Top 5 Movies
1. Brokeback Mountain - tragic, slow paced film that allowed you to think and imagine rather than spelling everything out in block letters. Loved the wilderness cinematography.
2. Water - up there with "Three Colours Blue" for the most visually beautiful film ever. A riot of colours, set with an intensely original story of widows in India.
3. The Prestige - Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan can do no wrong! The ma
kers of "Batman Begins" gave us another intelligent adventure - thrilling with a great twist.4. Goodnight and Goodluck - compulsory viewing for anyone living in our times of the "War on Terror" - history doomed to repeat itself.
5. Ten Canoes - no description - just go and see it if you haven't. My favourite Australian film in a long, long time. I expected a politically correct "moral" tale of Indigenous Australia - but found something so much more than that!
Honourable mentions: Syriana, Walk The Line and Kenny.
Surprise of the Year: Miami Vice
Dud of the Year: Marie Antionette - (story line? who needs a plot when you got lots of frocks!)
Top 5 Albums
1. "Days to Come" - Bonobo
2. "Desert Lights" - Something For Kate
3. "Moo you bloody choir" - Augie March
4. "Synaesthesia" - Matt Tonks
5. "Convicts" - You Am I
Honourable Mentions: "Collected" - Massive Attack, "Little Cloud" - The Whitlams, "Fire Shepherds" - Loka.
Top 5 Books
1. "How (not) to speak of God" - Peter Rollins
2. "The Fourth Bear" - Jasper Fford
3. "Three Day Road" - Joseph Boyden
4. "The Reformation" - Patrick Collinson
5. "The Formfulness of Grief" - Walter Brueggemann (really an article rather than a book - but it was so damn good that I had to include it!)
3 comments:
Never heard of any of them.
Can't believe we had the same number one! We'll have to make the other guys watch it now. I've actually seen 3 of your 5. Thoroughly enjoyed Good Night and Good Luck but it was a quality year and something had to miss out.
Hicko this is a record for us in terms of our move lists! Who would've thought it?
Anon, time to get out a bit more.
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