Sunday, August 5, 2007

2005

1. The New World- Terrence Malick
2. Caché- Michael Haneke
3. A History of Violence- David Cronenberg
4. A Tale of Cinema- Hong Sang-soo
5. Dave Chappelle's Block Party- Michel Gondry
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu- Cristi Puiu
7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang- Shane Black
8. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story- Michael Winterbottom
9. Brick- Rian Johnson
10. The Matador- Richard Shepard
11. Who’s Camus Anyway?- Mitsuo Yanagimachi
12. The Proposition- John Hillcoat
13. Domino- Tony Scott
14. Grizzly Man- Werner Herzog
15. King Kong- Peter Jackson
16. L’Enfant- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
17. Batman Begins- Christopher Nolan
18. Through the Forest- Jean-Paul Civeyrac
19. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 ½- William Greaves

Notable shorts: Instructions For a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky), Total Power- Dead Dead Dead (Stephanie Barber), Dipping Sause (Luther Price), 9 (Shane Acker), Rabbit (Run Wrake)

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)

Need to see: Duelist (Lee Myung-se), The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara), Indio Nacional (Raya Martin), Mary (Abel Ferrara), Seven Swords (Tsui Hark), Shanghai Dreams (Wang Xiaoshuai), The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov), Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Crash (Paul Haggis)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
César Awards, Best Film: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: L’Enfant
Venice, Golden Lion: Brokeback Mountain
Berlin, Golden Bear: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Mark Domford-May)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
Toronto, Audience Award: Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
Skandies, Best Film: Grizzly Man

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