The 2005 Mini-List

[yoshimori]

While going over the 2006 eligible films, I noticed that Ishikawa Hiroshi's Su-ki-da - which I had marked as 2006 - isn't in your database and is listed by wikipedia and IMDB as 2005. It premiered at a major Montreal fest that year, but was released in Japan in 2006. Not sure how you want to place it.

From a 2006 review:

My patience for Ishikawa Hiroshi’s Su-Ki-Da (I Love You, 2005) astounds me.

I watch a laconic high-schooler learn to play guitar. I see Him – in full shot that look like they were set up by one of my less composition-conscious students – sit on a grassy slope near a windy rural highway. He plays at the same tune over and over. He’s not very good. I see Her, a classmate – often in a flattened profile medium close-up against a swathe of sky-blue – listen to him pick out notes, think. She likes him, but says nothing.

The shots linger. Ishikawa’s camera operator (Ishikawa), like his characters, seems not quite to know what to do. His editor (Ishikawa), like his characters, seems reluctant to make a move. The crystallisation of an awkward moment. Lovely.

[swo17]

It looks like it was nominated for/won an award at that 2005 festival screening, so I've added it here

[yoshimori]

Thanks.

[denti alligator]

Ashes and Snow?

Also, I assume Guy Sherwin's Views from Home is on your 1987 list?

[swo17]

I've added the Colbert film. I had Sherwin's film eligible for the '80s but his films are tricky. There's some good descriptions of the timeline for making some of them in the "Messages" DVD that includes Views from Home. The footage for that one was shot 1987-1989 and he made a rough silent edit around that time, but then revisited the edit and added a soundtrack (also recorded in 1989) in 2005. He further describes "I find it difficult to regard any of my films as fixed entities; they are more like nuclei around which orbit a multitude of possibilities." To wit, in 2006 he presented the film as "Views from Home Reviewed" with the saxophonist who provided the original soundtrack improvising over it live. I'm not one to bridle Sherwin's artistic impulses, but for the purpose of these lists we have to treat films as fixed entities pertaining to a single year. I've tended to put works in progress like this in the year of their first iteration, while if they're experimental works formed into something substantively different like Conner's Three Screen Ray, I'll list the new work as well

[Lowry_Sam]

Can you also add
The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill
51 Birch Street
The Doctor, The Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children (another dvd from my library, sounds like a fun one!)

[swo17]

Added but I put the second one in 2006

[Lowry_Sam]

Thanks

[the preacher]

Some more films films for the pool: Tiempo de valientes (Damián Szifron), Sommer vorm Balkon (Andreas Dresen), Les yeux clairs (Jérôme Bonnell), Mi Mejor Enemigo (Alex Bowen), Stestí (Bohdan Sláma), Always san-chôme no yûhi (Takashi Yamazaki), 7 vírgenes (Alberto Rodríguez) and Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (Stéphane Brizé).

[swo17]

Added, thanks

[swo17]

FORUM MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS

Queen of Trees (Victoria Stone & Mark Deeble), Matt. Available on DVD here and on YouTube here.

That YouTube link is dead, but it looks like there is another one here.

Thought I'd update the link to this 2005 documentary here

[scotty2]

From Brazil, could we add Lower City (Sergio Machado)?

[swo17]

Added

[geoffcowgill]

Would you please add Frears' Mrs. Henderson Presents?

[swo17]

Done

[Lowry_Sam]

Wah-Wah (can you add?) shows 2005 for IMDb & Wikipedia, but it looks like there was only a festival screening. General release for US UK & AUS is 2006.

If you need some films to pad your list, I recommend giving it a try. it's on Kanopy & I found it a pleasant surprise. It takes place during the British handover of Swaziland. I was surprised I had never heard of it as it was Richard E Grant's sole directorial feature film and starred Gabriel Byrne, Julie Walters, Miranda Richardson, Nicholaus Hoult, & Emily Watson. And if that's not enough to interest you, Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange makes an appearance in the best way imageinable.

[swo17]

I see other 2005 screenings plus 2005 award recognition so I've added it there