LESS PRO FORMA THAN YOU THINK THE TEN BEST FILMS OF 2005 by David N. Meyer
Ed.’s note: The following speech was delivered by Harold Pinter in December of 2005, upon his acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Literature. We have left the British grammatical style intact.

Same-Sex vs. Same-Old by Tessa DeCarlo
A married protagonist falls head over heels in love with a same-sex buddy, and heartbreaking complications ensue. This sums up the plot not only of that famous gay-cowboy movie, but of the new Brit chick flick Imagine Me & You. What Brokeback Mountain approached as high Hollywood art, Imagine Me & You gloms onto as trendy not-so-high concept.

DVD CULTURE: SAMURAIs, WATKINS, LOLITAPOP & LE SAMOURAI by Film Staff
DOCS in Sight: The Decline of Distributors by Williams Cole

 
 
 









The Rail congratulates the following winners of 2005 Ippie Awards from the Independent Press Association-N.Y.:

1st Place, Best Overall Design: Amelia Hennighausen

1st Place, Best Story About Immigrant Issues Gabriel Thompson, "When Even the Minimum Wage is a Distant Dream" (December 2004/January 2005)

2nd Place, Best Editorial/Commentary Theodore Hamm, "Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy" (March 2005)

3rd Place, Best Investigative/In-Depth News Story Brian J. Carreira, "No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to ’Game’ Officials and the Public" (June 2005)
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