Bet's Movie List 2005
* * * * *  Not a thing wrong with it
* * * *  Not perfect, but still a great time
* * *  Not bad
* *  Not much
*  Not anything
Seen
Month                    Title                                      Year      Rating                Director                                           Stars                                        Before?
1	Jan	Kitchen Stories	2003	* * * ½	Hamer	Joachim Calmeyer, Tomas Norstrom	no
2	Jan	The Life of David Gale	2003	* *	Parker	Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney	no
3	Jan	McCabe and Mrs Miller	1971	* *	Altman	Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, John Schuck	no
4	Jan	Le Fils	2002	½	Dardenne/Dardenne	Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne	no
5	Jan	Abre los Ojos	1997	* *	Amenabar	Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz	no
6	Jan	Vera Drake	2004	* * * *	Leigh	Imelda Stanton, Richard Graham, Daniel Mays	no
7	Jan	Thank God It's Friday (don't ask)	1978	*	Klane	John Freidrich, Jeff Goldblum, Debra Winger	yes
8	Jan	Silver City	2004	* * * *	Sayles	Chris Cooper, Miguel Ferrer, Tim Roth	no
9	Jan	Dig!	2004	* * * * *	Timoner	Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre	yes
10	Jan	Dig! (an hour later)	2004	* * * * *	Timoner	Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre	yes
11	Jan	Open Water	2003	* * * ½	Kentis	Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis	no
12	Jan	Silver City	2004	* * * *	Sayles	Chris Cooper, Miguel Ferrer, Tim Roth	yes
13	Feb	Taxi Driver	1976	* * * * *	Scorsese	Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster	yes
14	Feb	8 ½	1963	* * * * *	Fellini	Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee	yes
15	Feb	October Sky	1999	* * * *	Johnston	Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern	yes
16	Feb	Johnny Guitar	1954	* * *	Ray	Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge	no
17	Feb	One, Two, Three	1961	* * * * ½	Wilder	James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin	yes
18	Feb	A Day Without A Mexican	2004	* * ½	Arau	Yareli Arizmendi, Yeniffer Behrens	no
19	Feb	All Quiet On The Western Front	1930	* * * *	Milestone	Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim	no
20	Feb	Fellini: I'm A Born Liar	2002	* * * ½	Pettigrew	Fellini (documentary)	no
21	Feb	Inherit The Wind	1960	* * * ½	Kramer	Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, Gene Kelly	no
22	Feb	City of God	2002	* * * * ½	Meirelles/Lund	Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino	no
23	Feb	Live Flesh	1997	* * * ½	Aldomovar	Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal	yes
24	Feb	Kaidan	1964	* * * ½	Kobayashi	Katsuo Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai	no
25	Feb	Witness For The Prosecution	1957	* * * *	Wilder	Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power	no
26	Feb	The Saddest Music In The World	2003	Good God	Maddin	Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney	no
27	Feb	Still Crazy	1998	* * *	Gibson	Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea	yes
28	Feb	The Motorcycle Diaries	2004	* * * *	Salles	Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna	no
29	Mar	The United States Of Leland	2003	* * *	Hoge	Ryan Gosling, Don Cheadle, Kevin Spacey	no
30	Mar	Sabotage	1936	* * * *	Hitchcock	Sylvia Sydney, John Loder, Desmond Tester	no
31	Mar	The Lodger	1927	* * * ½	Hitchcock	Ivor Novello, June, Malcolm Keen	no
32	Mar	La Strada	1954	* * * * ½	Fellini	Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn	no
33	Mar	Shall We Dance	1996	* * * *	Suo	Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari	yes
34	Mar	Bringing Up Baby	1938	* * * * *	Hawks	Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Asta	yes
35	Mar	Welcome Back, Mr McDonald	1997	* * * *	Mitani	Kyoka Suzuki, Masahiko Nishimura	no
36	Mar	The Skin Game	1931	* * *	Hitchcock	Edmund Gwenn, CV France, Jill Esmond	no
37	Mar	Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember	1997	* * * *	Tato	Marcello Mastroianni (Documentary)	no
38	Mar	The Seventh Seal	1957	* * * ½	Bergman	Max Von Sydow,Bengt Ekerot,Doodles Weaver	no
39	Mar	The Incredibles	2004	* * * *	Bird	Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee	no
40	Mar	I Heart Huckabees	2004	* * * ½	Russell	Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts	no
41	Mar	El Crimen del Padre Amaro	2002	* * *	Carrera	Gael Garcia Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancon	no
42	Mar	Quill	2004	* * * *	Sai	A Doggie, Kaoru Kobayashi	no
43	Mar	Libeled Lady	1936	* * * *	Conway	William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy	no
44	Apr	Ray	2004	* *	Hackford	Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King	no
45	Apr	Y Tu Mama Tambien	2001	* *	Cuaron	Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna	no
46	Apr	La Mala Education	2004	* * * ½	Almodovar	Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez	no
47	Apr	Hotel Rwanda	2004	* * * ½	George	Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo	no
48	Apr	Finding Neverland	2004	* * * *	Forster	Johnny Depp, Kate Winslett	no
49	Apr	Napoleon Dynamite	2004	* *	Hess	John Heder, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino	no
50	Apr	Le Notti di Cabiria	1957	* * * *	Fellini	Me - no, wait, Giulietta Masina	no
51	Apr	Dig! (on DVD now!)	2004	* * * * *	Timoner	Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre	yes
52	Apr	The Quiet American	2002	* * *	Noyce	Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser	no
53	Apr	The Woodsman	2004	* * * ½	Kassell	Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Benjamin Bratt	no
54	Apr	Finding Neverland	2004	* * * *	Forster	Johnny Depp, Kate Winslett	yes
55	May	Lucia y el Sexo	2001	* ½	Medem	Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa	no
56	May	I Was A Male War Bride	1949	* * * ½	Hawks	Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan	no
57	May	Catch-22	1970	* * * * ½	Nichols	Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Buck Henry	no
58	May	Kikujiro	1999	* * *	Kitano	Beat Takeshi, Yusuke Sekiguchi	no
59	May	The In-Laws	1979	* * * * *	Hiller	Alan Arkin, Peter Falk, Richard Libertini	yes
60	May	Wait Until Dark	1967	* * * ½	Ferrer	Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna	no
61	May	The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter	1968	* * * * ½	Miller	Alan Fucking Arkin, man!	no
62	May	The Bachelor And The Bobby Soxer	1947	* * ½	Reis	Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple	no
63	May	The Americanization of Emily	1964	* * * ½	Hiller	James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melyn Douglas	no
64	May	13 Conversations About One Thing	2001	* * ½	Sprecher	Alan F Arkin, Clea Duvall	no
65	May	The Seven Per Cent Solution	1976	* * * ½	Ross	Alan F Arkin, Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall	no
66	May	Glengarry Glen Ross	1992	* * *	Foley	Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan F Arkin	yes
67	May	Suspicion	1941	* * * ½	Hitchcock	Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, a doggie	no
68	May	Woman Times Seven	1967	* *	De Sica	Shirley MacLaine, Alan F Arkin	no
69	May	Edward Scissorhands	1990	* * * *	Burton	Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Alan F Arkin	yes
70	May	Little Murders	1971	* *	F Arkin	Elliot Gould, Marcia Rodd, Donald, Alan F Arkin	no
71	May	Jakob the Liar	1999	* * *	Kassovitz	Robin Williams, Alan F Arkin, Bob Balaban	no
72	May	Undertow	2004	* * * *	Green	Jamie Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Devon Alan	no
73	Jun	Hearts Of The West	1975	* * * *	Zieff	Jeff Bridges, Alan F Arkin, Andy Griffith	no
74	Jun	The In-Laws (with Taytie!)	1979	* * * * *	Hiller	Alan F Arkin, Peter Falk, Richard Libertini	yes
75	Jun	Hearts Of The West	1975	* * * *	Zieff	Jeff Bridges, Alan F Arkin, Andy Griffith	yes
76	Jun	Four Days In September	1997	* * * *	Barreto	Alan F Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres	no
77	Jun	Slums Of Beverly Hills	1998	* * * *	Jenkins	Alan F Arkin, Natasha Lyonne, Marisa Tomei	yes
78	Jun	Havana	1990	*	Pollack	Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan F Arkin	no
79	Jun	Monty Python And The Holy Grail	1975	* * * * *	Gilliam/Jones	The Pythons	yes
80	Jun	Grosse Pointe Blank	1997	* * *	Armitage	John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan F Arkin (a bit)	yes
81	Jun	Joshua Then And Now	1985	* * *	Kotcheff	James Woods, Alan F Arkin, Gabrielle Lazure	no
82	Jun	The Return Of Captain Invincible	1983	* *	Mora	Alan F Arkin, Christopher Lee	no
83	Jun	The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter	1968	* * * * ½	Miller	Alan Fucking Arkin	yes
84	Jun	Freebie And The Bean	1974	* * ½	Rush	Alan F Arkin, James Caan	no
85	Jun	Anna Karenina	1997	* * *	Rose	Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina	no
86	Jun	The Great Rupert (A Christmas Wish)	1950	* * *	Pichel	Jimmy Durante, Tom Drake, Rupert the Squirrel	no
87	Jun	In Good Company	2004	* * * *	Weitz	Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace	no
88	Jun	So I Married An Axe Murderer	1993	* * *	Schlamme	Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Alan F Arkin	no
89	Jul	The Aviator	2004	* * * *	Scorsese	Leo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan (no F) Alda	no
90	Jul	Fever Pitch	1997	* * *	Evans	Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Luke Aikman	no
91	Jul	Cool Hand Luke	1967	* * *	Rosenberg	Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Dean Stanton	no
92	Jul	Inspector Clouseau	1968	* * ½	Yorkin	Alan F Arkin, Frank Finlay, Clive Francis	no
93	Jul	Mother Night	1996	* * * *	Gordon	Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan F Arkin	no
94	Jul	Bullets Over Broadway	1994	* * *	Allen	John Cusack, Jim Broadbent, Dianne Wiest	no
95	Jul	Big Trouble	1986	* *	Cassavetes	Alan F Arkin, Peter Falk, Beverly D'Angelo	no
96	Jul	The Rocketeer	1991	* * *	Johnston	Bil Campbell, Alan F Arkin, Jennifer Connelly	no
97	Jul	Gattaca	1997	* * * ½	Nicol	Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan F Arkin	no
98	Jul	Simon	1980	* * * ½	Brickman	Alan F Arkin, Austin Pendleton	no
99	Jul	Bread And Chocolate	1973	* * ½	Brusati	Nino Manfredi, Johnny Dorelli	no
100	Jul	The Gold Rush	1925	* * * * ½	Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain	no
101	Jul	You're Telling Me!	1934	* * * *	Kenton	WC Fields, Adrienne Ames, Joan Marsh	no
102	Jul	Indian Summer	1993	* * ½	Binder	Alan F Arkin, Kevin Pollack, Bill Paxton	no
103	Jul	Duel	1971	* * * *	Spielberg	Dennis Weaver, A Big Truck	no
104	Jul	The Magician Of Lublin	1979	* * * ½	Golan	Alan F Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Lou Jacobi	no
105	Jul	The Russians Are Coming²	1966	* * * *	Jewison	Alan F Arkin, Carl Reiner, Paul Ford	yes
106	Jul	Catch-22	1970	* * * * *	Nichols	Alan F Arkin, Martin Balsam, Buck Henry	yes
107	Jul	Blazing Saddles	1974	* * * * *	Brooks	Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman	yes
108	Jul	Fire Sale	1977	* * ½	F Arkin	Alan F Arkin, Rob Reiner, Sid Caesar	no
109	Jul	A League Of Their Own	1992	* * * *	Marshall	Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty	yes
110	Aug	The Jerky Boys	1995	*	Melkonian	Two Jerks, Poor Alan F Arkin	no
111	Aug	A Very Long Engagement	2004	* * * *	Jeunet	Audrey Tatou, Gaspard Ulliel	no
112	Aug	Steal Big, Steal Little	1995	* * * ½	Davis	Andy Garcia, Andy Garcia, Alan F Arkin	no
113	Aug	Downfall	2004	* * * * ½	Hirschbiegel	Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara	no
114	Aug	The Italian Job	1969	* * * *	Collinson	Michael Caine, Noel Coward, 3 Mini Coopers	no
115	Aug	Magicians	2000	* * * *	Merendino	Til Schweiger, Alan F Arkin, Claire Forlani	no
116	Aug	Simon	1980	* * * ½	Brickman	Alan F Arkin, Austin Pendleton	yes
117	Aug	The Group	1966	* * * ½	Lumet	Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter	no
118	Aug	Rafferty And The Gold Dust Twins	1975	* * * ½	Richards	Alan F Arkin, Mackenzie Phillips, H D Stanton	no
119	Aug	Dersu Uzala	1975	* *	Kurosawa	Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin	no
120	Aug	Permanent Midnight	1998	* * ½	Veloz	Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley	no
121	Aug	Some Mother's Son	1996	* * * ½	George	Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, John Lynch	no
122	Aug	Improper Channels	1981	*	Till	Poor Alan F Arkin, Mariette Hartley	no
123	Aug	SubUrbia	1996	* *	Linklater	Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Jayce Bartok	no
124	Aug	Coffee and Cigarettes	2003	* * * *	Jarmusch	Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Steve Coogan, et al	yes
125	Aug	Last Of The Red Hot Lovers	1972	* * *	Saks	Alan F Arkin, Paula Prentiss, Renee Taylor	no
126	Sep	The Merchant Of Venice	2004	* * * *	Radford	Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons	no
127	Sep	Goodbye, Lenin!	2003	* * * *	Becker	Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß	no
128	Sep	Crash	2004	*sigh*	Haggis	Don Cheadle, Jennifer Esposito, Matt Dillon	no
129	Sep	Popi	1969	* * *	Hiller	Alan F Arkin, Rita Moreno	no
130	Sep	Coupe de Ville	1990	* * ½	Roth	Daniel Stern, Arye Gross, Alan F Arkin	no
131	Sep	Layer Cake	2004	* * * * ½	Vaughn	Daniel Craig, Colm Meany, Michael Gambon	no
132	Sep	Schultze Gets The Blues	2003	* * *	Schorr	Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn	no
133	Sep	Brazil	1985	* * * ½	Gilliam	Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Kim Greist	yes
134	Oct	Haiku Tunnel	2001	* * * ½	Kornbluth/Kornbluth	Josh Kornbluth, Warren Keith, Amy Resnick	no
135	Oct	Dom Durakov (House Of Fools)	2002	* * *	Konchalovsky	Yulia Vysotskaya, Bryan Adams	no
136	Oct	Taking The Heat	1993	*	Mankiewicz	Tony Goldwyn, Lynn Whitfield, Poor Alan F	no
137	Oct	Full Moon High	1981	*	Cohen	Poor Alan F Arkin and Adam Arkin	no
138	Oct	La Notte	1961	* * *	Antonioni	Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau	no
139	Oct	Le Notti Bianche	1957	* * * * ½	Visconti	Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell	no
140	Oct	Maryjane	1968	* * *	Dexter	Fabian, Kevin Coughlin, Diane McBain	no
141	Oct	I Know Where I'm Going	1945	* * * ½	Powell/Pressburger	Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesay	no
142	Nov	The Milagro Beanfield War	1988	* * *	Redford	Chick Vennera, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga	no
143	Nov	Battle Of Britain	1969	* * * ½	Hamilton	Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Sir Larry	no
144	Nov	America's Sweethearts	2001	* ½	Roth	John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Alan F Arkin	no
145	Nov	Rock School	2005	* * * ½	Argott	Documentary	no
146	Nov	Chu Chu And The Philly Flash	1981	*	Rich	Poor, Poor Alan F Arkin, Carol Burnett	no
147	Nov	Because Of Winn Dixie	2005	* * * ½	Wang	Annasophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson	no
148	Nov	Lords Of Dogtown	2005	* * *	Hardwicke	Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, John Robinson	no
149	Nov	Good Night, And Good Luck	2005	* * * *	Clooney	David Strathairn, George Clooney	no
150	Nov	Picnic At Hanging Rock	1975	* * *	Weir	Rachel Roberts, Margaret Nelson	no
151	Nov	Aguirre, The Wrath Of God	1972	* * ½	Herzog	Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro	no
152	Nov	More The Merrier	1943	* * * *	Stevens	Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn	no
153	Nov	Reconstruction	2003	* * ½	Boe	Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie	no
154	Nov	Character	1997	* * * ½	van Diem	Fedja van Huêt, Jan Decleir	no
155	Nov	Bad Medicine	1985	* ½	Miller	Steve Guttenberg, Alan F Arkin	no
156	Nov	Destry Rides Again	1939	* * * *	Marshall	James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich	no
157	Nov	Walk The Line	2005	* * * *	Mangold	Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon	no
158	Nov	The Band Wagon	1953	* * * ½	Minelli	Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant	no
159	Nov	The Italian Job	1969	* * * *	Collinson	Michael Caine, Noel Coward, 3 Mini Coopers	yes
160	Nov	Richard III	1995	* * * *	Loncraine	Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Nigel Hawthorne	no
161	Nov	Borstal Boy	2000	* * *	Sheridan	Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer	no
162	Dec	Inside Deep Throat	2005	* * * ½	Bailey/Barbato	Documentary	no
163	Dec	Repo Man	1984	* * * *	Cox	Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez	yes
164	Dec	EvenHand	2004	* *	Pierson	William Sage, William Dawes	no
165	Dec	Secondhand Lions	2003	* * *	McCanlies	Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, HJ Osment	no
166	Dec	March Of The Penguins	2004	* * * *	Jacquet	Charley Feathers, Bobby Tuxedo, et al	no
167	Dec	Murderball	2005	* * * * ½	Rubin/Shapiro	Documentary	no
168	Dec	Triumph Of The Will	1935	* * * *	Riefenstahl	More Nazis Than You Can Shake A Stick At	no
169	Dec	Greendale	2003	* *	Young	Sarah White, Eric Johnson	no
170	Dec	Bad Santa	2003	* * ½	Zwigoff	Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham	no
171	Dec	On The Beach	1959	* * * ½	Kramer	Gregory "Atticus" Peck, Ava Gardner	no
172	Dec	From Here To Eternity	1953	* * * *	Zinnemann	Burtie, Frankie, Monty, Ernie, Donna, Deb	no
173	Dec	The Miracle Worker	1962	* * * * *	Penn	Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke	yes
174	Dec	12 Monkeys	1995	* * * *	Gilliam	Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe	no
175	Dec	The Russians Are Coming² (thx Mitchie)	1966	* * * *	Jewison	Alan F Arkin, Carl Reiner, Paul Ford	yes
176	Dec	La Dolce Vita	1960	* * * * *	Fellini	Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg	yes