Films I Saw in 2005
001. (04 Jan) Donkey Skin (1970, Jacques Demy)
002. (06 Jan) Head-On (2004, Fatih Akin)
003. (10 Jan) In Good Company (2004, Paul Weitz)
004. (11 Jan) Persons of Interest (2004, Alison Maclean & Tobias Perse)*
005. (12 Jan) Italianamerican (1974, Martin Scorsese)
006. (12 Jan) American Boy (1978, Martin Scorsese)
007. (14 Jan) Happy Endings (2005, Don Roos)
008. (16 Jan) /Ringu/ (1998, Hideo Nakata)*
009. (16 Jan) /The Ring/ (2002, Gore Verbinski)*
010. (17 Jan) Dark Water (2002, Hideo Nakata)*
011. (17 Jan) /Vera Drake/ (2004, Mike Leigh)*
012. (18 Jan) /3-iron/ (2004, Kim Ki-duk)
013. (18 Jan) The Pawnbroker (1964, Sidney Lumet)
014. (19 Jan) /Ju-on/ (2003, Takashi Shimizu)*
015. (19 Jan) The Grudge (2004, Takashi Shimizu)*
016. (23 Jan) Brick (2005, Rian Johnson)
s01. (23 Jan) Elephant Palm Tree (2004, Kara Miller)
017. (23 Jan) Police Beat (2005, Robinson Devor)
s02. (23 Jan) The Raftman's Razor (2004, Keith Bearden)
W/O. (23 Jan) Steal Me (2005, Melissa Painter)
018. (23 Jan) Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005, Miranda July)
019. (23 Jan) Green Chair (2005, Park Chul-soo)
020. (24 Jan) The Dying Gaul (2005, Craig Lucas)
021. (24 Jan) Pretty Persuasion (2005, Marcos Siega)
s03. (24 Jan) Estes Avenue (2004, Paul Cotter)
022. (24 Jan) The Squid and the Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach)
023. (24 Jan) Twist of Faith (2005, Kirby Dick)
s04. (25 Jan) Waiting for the Man (2003, Rob Stefaniuk)
024. (25 Jan) Lonesome Jim (2005, Steve Buscemi)
025. (25 Jan) The Aristocrats (2005, Paul Provenza)
026. (25 Jan) Who Killed Cock Robin? (2005, Travis Wilkerson)
W/O. (25 Jan) The Chumscrubber (2005, Arie Posin)
027. (26 Jan) Dear Wendy (2005, Thomas Vinterberg)
028. (26 Jan) Hustle & Flow (2005, Craig Brewer)
029. (26 Jan) Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
030. (26 Jan) The Girl From Monday (2005, Hal Hartley)
031. (26 Jan) Three...Extremes (2004, Fruit Chan/Park ChanWook/Takashi Miike)
s05. (27 Jan) Broadcast 23 (2004, Tom Putnam)
032. (27 Jan) Thumbsucker (2005, Mike Mills)
033. (27 Jan) /Brick/ (2005, Rian Johnson)
034. (28 Jan) Murderball (2005, Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro)
035. (28 Jan) Mirrormask (2005, Dave McKean)
W/O. (28 Jan) Loggerheads (2005, Tim Kirkman)
s06. (29 Jan) Motion Studies #3: Gravity (2004, Jake Mahaffy)
036. (29 Jan) Sugar (2005, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley)
037. (01 Feb) The Star Maker (1995, Giuseppe Tornatore)
038. (08 Feb) Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace (1999, George Lucas)*
039. (09 Feb) Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (2002, George Lucas)*
040. (11 Feb) Izo (2004, Takashi Miike)
041. (11 Feb) Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green)
042. (12 Feb) /Red Dust/ (1932, Victor Fleming)
043. (14 Feb) Downfall (2004, Oliver Hirschbiegel)
044. (14 Feb) My Summer of Love (2004, Pawel Pawlikowski)
045. (16 Feb) Constantine (2005, Francis Lawrence)
046. (18 Feb) Le Corbeau (1943, Henri Georges Clouzot)
047. (19 Feb) The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
048. (21 Feb) The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy) [NOTE: I saw the shorter version.]
049. (22 Feb) The Fog (1980, John Carpenter)
050. (24 Feb) /Masculine-Feminine/ (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
051. (27 Feb) The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
052. (01 Mar) The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
053. (01 Mar) Street Angel (1928, Frank Borzage)
054. (02 Mar) Underworld (1927, Josef von Sternberg)
055. (02 Mar) The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)
056. (03 Mar) Turtles Can Fly (2004, Bahman Ghobadi)
057. (07 Mar) The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926, Lewis Seiler)
058. (07 Mar) Tumbleweeds (1925, King Baggot)
059. (08 Mar) 3:10 to Yuma (1957, Delmer Daves)
W/O. (09 Mar) Mila From Mars (2004, Sophia Zornitsa)
060. (09 Mar) Up and Down (2004, Jan Hrebejk)
W/O. (10 Mar) Le Grand voyage (2004, Ismaël Ferroukhi)
061. (11 Mar) Changing Times (2004, André Téchiné)
062. (12 Mar) In My Country (2004, John Boorman)
W/O. (14 Mar) Live-in Maid (2004, Jorge Gaggero)
063. (14 Mar) /True Romance/ (1993, Tony Scott)*
064. (15 Mar) Melinda and Melinda (2004, Woody Allen)
065. (17 Mar) The Bridesmaid (2004, Claude Chabrol)
066. (18 Mar) The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005, Jeff Feuerzeig)
067. (21 Mar) The Devil-Doll (1936, Tod Browning)
068. (23 Mar) Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant)
069. (24 Mar) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
070. (24 Mar) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957, John Sturges)
071. (26 Mar) Aliens of the Deep (2005, James Cameron & Steven Quale)
072. (31 Mar) Howl's Moving Castle (2004, Hayao Miyazaki)
073. (31 Mar) Ride the High Country (1962, Sam Peckinpah)
074. (02 Apr) Frank Miller's Sin City (2005, Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
075. (06 Apr) One Missed Call (2003, Takashi Miike)
076. (07 Apr) /Pretty Persuasion/ (2005, Marcos Siega)
077. (07 Apr) /2046/ (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
078. (08 Apr) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005, Jacques Audiard)
079. (11 Apr) The Bad News Bears (1976, Michael Ritchie)*
080. (12 Apr) /Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory/ (1971, Mel Stuart)*
081. (14 Apr) /The War of the Worlds/ (1953, Byron Haskin)*
082. (20 Apr) The Interpreter (2005, Sydney Pollack)
s07. (21 Apr) Get Out and Get Under (1920, Hal Roach)
083. (21 Apr) Safety Last! (1923, Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
084. (22 Apr) Fever Pitch (2005, Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly)
085. (23 Apr) Brute Force (1947, Jules Dassin)
086. (23 Apr) King Lear (1987, Jean-Luc Godard)
087. (25 Apr) Tickets (2005, Ermanno Olmi/Abbas Kiarostami/Ken Loach)
s08. (25 Apr) The Book of Mary (1984, Anne-Marie Miéville)
088. (25 Apr) Hail Mary (1985, Jean-Luc Godard)
089. (28 Apr) Why Worry? (1923, Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
090. (30 Apr) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005, Alex Gibney)
091. (02 May) The Best of Youth (2003, Marco Tullio Giordana)
092. (03 May) Kingdom of Heaven (2005, Ridley Scott)
093. (11 May) Lemming (2005, Dominik Moll)
W/O. (11 May) Sangre (2005, Amat Escalante)
094. (11 May) The Bow (2005, Kim Ki-duk)
095. (11 May) Kilometre Zero (2005, Hiner Saleem)
096. (12 May) Match Point (2005, Woody Allen)
097. (12 May) The Wayward Cloud (2005, Tsai Ming-liang)
098. (12 May) Bashing (2005, Masahiro Kobayashi)
W/O. (12 May) Be With Me (2005, Eric Khoo)
099. (13 May) Where the Truth Lies (2005, Atom Egoyan)
100. (13 May) Time Has Come (2005, Alain Guiraudie)
101. (13 May) Nordeste (2005, Juan Solanas)
102. (13 May) Election (2005, Johnnie To)
103. (14 May) Caché (Hidden) (2005, Michael Haneke)
104. (14 May) Factotum (2005, Bent Hamer)
105. (14 May) Down in the Valley (2005, David Jacobson)
106. (14 May) Once You're Born (2005, Marco Tullio Giordana)
107. (15 May) La Moustache (2005, Emmanuel Carrère)
W/O. (15 May) The King (2005, James Marsh)
108. (15 May) Battle in Heaven (2005, Carlos Reygadas)
109. (15 May) A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)
110. (16 May) Manderlay (2005, Lars von Trier)
W/O. (16 May) Delwende (2005, S. Pierre Yameogo)
111. (16 May) L'Enfant (The Child) (2005, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
112. (16 May) Time to Leave (2005, François Ozon)
113. (17 May) Broken Flowers (2005, Jim Jarmusch)
114. (17 May) Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? (2005, Aoyama Shinji)
115. (17 May) Zim and Co (2005, Pierre Jolivet)
116. (17 May) Shanghai Dreams (2005, Wang Xiaoshuai)
117. (18 May) To Paint or Make Love (2005, Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu)
W/O. (18 May) One Night (2005, Niki Karimi)
W/O. (18 May) Johanna (2005, Kornél Mundruczó)
118. (18 May) Free Zone (2005, Amos Gitai)
119. (19 May) Don't Come Knocking (2005, Wim Wenders)
W/O. (19 May) Sleeper (2005, Benjamin Heisenberg)
120. (19 May) Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sangsoo)
121. (19 May) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005, Tommy Lee Jones)
122. (20 May) Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
W/O. (20 May) Chromophobia (2005, Martha Fiennes)
123. (20 May) Princess Raccoon (2005, Seijun Suzuki)
W/O. (21 May) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
W/O. (21 May) Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005, Marcelo Gomes)
124. (25 May) The Constant Gardener (2005, Fernando Meirelles)
125. (25 May) Funny Ha Ha (2003, Andrew Bujalski)
126. (27 May) Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith (2005, George Lucas)
127. (30 May) Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
128. (01 Jun) Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1968, Michael Reeves)
129. (02 Jun) Before the Revolution (1964, Bernardo Bertolucci)
130. (04 Jun) The White Diamond (2004, Werner Herzog)
131. (05 Jun) Lords of Dogtown (2005, Catherine Hardwicke)
132. (06 Jun) Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)
s09. (07 Jun) Le Poulet (1962, Claude Berri)
133. (07 Jun) The Two of Us (1967, Claude Berri)
134. (09 Jun) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005, Doug Liman)
135. (09 Jun) Brothers (2004, Susanne Bier)
136. (09 Jun) /The War of the Roses/ (1989, Danny DeVito)*
137. (10 Jun) A Love in Germany (1983, Andrzej Wajda)
138. (14 Jun) /East of Eden/ (1955, Elia Kazan)
139. (16 Jun) /The Forest for the Trees/ (2004, Maren Ade)
140. (17 Jun) Cinderella Man (2005, Ron Howard)
141. (21 Jun) Land of the Dead (2005, George A. Romero)
142. (21 Jun) /Lost in Translation/ (2003, Sofia Coppola)*
143. (22 Jun) /Dallas 362/ (2003, Scott Caan)*
INC. (23 Jun) The Island (2005, Michael Bay)
144. (24 Jun) Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)
W/O. (25 Jun) Darwin's Nightmare (2004, Hubert Sauper)
145. (27 Jun) War of the Worlds (2005, Steven Spielberg)
146. (01 Jul) The Fire Within (1963, Louis Malle)
147. (02 Jul) Wheel of Time (2003, Werner Herzog)
148. (04 Jul) March of the Penguins (2005, Luc Jacquet)
149. (07 Jul) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, Tim Burton)
W/O. (12 Jul) Paradise Now (2005, Hany Abu-Assad)
150. (14 Jul) Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005, Liam Lynch)
s10. (15 Jul) Hot Leatherette (1967, Robert Nelson)
s11. (15 Jul) Curious Native Customs (1985, Robert Nelson)
s12. (15 Jul) Limitations (1988, Robert Nelson)
s13. (15 Jul) Rest in Pieces (1970, Robert Nelson)
s14. (15 Jul) The Great Blondino (1967, Robert Nelson)
151. (15 Jul) Wedding Crashers (2005, David Dobkin)
152. (17 Jul) Five: 5 Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu (2003, Abbas Kiarostami)
153. (18 Jul) Million Dollar Legs (1932, Edward Cline)
154. (19 Jul) Bad News Bears (2005, Richard Linklater)
155. (20 Jul) The Country Girl (1954, George Seaton)
156. (21 Jul) Breakfast on Pluto (2005, Neil Jordan)
s15. (25 Jul) Aliens (1993, Michael Almereyda)
157. (25 Jul) Another Girl, Another Planet (1992, Michael Almereyda)
158. (26 Jul) The Seven Year Itch (1955, Billy Wilder)
159. (28 Jul) Scenes From a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)* [TV version]
160. (30 Jul) Saraband (2003, Ingmar Bergman)
161. (01 Aug) The Corporation (2003, Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott)*
162. (02 Aug) Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005, George Clooney) [~]
163. (04 Aug) Gabriel Over the White House (1933, Gregory LaCava)
164. (06 Aug) Sky High (2005, Mike Mitchell)
165. (11 Aug) The River (1951, Jean Renoir)
166. (14 Aug) /Grizzly Man/ (2005, Werner Herzog)
167. (15 Aug) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005, Mike Johnson & Tim Burton) [~]
168. (16 Aug) Red Eye (2005, Wes Craven)
169. (19 Aug) One-Armed Swordsman (1967, Chang Cheuh)
170. (20 Aug) The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Liu Chia-liang)
171. (22 Aug) Junebug (2005, Phil Morrison)
172. (23 Aug) /Caché (Hidden)/ (2005, Michael Haneke)
173. (25 Aug) Samurai Rebellion (1967, Masaki Kobayashi)
174. (26 Aug) Capote (2005, Bennett Miller)
175. (26 Aug) The Brothers Grimm (2005, Terry Gilliam)
176. (28 Aug) The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005, Judd Apatow)
177. (29 Aug) Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005, Michael Winterbottom)
178. (30 Aug) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)
179. (31 Aug) Sanjuro (1962, Akira Kurosawa)
180. (01 Sep) El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime) (2004, Alex de la Iglesia)
181. (08 Sep) District B13 (2004, Pierre Morel)
182. (08 Sep) 3 Needles (2005, Thom Fitzgerald)
W/O. (08 Sep) Linda Linda Linda (2005, Nobuhiro Yamashita)
183. (08 Sep) Hell (2005, Danis Tanovic)
184. (08 Sep) Cold Showers (2005, Antony Cordier)
185. (09 Sep) Mrs Henderson Presents (2005, Stephen Frears)
186. (09 Sep) Sa-kwa (2005, Kang Yi-Kwan)
187. (09 Sep) Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)
188. (09 Sep) Elizabethtown (2005, Cameron Crowe) [~]
W/O. (09 Sep) Day Break (2005, Hamid Rahmanian)
189. (10 Sep) Thank You for Smoking (2005, Jason Reitman)
190. (10 Sep) Tideland (2005, Terry Gilliam)
191. (10 Sep) Mary (2005, Abel Ferrara)
192. (10 Sep) Seven Swords (2005, Tsui Hark)
W/O. (10 Sep) Sisters (Julia Solomonoff)
193. (11 Sep) You Bet Your Life (2005, Antonin Svoboda)
194. (11 Sep) Brothers of the Head (2005, Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)
195. (11 Sep) Duelist (2005, Lee Myung-se)
196. (11 Sep) Heading South (2005, Laurent Cantet)
197. (11 Sep) Takeshis' (2005, Takeshi Kitano)
198. (12 Sep) The Notorious Bettie Page (2005, Mary Harron)
W/O. (12 Sep) Harsh Times (2005, David Ayer)
W/O. (12 Sep) C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Jean-Marc Vallée)
199. (12 Sep) Everlasting Regret (2005, Stanley Kwan)
200. (12 Sep) A Little Trip to Heaven (2005, Baltasar Kormákur)
201. (13 Sep) Iron Island (2005, Mohammad Rasoulof)
202. (13 Sep) A Perfect Couple (2005, Nobuhiro Suwa)
W/O. (13 Sep) April Snow (2005, Hur Jin-ho)
W/O. (13 Sep) Transit Cafe (2005, Kambozia Partovi)
203. (13 Sep) Wassup Rockers (2005, Larry Clark)
204. (14 Sep) In Her Shoes (2005, Curtis Hanson)
205. (14 Sep) The Great Yokai War (2005, Takashi Miike)
206. (14 Sep) Romance & Cigarettes (2005, John Turturro)
207. (14 Sep) Citizen Dog (2004, Wisit Sasantieng)
W/O. (14 Sep) Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005, Perry Ogden)
208. (15 Sep) The Matador (2005, Richard Shepard)
209. (15 Sep) Drawing Restraint 9 (2005, Matthew Barney)
W/O. (15 Sep) Tsotsi (2005, Gavin Hood)
210. (15 Sep) /The Wayward Cloud/ (2005, Tsai Ming-liang)
211. (15 Sep) Angel (2005, Jim McKay)
212. (16 Sep) The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005, Nick Park & Steve Box)
213. (16 Sep) Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005, Stuart Samuels)
214. (16 Sep) Pusher II (2004, Nicolas Winding Refn)
W/O. (17 Sep) The Forsaken Land (2005, Vimukthi Jayasundara)
215. (17 Sep) All the Invisible Children (2005, Mehdi Charef/Emir Kusturica/Spike Lee/Katia Lund/Jordan Scott & Ridley Scott/Stefano Veneruso/John Woo)
216. (19 Sep) \The Death of Mr. Lazarescu\ (2005, Cristi Puiu)
217. (19 Sep) Bubble (2005, Steven Soderbergh)
218. (20 Sep) Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (2005, Avi Mograbi)
219. (20 Sep) Touch the Sound (2004, Thomas Riedelsheimer)
220. (22 Sep) No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005, Martin Scorsese)*
221. (23 Sep) Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
222. (25 Sep) Oliver Twist (2005, Roman Polanski)
223. (26 Sep) Who's Camus Anyway? (2005, Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
224. (26 Sep) Something Like Happiness (2005, Bohdan Sláma)
225. (27 Sep) I Am (2005, Dorota Kedzierzawska)
226. (28 Sep) Through the Forest (2005, Jean Paul Civeyrac)
227. (28 Sep) The Weeping Meadow (2004, Theo Angelopoulos)
228. (29 Sep) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan Wook)
229. (30 Sep) The President's Last Bang (2005, Im Sang-soo)
230. (30 Sep) The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)
231. (03 Oct) \Paradise Now\ (2005, Hany Abu-Assad)
232. (04 Oct) /Who's Camus Anyway?/ (2005, Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
233. (04 Oct) Duma (2005, Carroll Ballard)
234. (05 Oct) Sisters of Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)
235. (07 Oct) Cruel Story of Youth (1960, Nagisa Oshima)
236. (08 Oct) The Sun (2005, Alexander Sokurov)
237. (09 Oct) Three Outlaw Samurai (1964, Hideo Gosha)
238. (10 Oct) Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959, Nobuo Nakagawa)
239. (11 Oct) Forty Shades of Blue (2005, Ira Sachs)
240. (12 Oct) /Mirrormask/ (2005, Dave McKean)
241. (14 Oct) Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Shohei Imamura)
242. (18 Oct) Serenity (2005, Joss Whedon)
243. (19 Oct) Nine Lives (2005, Rodrigo García)
244. (20 Oct) The Passenger (1975, Michelangelo Antonioni)
245. (21 Oct) Shopgirl (2005, Anand Tucker)
246. (22 Oct) Entre Nous (1983, Diane Kurys)
247. (22 Oct) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse)
248. (23 Oct) Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden)
249. (24 Oct) /Head-On/ (2004, Fatih Akin)*
250. (26 Oct) Plunder of Peach and Plum (1934, Ying Yunwei)
251. (27 Oct) /A History of Violence/ (2005, David Cronenberg)
252. (28 Oct) Jarhead (2005, Sam Mendes)
253. (29 Oct) Floating Clouds (1955, Mikio Naruse)
254. (30 Oct) Flowing (1956, Mikio Naruse)
255. (02 Nov) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968, William Greaves)
256. (03 Nov) /Pulse/ (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
257. (09 Nov) The White Countess (2005, James Ivory)
258. (10 Nov) Syriana (2005, Stephen Gaghan)
259. (11 Nov) Sound of the Mountain (1954, Mikio Naruse)
260. (13 Nov) Repast (1951, Mikio Naruse)
261. (14 Nov) Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright)
262. (15 Nov) Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
263. (19 Nov) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Mike Newell)
264. (19 Nov) Walk the Line (2005, James Mangold)
265. (20 Nov) Classe tous risques (1960, Claude Sautet)
266. (21 Nov) The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
267. (22 Nov) The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
268. (25 Nov) The Ice Harvest (2005, Harold Ramis)
269. (05 Dec) Friends With Money (2006, Nicole Holofcener)
270. (05 Dec) King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)
271. (06 Dec) Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg)
272. (10 Dec) The Goddess (1934, Wu Yonggang)
273. (10 Dec) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, Andrew Adamson)
274. (11 Dec) A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
275. (15 Dec) Art School Confidential (2006, Terry Zwigoff)
276. (17 Dec) /Brokeback Mountain/ (2005, Ang Lee)
277. (19 Dec) /Sky High/ (2005, Mike Mitchell)*
278. (25 Dec) Fun With Dick and Jane (2005, Dean Parisot)