My 2005
Film-watching Journal
All
titles are theatrical viewings unless shown in italics:
* - First-time Viewing
December
12/2
- * True Grit
12/3
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
12/3
- * Just Friends
12/4
- * The Passenger
12/5
- * Rize
12/6
- MST3K - Cave Dwellers
12/10
- * Diary of a Mad Black Woman
12/10
- * Protocols of Zion
12/11
- * Rent
12/14
- * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
12/17
- Raid on Entebbe
12/17
- * King Kong
12/18
- * Syriana
12/20
- * Sahara
12/24
- * Dear Frankie
12/25
- A Christmas Story
12/25
- * To Kill a Mockingbird
12/26
- * Zathura
12/29
- * The Jacket
12/30
- * Memoirs of a Geisha
12/31
- * Rumor Has It
November
11/4
- * The Squid and the Whale
11/5
- * The Weather Man
11/6
- * Jarhead
11/12
- The Big Lebowski
11/12
- * Nothing Lasts Forever
11/12
- * The Fearless Freaks
11/14
- * Wedding Crashers
11/18
- * Tony Takitani
11/19
- * Cape of Good Hope
11/20
- * Walk the Line
11/22
- U2: Rattle and Hum
11/23
- * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11/25
- * Bee Season
11/27
- * The Ice Harvest
11/28
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
11/29
- Ocean's Eleven
October
10/2
- * Flightplan
10/2
- * Mirrormask
10/6
- * A History of Violence
10/7
- * Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
10/10
- * Fantastic Four
10/15
- Serenity
10/18
- * War of the Worlds (2005)
10/20
- * Elizabethtown
10/21
- * Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
10/21
- * Everything is Illuminated
10/21
- The Tao of Steve
10/22
- Grosse Pointe Blank
10/22
- * Islands in the Sky
10/22
- * Kingdom of Heaven
10/23
- * Good Night and Good Luck
10/30
- * Capote
10/31
- * La Strada
September
9/2 -
Almost Famous
9/5 -
* March of the Penguins
9/6 -
* The Constant Gardener
9/7 -
* The Brothers Grimm
9/8 -
* Il Bidone
9/8 -
* Nights of Cabria
9/9 -
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
9/13
- * The Exorcism of Emily Rose
9/15
- * An Unfinished Life
9/15
- * Junebug
9/18
- * Kontroll
9/21
- * The Transporter
9/24
- * The Twilight Samurai
9/24
- Primer
9/25
- * Just Like Heaven
9/25
- * The Memory of a Killer
9/26
- * The Corpse Bride
9/29
- * Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
9/30
- * Serenity
August
8/1 -
* Swimming With Sharks
8/4 -
* The Tunnel
8/6 -
* To Catch a Thief
8/7 -
* Broken Flowers
8/7 -
* Happy Endings
8/13
- Hero
8/13
- Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music (w/director commentary)
8/14
- Napolean Dynamite
8/15
- Remember the Titans
8/17
- * The Edukators
8/17
- * Murderball
8/20
- * Red Eye
8/20
- * Four Brothers
8/21
- * The 40-Year-Old Virgin
8/24
- * Grizzly Man
8/25
- * Word Wars
8/27
- Kill Bill Vol. 1
8/31
- * 2046
July
7/6 -
* Viva Kneivel
7/9 -
* A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
7/9 -
* Howl's Moving Castle
7/10
- * Dark Water
7/23 -
* The High and the Mighty
7/24
- * Me and You and Everyone We Know
7/24
- * The Beat That My Heart Skipped
7/25
- * Au Hazard Balthazar
7/26
- * In the Heat of the Night
7/28
- Au Hazard Balthazar (continues to grow on me)
7/29
- * Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
7/30
- * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7/31
- * Stealth
7/31
- * Kicking and Screaming
Flickerings/Imaginarium
2005
6/30
- * Henri Langlois - The Passion of the Cinemateque
6/30
- * Breathless
6/30
- * Detour
7/1 -
* Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
7/1 -
* Open City
7/2 -
* The Battle of Algiers
7/2 -
* Bonhoeffer
7/2 -
* The Cow
7/3 -
* A Man Escaped
7/3 -
* Time of the Wolf
7/3 -
* Casablanca
June
6/2 -
* Layer Cake
6/4 -
The Incredibles
6/5 -
The Bourne Supremacy
6/11
- * Cinderella Man
6/12
- Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
6/12
- * Fever Pitch (2005)
6/13
- * Holy Man
6/15
- * Batman Begins
6/22
- * Mr. and Mrs. Smith
6/24
- Batman Begins
May
5/1 -
* Kung Fu Hustle
5/6 -
* Crash (2005)
5/7 -
* Matchstick Men
5/8 -
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5/9 -
* Brian's Song (1971)
5/13
- * Noi
5/14
- * Unleashed
5/15
- * Three Colors: Blue
5/17
- * The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
5/20
- * The Magnificent Seven
5/21
- * Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
5/22
- * The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
5/26
- * Three Colors: White
5/27
- * Three Colors: Red
5/29
- * The Work of Director Michel Gondry
5/30
- Silver Streak
April
4/6 -
* Sin City
4/8 -
* Millions
4/9 -
* On the Waterfront
4/13
- * Off the Map
4/15
- * Mr. 3000
4/16
- Windtalkers
4/17
- * Citizen Kane
4/21
- * Academy Award Nominated Shorts 2005
4/22
- Ocean's Twelve
4/23
- * The Interpreter
4/24
- * The Robe
4/25
- * The Game of Their Lives
4/26
- * Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4/28
- * Dust to Glory
4/30
- * Blade
March
3/2 -
* Metropolitan
3/5 -
* Constantine
3/8 -
* Born into Brothels
3/9 -
* Downfall
3/11
- * National Treasure
3/13
- * Spanglish
3/15
- * The Animation Show
3/18
- * Shaun of the Dead
3/20
- * The Ring 2
3/20
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
3/22
- The Passion of the Christ
3/25
- * Gunner Palace
3/27
- Slacker
3/31
- * Star Wars - The Empire of Dreams (documentary)
February
2/3 -
* Brazil
2/5 -
* The Beach
2/10
- * The Third Man
2/12
- * The Big Country
2/13
- * Hitch
2/15
- * Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
2/16
- * Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
2/21
- * Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2/22
- * Touch of Evil
2/23
- * Vera Drake
2/24
- * The Merchant of Venice
2/27
- * Alien
January
1/2 -
* The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
1/2 -
* Beyond the Sea
1/3 -
* The Phantom of the Opera
1/4 -
* MST3K - The Atomic Brain
1/6 -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1/7 -
* Wicker Park
1/8 -
* The Iron Giant
1/8 -
* The Aviator
1/9 -
* White Noise
1/11
- * Maria Full of Grace
1/13
- * The Return
1/16
- * In Good Company
1/16
- Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1/17
- Meet the Parents
1/18
- * Hotel Rwanda
1/22
- * House of Flying Daggers
1/22
- MST3K - Manos: the Hands of Fate
1/24
- * The Grudge
1/25
- * The Woodsman
1/30
- * Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
1/30
- * Million-Dollar Baby