This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2005

i did...we swapped movies!

Where? At Toronto?

Decent trio, jaymc.

I'll take the first two and I'll let the third one in the bedroom on a pass, as long as he holds the door for Jake Gyllenhaal, Eric Bana, and Topher Grace.

OMG Alfred, I thought about naming every single one of these on my list as well.

http://www.zelluloid.de/images/szenen/41610b8925c0c.jpg

Oh duh, add Celia Weston and Amy Adams to my supporting actors for Junebug.

I'm amused Morbius loved Me and You and Everyone Smug Idea We Ever Stole from David Byrne's True Stories and The Constant Gardener.

I wasn't expecting much from Miranda July and was pleasantly surprised, Alfred, but I haven't seen the Byrne movie in 20 years. (plus stealing good ideas can work) And I haven't seen TCG, that was someone else.

Looks good to me.

Morb, Yehuda was actually in Munich for about three seconds. He's the Israeli soldier who picks Eric Bana up at the airport for debriefing and shakes his hand.

Good to great, but it's not the same as catching them on their first run. I had to wait till November to rent Tropical Malady, for example.

Did anyone link the Film Comment readers' poll yet? They have Crash in their top 20.

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, U.S.) (1)
2. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai, China/Hong Kong/France) (2)
3. Good Night, And Good Luck (George Clooney, U.S.)(11)
4. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, U.S.) (7)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, U.S./Canada) (5)
6. Capote (Bennett Miller, U.S.) (10)
7. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, U.S.) (6)
8. Match Point (Woody Allen, U.K./U.S.) (21)
9. Munich (Steven Spielberg, U.S.) (17)
10. The New World (Terrence Malick, U.S.) (25)
11. Caché/Hidden (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy) (4)
12. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, U.S./France) (39)
13. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, U.S.) (19)
14. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, U.S.) (20)
15. The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, U.K./Germany) (32)
16. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, France) (3)
17. Crash (Paul Haggis, U.S) (—)
18. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, U.S.) (16)
19. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, U.S.) (37)
20. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, U.K./U.S.) (34)
21. Head-On (Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey) (15)
22. King Kong (Peter Jackson, U.S.) (48)
23. Junebug (Phil Morrison, U.S.) (29)
24. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, France) (31)
25. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina) (12)
26. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, U.S.) (26)
27. No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, U.S.) (50)
28. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) (13)
29. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) (8)
30. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) (33)
31. Land of the Dead (George Romero, U.S.) (14)
32. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) (36)
33. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, U.S.) (41)
34. The World (Jia Zhangke, China) (9)
35. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) (27)
36. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany) (40)
37. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, U.S.) (—)
38. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan/Taiwan) (22)
39. Walk the Line (James Mangold, U.S.) (—)
40. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, China/Hong Kong) (23)
41. Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright, U.S./U.K.) (46)
42. Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, Ireland/U.K.) (28)
43. The Intruder (Claire Denis, France) (18)
44. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, France) (—)
45. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) (—)
46. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy) (43)
47. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, Netherlands/Israel/Germany/France) (24)
48. Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui, France) (42)
49. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, U.S.) (47)
50. Jarhead (Sam Mendes, U.S.) (—)

Eric, I take it you've seen Yehuda Levi in Yossi & Jagger (I missed) or that was an impactful 3 seconds.

The Oughties are striking me the way '90s music struck Stephin Merritt: best ever for reissues, worst ever for new stuff.

Let Viggo Mortenson rehash the tired clichés of fantasy and thrillers. Moviegoers with hearts, minds and eyes know that Paul Walker is a more significant movie icon. Walker confirms his movie star status with Eight Below.

I'd put K&Q in a rundown of the Respectable Overrateds like this one (thx for alerting me to him, Eric):

http://www.geocities.com/michaelsicinski/2005notgoodenoughformyexactingtaste.htm

Stephin M. is not remotely an idiot, even if he's wrong. I also would not take pop radio of '90-94 over any other era but '94-present. (obv since SM is of my generation, tho I was Indie Rock and he was not -- landing on Merge notwithstanding -- we're more apt to agree).

Alfred, first-time film viewings in pieces? Go to confession.

Terrible year.. There are not 10 movies from 2005 I've seen that I enjoyed. As far as I can tell, there are seven, and there might be more if I watched enough of what's been listed in this thread, but if you really have to dig to find stuff you like, then it's simply not a good year.

01 Palindromes
02 A History Of Violence
03 The Squid And The Whale
04 Sin City
05 Kung Fu Hustle
06 Broken Flowers
07 I Heart Huckabees

08 The Devil And Daniel Johnston

kidding, that was 2006

08 The Baxter

Something like an '05 top 10:

Kings and Queen
Munich
War of the Worlds
Land of the Dead
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Joy of Life
The Devil's Rejects
Forty Shades of Blue
Cinévardaphoto
Palindromes