Sunday, June 17, 2007

The Top 25 Movies of 2005

(from February 2006.)

THE TOP 25 MOVIES OF THE YEAR:

1. Café Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. The New World (Terrence Malick)
3. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
4. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
5. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
6. Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
7. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
8. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
10. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
11. Yes (Sally Potter)
12. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
13. Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
14. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow/Steve Carrel)
15. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
16. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
17. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
18. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
19. The Baxter (Michael Showalter)
20. Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
21. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
22. Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais)
23. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean)
24. March of the Penquins (Luc Jacquet)
25. Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk)

INTRIGUING, BUT FRUSTRATING

Sin City (Robert Rodruigez & Frank Miller)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
War of the Worlds (Stephen Spielberg)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Munich (Stephen Spielberg)

BEST REVIVALS

The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1958)

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