Dynamic Top Tens of 2005

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J · #1 Post by J » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:01 pm

Ocean's Twelve (1/1/05)
Million Dollar Baby (1/17/05)
Sin City (4/2/05)
Kingdom of Heaven (5/6/05)
Star wars episode III (5/20/05)
Duma (8/10/05)
War of the Worlds (9/6/05)
Lord of War (9/18/05)
Drifters (10/7, 10/9/05)

dvdane · #2 Post by **dvdane** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:47 am

Top 10 + best films
1 - Takeshis' (Kitano Takeshi, Japan, 2005)
2 - Pusher 2 (Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark, 2004)
3 - The World (Jia Zhang Ke, China, 2004)
4 - A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, Canada, 2005)
5 - Turtles can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2004)
6 - Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski, India, 2004)
7 - Birth (Jonathan Glazer, US, 2004)
8 â€“ L'intrus (Claire Denis, France, 2004)
9 â€“ Last Days (Gus van Sant, US, 2005)
10 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, US, 2004)

9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom, UK, 2004)
Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney, US, 2005)
Hauru no ugoku shiro (Miyazaki, Japan, 2004)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (George Hickenlooper, US, 2003)
Notre Musique (JL Godard, France, 2004)
Pusher 3 (Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark, 2005)
Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin, France, 2004)
The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell, US, 2004)

Top 3 worst films
1 â€“ BÃ¸lle Bob og Smukke Sally (Rune Bendixen, Denmark, 2005)
Not only is it Danish, but it doesn't even qualify to be called film.

2 â€“ Crash (Paul Haggis, US, 2004)
3 â€“ Fantastic Four (Tim Story, US, 2005)

Lemdog · #3 Post by **Lemdog** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:30 am

1. A History of Violence
2. A Very Long Engagement
3. Last Life in the Universe
4. Kung Fu Hustle
5. March of the Penguins
6. Broken Flowers
7.
8.
9.
10.

So Far. I got more to see before the end of the year.

#4 Post by **Jeff** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:16 am

1. A History of Violence
2. The New World
3. Match Point
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Munich
6. The Squid and the Whale
7. Goodnight and Good Luck
8. Batman Begins
9. Pride & Prejudice
10. Grizzly Man

Also good: Sin City, Capote, The Constant Gardner, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Syriana, Broken Flowers

solaris72 · #5 Post by **solaris72** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:21 am

1. Grizzly Man
2. 2046
3. The White Diamond
4. Serenity
5. Mirrormask
6. A History of Violence
7. Wallace & Gromit
8. Broken Flowers
9. Sin City
10. The Wheel of Time

Anticipating:
Saraband
The New World
The Wild Blue Yonder
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Pinback · #6 Post by **Pinback** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:24 pm

So far:

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (PARK Chan-wook, South Korea)
Frank Miller's Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez, USA)
Green Chair (PARK Chul-soo, South Korea)
Serentiy (Joss Whedon, USA)
Feathers in the Wind (SONG Il-gong, South Korea)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA)
Jenny, Juno (KIM Ho-jun, South Korea)
The President's Last Bang (IM Sang-soo, South Korea)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, UK)

The Fanciful Norwegian · #7 Post by **The Fanciful Norwegian** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:47 am

My prediction: there will be no good movies released in 2005.

Oops I was wrong. Although none of these are actually 2005 movies, so maybe I wasn't:

1. Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin)
2. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen)
3. The World (Jia)

Grimfarrow · #8 Post by **Grimfarrow** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:23 am

L'Intrus
Un Couple Parfait
10 Skies
The Sun
13 Lakes
They Came Back
Capote

pianocrash · #9 Post by **pianocrash** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:55 pm

Vera Drake (Leigh)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai)
Head-On (Akin)
3-Iron (Ki-duk)
The Holy Girl (Martel)
Last Days (Van Sant)
Broken Flowers (Jarmusch)
Grizzly Man (Herzog)
The Squid & the Whale (Baumbach)

Honorable mention:

Me & You & Everyone We Know (July)
6ixtynin9 (Ratanaruang)
Last Life in the Universe (Ratanaruang)
The Aristocrats (Provenza)
Yes (Potter)
Keane (Kerrigan)

ben d banana · #10 Post by **ben d banana** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:12 am

Me And You And Everyone We Know
Dear Wendy
Palindromes
Bad Education
Cache
A History of Violence
Los Angeles Plays Itself
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Old Boy
Manderlay

also rans: The White Diamond / 2046 / Kung Fu Hustle / A Tale of Cinema / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and I'm no Tim Burton fan) / Good Night, and Good Luck / Broken Flowers / Grizzly Man (although I was excruciatingly tired so it may deserve better) / Downfall / Syriana / L'intrus / Dalecarlians / Keane / The Squid & The Whale / Saraband / Brothers / Tarnation / Sin City / The Devil's Rejects. Princess Raccoon was fucking nuts and I wanted Domino to be more OTT.

Michael · #11 Post by **Michael** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:20 pm

Mysterious Skin - Gregg Araki
2046, Wong Kar-Wai
The Hand (from Eros) Wong Kar-Wai
Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Nobdy Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda
Wild Side - Sebastien Lifshitz
The Sea Inside - Alejandro Amenabar

swimminghorses · #12 Post by **swimminghorses** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:11 pm

La Mala Education (2004)
Nomi Song (2003)
Legend Of Leigh Bowery (2002)
L'Eclisse (1962)
Picadilly (1929
Band Wagon (1953)
Mysterious Skin (2005)**best supporting actress tie**
Design for Living (1933)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2005)**best documentary**
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Hand (sequence in "Eros") (2005)
Thieve's Highway (1949)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
That Boy (1974)
Happy Endings (2005)**best supporting actress sharon stone tie**
Last Days (2005)**best film tie**best photography**
Broken Flowers (2005)
2046 (2005) **the best film tie**best photography tie**best actress**
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (1983)
The Thief of Paris (Malle) (1967)
Naked (1993)
Capote (2005)**best actor**

waiting for:

Betty Page
That Man

barrym71 · #13 Post by **barrym71** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:17 pm

Top 10:
The New World
You and Me and Everyone We Know
Look at Me
Kung Fu Hustle
Match Point
Good Night and Good Luck
Brokeback Mountain
The Squid and the Whale
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Honorable Mention:
Breakfast on Pluto
A History of Violence
Cache
Kings and Queen
Old Boy
Layer Cake
Night Watch
Devil's Rejects
Hustle & Flow

milkcan · #14 Post by **milkcan** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:02 pm

1. The Saddest Music in the World [Guy Maddin]
2. Birth [Jonathan Glazer]
3. Pistol Opera [Seijun Suzuki]

ola t · #15 Post by **ola t** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:35 am

1. Tropical Malady
2. The World
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
4. Innocence
5. Turtles Can Fly
6. Mondovino
7. Moolaade
8. Earth and Ashes
9. Notre musique
10. The Wayward Cloud

devlinnn · #16 Post by **devlinnn** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:40 am

The Very Fine Indeed
The Proposition
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson is easily the finest director working in mainstream US cinema)
Birth
A Common Thread
Dig!

The Good
Million Dollar Baby
Bad Education
Les Choristes
Turtles Can Fly
We Don't Live Here Anymore
Bukowski: Born Into This
D.E.B.S.
Life Aquatic

The Bad
Sideways
Meet the Fockers

The Ugly
The Aviator
Revenge of the Sith
Sin City (damn these freebies!)

igor s. · #17 Post by **igor s.** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:13 pm

1. the new world

2. the life aquatic with steve zissou / broken flowers

3. 2046

4. brokeback mountain

5. match point

6. gus van sant's last days

7. me and you and everyone we know

hammock · #18 Post by **hammock** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:10 am

TOP 10

1. Oldboy [2003] - Chan-wook Park
2. Gong Fu (Kung Fu Hustle) [2004] - Stephen Chow
3. Sin City [2005] - Frank Miller / Robert Rodriquez
4. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou [2004] - Wes Anderson
5. Primer [2004] - Shane Carruth
6. Million Dollar Baby [2004] - Clint Eastwood
7. Kongekabale [2004] - Nikolaj Arcel
8. Millions [2004] - Danny Boyle
9. The Assassination Of Richard Nixon [2004] - Niels Mueller
10. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith [2005] - George Lucas

More to come...

Napoleon · #19 Post by **Napoleon** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:26 am

UK release dates

1. The Life Aquatic
2. A History Of Violence
3. 2046
4. The Descent
5. Sideways
6. Monster Man
7. Revenge of The Sith
8. War of The Worlds
9. Oldboy
10. Land Of The Dead

Brian Oblivious · #20 Post by **Brian Oblivious** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:41 pm

Post-SFIFF:

1. the Joy of Life (USA: Jenni Olson)
2. the White Diamond (GERMANY: Werner Herzog)
3. Tokyo Magic Hour (MALAYSIA: Amir Muhammed)
4. Into the Picture Scroll: the Tale of Yaminaka Tokawa (JAPAN: Sumiko Haneda)
5. Life in a Box (USA: Stephen Cheslik-DeMeyer)
6. Los Muertos (ARGENTINA: Lisandro Alonso)
7. Yes (UK: Sally Potter)
8. the Devil and Daniel Johnston (USA: Jeff Feuerzeig)
9. ae Fond Kiss (UK: Ken Loach)
10. Rolling Family (ARGENTINA: Pablo Trapero)

Dylan · #21 Post by **Dylan** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:24 pm

1. Match Point
2. 2046
3. Melinda and Melinda
4. Broken Flowers

Hrossa · #22 Post by **Hrossa** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:43 pm

Interestingly, I ranked Grizzly Man at the top of my list and then noticed that the only other people (2) who have ranked it have put it as #1 as well. I feel slightly vindicated. I was thinking perhaps I was all alone in thinking that it might be one of the two or three movies that will really stand out this year. Perhaps the only one.

Last Days seems to have appraised better at the end of the year than it did on its release. This is sort of intriguing to me. Did people lower their standards when they surveyed the landscape of 2005 in December? I don't know. Last Days isn't really about Kurt Cobain, or if it is, it seems to be about a much different Kurt than the one who wrote the suicide note. As some critic I can't remember astutely put it, "The real Kurt burned out, this one fades away." This film is bursting with ideas, both narrative and visual.

Everyone has heard all of the critiques of 2046 already. Bad CG train scenes, meandering, difficult plot. It's even more beautiful than In the Mood for Love, though, and love is sad, sad, sad, or at least that's what Wong Kar-Wai seems to be trying to convince us of. I need to watch it again.

Last Life in the Universe - I'm counting this because I didn't get a chance to see it until this year. Is it just me, or are all of the best movies being made in Asia right now? This is such an odd little movie, which weaves precariously between movie cliches like a motorbike on a Hong Kong expressway. Does it wreck in the end? If so, I don't think anyone really minds.

How did I rank Me and You and Everyone Else We Know in my top ten? I don't know. It seems to be striving for a ridiculous level of "indieness". It seems episodic, disjointed, convoluted in its message, underlit, and downright overeager with its mounds of undercooked quirk. But somehow I couldn't help but like it. The film (if I can even think of it as some organic creature living independent of its creators) seems just oblivious enough of its faults to make it pitiable and strangely attractive. I also think Miranda July is the most pleasant stalker that anyone could have.

Undertow - A flawed (I'm starting to echo) but admirable picture from DGG. I like All the Real Girls quite a bit better, but Undertow still exudes an originality that can't be ignored. Green's films seem to be some of the most slept-on in any given year. Why is this? Is it because they're by nature Southern and therefore worthy of being overlooked by mostly Northern critics? I'm not sure. The worst elements of the film are the Philip Glass score, which fits it like a smock, and the tendency of Green's dialogue to descend into incomprehensibility a little too often. (Although he seems to be waking up to some of these excesses as evidenced by the deleted scenes on the DVD.)

Chrystal - This is a film I'm pretty sure no one else on this board is going to nominate. It only played in selected theaters in the South to my knowledge. It's listed as a 2004 film on IMDB, but it actually had its theatrical premiere this summer. It has some flaws but is ultimately a pretty good, surprisingly surreal, movie about backwoods drug dealers, hillbilly art, the loss of a child, a dog named "Precious", and a crazy mother-turned-prostitute who is rendered quite starkly by the Lisa Blount, the wife of the director (who also stars). The worst elements of the movie are some unrealistic crowd scenes, terrible sound editing on a lip-synched folk song, and a fake beard worn by Billy Bob Thornton in the final scene of the movie.

Primer is perhaps one of the most opaque sci-fi films made in a while. It's the film equivalent of a garage band, but a really unique, verbose garage band like Pavement. It never once feels like it wasn't done on a shoestring budget.

King Kong is even more oblivious to its faults, but it possesses such an overwhelming sincerity that its hard not to love for all of its loose ends, mussed fur, and over-the-top campiness. When King Kong took on three t-rexes while tossing Naomi Watts from foot to foot, it sealed the deal for me. Yeah, the acting is poor, the screenwriting is leaden, the first hour of the film could be cut down to twenty minutes, but the earnestness of it all took me in.

I think War of the Worlds could compete for Worst Film Ending of All Time. Much has been made of its politics, too, its brutality and blunt morality. Much has also been made of Dakota Fanning's endless screaming. I just like the way it walks a tight rope between realistic, cliched post-9/11 social commentary and unbelievable family survivor story before slipping off into oblivion in the final minutes.

Were there any masterpieces this year? I didn't really see many. I think Grizzly Man is the closest thing I saw, although Last Days was also very, very good. Four of my top films had bad CG sequences. Is this something we're going to accept as part of film-going in the future? I think I also used the word "flawed" to describe almost every film I picked. But who wants to watch masterpieces anyway? Give me something that wears its flaws like badges or "kick me" signs.

1. The New World (2005. Terrence Malick)
2. Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
3. Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant)
4. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Last Life in the Universe (2003, Pan-Ek Ratanaruang)
6. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005, Miranda July)
7. Old Boy (2004, Chan-Wook Park)
8. Undertow (2004, David Gordon Green)
9. Chrystal (2004, Ray McKinnon)
10. Primer (2004, Shane Carruth)
11. In Her Shoes (2005, Curtis Hanson)
12. War of the Worlds (2005, Steven Spielberg)

Honorable Mention: Kamikaze Girls (2005, Tetsuya Nakashima), The White Diamond (2004, Werner Herzog), A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg), The Squid & the Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach)

Movies that I anticipate seeing: Munich, Lord of War, Princess Raccoon, The World, Pretty Persuasion, The Joy of Life, Breakfast on Pluto, Keane, The Intruder, Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Pulse, Match Point, Darwin's Nightmare, Murderball.

THX1378 · #23 Post by **THX1378** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:40 am

*updated 12/19/05*
My Top Ten for 2005 *so far*
1. A History of Violence
2. Batman Begins
3. OldBoy
4. Capote
5. Walk the Line
6. Good Night and Good Luck
7. King Kong (2005)
8. Crash (2005)
9. Sin City
10. Downfall

Runners up in no order:
Millions, In Her Shoes, Cinderella Man, Howl's Moving Castle, Hustle & Flow, Rent, Kung Fu Hustle, The Constant Gardener, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Good Films that I enjoyed and will own on DVD:
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Fever Pitch, Assault on Precinct 13, Constantine, Kingdom of Heaven, Land of the Dead, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Devils Rejects, Corpse Bride, The Wedding Crashers, The 40 year-old Virgin, Layer Cake, Unleashed, Serenity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Not bad, but not a great film that would only watch once or maybe rent again:
War of the Worlds, Lords of Dogtown, Jarhead

The Worst:
1. Boogyman *I had to see it to see how bad it was*
2. The Ring Two *made the first one look like a masterpiece*
3. The Fog *another pointless remake*
4. Legend of Zorro
5. Stealth
6. Exorcist: The Original Prequel *could have at least good up until the god aful ending*
7. The Island

Biggest letdowns of the year:
High Tension
The Brothers Grimm *wasn't that bad but still a letdown, I think that Tideland will be the bigger one than this was*
Elizabethtown

FIlms I'm Looking Forward to Seeing:
The Woods, The Bad News Bears, Night Watch, 3001, Zu Warriors, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit starring Wallace & Gromit, The Great Raid, Oliver Twist, Art School Confidential, The New World, Zathura, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Producers: The Movie Musical, North Country, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

backstreetsbackalright · #24 Post by **backstreetsbackalright** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:57 pm

(This is sort of in order, but hardly concrete.

The World (Jia Zhang Ke)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
Kontroll (Nimrod Antal)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)

I'm also super-geeked to see Tropical Malady, The Intruder, and especially L'enfant....

Penny Dreadful · #25 Post by **Penny Dreadful** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:42 am

2005 Rankings [so far, including festival viewings]

1. Oldboy
2. The Devil's Rejects
3. Survive Style 5+
4. Kontroll
5. Broken Flowers
6. Sin City
7. Mysterious Skin
8. Grizzly Man
9. 2046
10. The Squid and the Whale
11. Land of the Dead
12. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
13. Capote
14. Karaoke Terror
15. Murderball
16. Kung Fu Hustle
17. Corpse Bride
18. The Man With the Screaming Brain
19. The Aristocrats
20. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
21. King Kong
22: Steamboy
23. Roll Bounce
24. Rock School*
25. Walk the Line
26. Undead*
27. Izo
28: A History of Violence
30. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
31. The Brothers Grimm
32. High Tension

Awaiting & Yet to See:
The Brand Upon the Brain
Tidelands
3-Iron
Domino
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Selini

*seen on DVD