brokeback capote

saw Brokeback Mountain and Capote yesterday - double header - of two really great films. seeing them both made me reflect on how many great movies i've seen in the theater in the last year, here's a list of the really truly great ones - there are a few at the bottom that weren't bad but i certainly wouldn't catalog as "great".

So here's the great ones: Syriana, The Squid & The Whale, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Match Point, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Grizzly Man.

Movies that tried really hard and weren't bad, but just didn't get there for me this year would include: A History Of Violence, Walk The Line, Corpse Bride, Batman Begins, and March Of The Penguins.

if i could add Munich, Paradise Now, and The New World to my list of "seen" i would feel like i did a pretty good job this year - considering i uprooted myself in april and have been a bit busy getting re-rooted - is re-rooted even a word?

of course if i could get the 2 hours of my life back that i wasted on Kingdom Of Heaven that would be bliss. in sera's and my defense it was pouring rain in NYC and we had no place to go...although still...i'd maybe rather have the memory of waiting in the surprisingly icy spring rain for two hours with not a goddamn thing to do than the memory of wishing i could gouge out my own eyes.