The controversial dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh had intended to make this movie before he was murdered by a Muslim extremist. So Steve Buscemi took over as director and co-writer. He also takes the lead role of Pierre, a snob of a D.C. correspondent who gets his nose out of joint when assigned to interview Katya (Sienna Miller), a sex-kitten actress he ranks below Paris Hilton. The film is unashamedly a claustrophobic exercise, shot in one room in which two characters strip away layers of pretense to get at the truth. Stick with it for Miller's gutsy tour de force and the kick of watching Buscemi, as actor and filmmaker, turn an experiment into a mesmerizing battle of wills.

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."