27 February 2010

2006 Yearbook

2006
 
Each year has a corresponding Dispatch episode (http://www.theworldofcinema.com/) that gives an overview of the year in film that was...
 
This year seemed to be a very strong year for documentaries, at least the ones I was able to see.
 
Documentary
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
Why We Fight
Jesus Camp
Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon
American Hardcore
Before the Music Dies
 
Drama
The Departed
Children of Men
I am the Angel of Death: Pusher III
The Fountain
Brick
L'Enfant

Comedy
Idiocracy
Clerks II
Beerfest

20 February 2010

2005 Yearbook

Each year has a corresponding Dispatch episode (http://www.theworldofcinema.com/) that gives an overview of the year in film that was...

The journal entry I have for this list was March 2, 2006.  It is a combination of divided up by genres as well as number ranked.

2005

Drama
1. Syriana
2. A History of Violence
3. Good Night and Good Luck
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Lord of War

Comedy
1. The 40 Year Old Virgin
2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
3. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
4. The Wedding Crashers

Forien
1. A Hole in My Heart
2. Cache
3. Brothers
4. Kings and Queen
5. The Edukators

Documentary
1. The Future of Food
2. Grizzly Man
3. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4. Murderball
5. Popaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English

13 February 2010

2004 Yearbook

Each year has a corresponding Dispatch episode (http://www.theworldofcinema.com/) that gives an overview of the year in film that was...

As asserted in the 2004 Yearbook episode of WOC, this was a fantastic year of film that rivals 1999 in my book. I divided up this year’s best into four categories and each category is ranked.


2004

Drama
1. Primer
2. Before Sunset
3. The Aviator
4. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Madness and Genius
7. Kinsey
8. Sideways
9. Spartan
10. The Village

Comedy
1. I Heart Huckabees
2. Team America: World Police
3. Club Dread
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Silver City
6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
7. Mean Girls
8. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
9. In Good Company
10. Saved!

Documentary
1. The Corporation
2. Control Room
3. In the Realms of the Unreal
4. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
5. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
6. Super Size Me
7. Farmingville
8. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
9. The Agronomist
10. The Fourth World War

Foreign
1. Last Life in the Universe
2. Maria Full of Grace
3. Kopps
4. Carandiru
5. The Motorcycle Diaries

06 February 2010

2003 Yearbook

Each year has a corresponding Dispatch episode (http://www.theworldofcinema.com/) that gives an overview of the year in film that was...


This year I went with seperate lists of Fiction and Documentary and I went back to actually ranking the films.


2003

Fiction
1. Elephant
2. Le temps du loup (Time of the Wolf)
3. Lilja 4-ever (Lilya 4-Ever)
4. Dom durakov (House of Fools)
5. Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts)
6. The Shape of Things
7. American Splendor
8. 21 Grams
9. 28 Days Later
10. Old School

Documentary
1. The Weather Underground
2. The Fog of War
3. Capturing the Friedmans
4. Spellbound
5. Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News