the best of 2005 (so says all of me)

thinking about the love for film, it's virtually impossible to express thought and emotion in just words most of the time. what is film to me? where could i possibly begin. sight and sound seducing the senses- carry with them an emotion, a thought, an idea, a story. or perhaps even many. it entertains, compels, inspires, exhilirates, challenges, frightens, saddens and maybe even disappoints. i dare to hope that film continues to ask difficult questions... questions that we would otherwise willfully ignore or avoid to perpetuate our own comfort and complacency. referring to ang lee's ambitious albeit sentimental thought on contemporary cinema, i too would like film to be a means of bringing about change in the ways we think. so thank you 2005. thank you very much for these:

(in no particular order)

bad education- pedro almodovar
howl's moving castle- hayao miyazaki
a very long engagement- jean-pierre jeunet
kontroll- nimrod antal
millions- danny boyle
sin city- robert rodriguez and frank miller
my summer of love- pawel pawlikowski
turtles can fly- bahman ghobadi
mysterious skin- gregg araki
a history of violence- david cronenberg
the descent- neil marshall
the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe- andrew adamson