Top 10’s of 2005

Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top 10 movie lists of 2005 on the website. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top 10 of the year and we’ll include it here.

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Look at Me

Peg Aloi’s Top 10 Movies of 2005 (in no particular order)

  • The Libertine
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Look at Me
  • My Summer of Love
  • Mondovino
  • 2046
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Mysterious Skin
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Yes

Best Mainstream Movie: Batman Begins

 

Le Clan
Le Clan

Thom Bowser’s Top 10 Movies of 2005

  1. Le Clan
  2. Tropical Malady
  3. Brokeback Mountain
  4. 2046
  5. Palindromes
  6. Kontroll
  7. The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
  8. Bee Season
  9. Last Days
  10. Mirrormask

Best Movies Viewed in 2005: Father & Son, Gummo, Beg!

 

Brødre
Brothers

Beth Caldwell’s Top 10 Movies of 2005 

  1. Capote
  2. Brothers
  3. Nobody Knows
  4. Turtles Can Fly
  5. 3-Iron
  6. Kings and Queen
  7. Downfall
  8. The Squid & the Whale
  9. Born Into Brothels
  10. Tony Takitani

 

 

 

Or (Mon Tresor)
Or (My Treasure)

Michael Colford’s Top 15 Movies of 2005

  1. Me and You and Everyone We Know
  2. Or (My Treasure)
  3. Tony Takitani
  4. Wilby Wonderful
  5. 2046
  6. Mysterious Skin
  7. Look At Me
  8. Nobody Knows
  9. Walk On Water
  10. Double Dare

Couldn’t Quite Squeeze On: Brokeback Mountain, Where the Truth Lies, Côte d’Azur, Tropical Malady, Café Lumière, 3-Iron, In the Realms of the Unreal

 

Sorry, Haters
Sorry, Haters

Michael’s Top 10 Festival Films

  1. Sorry, Haters
  2. The Wayward Cloud
  3. Linda Linda Linda!
  4. Shanghai Dreams
  5. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
  6. Caché
  7. Whole New Thing
  8. Love and Become
  9. Imagine Me and You
  10. Vers le Sud

 

 

Tony Takitani
Tony Takitani

Scot Colford’s Top 10 Movies of 2004

  1. Me And You And Everyone We Know
  2. Tony Takitani
  3. Brokeback Mountain
  4. Côte d’Azur
  5. Wilby Wonderful
  6. Where the Truth Lies
  7. The Dying Gaul
  8. Nobody Knows
  9. In the Realms of the Unreal
  10. Grizzly Man

 

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Johanna Cooper’s Top 10 Movies of 2004! (in alphabetical order)

  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  • Born Into Brothels
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Darwin’s Nightmare
  • Downfall
  • Murderball
  • Schultze Gets the Blues
  • Shake Hands with the Devil
  • Turtles Can Fly
  • Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

 

 

Bin-jip
3-Iron

Bob Gladstein’s Top 10 Movies of 2004! 

  • 3-Iron
  • 2046
  • Me and You And Everyone We Know
  • Nobody Knows
  • Head On
  • Look at Me
  • The Holy Girl
  • Kings and Queen
  • Caterina in the Big City
  • Wilby Wonderful

 

Shijie
The World

Thomas Guttadauro’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

Best

  • Howl’s Moving Castle

Best of the Rest

  • The World
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  • 3-Iron
  • Grizzly Man

The Rest

  • Godzilla: Final Wars
  • Oldboy
  • Nobody Knows
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Case of the Were-Rabbit

Best Movie No One Saw

  • The Warrior
Linda Linda Linda
Linda Linda Linda

Biggest Disappointment

  • 2046

Best of the Fests

  • The President’s Last Bang
  • The Devil and Daniel Johnson
  • The Sun
  • Linda Linda Linda!
  • Three Stories

Honorable Mention for Kicking Ass!

  • Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior

Best Sig from a Movie

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2046

Ned Hinkle’s Top 13 Films Released In US Theaters in 2005! (OK there are 16 but some are “double features”)

  1. 2046
  2. Brokeback Mountain
  3. Memories of Murder/Old Boy
  4. King Kong
  5. Bright Future
  6. Me and You and Everyone We Know
  7. Kung Fu Hustle/Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
  8. Kings and Queen
  9. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
  10. Devil’s Rejects/Land of the Dead
  11. Last Days
  12. Serenity
  13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Runners Up (alphabetically): Batman Begins, Broken Flowers, The Fearless Freaks, Grizzly Man, Howl’s Moving Castle, Keane, Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, Sin City, Tale of Two Sisters, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

 

Batalla en el cielo
Battle in Heaven

Ned’s Top 13 Festival Films

  1. Battle in Heaven
  2. Caché (Hidden)
  3. Punk: Attitude
  4. Wassup Rockers
  5. Night of Truth
  6. Takeshis’
  7. SPL
  8. Tsotsi
  9. Runaway
  10. The Proposition
  11. The Wayward Cloud
  12. The Great Yokai War
  13. Drawing Restraint 9

 

Water
Water

Mary Ellen James’ Top 10 Movies of 2005!

  1. Water
  2. Capote
  3. Regular Lovers
  4. Nine Lives
  5. Ballets Russes
  6. April Snow
  7. Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
  8. In the Realms of the Unreal
  9. Breakfast on Pluto
  10. Everlasting Regret

 

 

 

Der Untergang
Downfall

Bruce Kingsley’s Top 10 Movies of 2005

  1. Downfall
  2. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  3. The Edukators
  4. 3-Iron
  5. The Best of Youth
  6. Capote
  7. 2046
  8. Caché
  9. Brokeback Mountain
  10. Saraband

Festival Films: Familia, The Night of Truth, Zulu Love Letter

 

La nuit de la vérité
The Night of Truth

Almost Made Its (alphabetical)

  • Ballets Russes
  • Good Night and Good Luck
  • Grizzly Man
  • Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque
  • Innocent Voices
  • Look at Me
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • My Summer of Love
  • Nobody Knows
  • The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
  • The Syrian Bride
  • Tony Takitani
  • Walk on Water

 

Me and You and Everyone We Know
Me and You and Everyone We Know

Chris Kriofske’s Top 10 Movies of 2005!

  1. Me and You and Everyone We Know
  2. Mysterious Skin
  3. A History of Violence
  4. 3-Iron
  5. Downfall
  6. The Squid & the Whale
  7. Double Dare
  8. The Best of Youth
  9. Tropical Malady
  10. Grizzly Man

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 2046, Brokeback Mountain, Café Lumière, Capote, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Murderball, My Summer of Love, Nobody Knows, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wilby Wonderful

C.R.A.Z.Y.
C.R.A.Z.Y.

 

Chris’ Top 5 Festival Films of 2005!

  • C.R.A.Z.Y.
  • Clean
  • Caché (Hidden)
  • Shanghai Dreams
  • Twelve and Holding

Best Repertory Screenings: The Conformist, Donkey Skin, My Grandmother, The Passenger, The Warriors

 

 

 

Walk on Water

Barbara Lonergan’s Top 10 Movies of 2004!

  1. Walk on Water
  2. Tony Takitani
  3. Brothers
  4. Downfall
  5. Mysterious Skin
  6. Capote
  7. Happy Endings
  8. Double Dare
  9. Look at Me
  10. Brokeback Mountain

 

 

 

Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Night and Good Luck

Mary McIntire’s Top 10 Movies of 2004

  1. Good Night, and Good Luck
  2. Me and You and Everyone We Know
  3. Capote
  4. Palindromes
  5. Brokeback Mountain
  6. 2046
  7. 3-Iron
  8. Mysterious Skin
  9. The Edukators
  10. Happy Endings

 

 

Rois et reine
Kings & Queen

Hilary Nieukirk’s Top 10 Movies of 2004! (in alphabetical order)

  • Breakfast On Pluto
  • Capote
  • Double Dare
  • Happily Ever After
  • Happy Endings
  • Kings & Queen
  • Me And You And Everyone We Know
  • Murderball
  • Mysterious Skin
  • The Squid And The Whale

Best Chlotrudis Ineligible: Batman Begins, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Sin City

Buried Treasure Torremolinos ’73

 

The Edukators
The Edukators

Rick Osberg’s Top 10 Movies of 2005!

  1. The Edukators
  2. Palindromes
  3. Darwin’s Nightmare
  4. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zant
  5. Grizzly Man
  6. Murderball
  7. Downfall
  8. The Nomi Song
  9. Funny Ha Ha
  10. Mysterious Skin

 

 

Howl’s Moving Castle

Howard Semones Top 10 Movies of 2005!

  1. Howl’s Moving Castle
  2. Wallace & Gromit in the Case of the Were Rabbit
  3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  4. Sin City
  5. Batman Begins
  6. Downfall
  7. Serenity
  8. The Corpse Bride
  9. Wild Parakeets of Telegraph Hill
  10. Kung Fu Hustle

Guilty Pleasure: Just Like Heaven

 

Nobody Knows

Carolyn Ziering’s Top 10 Movies of 2005!

  1. 3-Iron
  2. Nobody Knows
  3. Wilby Wonderful
  4. Mysterious Skin
  5. Brother to Brother
  6. Green Day: Bullet in a Bible
  7. Wallace & Gromit in the Case of the Were Rabbit
  8. Murderball
  9. Watermarks
  10. School of Rock