Moments '05.

Are you bored with year-end lists yet? I'm mixing things up and rather than doing a top ten with commentary, I'm presenting some of my favorite movie moments from 2005. Here they are in no particular order:

• Early in 2046, a jittery android (Faye Wong) stands in front of a cyber-tree(?--a digital phonograph?) and, like a melancholy melody emerging from memory, Mr. Chow says, "In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share, they went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever."
  
  
• Joaquin and Reese singing the hell out of "It Ain't Me, Babe." (Walk the Line)
  
  
• Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley in a bad white wig): "Today, you will travel back in time 65 million years to hunt the greatest predator the world has ever known!!! [he emphatically punches his hand to make his point]" (A Sound of Thunder)
  
  
• The confrontation that follows the recital in Look at Me.
  
  
• Kyle Cooper's breathtaking topographical opening credit sequence for The New World.
  
  
• Anne Hathaway's face (and that single heart-stopping cutaway) during her phone conversation at the end of Brokeback Mountain.
  
  
• Tony Kushner's speech for Golda Meir. (Munich)
  
  
• Don Johnston's dinner chez Laura and Lolita. (Broken Flowers)
  
  
• Tilda Swinton as the Angel Gabriel (via Ziggy Stardust) in Constantine.
  
  
• Johnny desperately trying to tape a PBS special on meerkats for Ashley. (Junebug)
  
  
• Kitten and her soldier slow dancing. (Breakfast on Pluto)
  
  
• Kong and Anna atop the Empire State Building (and the aerial ballet that follows). (King Kong)
  
  
• Batman's bumpy Gotham City debut. (Batman Begins)
  
  
• Cronenberg having the brass balls to show les soixante-neuf in The History of Violence.
  
  
• "It's for my dowry." (Me And You And Everyone We Know)
  
  
• Kim Gordon in Last Days.
  
  
• Truman Capote's "folks have thought they had me pegged" speech. (Capote)
  
  
• Hogwarts' Winter Formal. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
  
  
• Thomas's piano lessons with Miao. (The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
  
  
• Vince Vaughn's speech in Wedding Crashers that culminates in "Maybe play a little game called 'Just for a second, just to see how it feels...'"
  
  
• Noah Baumbach's use of School House Rock's "Figure 8" in The Squid & The Whale.
  
  
• "We are both bourgeois!" ( A tout de suite)
  
  
• Tom Cruise and family, emerging from the basement, finding an obliterated neighborhood. (War of the Worlds)
  
  
• Sarah Jessica Parker getting loaded and letting loose in The Family Stone.
  
  
• Miss Prissy's dance-off in Rize.
  
  
• Sarah Silverman's version of THE JOKE in The Aristocrats.
  
  
• Rachel McAdams. (Red Eye, The Family Stone, Wedding Crashers)

And since you twisted my arm, here's my actual list:

1. Munich
   
2. Los Angeles Plays Itself
   
3. 2046
   
4. Look At Me
   
5. Broken Flowers
   
6. The Squid & the Whale
   
7. Last Days
   
8. Pride & Prejudice
   
9. Breakfast on Pluto
   
10. The New World