marcel Carné
The Searchers - John Ford
Greed - Erich von Stroheim
Rio Bravo - Howard Hawkes
To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch
Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
Contempt (Le Mépris) - Jean-Luc Godard
Tales of Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari) - Kenji Mizoguchi
City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
The General - Buster Keaton
Nosferatu the Vampire - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
The Music Room - Satyajit Ray
Freaks - Tod Browning
Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) - Jean Eustache
The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin
The Leopard (Le Guépard) - Luchino Visconti
Hiroshima, My Love - Alain Resnais
The Box of Pandora (Loulou) - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
Pickpocket - Robert Bresson
Golden Helmet (Casque d’or) - Jacques Becker
The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph Mankiewitz
Moonfleet - Fritz Lang
Diamond Earrings (Madame de…) - Max Ophüls
Pleasure - Max Ophüls
The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
The Adventure - Michelangelo Antonioni
Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein
Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock
Ivan the Terrible - Sergei M. Eisenstein
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
The Wind - Victor Sjöström
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
The Crowd - King Vidor
8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
La Jetée - Chris Marker
Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard
Confessions of a Cheat (Le Roman d’un tricheur) - Sacha Guitry
Amarcord - Federico Fellini
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) - Jean Cocteau
Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder
Some Came Running - Vincente Minnelli
Gertrud - Carl Theodor Dreyer
King Kong - Ernst Shoedsack & Merian J. Cooper
Laura - Otto Preminger
The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows - François Truffaut
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
The Dead - John Huston
Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch
It’s a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
Monsieur Verdoux - Charlie Chaplin
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer
À bout de souffle - Jean-Luc Godard
Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
La Grande Illusion - Jean Renoir
Intolerance - David Wark Griffith
A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne) - Jean Renoir
Playtime - Jacques Tati
Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini
Livia (Senso) - Luchino Visconti
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
Van Gogh - Maurice Pialat
An Affair to Remember - Leo McCarey
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
The Scarlet Empress - Joseph von Sternberg
Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi
Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar
The Party - Blake Edwards
Tabu - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
The Bandwagon - Vincente Minnelli
A Star Is Born - George Cukor
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday - Jacques Tati
America, America - Elia Kazan
El - Luis Buñuel
Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich
Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone
Daybreak (Le Jour se lève) - Marcel Carné
Letter from an Unknown Woman - Max Ophüls
Lola - Jacques Demy
Manhattan - Woody Allen
Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
My Night at Maud’s (Ma nuit chez Maud) - Eric Rohmer
Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) - Alain Resnais
The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin
Scarface - Howard Hawks
Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio de Sica
Napoléon - Abel Gance

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