Nick Bruno's Top Ten List 2005

Nick Bruno is another cineaste I met on my journeys and he works at Video Verite in North Portland. I met him while working at Video-Rama and recommended him and hired him, and we been talking about films ever since every chance we get while we go to old revival houses. He is a really cool and very open minded and let me borrow his Krzysztof Kieslowski's "The Decalogue" on DVD...There was really no point saying that, but he knows his stuff. Here's his top 10 of 2005 in on particular order(except for #1 thats his favorite of the year), along with his own commentary.
1. Grizzly Man-Dir. Werner Herzog
Herzog seem to think it was depiction of Man vs. Nature and chaos inherent of nature, but it seem to me to be a completely realistic portrayal of mental illness and disputant. Surrounding and being rejected from society. Really funny at times and incredibly frightening and haunting at other times.
2. Me and You and Everyone we Know-Dir. Miranda July
I didn't find it at least bit pretentious and a really interesting way surrounding its subject matter around dialogue and not plot points.
3.Oldboy-Dir.Chan-Wook Park
Pure kinetic energy, just forward momentum and an awesome twist at the end.
4.Broken Flowers-Dir. Jim Jarmusch
For me a return to form from Jarmusch. He had some shaky ground with "Coffee and Cigarettes", took him a long time from "Ghost Dog". But came back strong with "Broken Flowers", feels like a Jim Jarmusch film and Bill Murray is great in it.
5.Wild Parrots at Telegraph Hill-Dir. Judy Irving
Really interesting story about a man that was homeless staying at a man's guest house and found a kinship with a flock of parrots.
6. Eros-Dir.Wong Kar-Wai/Steven Soderbergh/(but not the Antonioni)
I loved about 2/3's of it were fantastic, the Wong Kar-Wai has to be the most beautiful thing hes ever done. It even exceeded the "2046". The Soderbergh short was really clever and knew it was and flaunted it and really gambled at it's own flashiness.
7.2046-Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
It's just really gorgeous, it doesn't matter if the story doesn't stick together. Every bit of it is just candy for the eyes. It was just about beauty, unrequited love and lost.
8.Palindromes-Dir.Todd Solondz
I gotta say even though it is about child abuse it has to be about the sweetest movie Todd Solondz has ever done. Really senti-mental, also really clever usage of 13-actors playing one character. It really held together more than his last film "Story-Telling".
9.Junebug-Dir.Phil Morrison
Just a sweet simple story of real people that felt really good to see and something that small accomplished such goals by portraying real people.
10.Where the Truth Lies-Dir. Atom Egoyan
I think I'm probably the only person that I met that has defended that movie. I actually loved that movie and love everything that Atom Egoyan does.