MIDYEAR REPORT

Top twenty films of 2005 (so far)

01 Clean
02 3-Iron
03 Nobody Knows
04 The Best of Youth
05 Double Dare
06 Mysterious Skin
07 My Summer of Love
08 Howl's Moving Castle
09 Wilby Wonderful
10 Los Angeles Plays Itself
11 2046*
12 Coward Bends the Knee
13 The Holy Girl
14 Look At Me
15 Head-On
16 Funny Ha Ha
17 Kings and Queen
18 A Tale of Two Sisters
19 Watermarks
20 In The Realms of the Unreal

* I'm probably underrating this. I need to see it again during its offical U.S. theatrical release in August/Sept.

Normally, I'd also do a music list. Since I'm no longer reviewing for a website, I've heard much less new stuff than I did a year ago: barely twenty albums. I'm going to write a review of my current favorite in another week or two, but I'm not going to say what it is just yet--I want it to be a surprise.