2005: Overstreet's Favorite Films

Last updated on: May 29, 2012 at 6:23 pm by Jeffrey Overstreet

2005: Overstreet's Favorite Films 2012-05-29T18:23:18-06:00 Jeffrey Overstreet

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Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2005.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

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2005

The New World* (2nd review)
Into Great Silence*
Junebug
L’Enfant*
A History of Violence (review)
Mirrormask (review)
Three Times*
The Sun*
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Munich
Caché
Brick
The Proposition*
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*
Batman Begins
Pride and Prejudice
Capote
Broken Flowers
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Serenity
Star Wars, Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith
Last Days
The White Diamond*
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Grizzly Man
Match Point

Joyeux Noël*
Kingdom of Heaven
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Sweet Land*
Adam’s Apples
Good Night and Good Luck
Don’t Come Knocking
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada*
Blue in Green*
March of the Penguins
Corpse Bride
The Squid and the Whale
Thank You for Smoking
Walk the Line
Touch the Sound*
49 Up
Everything is Illuminated
Bubble
Heading South
Tsotsi*
Brokeback Mountain
Syriana
Lassie
Shopgirl
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Descent
The Puffy Chair
Murderball
War of the Worlds
The Constant Gardener
In Her Shoes
Duma

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2005

12 and Holding 13 Tzameti 51 Birch Street A Perfect Day (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige) An Unfinished Life Aurora Borealis Ballets russes Battle in Heaven Be with Me Because of Winn-Dixie Bee Season Block Party (Michel Gondry) Breakfast on Pluto Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée) Casanova Caveman: V. T. Hamlin & Alley Oop Cigarette Burns Conversations with Other Women Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul Dark Water Derailed Domino (Tony Scott) Don’t Tell Down in the Valley (David Jacobson) Dreams in the Witch-House Duane Hopwood Edison: The Invention of the Movies Edmond (Stuart Gordon) Election (Johnny To) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Espelho Mágico Factotum Fatalista Fateless Fever Pitch Flightplan Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs) Four Brothers Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau) Game 6 Garpastum Grain in Ear (Zhang Lü) Green Street Hooligans Happy Endings Hard Candy House of Sand Hustle & Flow I Build the Tower: The Life and Work of Sam Rodia I Giorni dell’abbandono I’m the Angel of Death: Pusher III Brick (Rian Johnson) Indio Nacional (Raya Martin) Jarhead Johanna (Kornel Mundruczo) Keeping Mum Kontroll La Seconda notte di nozze Lady Vengeance Land of the Dead (George A. Romero) Last Days (Gus Van Sant) Le petit lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois) Les Amants réguliers Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita) Live and Become Loft (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Loggerheads Lonesome Jim Look Both Ways Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Lord of War Lower City Mad Hot Ballroom Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira) Man Push Cart Mary Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) Memoirs of a Geisha Monarch of the Moon Mrs. Henderson Presents Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski) Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) Nine Lives North Country North Diversion Road (Dennis Marasigan) Obreras saliendo de la fábrica (Jose Luis Torres Leiva) Oliver Twist On a Clear Day Oxhide (Liu Jiayin) Paradise Now Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie Persona non grata Pierrepoint Prime Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki) Proof Red Eye Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel) Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Romance & Cigarettes Room (Kyle Henry) Sahara (Breck Eisner) Sa-kwa Sangre (Amat Escalante) Separate Lies Shadowboxer Shanghai Dreams Sketches of Frank Gehry Stay Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater Takeshis’ (Takeshi Kitano) Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo) The Animation Show 2005 The Aristocrats The Beat that My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard) The Big White The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito) The Bondmaid The Devil & Daniel Johnston The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie) The Fall of Fujimori The Family Stone The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara) The Great Raid (John Dahl) The Greatest Game Ever Played The Heart of the Game The Ice Harvest The Interpreter The King The Matador The Notorious Bettie Page The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio The Producers The Promise (Chen Kaige) The Real Dirt on Farmer John The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants The Songwriters Collection The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang) The Weather Man The World’s Fastest Indian Thumbsucker Transamerica Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Two for the Money Unknown White Male Valiant Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark) Water Who’s Camus Anyway (Mitsuo Yanagimachi) Why We Fight Winter Passing Wolf Creek (Greg McLean) Zathura

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