Flims of the year..

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Before it gets too late.. I saw in 2005 (in no real order, ones I loved starred, ones I saw on planes P)



EDIT : 4 added after watching Film 2005!
EDIT 2: and then 3 more!

Chronicles of Narnia: LWW
* Sky High
* The Libertine
P Fantastic Four
P Mr Mrs Smith
* Serenity
Mirrormask
Festival
9 Songs
Happiness
I Heart Huckabees
2046
In her Shoes
*Howl's Moving Castle
*Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A History of Violence
Elizabethtown
Wallace and Gromit: Were Rabbit
Harry Potter Goblet of Fire
The Interpreter
Constantine
*The Life Acquatic
Closer
Sideways
Batman Begins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
You Me and Everyone We Know
War of the Worlds
*Team America (fuck yeh!)
Sin City
The Edukators
Panic Room
*A Very Long Engagement
HHGTG
Spellbound
5 X 2



28 37 films. In 2004, it was 27. As with last year, too much sf blockbuster, not enough interesting foreign stuff though I do try on the English speaking indy front. I missed Primer, Pride and Prejudice, Bride and Prejudice, Thumbsucker and Nightwatch, all of which I would like to catch at some point, although it doesn't hurt to leave a few films to watch at Xmas :-) (This year the only films I have seen for the first time on TV at Xmas have been mega old - First Knight and Withnail and I. I watched Charlotte Gray again too, which actually stands up well to re-watching despite poor reviews at the time.)

I've raved here about all the starred above before, I think (I may go back and put links in at some point, even) except Sky High. This is a piece of sfx fluff yes, but it's also gloriously high concept and silly - Legion of Substitute Superheroes meets Hogwarts school, as the children of superheroes go to school in the sky and deal with bullies, the school prom, girlfriends, boyfriends, demanding parents and super-villainesses who want to take over the world. Entirely formulaic but enormous fun, and my unexpected hit of the year. (And some actor whose name I can't recall does the best proto-Heath Ledger totty bad boy turn since, well, Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You. Phhwoarr!) Festival almost got a star - it's a wee gem for anyone who knows the Edinburgh Festival with the indomitable Daniella Nardini and I laughed and grimaced in recognition like a drain - but I don't know what it would be like for people who aren't regular Festival-goers..

Absolute suckfests - 9 Songs - just rent porn, already!. Sideways - not nearly as funny as the critics all said it was, espcially not the second time. (Sorry bohemiancoast!) Fantastic Four - I fell asleep before the end, though admittedly, I was on a plane! HHGTG - so pointlessly otiose I actually forgot I'd seen it even though Andy talked of little else for months before..

And best film? Tough. It may be the nearside recognition effect talking, but I think I'd still on the whole go for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Life Acquatic a near second.

Anyone want to make me a film icon..??