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Isaac Julien.


1 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (ANG LEE) A cowboy movie with a twist, Lee's tour de force is even better than the short story it's based on, Queer cinema has finally grown up and become a truly mainstream affair.

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2 DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE (HUBERT SAUPER) An antiglobalization documentary shot like a horror film set in an Africa where "cannibal" fish with enormous teeth are traded for guns on planes flown by Russians. Frantz Fanon would have loved this homage to the wretched of the earth.

3 LAST DAYS (GUS VAN SANT) Art cinema and moving-image art came another step closer together with this fragmented narrative that deconstructs cinematic time.

4 INCONSOLABLE MEMORIES (STAN DOUGLAS) This clever reworking of Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment pays homage to the 1968 Cuban film classic, recasting its protagonists as contemporary characters in a political allegory that retains its sense of mystery.

5 MOOLAADE (OUSMANE SEMBENE) The father of African cinema remains impressive in this most persuasive expose of female circumcision. Nothing short of a masterpiece.

6 BROKEN FLOWERS (JIM JARMUSCH) Jim is back with a laid-back, classic Jarmusch mood piece. Cool direction elicited a superbly understated performance from Bill Murray and a neat cameo by Tilda Swinton Swinton, town (1991 pop. 44,416), Salford metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. The town has cotton mills and factories for pottery, chemicals, and storage batteries. (in a black wig, no less).

7 INNOCENCE (LUCILE HADZIHALILOVIC) In this strange and wonderful fairy tale about prepubescent prepubescent /pre·pu·bes·cent/ (pre?pu-bes´ent) prepubertal.

pre·pu·bes·cent (prpy
 girls coming of age, a water fountain grows into what could only be described as a towering cum shot!

8 NON-SPECIFIC THREAT (WILLIE DOHERTY) A high point of the 51st Venice Biennale, Doherty's compelling video literally revolves around a bald young white man chanting a hymn about the internal alienation of the (northern Irish) psyche.

9 FRAMMENTI ELLETRICI 1-2-3-4 (ELECTRIC FRAGMENTS 1-2-3-4) (YERVANT GIANIKIAN AND ANGELA RICCI LUCCHI) Playing off one another on four screens at once, these forgotten fragments of archival footage, slowed down hypnotically and tinted red, orange, blue, and green, choreograph enchanting encounters between European and "Other" personal histories.

10 THREE TIMES (HOU HoU - Hordes of the Underdark (gaming, Neverwinter Nights Expansion Pack)
HOU - Houston, TX, USA - Houston Hobby Airport (Airport Code)
 HSIAO-HSIEN) With Hou's focus on filmic duration, mise-en-scene becomes everything, leaving narrative in the lurch.

LONDON-BASED ARTIST AND FILMMAKER ISAAC JULIEN'S INSTALLATION TRUE NORTH IS CURRENTLY ON VIEW AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MIAMI.
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Title Annotation:FILM: BEST OF 2005
Author:Julien, Isaac
Publication:Artforum International
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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