Top Ten of 2005
Submitted by SteveR on Wed, 01/04/2006 - 08:07
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- Comments coming soon (hopefully), but I'll say that I like the first eight a WHOLE lot. The last two are sorta technically "runners-up" since this shit year didn't provide enough strong top-ten kinda flicks. Some other runners-up would be Me and You and Everyone We Know, Land of the Dead, Munich, King Kong, Junebug, The White Diamond, and John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns from "Masters of Horror".
- 1. The New World (Terrence Malick, USA)
- 2. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
- 3. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, USA)
- 4. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
- 5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
- 6. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
- 7. Cache (Michael Haneke, Austria)
- 8. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, USA)
- 9. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, USA)
- 10. Palindromes (Todd Solondz, USA)
- Best Actor: Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
- Best Actress: Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
- Best Supporting Actor: Hmm. Still thinkin'...
- Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
- (Absent because they're on my list for last year: Tropical Malady, Kung Fu Hustle, The World, The Holy Girl, etc.)
Yeah, "Cigarette Burns" was pretty damn cool.
Totally. Definitely my favorite of the series so far. I haven't noticed that any have played since "Cigarette Burns" though. Is the show on haitus right now?
I just assumed the show was taking a break for several reasons (holidays, compulsion by Showtime execs to play repeats for those who need to catch up, apathy caused by suicidal depression of programmers reeling from failure of "Sleeper Cell"). I don't remember hearing anything about the show going away.
Aaaand... cool. Checking my cable guide, it appears that a new episode entitled "Fair Haired Child" plays on Friday. (Is that the McKee?) Sweet.
Also, I think my major quibble with Carpenter's entry was that he kinda, sorta already made this film with Sam Neill. Udo's exit makes those complaints seem irrelevant, though... wow.
Yeah, I couldn't complain about "Cigarette Burns" on those grounds because I've yet to see "In the Mouth of Madness". Udo's exit was truly awesome, and becomes even awesomer when you see the projected images playing out behind the conflicts in the theater, and they look like a Brakhage movie in slow-motion.
Alright, so I'm not the only one who thought of Brakhage there...