{"id":86797,"date":"2012-10-26T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=86797"},"modified":"2014-06-27T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:47:42","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-2005","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2005.<\/p>\n

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read\u00a0my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/p>\n

Red = Treasures
\n<\/span>Purple = Favorites
\n<\/span>Blue = Achievements
\n<\/span>Gray = Decent\/Noteworthy
\n<\/span>Green = Unseen or Undecided<\/span>
\n* = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Into Great Silence*<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Junebug<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. 2046* (review<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  4. L\u2019Enfant*<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. A History of Violence (review<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Mirrormask (review<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Three Times*<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. The Sun*<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Munich<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Cach\u00e9<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Brick<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. The Proposition*<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Batman Begins<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Capote<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Broken Flowers<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Serenity<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Star Wars, Episode Three \u2013 Revenge of the Sith<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Last Days<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. The White Diamond*<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Grizzly Man<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. Joyeux No\u00ebl*<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    • \n<\/li>
    • Kingdom of Heaven<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Ballad of Jack and Rose<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Sweet Land*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Squid and the Whale<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Adam\u2019s Apples<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Good Night and Good Luck<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Don\u2019t Come Knocking<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Exorcism of Emily Rose\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Blue in Green*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • March of the Penguins<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Corpse Bride<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Match Point<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Thank You for Smoking<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Walk the Line<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Touch the Sound*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 49 Up<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Everything is Illuminated<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Bubble<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Heading South<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Tsotsi*<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Brokeback Mountain<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Syriana<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Lassie<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Shopgirl<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Descent<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Puffy Chair<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Murderball<\/span><\/li>\n
    • War of the Worlds<\/span><\/li>\n
    • The Constant Gardener<\/span><\/li>\n
    • In Her Shoes<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Duma<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2005<\/h6>\n
      12 and Holding<\/span>
      \n 13 Tzameti<\/span>
      \n 51 Birch Street<\/span>
      \n A Perfect Day (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige)<\/span>
      \n An Unfinished Life<\/span>
      \n Aurora Borealis<\/span>
      \n Ballets russes<\/span>
      \n Battle in Heaven<\/span>
      \n Be with Me<\/span>
      \n Because of Winn-Dixie<\/span>
      \n Bee Season<\/span>
      \n Block Party (Michel Gondry)<\/span>
      \n Breakfast on Pluto<\/span>
      \n Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That<\/span>
      \n C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e)<\/span>
      \n Casanova<\/span>
      \n Caveman: V. T. Hamlin & Alley Oop<\/span>
      \n Cigarette Burns<\/span>
      \n Conversations with Other Women<\/span>
      \n Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul<\/span>
      \n Dark Water<\/span>
      \n Derailed<\/span>
      \n Domino (Tony Scott)<\/span>
      \n Don\u2019t Tell<\/span>
      \n Down in the Valley (David Jacobson)<\/span>
      \n Dreams in the Witch-House<\/span>
      \n Duane Hopwood<\/span>
      \n Edison: The Invention of the Movies<\/span>
      \n Edmond (Stuart Gordon)<\/span>
      \n Election (Johnny To)<\/span>
      \n Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<\/span>
      \n Espelho M\u00e1gico<\/span>
      \n Factotum<\/span>
      \n Fatalista<\/span>
      \n Fateless<\/span>
      \n Fever Pitch<\/span>
      \n Flightplan<\/span>
      \n Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)<\/span>
      \n Four Brothers<\/span>
      \n Gabrielle (Patrice Ch\u00e9reau)<\/span>
      \n Game 6<\/span>
      \n Garpastum<\/span>
      \n Grain in Ear (Zhang L\u00fc)<\/span>
      \n Green Street Hooligans<\/span>
      \n Happy Endings<\/span>
      \n Hard Candy<\/span>
      \n<\/span> House of Sand<\/span>
      \n Hustle & Flow<\/span>
      \n I Build the Tower: The Life and Work of Sam Rodia<\/span>
      \n I Giorni dell\u2019abbandono<\/span>
      \n I\u2019m the Angel of Death: Pusher III Brick (Rian Johnson)<\/span>
      \n Indio Nacional (Raya Martin)<\/span>
      \n Jarhead<\/span>
      \n Johanna (Kornel Mundruczo)<\/span>
      \n Keeping Mum<\/span>
      \n Kontroll<\/span>
      \n La Seconda notte di nozze<\/span>
      \n Lady Vengeance<\/span>
      \n Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)<\/span>
      \n Last Days (Gus Van Sant)<\/span>
      \n Le petit lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois)<\/span>
      \n Les Amants r\u00e9guliers<\/span>
      \n Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)<\/span>
      \n Live and Become<\/span>
      \n Loft (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/span>
      \n Loggerheads<\/span>
      \n Lonesome Jim<\/span>
      \n Look Both Ways<\/span>
      \n Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World<\/span>
      \n Lord of War<\/span>
      \n Lower City<\/span>
      \n Mad Hot Ballroom<\/span>
      \n Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira)<\/span>
      \n Man Push Cart<\/span>
      \n Mary<\/span>
      \n Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)<\/span>
      \n Memoirs of a Geisha<\/span>
      \n Monarch of the Moon<\/span>
      \n Mrs. Henderson Presents<\/span>
      \n Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont<\/span>
      \n Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)<\/span>
      \n Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)<\/span>
      \n Nine Lives<\/span>
      \n North Country<\/span>
      \n North Diversion Road (Dennis Marasigan)<\/span>
      \n Obreras saliendo de la f\u00e1brica (Jose Luis Torres Leiva)<\/span>
      \n Oliver Twist<\/span>
      \n On a Clear Day<\/span>
      \n Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)<\/span>
      \n Paradise Now<\/span>
      \n Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie<\/span>
      \n Persona non grata<\/span>
      \n Pierrepoint<\/span>
      \n Prime<\/span>
      \n Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki)<\/span>
      \n Proof<\/span>
      \n Red Eye<\/span>
      \n Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)<\/span>
      \n Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles<\/span>
      \n Romance & Cigarettes<\/span>
      \n Room (Kyle Henry)<\/span>
      \n Sahara (Breck Eisner)<\/span>
      \n Sa-kwa<\/span>
      \n Sangre (Amat Escalante)<\/span>
      \n Separate Lies<\/span>
      \n Shadowboxer<\/span>
      \n Shanghai Dreams<\/span>
      \n Sketches of Frank Gehry<\/span>
      \n Stay<\/span>
      \n Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater<\/span>
      \n Takeshis\u2019 (Takeshi Kitano)<\/span>
      \n Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)<\/span>
      \n The Animation Show 2005<\/span>
      \n The Aristocrats<\/span>
      \n The Beat that My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)<\/span>
      \n The Big White<\/span>
      \n The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania<\/span>
      \n The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito)<\/span>
      \n The Bondmaid<\/span>
      \n The Devil & Daniel Johnston<\/span>
      \n The Devil\u2019s Rejects (Rob Zombie)<\/span>
      \n The Fall of Fujimori<\/span>
      \n The Family Stone<\/span>
      \n The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara)<\/span>
      \n The Great Raid (John Dahl)<\/span>
      \n The Greatest Game Ever Played<\/span>
      \n The Heart of the Game<\/span>
      \n The Ice Harvest<\/span>
      \n The Interpreter<\/span>
      \n The King<\/span>
      \n The Matador<\/span>
      \n The Notorious Bettie Page<\/span>
      \n The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio<\/span>
      \n The Producers<\/span>
      \n The Promise (Chen Kaige)<\/span>
      \nThe Real Dirt on Farmer John<\/span>
      \n The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/span>
      \n The Songwriters Collection<\/span>
      \n The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)<\/span>
      \n The Weather Man<\/span>
      \n The World\u2019s Fastest Indian<\/span>
      \n Thumbsucker<\/span>
      \n Transamerica<\/span>
      \n Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky<\/span>
      \n Two for the Money<\/span>
      \n Unknown White Male<\/span>
      \n Valiant<\/span>
      \n Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark)<\/span>
      \n Water<\/span>
      \n Who\u2019s Camus Anyway (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)<\/span>
      \n Why We Fight<\/span>
      \n Winter Passing<\/span>
      \n Wolf Creek (Greg McLean)<\/span>
      \nZathura<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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