Films List 2005

Here is my review of films I watched since April 23 of this year, the date on which I began to make a note of everything I watched. First, the 2005 releases:

Brokeback Mountain [Ang Lee] *****
Mysterious Skin [Gregg Araki] ****
The Squid and the Whale [Noah Baumbach] ****
Cafe Lumiere [Hou Hsiao-Hsien] ****
Broken Flowers [Jim Jarmusch] ****
The Greenan Tapes [Shep Salusky] ****
No Direction Home [Martin Scorsese] ****
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [Andrew Adamson] ***
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Tim Burton] ***
Return of the Sith [George Lucas] ***
Batman Begins [Christopher Nolan] ***
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Garth Jennings] **
Little Manhattan [Mark Levin] **
Hide and Seek [John Polson] **
Domino [Tony Scott] **

Next, all other films sorted by rank, then chronologically.

*****

• Trouble in Paradise [Ernst Lubitsch, 1932]
• His Girl Friday [Howard Hawks, 1940]
• Rififi [Jules Dassin, 1955]
• The Killing [Stanley Kubrick, 1956]
• Hiroshima Mon Amour [Alain Resnais, 1959]
• The Apartment [Billy Wilder, 1960]
• Get Carter [Mike Hodges, 1971]
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Milos Forman, 1975]
• The Elephant Man [David Lynch, 1980]
• Sherman's March [Ross McElwee, 1986]
• Jesus of Montreal [Denys Arcand, 1989]
• Bright Leaves [Ross McElwee, 2003]
• La Mala Educación [Pedro Almodóvar, 2004]

****

• Stagecoach [John Ford, 1939]
• Now, Voyager [Irving Rapper, 1942]
• All About Eve [Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950]
• Strangers on a Train [Alfred Hitchcock, 1951]
• Casque D'Or [Jacques Becker, 1952]
• Kiss Me Deadly [Robert Aldrich, 1955]
• Written on the Wind [Douglas Sirk, 1956]
• Pickpocket [Robert Bresson, 1959]
• California Split [Robert Altman, 1974]
• Star Wars [George Lucas, 1977]
• Days of Heaven [Terence Malick, 1978]
• Manhattan [Woody Allen, 1979]
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Pedro Almodovar, 1988]
• Dangerous Liaisons [Stephen Frears, 1989]
• Time Indefinite [Ross McElwee, 1993]
• True Romance [Tony Scott, 1993]
• Maborosi [Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1995]
• All About My Mother [Pedro Almodovar, 1999]
• Dancer in the Dark [Lars von Trier, 2000]
• The Fat Girl [Catherine Breillat, 2001]
• Capturing the Friedmans [Andrew Jarecki, 2002]
• Primer [Shane Carruth, 2004]
• Riding Giants [Stacy Peralta, 2004]

***

• City Lights [Charles Chaplin, 1931]
• A Nous La Liberte [Rene Clair, 1931]
• Frankenstein [James Whale, 1932]
• Dinner at Eight [George Cukor, 1933]
• Twentieth Century [Howard Hawks, 1934]
• Bride of Frankenstein [James Whale, 1935]
• The Philadelphia Story [George Cukor, 1940]
• High Sierra [Raoul Walsh, 1941]
• The Letter [William Wyler, 1942]
• The Southerner [Jean Renoir, 1945]
• The Lavender Hill Mob [Charles Crichton, 1951]
• All That Heaven Allows [Douglas Sirk, 1955]
• The Party [Blake Edwards, 1968]
• Saturday Night Fever [John Badham, 1977]
• My Dinner with Andre [Louis Malle, 1981]
• The Empire Strikes Back [George Lucas, 1980]
• Return of the Jedi [George Lucas, 1983]
• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story [Todd Haynes, 1987]
• Kundun [Martin Scorsese, 1997]
• Cinemania [Angela Christlieb, 2002]
• Russian Ark [Alexander Sokurov, 2002]
• Holes [Andrew Davis, 2003]
• Ginger & Cinnamon [Daniele Luchetti, 2003]
• The Station Agent [Tom McCarthy, 2003]
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster [Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004]
• Napoleon Dynamite [Jared Hess, 2004]
• Maria Full of Grace [Joshua Marston, 2004]
• Closer [Mike Nichols, 2004]
• Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque [Jacques Richard, 2004]

**

• You Can't Take It With You [Frank Capra, 1938]
• The Palm Beach Story [Preston Sturges, 1942]
• Shadows [John Cassavetes, 1959]
• Mallrats [Kevin Smith, 1995]
• Spectres of the Spectrum [Craig Baldwin, 1999]
• Waiting for Guffman [Christopher Guest, 1996]
• Decasia [Bill Morrison, 2002]
• Elf [Jon Favreau, 2003]
• Coffee & Cigarettes [Jim Jarmusch, 2003]
• Northfork [Michael Polish, 2003]
• Two Harbors [James Vculek, 2004]
• The Saddest Music in the World [Guy Maddin, 2004]