WELCOME 2006: A QUICK LOOK BACK AT 2005 (PART I)

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In a post yesterday on his Esoteric Rabbit Blog, Matthew Clayfield described himself as an “Addict” having “watched 529 films in 2005 (that’s features and shorts, including repeat viewings, but not student films), 156 episodes of television (113 of them Buffy episodes).” 529 films?!? That blows me out of the water, although my count doesn’t include shorts (which would easily add 100 titles) and I couldn’t even begin to keep track of how much TV I’ve watched. 156 episodes? I probably do that in less than two months.

On last Jan. 4, I wrote this post stating that my resolution (or, as I preferred to call it, my “unattainable goal”) for 2005 was to average watching one movie per day. 365 movies in a year — in the theater, on cable, via DVD; it didn’t matter. The only qualification was that I had to be watching the film in its entire, unaltered form. No commercials; no editing for time, etc. That means TCM is fine, but AMC is not. My only exception to “unaltered” is that I suppose I will watch something that is “pan & scan,” even if I prefer not to. I’m not sure why HBO now shoots its original series in a letterbox form to make them more filmlike, yet they have no problem showing movies in full-screen. Anyway, point being, HBO and Showtime and Cinemax — unedited and no commercials — yes; broadcast networks, TBS, Bravo? Nope. I also only count a movie title once, unless seeing it the second time was a drastically different experience or format — for example Batman Begins which I saw in a regular theater and then saw again in IMAX.

Well, last night, I had the New Year’s I wanted (about which I’ll remain somewhat cryptic). I spent some of the night alone, reflecting on not just 2005 but on the last few years of my life, what I’ve done, where I’ve been — or in some cases what I haven’t done and where I haven’t been. I made a bunch of resolutions last night, all fools errands? Maybe. But one of them was to not get to down about not fulfilling them, and another was to not give up on them just because I might fall off the wagon. Maybe the most important resolution I made, however, was to not look back anymore. I’ve spent too much time (especially in this past year filled with upheaval and difficulty) looking back, second-guessing and often, unfortunately, regretting. I determined to try to use my mistakes as lessons, to move forward from them rather than dwell on them.

I’m not going to list all my resolutions here, but I did decide to put a concerted effort into making my “unattainable goal” of last year an actual one. That means 365 films by the end of the year. It means cutting back on some of the TV (which would be healthy anyway) and it means balancing and utilizing my time (because there are plenty of other things I want to do as well) more wisely. (It should actually be much easier to accomplish this year, anyway, because I’m going to have to watch well over 100 films over the next two months alone for work/Tribeca-related reasons.) I resolve to not keep Netflix movies for an entire year, and to devote more time to reading books rather than just all my magazine subscriptions. (In case you were wondering, that left sidebar did not stay the same simply out of laziness — I just hadn’t finished watching/reading any of the items). And although I don’t plan to look back and dwell on last year, and most of it I want to just leave behind me, over the next few days (maybe even couple of weeks) I will be reflecting a little bit on the year in film and TV, since that has always been the main focus of this blog.

So with that in mind, and maybe even more for my own purposes than your enjoyment, after the jump is a list of every film I watched in 2005. I ended the year a little before midnight watching Funny Ha Ha. I thought if I wanted to start of the new year correctly, it would make sense to make one of my favorite films of 2005 the first movie I watched in 2006, and as I just finally received the DVD of Batman Begins in the mail, I started 2006 off right. As I wrote in my post last January, in 2004, I watched 189 films. This year, I counted 243. As I said, this number doesn’t include short films, but it does contain features I watched that were submissions to Tribeca and may never see any other light of day.

There are 8,760 hours in a year. If one averages eight hours of a sleep a night (and yeah, that might be optimistic), you’d spend 2,920 of those hours in dreamland and 5,840 hours awake. My 243 titles probably took-up somewhere between 500-600 hours; that’s 10% of my waking year. Doesn’t seem like so much, but if you’re curious how I specifically spent 2005 and the movies, then jump:

January 2005

  1. The Manchurian Candidate — John Frankenheimer, 1962 (DVD)
  2. Million Dollar Baby — Clint Eastwood, 2004 (AMC Empire 25)
  3. In the Realms of the Unreal — Jessica Yu, 2004 (Film Forum)
  4. Born Into Brothels — Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman, 2004 (Film Forum)
  5. The Motorcycle Diaries — Walter Salles, 2004 (Metro Twin)
  6. Brother — Takeshi Kitano, 2001 (Young Friends of Film event at Walter Reade)
  7. Hotel Rwanda — Terry George, 2004 (AMC Empire 25)
  8. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou — Wes Anderson (AMC Empire 25)
  9. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice — Michael Radford, 2004 (Loews 19th St)
  10. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster — Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004 (Tribeca Cinemas)
  11. Lost Embrace — Daniel Burman, 2005 (NY Jewish Film Fest at Walter Reade)
  12. The Phantom of the Opera — Joel Schumacher, 2004 (AMC Empire 25)
  13. Red Lights — Cedric Kahn, 2004 (Tribeca Cinemas)
  14. Robbing Peter — Mario F. de la Vega, 2004/unreleased (Tribeca Cinemas)
  15. Woman Thou Art Loosed — Michael Schultz, 2004 (Tribeca Cinemas)
  16. Los Angeles Plays Itself — Thom Andersen, 2004 (Cinema Village)
  17. A Very Long Engagement — Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2004 (Landmark Sunshine)
  18. Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust — Menachem Daum & Oren Rudavsky, 2004 (DVD)
  19. On the Outs — Lori Silverbush & Michael Skolnik, 2004 (DVD)
  20. Brother to Brother — Rodney Evans, 2004 (DVD)
  21. The Assassination of Richard Nixon — Niels Mueller, 2004 (UA Union Square 14)
  22. Oasis — Lee Chang-dong, 2004 (DVD)
  23. Dandelion — Mark Milgard, 2004/2005 release (DVD)
  24. Saints and Soldiers — Ryan Little, 2004 (DVD)
  25. Raging Bull — Martin Scorsese, 1980 (Ziegfeld)
  26. Down to the Bone — Debra Granik, 2004/2005 release (Tribeca Cinemas)

    February 2005

  27. Mean Creak — Jacob Aaron Estes, 2004 (Tribeca Cinemas)
  28. Unknown Soldier — Ferenc Toth, 2004/unreleased (Tribeca Cinemas)
  29. Bright Leaves — Ross McElwee, 2004 (Tribeca Cinemas)
  30. Yesterday — Darrell James Roodt, 2004/2005 release (Tribeca Cinemas)
  31. Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story — Vondie Curtis Hall, 2004 (DVD)
  32. Oldboy — Park Chan-wook, 2005 (Walter Reade Theater)
  33. Clean — Olivier Assayas, 2005 (Walter Reade Theater)
  34. Cavedweller — Lisa Cholodenko, 2004 (DVD)
  35. Catwoman — Pitof, 2004 (DVD)
  36. Blind Shaft — Li Yang, 2004 (DVD)
  37. Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed — Shola Lynch, 2004 (P.O.V. on PBS)
  38. Vital — Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004/unreleased (Walter Reade Theater)
  39. Downfall — Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2005 (Walter Reade Theater)
  40. Primer — Shane Carruth, 2004 (DVD)
  41. Coffee and Cigarettes — Jim Jarmusch, 2004 (DVD)
  42. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 — Bob Clark, 2004 (DVD)
  43. White Chicks — Keenan Ivory Wayans, 2004 (DVD)
  44. Henry Aaron’s Summer Up North — William Povletich & Joshua Adams, 2005 TFF submission (VHS)
  45. Farmingville — Carlos Sandoval & Catherine Tambini, 2004 (DVD)
  46. Call It Democracy — Matthew Kohn, 2005 TFF submission (DVD)
  47. Murder at Cafe Noir — David Landau, 2005 TFF submission (DVD)
  48. Almost — Chris D’Elia, 2005 TFF submission (DVD)
  49. The Darkness of Abraham Lincoln — Vikran Jayanti, 2005 TFF submission (VHS)
  50. Living Liberty — Mary Engel, 2005 TFF submission (VHS)
  51. L.A. Dicks — Dean Alioto, 2005 TFF submission (VHS)
  52. Surviving Christmas — Mike Mitchell, 2004 (DVD)
  53. Jersey Girl — Kevin Smith, 2004 (DVD)
  54. Awake Zion — (director unknown), 2005 TFF submission (VHS)
  55. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen — Michael Palm, 2005 (DVD)
  56. Street Fight — Marshall Curry, 2005-Tribeca Film Festival/P.O.V. on PBS (DVD)

    March 2005

  57. Ten’ja — Hassan Legzuoli, 2005/unreleased (DVD)
  58. Life on the Ledge — Lewis Helfer, 2005/unreleased (DVD)

    April 2005

  59. Sin City — Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, 2005 (Regal Battery Park)

    May 2005

  60. Favela Rising — Jeff Zimbalist & Matt Mochary, 2005/unreleased (TFF @ Regal Battery Park)
  61. The Baxter — Michael Showalter, 2005 (Tribeca Film Center)
  62. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession — Xan Cassavetes, 2005 (IFC)
  63. Tupac: Resurrection — Lauren Lazin, 2004 (DVD)
  64. The Story of the Weeping Camel — Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni, 2004 (DVD)
  65. Shark Tale — Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jensen, Rob Letterman, 2004 (DVD)
  66. James Elroy’s Feast of Death — Vikram Jayanti, 2001 (Sundance Channel)
  67. Goodbye Dragon Inn — Tsai Ming-liang, 2004 (DVD)
  68. Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith — George Lucas, 2005 (Ziegfeld)
  69. Kingdom of Heaven — Ridley Scott, 2005 (Loews eWalk)
  70. Reds — Warren Beatty, 1981 (TCM)
  71. Friday Night Lights — Peter Berg, 2004 (DVD)
  72. Garfield: The Movie — Peter Hewitt, 2004 (DVD)
  73. Star Wars (Ep. IV) — George Lucas, 1977 (DVD)
  74. The Empire Strikes Back — Irvin Kershner, 1980 (DVD)
  75. The Return of the Jedi — Richard Marquand, 1983 (DVD)
  76. The Red Shoes — Michael Powell & Emeric Pressberger, 1948 (Walter Reade)

    June 2005

  77. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace — George Lucas, 1999 (DVD)
  78. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones — George Lucas, 2002 (DVD)
    —–Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith (2nd time @ Ziegfeld)

  79. Layer Cake — Matthew Vaughn, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  80. Lords of Dogtown — Catherine Hardwicke, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  81. The Longest Yard — Peter Segal, 2005 (Loews 84th St.)
  82. Mr. and Mrs. Smith — Doug Liman, 2005 (Loews Kips Bay)
  83. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Garth Jennings, 2005 (Village East)
  84. Batman Begins — Christopher Nolan, 2005 (Loews eWalk)
  85. Mad Hot Ballroom — Marilyn Agrelo, 2005 (Clearview 62nd/B’way)
  86. My Summer of Love — Pawel Pawlikowski, 2005 (Lincoln Plaza)
  87. Yes — Sally Potter, 2005 (Sony Screening Room)
  88. Hustle & Flow — Craig Brewer, 2005 (DGA Theater)
  89. The Interpreter — Sydney Pollack, 2005 (Beekman Theater)
  90. Undead — Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig, 2005 (Magno Review 1)
  91. War of the Worlds — Steven Spielberg, 2005 (Ziegfeld)

    July 2005

  92. Me and You and Everyone We Know — Miranda July, 2005 (IFC Center)
  93. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Alex Gibney, 2005 (Lincoln Plaza)
  94. Bewitched — Nora Ephron, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  95. Apres Vous … — Pierre Salvadori, 2005 (MC Empire 25)
  96. Crash — Paul Haggis, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  97. Rize — David LaChapelle, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  98. Cinderella Man — Ron Howard, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  99. Monster-in-Law — Robert Luketic, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  100. Twist of Faith — Kirby Dick, 2005 (HBO)
  101. Sherlock Jr. — Buster Keaton, 1924 (TCM)
  102. Against the Ropes — Charles S. Dutton, 2004 (Showtime)
  103. The Filth and the Fury — Julien Temple, 2000 (IFC)
  104. Punk: Attitude — Don Letts, 2005 (IFC)
  105. S.W.A.T. — Clark Johnson, 2003 (Cinemax)
  106. Million Dollar Legs (W.C. Fields) — Edward F. Cline, 1932 (Film Forum)
  107. Monkey Business (Marx Bros.) — Norman Z. McLeod, 1931 (Film Forum)
  108. The 40 Year-Old Virgin — Judd Apatow, 2005 (Loews Kip Bay)
  109. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Tim Burton, 2005 (Loews 34th St)
  110. Fantastic Four — Tim Story, 2005 (Loews 34th St)
  111. She Done Him Wrong (Mae West) — Lowell Sherman, 1933 (Film Forum)
  112. Night After Night (Mae West) — Archie Mayo, 1932 (Film Forum)
  113. The Phantom of the Opera w/ Alloy Orchestra– Rupert Julian, 1925 (“Celebrate Brooklyn” in Prospect Park)
  114. Shaun of the Dead — Edgar Wright, 2004 (Cinemax)
  115. Must Love Dogs — Gary David Goldberg, 2005 (IFC Center)
  116. The Constant Gardener — Fernando Meirelles, 2005 (DGA Theater)
  117. Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience — Christopher Nolan, 2005 (Loews Lincoln Square)
  118. The Aristocrats — Paul Provenza, 2005 (Loews Lincoln Square)
  119. Wedding Crashers — David Dobkin, 2005 (Loews Lincoln Square)
  120. Operation Petticoat — Blake Edwards, 1959 (TCM)
  121. Last Days — Gus Van Sant, 2005 (Landmark Sunshine)

    August 2005

  122. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic — Liam Lynch, 2005 (Magno Review 1)
  123. Walking and Talking — Nicole Holofcener, 1996 (Young Friends of Film event at Walter Reade)
  124. Bad News Bears — Richard Linklater, 2005 (Loews 84th Street)
  125. It Should Happen to You — George Cukor, 1954 (TCM)
  126. Cat People — Jacques Tourneur, 1942 (TCM)
  127. The Village — M. Night Shyamalan, 2004 (Starz!)
  128. A State of Mind — Daniel Gordon, 2005 (Film Forum)
  129. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (Astaire & Rogers) — H.C. Potter (TCM)
  130. Top Hat (Astaire & Rogers) — Mark Sandrich, 1935 (TCM)
  131. Swing Time (Astaire Rogers) — George Stevens, 1936 (TCM)
  132. Shall We Dance (Astaire & Rogers) — Mark Sandrich, 1937 (TCM)
  133. The Barkleys of Broadway (Astaire & Rogers) — Charles Walters, 1949 (TCM)
  134. The Naked Spur — Anthony Mann, 1953 (TCM)
  135. Adam’s Rib — George Cukor, 1949 (TCM)
  136. Desk Set — Walter Lang, 1957 (TCM)
  137. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? — Stanley Kramer, 1967 (TCM)
  138. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Victor Fleming, 1941 (TCM)
  139. The Seven Per-Cent Solution — Herbert Ross, 1976 (TCM)
  140. A Letter to True — Bruce Weber, 2004 (Sundance Channel)

    September 2005

  141. verything Is Illuminated — Liev Schreiber, 2005 (Magno Review 1)
  142. Horse Feathers (Marx Bros.) — Norman Z. McLeod, 1932 (TCM)
  143. Alice Adams — George Stevens, 1935 (TCM)
  144. The Divorcee — Robert Z. Leonard, 1930 (TCM)
  145. The Palm Beach Story — Preston Sturges, 1942 (TCM)
  146. A Star Is Born — William A. Wellman, 1937 (TCM)
  147. The Pirate — Vincente Minnelli, 1948 (TCM)
  148. Yolanda and the Thief — Vincente Minnelli, 1945 (TCM)
  149. Corpse Bride — Tim Burton & Mike Johnson, 2005 (Loews Kips Bay)
  150. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu — Cristi Puiu, 2006 release (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  151. Bubble — Steven Soderbergh, 2006 release (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  152. L’Enfant — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2006 release (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  153. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes — Avi Mograbi, 2005/unreleased (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  154. Paradise Now — Hany Abu-Assad, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  155. Good Night, and Good Luck — George Clooney, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  156. Capote — Bennett MIller, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  157. The Notorious Bettie Page — Mary Harron, 2006 release (MoMA)
  158. The Squid and the Whale — Noah Baumbach, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  159. Who’s Camus Anyway? — Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 2005/unreleased (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  160. Something Like Happiness — Bohdan Slama, 2005/unreleased (NYFF Press screening at Alice Tully Hall)
  161. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance — Park Chan-wook, 2006 release (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  162. Breakfast on Pluto — Neil Jordan, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  163. The President’s Last Bang — Im Sang-soo, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Alice Tully Hall)

    October 2005

  164. The Sun — Aleksandr Sokurov, 2005/unreleased (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  165. Gabrielle — Patrice Chereau, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  166. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story — Michael Winterbottom, 2006 release (NYFF Press screening at Walter Reade Theater)
  167. Protocols of Zion — Marc Levin, 2005 (Magno Review 1)
  168. Cache — Michael Haneke, 2005 (NYFF Press screening at Alice Tully Hall)
  169. Where the Truth Lies — Atom Egoyan, 2005 (Magno Review 1)
  170. North Country — Niki Caro, 2005 (Loews Lincoln Square)
  171. North by Northwest — Alfred Hitchcock, 1959 (TCM)
  172. Saboteur — Alfred Hitchcock, 1942 (TCM)
  173. Vertigo — Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (TCM)

    November 2005

  174. The Punisher — Jonathan Hensleigh, 2004 (Showtime)
  175. Paycheck — John Woo, 2003 (Showtime)
  176. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Mike Newell, 2005 (Loews Lincoln Square)
  177. Shopgirl — Anand Tucker, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  178. Syriana — Stephen Gaghan, 2005 (Loews eWalk)
  179. A History of Violence — David Cronenberg, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  180. Rent — Chris Columbus, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  181. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang — Shane Black, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  182. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story — Todd Haynes, 1987 (DVD)
  183. A Shot in the Dark — Blake Edwards, 1964 (DVD)
  184. Nosferatu — F.W. Murnau, 1922 (TCM)
  185. Elektra — Rob Bowman, 2005 (Cinemax)
  186. Dave — Ivan Reitman, 1993 (HBO)
  187. The Comedians of Comedy — Michael Blieden, 2005 (Showtime)
  188. Chasing Liberty — Andy Cadiff, 2004 (HBO)
  189. The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Halen — Rosemarie Reed, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  190. Left of the Dial — Patrick Farrelly & Katie O’Callaghan, 2005 (HBO)
  191. Transamerica — Duncan Tucker, 2005 (IFC Center)
  192. Meantime: April 3, 2004 1700 Greenwich Mean Time — Deborah Magocsi, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  193. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — Andrew Adamson, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  194. Stuck on You — Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly, 2003 (Cinemax)

    December 2005

  195. One Last Show — Eric Terzo, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  196. Gathering Remnants: A Cowboy Tribute — Kendall Nelson, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  197. Black and Blue: Legends of the Hip Hop Cop — Peter Spirer, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  198. There’s No Place Like Home — Michael DeRoker, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  199. The Girl Next Door — Luke Greenfield, 2004 (HBO)
  200. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed — Raja Gosnell, 2004 (DVD)
  201. Between — David Ocanas, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  202. Timeline — Richard Donner, 2003 (Showtime)
  203. Caffeine — John Cosgrove, 2006 TFF submission (DVD)
  204. Gimme Shelter — Maysles Bros. & Charlotte Zwerin, 1970 (DVD)
  205. Monterey Pop — D.A. Pennebaker, 1968 (VHS)
  206. Primary — Robert Drew, 1960 (DVD)
  207. Grey Gardens — Maysles Bros., Ellen Hovd &, Muffie Meyer 1975 (DVD)
  208. Salesman — Mayseles Bros. & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969 (DVD)
  209. Christo’s Valley Curtain — Mayseles Bros. & Ellen Giffard, 1973 (DVD)
  210. Running Fence — Mayseles Bros. & Charlotte Zwerin, 1978 (DVD)
  211. Islands — Mayseles Bros. & Charlotte Zwerin, 1987 (DVD)
  212. Christo in Paris — Mayseles Bros., Deborah Dickson & Susan Fromke, 1990 (DVD)
  213. Kicking and Screaming — Noah Baumbach, 1995 (Young Friends of Film event at Walter Reade Theater)
  214. Umbrellas — Albert Maysles, Henry Corra & Grahame Weinbren, 1994 (DVD)
  215. This Is an Adventure — Albert Maysles & Antonio Ferrara, 2005 (DVD)
  216. Spartan — David Mamet, 2004 (HBO)
  217. King Kong — Peter Jackson, 2005 (Regal Union Square 14)
  218. Stander — Bronwen Hughes, 2004 (DVD)
  219. Junebug — Phil Morrison, 2005 (VHS screener)
  220. The New World — Terrence Malick, 2005 (Time Warner Center screening room)
  221. The Producers — Susan Stroman, 2005 (Loews Kips Bay)
  222. Tokyo Story — Yasujiro Ozu, 1953 (DVD)
  223. Last Life in the Universe — Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2004 (DVD)
  224. I, Robot — Alex Proyas, 2004 (HBO)
  225. Son of the Mask — Lawrence Guterman, 2005 (HBO)
  226. Walk the Line — James Mangold, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  227. The Family Stone — Thomas Bezucha, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  228. Memoirs of a Geisha — Rob Marshall, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  229. Brokeback Mountain — Ang Lee, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  230. The Ringer — Barry W. Blaustein, 2005 (AMC Empire 25)
  231. Mysterious Skin — Gregg Araki, 2005 (DVD)
  232. Munich — Steven Spielberg, 2005 (Village East)
  233. Pride & Prejudice — Joe Wright, 2005 (Quad Cinema)
  234. It’s a Wonderful Life — Frank Capra, 1946 (VHS)
  235. Kung Fu Hustle — Stephen Chow, 2005 (DVD)
  236. King Kong — Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933 (TCM)
  237. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance — Park Chan-wook, 2005 (DVD)
  238. Dogville — Lars von Trier, 2004 (DVD)
  239. Millions — Danny Boyle, 2005 (DVD)
  240. Rumor Has It … — Rob Reiner, 2005 (Loews Village VII)
  241. After Hours — Martin Scorsese, 1985 (DVD)
  242. She Hate Me — Spike Lee, 2004 (HBO)
  243. Funny Ha Ha — Andrew Bujalski, 2005 (DVD)

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