The (New) Movies That Were 2005

The films that were new to me in 2005 - totaling 135 - are noted below. Films I actually saw in a theater span the spectrum from Saw II to Brokeback Mountain to The Big Parade. Most of them were DVD and cable fodder. It was a good year:

The Beatniks
Back from Hell
Lady Gangster
Behave Yourself!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Party Monster
Antitrust
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Boyfriends
Constantine
Parting Glances
The Broken Hearts Club
Latter Days
Elephant
Relax…It's Just Sex
Cowboys & Angels
My Own Private Idaho
Trick
O Fantasma
Camp
But I'm a Cheerleader
The Raspberry Reich
Gone, But Not Forgotten
Angels in America
La Dolce Vita
Giant
Igby Goes Down
Rebel Without a Cause
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nine Dead Gay Guys
Intolerance
Burnt Offerings
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Cleopatra
Nosferatu
National Velvet
Eating Out
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Scarlet Street
Touch of Pink
A Place in the Sun
The 24th Day
Jezebel
The Glass Menagerie
The Big Parade
Beau Brummell
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Virgin Queen
Mysterious Skin
Marius
Death on the Nile
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Last Seduction
Johnny English
Underworld
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Luster
Troy
Lord of Illusions
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
No Ordinary Love
The Celluloid Closet
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Cry-Baby
Leaving Metropolis
Hegwig and the Angry Inch
Rio Bravo
The Forsaken
Sugar
The 25th Hour
A River Runs Through It
Song of the Thin Man
Mulholland Falls
Big Fish
Fireworks
Puce Moment
White Heat
Rabbit's Moon
Eaux d'artifice
Kustom Kar Kommandos
The Substitute
The Seniors
Batman & Robin
Multiple Maniacs
The Medallion
The Rundown
Contact
Starsky & Hutch
The Butterfly Effect
Crooklyn
S.W.A.T.
Scorpio Rising
Monster
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Party Girl
Trembling Before G-d
Saw II
The Wicker Man
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Wicker Park
Laura
Easy Rider
Dead Man
Thunder Road
The Little Foxes
The Letter
To Die For
That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment, Part II
It Happened to Jane
Hud
Coal Miner's Daughter
Sideways
Neighbors
The Golem
The Balloonatic
Seven Chances
Now, Voyager
Drugstore Cowboy
The Wiz
The Godfather: Part III
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Bullets over Broadway
Dinner Rush
The Big Sleep
West Side Story
City Lights
The Great Dictator
The Tramp and the Dictator
Vanity Fair
Brokeback Mountain
We Were Soldiers

The Movies That Were 2005 (Again)

The film chronicle for 2005 is now officially divided between those that I've seen before and those that were originals. Here is the chronological list of re-views from last year. A few re-re-views can be noted by the diligent list investigator:

The Last Unicorn
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Napoleon Dynamite
The Harrad Experiment
Desperate Living
Pecker
Not Another Teen Movie
Polyester
Napoleon Dynamite
Hairspray
Cecil B. Demented
Divine Trash
Desperate Living
Hot Shots!
The Road Warrior
Goonies
Pulp Fiction
Clue
Eye of the Beholder
The Way of the Gun
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Female Trouble
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Dirty Shame
Desperate Living
Scary Movie 2
Starship Troopers
Hairspray
Polyester
Female Trouble
Donnie Brasco
Pecker
Cecil B. Demented
Divine Trash
Clue
Blazing Saddles
Saved!
The Truman Show
Hellboy
A Dirty Shame
Logan's Run

If It's in Black and White, It's Not in Bad Taste

Turner Classic Movies is currently showing the film adaptation of William Golding's frequently-assigned-in-high-school-lit-class novel Lord of the Flies (1963). Given the state of undress the 12 year old characters find themselves in, I assume this one is a favorite down at NAMBLA headquarters. A dozen scantily-clad boys on a tropical island? It's Blue Lagoon for pedophiles - which is saying something, considering how young Brooke Shields and Christipher Atkins themselves were.