2005 films ranked

Submitted by ephender on Thu, 11/03/2005 - 09:11
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  1. ****

  3. ***½
  4. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
  5. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
  6. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
  7. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)

  9. ***
  10. Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
  11. Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda)
  12. The Joy of Life (Jenni Olson)
  13. Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman)
  14. The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
  15. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
  16. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie)
  17. Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré)

  19. **½
  20. Palindromes (Todd Solandz)
  21. Red Eye (Wes Craven)
  22. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
  23. Caché (Michael Haneke)
  24. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
  25. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
  26. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
  27. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
  28. The Soup, One Morning (Takahashi Izumi)
  29. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)

  31. **
  32. The New World (Terrence Malick)
  33. Roll Bounce (Malcolm D. Lee)
  34. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
  35. Masters of Cinema: "Homecoming" (Joe Dante)
  36. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
  37. À Toute de Suite (Benoît Jacquot)
  38. Ballets russes (Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine)
  39. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-Duk)
  40. Clean (Olivier Assayas)
  41. Armwrestler from Solitude (Lisa Munthe & Helen Ahlsson)
  42. 5x2 (François Ozon)

  44. *½
  45. Bear Cub (Luis Miguel Albaladejo)
  46. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  47. Capote (Bennett Miller)
  48. Match Point (Woody Allen)
  49. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
  50. Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch)
  51. Kung Fu Hustle (Steven Chow)
  52. TV Party (Danny Vinik)
  53. Cote d'Azur (Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau)
  54. King of the Corner (Peter Riegert)
  55. The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
  56. Nine Lives (Rodrigo García)

  58. *
  59. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
  60. The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha)
  61. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (Ron Berger & Dan Klores)
  62. Proof (John Madden)
  63. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
  64. Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
  65. Fun with Dick and Jane (Dean Parisot)
  66. Starkiss: Circus Girls in India (Chris Relleke & Jascha de Wilde)
  67. Seven Days, Seven Nights (Joel Cano)

  69. ½
  70. The Legend of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
  71. Cry_Wolf (Jeff Wadlow)
  72. Harry and Max (Christopher Munch)
  73. The Man Who Copied (Jorge Furtado)
  74. The Boys and Girl of County Clare (John Irvin)
  75. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)

  77. 0
  78. Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (Adam Shankman)
  79. Yours, Mine and Ours (Raja Gosnell)
  80. The Work and the Glory: American Zion (Sterling Van Wagenen)

  82. Hated so much I think I looped back to liking them again.
  83. Crash (Paul Haggis)
Author Comments: 

More or less based on on first theatrical showing in the Twin Cities, MN... or, failing that, a DVD release. Towards the top of the lists is the Dan Sallitt color coding system to designate the flaming masterpieces from the almosts, et al.

I know you can just highlight the recent changes, but I'll put everything new in bold.

My favorite performances of the year, if you were curious:

Leading Performance

  • Mathieu Amalric, Kings and Queen
  • Luigi Lo Cascio, The Best of Youth
  • Dina Korzun, Forty Shades of Blue
  • Nick Nolte, Clean
  • Sharon Wilkins, Palindromes

    Supporting Performance

  • Jean-Marc Barr, Cote d'Azur
  • Eric Bogosian, King of the Corner
  • Sid Haig, The Devil's Rejects
  • Tilda Swinton, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Robin Wright Penn, Nine Lives
    • Kza11/19/2005

    Yours, Mine and Ours? Raja Gosnell? Please tell me this was an assignment.

    ephender11/19/2005

    Oh yes. Actually, it turned into a double assignment. Just like the movie, doubling my pleasure.

    Kza11/19/2005

    Oh man, have a cookie. Better yet, have a purple heart.

    The Family Stone was the other half, I assume? And I'd heard good things about that, too. (Or maybe it was just David Poland.)

    ephender11/19/2005

    Actually, the double duty is referring to the fact that I'm writing about Yours, et al for two publications... in addition to a review of Stone (which is a g-d masterpiece in comparison).

    auto_matt_ic12/30/2005

    Aw, they're making you watch "Fun with Dick and Jane" when we really need to know what you think about "Match Point" and "Good Night" and "Brokeback" etc. etc.

    I hope the new Varda gets to DVD soon.

    ephender12/31/2005

    That was just something I had to aquiesce to for a Christmas afternoon movie with old friends. Its central premise is really pretty foul.

    Brokeback on Wednesday I think. And, yeah, I haven't heard anything yet about a CinevardaDVD yet, but I can only hope that it arrives soon so that I can watch the reels in the correct order. (grrr... fucking U of M Bell cinema...)

    Hair02/16/2006

    No offense but I don't see why everyone's bowing down to Land of the Dead. The movie did absolutely nothing to me. I love Romero's stuff (minus Day), but really didn't find anything special about this one whatsoever. I was disappointed, really.

    ephender02/16/2006

    None taken in the sense that I like it the least of the quadrilogy. I'm more concerned with defending Day of the Dead, which I think is maybe the series' best.

    Hair02/16/2006

    Please, do. :D

    ephender02/17/2006

    That's the review I wrote. (Unless you're making a funny...)