2005
Below is a list of all the eligible independent films
for the year 2005. Many visitors to the site have e-mailed asking for
recommendations and/or reviews of independent movies. The members of
the
Chlotrudis Awards Nominating
Committee see lots of independent films and on the Chlotrudis Comments
page, we will share our thoughts or reviews of the year's movies. Underlined
films lead to Chlotrudis reviews. If you have a suggestion, or a film
you'd like to see commented on by Chlotrudis Members, send us an e-mail.
Now let's get on with the comments!
Take a look at the reviews for 2007, 2006, 2004,
2003, 2002,
and 2001
* indicates availability on DVD
ELIGIBLE FILMS |
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| *2046 |
*3-Iron |
39 Pounds of Love (d) |
| *5x2 |
*9 Songs |
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| À Tout
de Suite |
After Midnight |
Another Road Home |
| Animation
Show 2005, The |
Antares |
*Aprés
Vous |
| Aristocrats,
The (d) |
*Assassination of Richard Nixon, The |
*Assisted Living |
| Asylum |
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| *Ballad of Jack and Rose, The |
Ballets
Russes (d) |
*Balzac & the
Little Chinese Seamstress |
| *Baxter, The |
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (d) |
*Bear
Cub |
| *Beat
That My Heart Skipped |
* Beautiful Country, The |
Bee Season |
| *Best
of Youth, The |
*Bomb the System (d) |
*Born
into Brothels (d) |
| *Boys and Girl from County Clare, The |
Boys
of Baraka (d) |
Breakfast on Pluto |
| *Bride
and Prejudice |
*Bright
Future |
Brokeback
Mountain |
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Broken Flowers |
*Brother
to Brother |
*Brothers |
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| *Café Lumière |
Capote |
Casanova |
| *Caterina
in the Big City |
*Chorus,
The (Les Choristes) |
Côte
d’Azur |
| *Cowards
Bend the Knee |
*Crónicas |
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| Darwin's
Nightmare (d) |
*Daybreak |
*Deal, The |
| *Dear Frankie |
Dear Wendy |
Deep Blue |
| *Dolls |
Don't
Move |
Dorian Blues |
| *dot
the i |
*Double
Dare (d) |
*Downfall |
| *Dust to Glory (d) |
Dying
Gaul, The |
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| *Eating Out |
*Edukators,
The |
Electric Edwardians (d) |
| Ellie Parker |
*Enron:
the Smartest Guys in the Room (d) |
*Eros |
| Everything
is Illuminated |
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| *Fascination |
*Fear
and Trembling |
*Fearless
Freaks, The (d) |
| *Ferpect
Crime |
Finding Home |
First Descent (d) |
| *Forty
Shades of Blue |
*Funny
Ha Ha |
*Future
of Food, The (d) |
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| Game of their Lives, The |
*Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (d) |
*Girl
from Monday, The |
| Go for Zucker! |
*Godzilla:
Final Wars |
Goebbels Experiment, The (d) |
| Going Shopping |
Good
Night and Good Luck |
*Great Raid, The |
| *Green
Butchers, The |
Green Street Hooligans |
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Grizzly Man (d) |
| *Gunner
Palace (d) |
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| *Happily
Ever After |
*Happy
Endings |
*Head-On |
| *Heights |
*Hellbent |
Henri
Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque (d) |
| *Holy
Girl, The |
*House of D |
Howl's
Moving Castle |
| *Hustle and Flow |
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| *Imaginary
Heroes |
*In My Country |
*In the City |
| *In
the Realms of the Unreal (d) |
Incantato |
Innocent Voices |
| *Inside
Deep Throat (d) |
Intimate Stories |
*It's All Gone Pete Tong |
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| *Jesus, You Know (d) |
*Junebug |
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| Keane |
Keeper, The: The Legend of Omar Khayyam |
*King of the Corner |
| *Kings
and Queen |
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang |
*Kontroll |
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| *Ladies
in Lavender |
*Last
Days |
Last Dispatch (d) |
| *Layer Cake |
League of Ordinary Gentlemen (d) |
*Lila Says |
| Loggerheads |
*Look
at Me |
*Lords of Dogtown |
| Los Angeles
Plays Itself (d) |
Lost Embrace |
*Love
Song for Bobby Long, A |
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| *Ma Mère |
Machucca |
*Mad
Hot Ballroom (d) |
| *Man Who Copied, The |
*March
of the Penguins (d) |
*Margaret Cho: Assassin (d) |
| *Me and
You and Everyone We Know |
*Melinda
and Melinda |
*Memories
of Murder |
| Memory of a Killer, The |
Mercano the Martian |
*Millions |
| *Mirrormask |
*Modigliani |
*Mondovino (d) |
| *Moog (d) |
*Murderball (d) |
*My Date with Drew (d) |
| My Mother's Smile |
*My Summer
of Love |
*Mysterious
Skin |
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| *Nina's
Tragedies |
*Nine
Lives |
* Ninth Day, The |
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Nobody Knows |
*Nomi
Song, The (d) |
North Country |
| Nothing Like Dreaming |
* November |
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| Occupation: Dreamland (d) |
*Off
the Map |
*Oldboy |
| Oliver Twist |
* Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior |
* Or (My
Treasure) |
| *Other Side of the Street, The |
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| *Palindromes |
Paradise Now |
POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English (d) |
| * Pretty Persuasion |
Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, The |
*Proof |
| Protocols of Zion (d) |
*Purple
Butterfly |
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| *Racing Against the Clock (d) |
Rashevski's Tango, The |
Reel Paradise |
| *Rider Named Death, The |
*Rize (d) |
*Rock
School (d) |
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| * Saint Ralph |
*Saints and Soldiers |
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Saraband |
| Sarah
Silverman: Jesus is Magic (d) |
*Saving
Face |
*Schizo |
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Schultze Gest the Blues |
Searching
for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (d) |
Separate Lies |
| Sequins |
Shake Hands with the Devil: the Journey of Romeo Dallaire (d) |
Shopgirl |
| Side Effects |
Sky Blue |
Sound of Thunder, A |
| Squid and the Whale, The |
State of Mind, A (d) |
* Steamboy |
| Stolen Childhoods (d) |
*Sunset Story (d) |
* Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance |
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| Take,
The (d) |
*Tale
of Two Sisters, A |
Talent Given Us, The |
| Tall: the American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (d) |
*Tell
Them Who You Are (d) |
Tennis,
Anyone...? |
| Thing About My Folks, The |
Three... Extremes |
Thumbsucker |
| * Tony
Takitani |
Torremolinos
73 |
Touch of Spice |
| Touch the Sound (d) |
*Travellers
and Magicians |
*Tree
of Palme, A |
| *Tropical
Malady |
*Tunnel, The |
*Turtles
Can Fly |
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| Uncle Nino |
*Undead |
*Up and Down |
| Up for Grabs (d) |
Ushpizin |
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| Venom |
* Vodka
Lemon |
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| Wal-Mart: the High Cost or Low Price (d) |
* Walk
on Water |
Wall, The (d) |
| War Within, The |
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Warrior, The |
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Watermarks (d) |
| We Jam Econo: the Story of the Minutemen (d) |
Weeping Meadow, The |
Where
the Truth Lies |
| Whisky |
*Wilby
Wonderful |
* Wild
Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The (d) |
| *William
Eggleston in the Real World (d) |
*William
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice |
Winter Soldier (d) |
| *Winter
Solstice |
*Witnesses |
*Work and the Glory, The |
| World, The |
Writer of O |
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| Year of Yao, The (d) |
*Yes |
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Festival Films |
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| American Ruling Class |
Amu |
Backstage |
| Benares |
Boats
Out of Watermelon Rinds |
Changing
Times |
| Childstar |
Clean |
Commonwealth,
The |
| Death
of Mr. Lazarescu, The |
Delicate
Crime |
Familia |
| Forsaken Land, The |
Gabrielle |
Gilaneh |
| I
Am |
Innocence |
Live
and Become |
| Masseur,
The |
Memories
in the Mist |
Night
of Truth, The |
| Porcelain
Doll, The |
Sa-Kwa |
Shadowboxer |
| Shanghai
Dreams |
Shooting
Dogs |
Someone
Else's Happiness |
| Sorry,
Haters |
State
of Fear (d) |
Stranded
in Canton |
| Three
Times |
Twelve
and Holding |
U-Carmen EKhayelitsha |
| We
Feed the World (d) |
Who's
Camus Anyway? |
Whole
New Thing |
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| Ineligible
Films |
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| 40-Year-Old Virgin, The |
6ixtynin9 |
Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| Constant
Gardener, The |
Crash |
Empty Building, The |
| Fantastic
Four |
Garçon
Stupide |
Hitchiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, The |
| Kung
Fu Hustle |
Memoirs
of a Geisha |
Munich |
| Rent |
Return
to the Land of Wonders |
Serenity |
| Sin City |
Syriana |
Wallace
and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
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