December 12, 2005

Top 10 Films of 2005

1. "Historias del desencanto" (Alejandro Valle, Felipe Gómez, Mexico)

2. "The Wayward Cloud" (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)

3. "Melissa P" (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)

4. "Sin City" (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, USA)

5. ''Lord Of War'' (Andrew Niccol, USA)

6. "Breakfast On Pluto" (Neil Jordan, Ireland)

7. "Delwende" (S. Pierre Yameogo, Burkina Faso)

8. "Where The Truth Lies" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

9. "Play" (Alicia Scherson, Chile)

10. "Broken Flowers" (Jim Jarmusch, USA)


Other great films:

2 Girls (Turkey)
5X2 (France)
All About Anna (Denmark)
Dear Wendy (Denmark)
L'Enfant (Belgium)
Les États nordiques (Canada)
Familia (Canada)
House of Sand (Brazil)
Hwal (South Korea)
Jestem (Poland)
Jimmywork (Canada)
Lie With Me (Canada)
Perhaps Love (Hong Kong)
Sangre (Mexico)
Seven Swords (Hong Kong)
Sex And Philosophy (Tajikistan)
The Sun (Japan)
These Girls (Canada)
Three Times (Taiwan)
Tsotsi (South Africa)

Short Top 3:

1. "Six Shooter" (Martin McDonagh, Ireland)

2. "Le Baiser" (Stefan Le Lay, France)

3. "Une Chapelle blanche" (Simon Lavoie, Canada)


Other great shorts:

L'Air de rien (Canada)
A mains nues (France)
Les Jouets (Canada)
La Méthode Morin (Canada)
Traumata

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Don't Cha" (Paul Hunter, The Pussycat Dolls)

2. "Speed Of Sound" (Mark Romanek, Coldplay)

3. "Believe" (Nic and Dom, The Chemical Brothers)


Other great music videos:

Hung Up
When I'M Gone

Top Commercial:

"Diet Pepsi Truck" (Joe Pytka, Pepsi)


Other great commercials:

Proceedings

TV Top 3:

1. "Lost: Season 2" (ABC)

2. "Rome: Season 1" (HBO)

3. "Weeds: Season 1" (Showtime)


Other great TV shows:

24: Season 5
Six Feet Under: Season 5

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello" (Anthony Lucas, Australia)

2. "The Moon And The Son" (John Canemaker, USA)

3. "One Man Band" (Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez, Pixar)


Other great cartoons:

9
Dog's Life (Hungary)
Va, vis et deviens (France)
Les Voleurs d'enfance (Canada)
Walk The Line
War Of The Worlds

Weak shorts:

Close Up (France)
L'Hiver longtemps (Canada)
Les Petits hommes vieux (France)
Le Rouge au sol (Canada)
Somewhere (France)
Tennessee (Canada)

Weak cartoons:

At The Quinte Hotel (Canada)
Badgered (UK)