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Jan 14, 2005 4:29:04 PM Archived Entry: "2005 Movie List"

In keeping with the grand tradition of years past, I present the 2005 movie list! This is a list of movies I've seen in an actual theater. Will I hit 52 movies again? Only time will tell!

January
1. Purple Butterfly - 2004 (2 1/2 - just too murky with the timeline thing)
2. Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1998) - 2 1/2
3. Takeshi Kitano's "Dolls" (2002) - 3
4. Fear and Trembling - 3
5. Coward Bend the Knee - 2 1/2
February
6. I Was Born, But ... (1932) - 3 (Part of Yasujiro Ozu retrospective)
7. Tokyo Story (1953) - 3 1/2
8. Tokyo Twilight (1957) - 2 1/2
9. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) - 3
10. Untold Scandal (2003) - 3
11. Woman of Tokyo (1933) - 2 1/2
12. Autumn Afternoon (1962) - 3
13. Donkey Skin (1970) - 3
14. What Did the Lady Forget (1937) - 2
15. Late Spring (1949) - 3
16. That Night's Wife (1930) - 2
17. The Lady and the Beard (1931) - 3 (extremely funny movie, well worth seeing)
18. Male and Female (1919) - 3 1/2 (one of the best silents I've ever seen - though it gets an extra 1/2 star for camp value)
19. Floating Weeds (1934) - 3
20. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai) - 3 1/2
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) - 3 (the scene of the dad pretending to drink the pretend sake his kids poured for him was great)
March
21. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) - 2 (it's sad, but it just never really engaged me)
22. Nomi Song - 3 (a documentary but a fantastic record of New Wave New York City)
April
23. Steamboy - 2 1/2 (too long)
24. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill - 3 (I like birds, what can I say!)
25. Kung Fu Hustle -4 (I just loved this too much to not say it was perfect, even if it wasn't deep)
May
26. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - 2 (just couldn't get into it)
June
27. 9 Songs - 3 (pleasant enough to watch and short enough to not bore me)
29. El Crimen Ferpecto - 3 (very, very funny black comedy)
29. Howl's Moving Castle - 3 1/2
30. The Place Promised in Our Early Years - 2 1/2 (kind of interesting story, very pretty to watch)
July
30. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 1 (pure crap, wish I could get those two hours back!)
31. Layer Cake - 3 (very pleasant caper flick)
32. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the new one) - 2 (just not that exciting)
August
33. "Smoking, Drinking, and Sex" (various shorts, mostly silent: "Honeymoon Hotel" - I'll add the others as I remember them)
34. "Dennis Nyback's Favorite Shorts" ("That Thing Called Heidelberg," The Noble Sisslet Band in "That's the Spell," "The Ural Truck," Ladslas Starevitch's "The Mascot," and "Assembly Line.")
35. Funny Films at Orphan Studios: "A Tour of Christie Studios" (1921), "Swiss Movments," "For Sadie's Sake" (1928), "Two Cylinder Courtship," "Wedding Vows," "Idle Eyes" (1928), "Haunted Spooks"
36. "When 'Educational Films' meant Slapstick" ("Dime a Dance" with Imogen Coca and Danny Kaye, 1938; "Weekend Driver" with Larry Seaman and June Allison, 1928; "Kid Speed" Larry Saman and Oliver Hardy - as the heavy - 1924; Burth Larh in "Off the Horses" and "No More West;" and "Blue of the Night" with Bing Cosby.)
37. The Writer of O - 3 (a documentary)
38. Hump - 2 1/2 stars (a novelty)
39. The Navigator (1924) -3 + The Boat (1921) - 2 1/2, Buster Keaton silent film festival at the Paramount. Navigator was a total classic silent slapstick movie, really funny and well-acted (I was finding the lead actress doing a very good job of keeping a straight face as she pretended to be asleep and did things that made Keaton's pratfalls more hysterical) with a unique underwater sequence.
September
40. The Kid Brother (1927) - 2 1/2 - part of a Harold Lloyd festival at the Varsity - a lovely, restored print.
43. Brothers Grimm - 3
44. Buster Keaton's The Balloonatic (1923) - 2 1/2 - and Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1924) 3
45. 2046 - 3 (pretty but sloppy, and a bit too long)
October
46. My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) - 3 (pretty to watch and some interesting examination of child psychology, and trippy to boot)
47. Me & You & Everyone We Know 3 (really good movie but I subtracted 1/2 for use of digital - it just killed the cinematography)
48. Mirrormask 2 1/2 (pretty enough but just not enough story to keep my attention)
49. Wedding Crashers - 3 (crass as hell but so damn funny it really rolled well)
50. Wallace and Grommit's Curse of the Wererabbit - 3 (fun, enough puns and visual humor to work for adults)
November
51. I Love You Again (1940) - 2 1/2
52. Libeled Lady (1936) - 2 (pleasant but really light)
53. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 3
54. Corpse Bride - 2
55. Ballets Russes - 3
December
56. Aeon Flux - 2
57. Cafe Lumiere - 2 1/2 (by Hou Hsiao Hsien)
58. Pride and Prejudice - 3

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