Top 10 Films First Seen During 2009

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. The Blue Bird (Tourneur - 1919) - 90
5. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu - 2007) - 88
7. Adieu Phillipine (Rozier - 1963) - 88
8. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
9. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84
10. Mon Oncle Antoine (Jutra - 1971) 83


Gone: College (Keaton - 1927) - 81, The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls - 1953) 82, Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder - 1980) 83

[balmakboor]

Gone: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder - 1980) 83

Booo.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
6. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
7. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
8. The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos, 1986)
9. Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)
10. Baraka (Fricke, 1992)

Made some retrospective changes. Put Last Year at Marienbad in the 7 spot and dropped The Beekeeper and Happy Together down a spot each.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
6. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
7. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos, 1986)
10. Opera (Argento, 1987)

[Fezzik]

1. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
2. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
3. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
4. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
5. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 9
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
7. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
8. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
9. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
10. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5


11. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
12. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
13. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
14. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
15. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
16. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Updated with Harry Potter

[ContinentalOp]

1. Gran Torino
2. Che
3. El Norte
4. Star Trek IV
5. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
6. Star Trek II
7. Up
8. Star Trek
9. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
10. Let the Right One In


Updated.

Not used to seeing such an unbiased (but not totally) documentary. Can't wait to see the sequel.

Sequel was good. Didn't rock me to the core like the first doc though. And that John Byers is probably the creepiest person I've ever seen.

[Eleven]

1. Children of Paradise (45, Carne)
2. Voyage in Italy (54, Rossellini)
3. Rachel Getting Married (08, Demme)
4. Chan is Missing (82, Wang)
5. Whisper of the Heart (95, Yoshifumi)
6. Thieves Like Us (74, Altman)
7. I Walked with a Zombie (43, Tourneur)
8. Two Lovers (08, Gray)
9. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (55, Bunuel)
10. Le Plaisir (52, Ophuls)

Out: An Actor's Revenge (63, Kon), One of Our Aircraft is Missing (45, Powell and Pressburger)

[LemmyCaution]

First time posting; just wanted to say thanks for all the discussions and recommendations.

1. Notre Musique (Godard, 2004)
2. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
3. Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
4. La Belle Noiseuse (Rivette, 1991)
5. The Brown Bunny (Gallo, 2003)
6. Genealogies of a Crime (Ruiz, 1997)
7. My Blueberry Nights (Kar-Wai, 2007)
8. Damnation (Tarr, 1987)
9. L'Humanite (Dumont, 1999)
10. Buffalo '66 (Gallo, 1998)

[Boner M]

1. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
2. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
3. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
4. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
5. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
6. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
7. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
8. I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Garrel, 1991)
9. 35 Rhums (Denis, 2008)
10. The Limits of Control (Jarmusch, 2009)

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Nayak (Ray 66)
4. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
6. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
7. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
8. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
9. New Earth (Ivens 34)
10. Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Naruse 35)
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Nayak (Ray 66)
4. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
6. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
7. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
8. Deconstructing Harry (Allen 97)
9. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
10. New Earth (Ivens 34)

[B-side]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Nayak (Ray 66)
4. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
6. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
7. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
8. Deconstructing Harry (Allen 97)
9. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
10. New Earth (Ivens 34)

We share 2 films in our top 10s. That's neat.

[soitgoes...]

We share 2 films in our top 10s. That's neat.
I've only seen two other films from your Top 10, one of which (Harakiri) would rank in my Top 10 easily if I had seen it this year.

[B-side]

I've only seen two other films from your Top 10, one of which (Harakiri) would rank in my Top 10 easily if I had seen it this year.

Cool. What's the other?

I've seen Karen's Face(good), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(really good) and Let the Right One In(adequate) from yours outside of the aforementioned 2.

[soitgoes...]

Cool. What's the other?

I've seen Karen's Face(good), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(really good) and Let the Right One In(adequate) from yours outside of the aforementioned 2.

The Wild Bunch - meh

[B-side]

The Wild Bunch - meh

oh no you di'int

[Fezzik]

1. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
2. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
3. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
4. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
5. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
7. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
8. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
9. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
10. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5


11. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
12. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
13. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
15. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
16. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
17. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Updated with Public Enemies

[Rowland]

1. The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) [90]
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) [87]
3. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Jones & Noble) [85]
4. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]
5. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) [80]
6. Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) [80]
7. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) [79]
8. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008) [79]
9. Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2005) [79]
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian, 1931) [78]

[B-side]

I keep seeing The Crowd praised highly. I should finally get around to it.

[MadMan]

Finally, a new entry is added. And Trainspotting(1996)-95 exits the list, thus ending a period where I had two movies from the same director listed here.

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. The Wrestler(2008)-98
3. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
4. Sleeper(1973)-97
5. Gone Baby Gone(2007)-97
6. Up(2009)-97
7. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
8. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
9. The Ninth Configuration(1980)-95
10. 28 Days Later(2002)-95

PS: I'm at 90 new movies on the year, finally. The last two months have seen me slow down drastically. I'll make up for it in the fall, though.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Fall (2006)
2. The Maggie (1954)
3. Blast of Silence (1961)
4. Poil de Carotte (1925)
5. Border Street (1948)
6. Myriad of Lights (1948)
7. The Cow (1969)
8. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
9. Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
10. Crazed Fruit (1956)First update in over two months. Some rearrangements in the top three. I'm not sure yet if any of these are likely to become all-time favorites.

1. Blast of Silence (1961)
2. The Maggie (1954)
3. The Fall (2006)
4. Ingeborg Holm (1913)
5. Border Street (1948)
6. Poil de Carotte (1925)
7. Myriad of Lights (1948)
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
9. The Sacrifice (1986)
10. The Cow (1969)

[Yxklyx]

1. Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
2. Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)
3. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
4. Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk)
5. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
6. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
7. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
8. Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)
9. Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller)
10. All the Real Girls (2003, David Gordon Green)

Bumped Pleasantville and The Children Are Watching Us.

[Rowland]

1. The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) [90]
2. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) [89]
3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) [87]
4. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Jones & Noble) [85]
5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]
6. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) [80]
7. Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) [80]
8. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) [79]
9. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008) [79]
10. Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2005) [79]

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. The Blue Bird (Tourneur - 1919) - 90
5. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu - 2007) - 88
7. Adieu Phillipine (Rozier - 1963) - 88
8. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
9. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa - 2008) - 87
10. Trafic (Tati -1971) 84

Gone: Mon Oncle Antoine (Jutra - 1971) - 83

[dreamdead]

1. Come and See
2. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
3. The Boxer from Shantung
4. The Crying Game
5. Monsieur Verdoux
6. The Sting
7. Mishima
8. L'appartement
9. Bonnie and Clyde
10. Synecdoche, New York

[ContinentalOp]

1. Gran Torino- ****
2. Che- *** 1/2
3. Murder on a Sunday Morning- *** 1/2
4. El Norte- *** 1/2
5. Star Trek IV- *** 1/2
6. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills- *** 1/2
7. Star Trek II- *** 1/2
8. Up- *** 1/2
9. Star Trek- ***
10. The French Connection- ***

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations and Let the Right One In are out.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
6. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
7. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos, 1986)
10. Opera (Argento, 1987)

[origami_mustache]

A Page of Madness
The Burmese Harp
Lessons of Darkness
Simon of the Desert
Onibaba
Los Olvidados
Odin's Shield Maiden
Floating Clouds
Women of the Night
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2009)
2. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
3. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
4. Legend of Hell House (Hough, 1973)
5. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer, 1965)
6. Claire's Knee (Romer, 1970)
7. The Servant (Losey, 1963)
8. Adventureland (Mottola, 2009)
9. Safe in Hell (Wellman, 1931)
10. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)


I don't update this enough :/
up date

[Eleven]

1. Children of Paradise (45, Carne)
2. Voyage in Italy (54, Rossellini)
3. Rachel Getting Married (08, Demme)
4. Chan is Missing (82, Wang)
5. Whisper of the Heart (95, Yoshifumi)
6. Thieves Like Us (74, Altman)
7. I Walked with a Zombie (43, Tourneur)
8. Two Lovers (08, Gray)
9. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (55, Bunuel)
10. Metropolitan (90, Stillman)

Out: Le Plaisir (52, Ophuls).

[Fezzik]

1. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
2. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
3. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
4. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
5. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
7. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
8. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
9. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
10. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5


11. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
12. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
13. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
14. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
15. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
16. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
17. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
18. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Updated with Funny People

[Melville]

Updated:

1. Serene Velocity
2. Titicut Follies
3. The Double Life of Veronique
4. The Goat
5. Army of Shadows
6. Masculin-Feminin
7. Hunger
8. Waltz with Bashir
9. Whisper of the Heart
10. (tie) Oh Dem Watermelons
10. (tie) Love Streams

[balmakboor]

1. The Bed, The Golden Positions, Dreamwood, Testament
2. Now, Hanoi Martes 13, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. A Grin Without a Cat
6. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
7. Mock Up on Mu
8. Dear Zachary
9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
10. Crazy Love

The Rest (in no particular order)
Treeless Mountain
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Stay Puft]

1. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3. Tokyo Fist (1995, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
4. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)
5. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, dir. Mikio Naruse)
6. Army of Shadows (1969, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
7. Dragon Inn (1966, dir. King Hu)
8. Reprise (2006, dir. Joachim Trier)
9. The Edge of Heaven (2007, dir. Fatih Akin)
10. Haze (2005, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)

Shuffled, updated with Army of Shadows.

[Gizmo]

1. Chaplin(1992)
2. Paths of Glory(1957)
3. The Sting(1973)
4. Up!(2009)
5. Spartacus(1960)
6. Slumdog Millionaire(2008)
7. Changeling(2008)
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(2009)
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)
10. Breakfast at Tiffanys(1961)


I don't watch nearly as many movies as I use to.

[Bosco B Thug]

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. Vivre se vie
4. Stuck
5. Contempt
6. Serpent's Path
7. License to Live
8. Week End
9. Tokyo Sonata
10. Wendy and Lucy

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. The Piano
4. Vivre se vie
5. Contempt
6. Serpent's Path
7. Stuck
8. Nouvelle Vague
9. License to Live
10. Tokyo Sonata

Everything after 4 are all very flawed, but all exceptional movies.

[Ezee E]

1. Chaplin(1992)
2. Paths of Glory(1957)
3. The Sting(1973)
4. Up!(2009)
5. Spartacus(1960)
6. Slumdog Millionaire(2008)
7. Changeling(2008)
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(2009)
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)
10. Breakfast at Tiffanys(1961)


I don't watch nearly as many movies as I use to.
Chaplin. Really?

What did you like so much?

[Gizmo]

Chaplin. Really?

What did you like so much?

I thought it was solidly made and very moving about one of the greatest actors ever. I don't hold it in super high esteem, or anything, but better than everything else I've seen thus far this year, which is roughly 30 new films.

[balmakboor]

I thought it was solidly made and very moving about one of the greatest actors ever. I don't hold it in super high esteem, or anything, but better than everything else I've seen thus far this year, which is roughly 30 new films.

I can understand it being thought better than almost all of the other films on your list. But Paths of Glory? That I can't understand.

[Ezee E]

While I liked Chaplin's first few scenes as he arrives into Hollywood, I didn't see anything that separates it from your average biopic.

[Rowland]

1. The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) [90]
2. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) [88]
3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) [87]
4. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Jones & Noble) [85]
5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]
6. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962) [80]
7. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) [80]
8. Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) [80]
9. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) [79]
10. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008) [79]

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for for a wide variety of films: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The King of Kong, La Dolce Vita, Rec, and Robocop.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Drag Me to Hell
08. La Dolce Vita
09. Watchmen
10. Silent Running

11. The Phantom of the Opera
12. Let the Right One In
13. Bug
14. The Hangover
15. Transsiberian
16. Grand Illusion
17. Heat
18. Coraline
19. Up
20. Creature from the Black Lagoon
21. Rec
22. Stuck
23. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
24. The Seventh Victim
25. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
26. Robocop
27. The King of Kong
28. Sleeper
29. Star Trek (2009)
30. Seance
31. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
32. Them!
33. Something Wicked This Way Comes
34. The Mummy (1959)
35. Eyes Without a Face
36. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
37. Hot Rod
38. The Brood
39. It's Alive
40. P2
41. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
42. Speed Racer
43. Repulsion
44. Babel
45. Splinter
46. Dementia-13
47. Wolf
48. Repo! The Genetic Opera
49. Judgment Night
50. Corpse Bride
51. A Scanner Darkly
52. Terminator: Salvation
53. Pin
54. Blood: the Last Vampire
55. The Sentinel
56. Dread
-------
57. Halloween (’07)
58. Spiral
59. God Told Me To
60. Right at Your Door
61. Blades of Glory
62. Joshua
63. Martyrs
64. Body Snatchers
65. Species
66. The Hunger
67. Nightbreed
68. My Name is Bruce
69. Beerfest
70. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
71. Shocker
72. The Toxic Avenger
73. The Running Man
74. Transformers 2
75. C.H.U.D.
76. The Dunwich Horror
77. 2000 Maniacs
78. Fanboys
79. Bio-Zombie
80. 976-Evil
81. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
82. Rabid Grannies
83. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[MadMan]

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. Le Samouraï(1967)-100
3. The Wrestler(2008)-98
4. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
5. Sleeper(1973)-97
6. Gone Baby Gone(2007)-97
7. Up(2009)-97
8. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
9. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
10. Paths of Glory(1957)-95

Finally another 100 for the year, and a few films drop off the list as a few more are added. Also I have two movies from the same year on here. Cool.

[balmakboor]

1. The Golden Positions and Dreamwood (tie, 2 by James Broughton)
2. L.B.J. and 79 Primaveras (tie, 2 by Santiago Alvarez)
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. A Grin Without a Cat
6. The Willow Tree
7. Mock Up on Mu
8. Dear Zachary
9. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
10. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

The Rest (in no particular order)
Crazy Love
Treeless Mountain
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Fezzik]

1. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
2. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
3. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
4. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
5. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
6. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
8. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
9. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
10. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5



11. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
12. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
13. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
14. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
15. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
16. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
17. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
18. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
19. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
20. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5


Updated with District 9 and G.I. Joe

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
6. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
7. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
10. The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos, 1986)

Out: Opera

[balmakboor]

1. The Golden Positions and Dreamwood (tie, 2 by James Broughton)
2. L.B.J. and 79 Primaveras (tie, 2 by Santiago Alvarez)
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. Ponyo
6. A Grin Without a Cat
7. The Willow Tree
8. Mock Up on Mu
9. Dear Zachary
10. Tetsuo: The Iron Man

The Rest (in no particular order)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Crazy Love
Treeless Mountain
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. The Blue Bird (Tourneur - 1919) - 90
5. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu - 2007) - 88
7. La Promesse (Dardenne - 1996) - 88
8. Adieu Phillipine (Rozier - 1963) - 88
9. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
10. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa - 2008) - 87


GONE: Trafic (Tati -1971) 84

[Sycophant]

1. Johnny Guitar
2. The Thin Man
3. The Saddest Music in the World
4. Moon
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. Adventureland
7. Still Walking
8. The Hurt Locker
9. Milk
10. Achilles & the Tortoise


11. Observe and Report
12. My Man Godfrey
13. The Brothers Bloom
14. Gran Torino
15. Star Trek
16. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
17. Ponyo
18. After the Thin Man
19. The Hangover
20. Revolutionary Road
21. The Wrestler
22. Whatever Works
23. Cheeky!
24. Repo! The Genetic Opera
25. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
26. Mr. 3000
27. Coraline
28. Duplicity
29. Mother
30. Max Payne
31. Public Enemies
32. Snoopy, Come Home!
33. Role Models
34. The Proposal
35. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
36. Mad Detective
37. I Just Didn't Do It
38. Up
39. Dragonball: Evolution
40. Race to Witch Mountain
41. Year One
42. The Big Tease
43. The Ugly Truth

Don't know yet due to various circumstances:
Crank 2
The Bachelor & the Bobby Soxer

I've been watching some good movies this year.

[Boner M]

1. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
2. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard, 2002)
4. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
5. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
6. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
7. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
8. The White Balloon (Panahi, 1995)
9. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
10. Love Exposure (Sion, 2008)

[Stay Puft]

1. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3. Tokyo Fist (1995, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
4. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)
5. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, dir. Mikio Naruse)
6. The Life of Oharu (1952, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. Army of Shadows (1969, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. Dragon Inn (1966, dir. King Hu)
9. Summer Hours (2008, dir. Olivier Assayas)
10. Haze (2005, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)

Updated with Mizoguchi and Assayas.

[balmakboor]

4. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)


I love to see this hanging in there. It probably should still be on my list, but damn if I haven't been having a great year.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. Let the Right One In [92.5]
6. The Wrestler [91]
7. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
8. Martyrs [90.25]
9. Eden Lake [90]
10. Speed Racer [89]

4 new in my bottom

New in Bold



11. Orphan [89]
12. the Hangover [88]
13. Red Eye[85]
14. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
15. Angels and Demons [83.75]
16. Splinter [83.5]
17. Frost/Nixon [83]
18. Bug [82]
19. Right at Your Door [81.75]
20. Taken [81.5]
21. Secret Window [80]
22. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
23. Vacancy [76]
24. Watchmen [73]
25. The Broken [72.5]
26. The Ruins [72]
27. Sunshine [71]
28. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
29. Mad Max [70]
30. Quarantine [70]
31. Alpha Dog [69.5]
32. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
33. Last Man Standing [67]
34. Teeth [67]
35. the Strangers [66]
36. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
37. Eagle Eye [65]
38. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
39. Babylon A.D. [59]
40. Public Enemies [58]
41. Big Stan [57]
42. Resident Evil: Extinction [56]
43. Donnie Darko [55]
44. Slaughter [55]
45. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
46. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
47. Final Destination 3 [52]
48. Dead Snow [50]
49. the Reaping [49]
50. Shutter [45]
51. Mirrors [40]
52. S. Darko [37]
53. Cursed [35]
54. AvP: Requiem [29]
55. Superman III [25]
56. Ghost Rider [22]
57. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
58. Elektra [15]

[MadMan]

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. Le Samouraï(1967)-100
3. The Wrestler(2008)-98
4. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
5. Sleeper(1973)-97
6. Gone Baby Gone(2007)-97
7. Up(2009)-97
8. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
9. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95
10. Inglourious Basterds(2009)-95

A decent amount of films have received a 95 this year from me. Not all were able to make the list, though.

[Sycophant]

1. Johnny Guitar
2. The Thin Man
3. The Saddest Music in the World
4. Moon
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. Adventureland
7. Still Walking
8. The Hurt Locker
9. I Love You, Man
10. Milk


10b. Achilles & the Tortoise
11. Observe and Report
12. My Man Godfrey
13. The Brothers Bloom
14. Gran Torino
15. Star Trek
16. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
17. Ponyo
18. After the Thin Man
19. The Hangover
20. Revolutionary Road
21. The Wrestler
22. Whatever Works
23. Cheeky!
24. Repo! The Genetic Opera
25. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
26. Mr. 3000
27. Coraline
28. Duplicity
29. Mother
30. Max Payne
31. Public Enemies
32. Snoopy, Come Home!
33. Role Models
34. The Proposal
35. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
36. Mad Detective
37. I Just Didn't Do It
38. Up
39. Dragonball: Evolution
40. Race to Witch Mountain
41. Year One
42. The Big Tease
43. The Ugly Truth

Not sure about yet due to various circumstances:
Crank 2
The Bachelor & the Bobby Soxer

Updated for I Love You, Man.

[Fezzik]

1a. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
1b. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
3. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
4. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
5. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
6. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
7. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
9. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
10. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8

11. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
12. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
13. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
14. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
15. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
16. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
17. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
18. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
19. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
20. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
21. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
22. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
23. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
24. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Added Inglorious Basterds, Dr. Strangelove, (500) Days of Summer and The Big Sleep (had a 4 day weekend!)

[The Mike]

1. Lonely are the Brave
2. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
3. The Baron of Arizona
4. A Matter of Life and Death
5. Almost Famous
6. The Last Starfighter
7. The Unknown
8. Born Yesterday
9. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
10. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia


Updated.

[Ivan Drago]

Don't even remember the last time I updated...


1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
4. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
6. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
7. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
8. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
9. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)


11. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
12. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
13. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2009)
14. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)
16. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
17. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
18. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
19. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
20. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998)
21. I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009)
22. Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 2009)
23. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
24. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
25. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
26. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
27. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
28. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
29. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
30. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
31. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
32. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
33. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
34. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
35. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
36. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)
37. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
38. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
39. Tales of the Black Freighter (Delpurgatorio/Smith, 2009)
40. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
41. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
42. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
43. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
44. Land of the Lost (Silberling, 2009)
45. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
46. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
47. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
48. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
49. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
50. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
51. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
52. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
53. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
54. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
55. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

[Ivan Drago]

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
4. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
6. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
7. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
8. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
9. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
10. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)


11. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)
12. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
13. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
14. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2009)
15. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
16. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)
17. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
18. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
19. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
20. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
21. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998)
22. I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009)
23. Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 2009)
24. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
25. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
26. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
27. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
28. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
29. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
30. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
31. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
32. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
33. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
34. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
35. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
36. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
37. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)
38. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
39. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
40. Tales of the Black Freighter (Delpurgatorio/Smith, 2009)
41. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
42. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
43. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
44. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
45. Land of the Lost (Silberling, 2009)
46. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
47. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
48. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
49. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
50. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
51. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
52. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
53. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
54. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
55. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
56. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Yet again.

[balmakboor]

1. The Golden Positions and Dreamwood (tie, 2 by James Broughton)
2. L.B.J. and 79 Primaveras (tie, 2 by Santiago Alvarez)
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. Ponyo
6. A Grin Without a Cat
7. The Willow Tree
8. Mock Up on Mu
9. Dear Zachary
10. Taking Woodstock

The Rest (in no particular order)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Crazy Love
Treeless Mountain
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[megladon8]

1.) Up!
2.) There Will Be Blood
3.) Fury
4.) [REC]
5.) Seance on a Wet Afternoon
6.) Cthulhu ('07)
7.) Dirty Harry
8.) Public Enemies
9.) Sisters ('73)
10.) Gran Torino


Added: Fury

Removed: Coraline.

[ledfloyd]

1. Paris, Texas
2. My Dinner With Andre
3. Brand Upon the Brain!
4. Alan Zweig's Mirror Trilogy
5. In a Lonely Place
6. Smiles of a Summer Night
7. Make Way For Tomorrow
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
9. Decalogue
10. Miami Vice

first update since february. i decided to leave out 09 releases. they're all in the other thread.

[Bosco B Thug]

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. The Piano
4. Vivre se vie
5. Contempt
6. Serpent's Path
7. Stuck
8. Nouvelle Vague
9. License to Live
10. Tokyo Sonata

Everything after 4 are all very flawed, but all exceptional movies.

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. The Piano
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Serpent's Path
6. Nouvelle Vague
7. Stuck
8. Contempt
9. Vivre se vie
10. Trouble Every Day

OUT: Tokyo Sonata, License to Live
IN: Inglourious Basterds, Trouble Every Day

The Vivre se vie drop I don't quite understand myself. It's not that I think of the film any less, but a lot of it has just left my memory and I'm sure if I re-watch it, it'll jump back up again. The boisterous and impertinently cerebral, in color pleasures of Contempt and Nouvelle Vague are just sticking with me longer.

[SirNewt]

1. Odd Man Out
2. Man on Wire
3. The Agronomist
4. Harakiri
5. No End in Sight
6. Raise the Red Lantern
7. Sweet Smell of Success
8. The Killing Fields
9. The Heiress
10.Paths of Glory



Pinocchio
Dear Zachary
Do the Right Thing
Happy-Go-Lucky



updated

edit:

woops saw No End in Sight first last year. Oh well I'll fix it later. Pinocchio moving up.

[Yxklyx]

1. Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
2. Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)
3. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
4. Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk)
5. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
6. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
7. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
8. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
9. Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)
10. Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller)

Bumped All the Real Girls.

[Fezzik]

1a. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
1b. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
3. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
4. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
5. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
6. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
7. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
8. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
10. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5



11. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
12. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
13. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
14. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
15. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
16. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
17. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
18. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
19. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
20. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
21. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
22. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
23. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
24. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
25. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5


Added The Maltese Falcon

[Raiders]

Updated:

1. Crime Wave (1985, Paizs)
2. Perceval (1978, Rohmer)
3. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
4. Charley Varrick (1973, Siegel)
5. Coraline (2009, Selick)
6. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp)
7. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
8. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
9. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Tarantino)
10. Room (2005, Henry)

Out:

Outer Space (1999, Tscherkassky)
Distance (2001, Kore-eda)
The Driver (1978, Hill)

[balmakboor]

1. The Golden Positions and Dreamwood (tie, 2 by James Broughton)
2. L.B.J. and 79 Primaveras (tie, 2 by Santiago Alvarez)
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. Ponyo
6. A Grin Without a Cat
7. Whisper of the Heart
8. The Willow Tree
9. Mock Up on Mu
10. Dear Zachary

The Rest (in no particular order)
Taking Woodstock
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Crazy Love
Treeless Mountain
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

[Boner M]

10. Room (2005, Henry)

Out:

Outer Space (1999, Tscherkassky)
The Driver (1978, Hill):cry:

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

I was tempted to put Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" as my #1 after seeing it last nite, but came to my senses.

[Raiders]

:cry:

Your incorrectness regarding Henry's film is sad indeed.

[Fezzik]

1a. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
1b. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
3. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
4. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
5. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
6. To Have and Have Not (1941, Hawks) - 9
7. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
8. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
9. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5


11. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
12. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
13. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
14. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
15. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
16. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
17. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
18. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
19. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
20. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
21. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
22. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
23. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
24. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
25. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
26. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Added To Have and Have Not (I've been on a Humphrey Bogart kick lately).

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. Let the Right One In [92.5]
6. The Wrestler [91]
7. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
8. Martyrs [90.25]
9. Eden Lake [90]
10. Speed Racer [89]

Lots of new ones added



11. Orphan [89]
12. the Hangover [88]
13. Red Eye[85]
14. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
15. Sling Blade [84]
16. Angels and Demons [83.75]
17. Splinter [83.5]
18. Frost/Nixon [83]
19. Bug [82]
20. Right at Your Door [81.75]
21. Taken [81.5]
22. Secret Window [80]
23. Gamer [79]
24. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
25. Vacancy [76]
26. Pride and Glory [74]
27. Watchmen [73]
28. The Broken [72.5]
29. The Ruins [72]
30. Sunshine [71]
31. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
32. Mad Max [70]
33. Quarantine [70]
34. Alpha Dog [69.5]
35. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
36. Last Man Standing [67]
37. Teeth [67]
38. the Strangers [66]
39. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
40. Eagle Eye [65]
41. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
42. Babylon A.D. [59]
43. Public Enemies [58]
44. Big Stan [57]
45. Resident Evil: Extinction [56]
46. Donnie Darko [55]
47. Slaughter [55]
48. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
49. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
50. Final Destination 3 [52]
51. Dead Snow [51]
52. the Proposal [51]
53. the Reaping [49]
54. Shutter [45]
55. Night at the Museum 2 [44]
56. Mirrors [40]
57. S. Darko [37]
58. AvP: Requiem [29]
59. Cursed [28]
60. Superman III [25]
61. Ghost Rider [22]
62. The Final Destination 3D[20]
63. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
64. Elektra [15]
65. Bundy [10]

[Rowland]

1. The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) [90]
2. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) [88]
3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) [87]
4. Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009) [85]
5. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Jones & Noble) [85]
6. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939) [82]
7. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962) [80]
8. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) [80]
9. Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) [80]
10. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) [79]

[Yxklyx]

1. Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
2. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
3. Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)
4. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
5. Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk)
6. Jeanne Dielman (1975, Chantal Akerman)
7. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
8. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
9. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
10. Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)

Bumped Babe: Pig in the City

[Ivan Drago]

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
4. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
6. Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
7. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
8. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
9. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
10. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)


11. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
12. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)
13. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
14. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
15. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2009)
16. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)
18. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
19. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
20. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
21. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
22. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998)
23. I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009)
24. Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 2009)
25. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
26. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
27. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
28. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
29. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
30. Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
31. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
32. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
33. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
34. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
35. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
36. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
37. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
38. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
39. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)
40. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
41. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
42. Tales of the Black Freighter (Delpurgatorio/Smith, 2009)
43. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
44. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
45. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
46. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
47. Land of the Lost (Silberling, 2009)
48. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
49. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
50. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
51. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
52. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
53. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
54. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
55. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
56. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
57. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
58. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)

Updated.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. The Blue Bird (Tourneur - 1919) - 90
5. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu - 2007) - 88
7. La Promesse (Dardenne - 1996) - 88
8. Adieu Phillipine (Rozier - 1963) - 88
9. Import/Export (Seidl - 2007) - 88
10. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
HM. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa - 2008) - 87
HM. Hunger (McQueen - 2008) - 86
HM. The Love Parade (Lubitsch - 1929) - 84
HM. Leon Morin, Pretre (Melville - 1961) - 84


A good last couple weeks (plus added a few honorable mentions since my list is starting to get packed with teh quality films.

[Boner M]

1. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
2. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard, 2002)
4. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
5. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
6. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
7. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
8. The White Balloon (Panahi, 1995)
9. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)
10. Love Exposure (Sion, 2008)

[Fezzik]

1. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
2. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
3. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
4. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
5. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
6. To Have and Have Not (1941, Hawks) - 9
7. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
8. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
9. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5


11. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
12. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
13. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
14. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
15. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
16. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
17. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
18. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
19. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
20. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
21. 9 (2009, Acker) - 6.5
22. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
23. The Informant! (2009, Soderburgh) - 6.0
24. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
25. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
26. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
27. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
28. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Added 9 and The Informant!

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for Inglourious Basterds, The Third Man, Blazing Saddles, Re-Cycle, Them (Ils), and Mystery Team.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Watchmen
08. La Dolce Vita
09. Inglourious Basterds
10. The Wrong Man

11. Drag Me to Hell
12. The Third Man
13. Silent Running
14. The Phantom of the Opera
15. Let the Right One In
16. Bug
17. The Hangover
18. Transsiberian
19. Grand Illusion
20. Heat
21. Coraline
22. Up
23. Creature from the Black Lagoon
24. Rec
25. The Seventh Victim
26. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
27. Stuck
28. Robocop
29. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
30. The King of Kong
31. Sleeper
32. Star Trek (2009)
33. Seance
34. Eyes Without a Face
35. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
36. Them!
37. Repulsion
38. Something Wicked This Way Comes
39. Blazing Saddles
40. The Mummy (1959)
41. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
42. Hot Rod
43. Re-Cycle
44. The Brood
45. It's Alive
46. P2
47. Walk Hard
48. Speed Racer
49. A Scanner Darkly
50. Babel
51. Splinter
52. Dementia-13
53. Wolf
54. Blades of Glory
55. Repo! The Genetic Opera
56. Judgment Night
57. Pin
58. Corpse Bride

59. Terminator: Salvation
60. Blood: the Last Vampire
61. The Sentinel
62. Dread
63. Halloween
64. Spiral
65. God Told Me To
66. Right at Your Door
67. Joshua
68. Them (Ils)
69. The Toxic Avenger
70. Mystery Team
71. Martyrs
72. Body Snatchers
72. Species
73. The Hunger
75. Nightbreed
76. Beerfest
77. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
78. Shocker
79. The Running Man
80. Transformers 2
81. C.H.U.D.
82. My Name is Bruce
83. The Dunwich Horror
84. 2000 Maniacs
85. Fanboys
86. Bio-Zombie
87. 976-Evil
88. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
89. Rabid Grannies
90. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[The Mike]

1. Lonely are the Brave
2. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
3. Beware! The Blob
4. The Baron of Arizona
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. Almost Famous
7. The Unknown
8. The Last Starfighter
9. Born Yesterday
10. The Loneliness of the Long Distance RunnerUpdated.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
6. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
7. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
10. Private Practices: Story of a Sex Surrogate (Dick, 1986)

Out: The Beekeeper

[Raiders]

Updated:

1. Crime Wave (1985, Paizs)
2. Two Lovers (2008, Gray)
3. Perceval (1978, Rohmer)
4. Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth)
5. Charley Varrick (1973, Siegel)
6. Coraline (2009, Selick)
7. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp)
8. Bright Leaves (2003, McElwee)
9. Voices of a Distant Star (2003, Shinkai)
10. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Tarantino)

Out:

Room (2005, Henry)

[Boner M]

5. Charley Varrick (1973, Siegel)

Out:

Room (2005, Henry)
:pritch:

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Nayak (Ray 66)
4. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
5. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
6. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
7. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)
8. Deconstructing Harry (Allen 97)
9. Karen's Face (Bergman 84)
10. New Earth (Ivens 34)

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Fucking Åmål (Moodysson 98)
4. Nayak (Ray 66)
5. The Ascent (Shepitko 77)
6. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
7. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa 08)
8. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
9. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
10. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
6. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
7. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
10. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)

[Kurosawa Fan]

6. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)


*grits teeth*

[B-side]

*grits teeth*

Not a fan?:lol:

[ContinentalOp]

1. Gran Torino- ****
2. Che- *** 1/2
3. Murder on a Sunday Morning- *** 1/2
4. El Norte- *** 1/2
5. Star Trek IV- *** 1/2
6. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills- *** 1/2
7. Star Trek II- *** 1/2
8. Up- *** 1/2
9. Star Trek- ***
10. The French Connection- ***

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations and Let the Right One In are out.

I've seen some good stuff thanks to Netflix.

1. Gran Torino- ****
2. District 9- ****
3. Che- *** 1/2
4. Little Dieter Needs to Fly- *** 1/2
5. Murder on a Sunday Morning- *** 1/2
6. Half Nelson- *** 1/2
7. Two Lovers- *** 1/2
8. Aliens- *** 1/2
9. El Norte- *** 1/2
10. Star Trek IV- *** 1/2

[balmakboor]

As someone formerly known as fasozupow, I should comment on Chinese Roulette. While I don't hate it, it is probably my least favorite Fassbinder. I think he got so caught up in his complex visual ideas -- and they are very interesting -- that he lost sight of all else. I found his characters oddly unengaging.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

As someone formerly known as fasozupow, I should comment on Chinese Roulette. While I don't hate it, it is probably my least favorite Fassbinder. I think he got so caught up in his complex visual ideas -- and they are very interesting -- that he lost sight of all else. I found his characters oddly unengaging.

Absofuckinglutely

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The General (Keaton - 1927) 95
2. The Last Laugh (Murnau - 1924) - 91
3. Le Plaisir (Ophuls - 1952) - 90
4. The Blue Bird (Tourneur - 1919) - 90
5. Peppermint Frappe (Saura - 1977) - 89
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu - 2007) - 88
7. La Promesse (Dardenne - 1996) - 88
8. Adieu Phillipine (Rozier - 1963) - 88
9. Import/Export (Seidl - 2007) - 88
10. Pandora's Box (Pabst - 1929) - 88
HM. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa - 2008) - 87
HM. Hunger (McQueen - 2008) - 86
HM. The Love Parade (Lubitsch - 1929) - 84
HM. Leon Morin, Pretre (Melville - 1961) - 84
HM. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Bromberg -2009) 82.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. The Prestige [95]
6. Let the Right One In [92.5]
7. The Wrestler [91]
8. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
9. Martyrs [90.25]
10. Speed Racer [89]

demoted Eden Lake after a second viewing, added Prestige to top 10



11. Zombieland [89]
12. the Hangover [88]
13. Orphan [85.5]
14. Red Eye[85]
15. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
16. Sling Blade [84]
17. Angels and Demons [83.75]
18. Splinter [83.5]
19. Frost/Nixon [83]
20. Bug [82]
21. Right at Your Door [81.75]
22. Taken [81.5]
23. The Objective [81.25]
24. Eden Lake [81]
25. Secret Window [80]
26. Gamer [79]
27. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
28. Vacancy [76]
29. Pride and Glory [74]
30. Watchmen [73]
31. The Broken [72.5]
32. The Ruins [72]
33. Sunshine [71]
34. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
35. Mad Max [70]
36. Quarantine [70]
37. Alpha Dog [69.5]
38. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
39. Last Man Standing [67]
40. Teeth [67]
41. the Strangers [66]
42. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
43. Eagle Eye [65]
44. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
45. Babylon A.D. [59]
46. Public Enemies [58]
47. Big Stan [57]
48. Resident Evil: Extinction [56]
49. Donnie Darko [55]
50. Slaughter [55]
51. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
52. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
53. Final Destination 3 [52]
54. Dead Snow [51]
55. the Proposal [51]
56. the Reaping [49]
57. Shutter [45]
58. Night at the Museum 2[44]
59. Friday the 13th (2009) [41]
60. Mirrors [40]
61. S. Darko [37]
62. Surrogates [35]
63. AvP: Requiem [29]
64. Cursed [28]
65. Superman III [25]
66. Ghost Rider [22]
67. The Final Destination 3D[20]
68. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
69. Elektra [15]
70. Bundy [10]

[Dukefrukem]

1. Wall-E [98]
2. Gran Torino [96.5]
3. Star Trek [96]
4. Drag Me to Hell [95]
5. The Prestige [95]
6. Let the Right One In [92.5]
7. The Wrestler [91]
8. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
9. Martyrs [90.25]
10. Speed Racer [89]

demoted Angels and Demons. added last four movies in my sig



11. Zombieland [89]
12. the Hangover [88]
13. Trick R Treat [87]
13. Orphan [85.5]
14. Red Eye[85]
15. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
16. Sling Blade [84]
17. The Last House on the Left (09) [87.5]
18. Splinter [83.5]
19. Frost/Nixon [83]
20. Bug [82]
21. Right at Your Door [81.75]
22. Taken [81.5]
23. The Objective [81.25]
24. Eden Lake [81]
25. Secret Window [80]
26. Gamer [79]
27. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
28. Vacancy [76]
29. Pride and Glory [74]
30. Watchmen [73]
31. The Broken [72.5]
32. The Ruins [72]
33. Sunshine [71]
34. Angels and Demons [70.75]
35. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
36. Mad Max [70]
37. Quarantine [70]
38. Alpha Dog [69.5]
39. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
40. Last Man Standing [67]
41. Teeth [67]
42. the Strangers [66]
43. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
44. Eagle Eye [65]
45. The Unborn [61]
46. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
47. Babylon A.D. [59]
48. Public Enemies [58]
49. Big Stan [57]
50. Resident Evil: Extinction [56]
51. Donnie Darko [55]
52. Slaughter [55]
53. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
54. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
55. Final Destination 3 [52]
56. Dead Snow [51]
57. the Proposal [51]
58. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [50]
59. the Reaping [49]
60. Shutter [45]
61. Night at the Museum 2[44]
62. Friday the 13th (2009) [41]
63. Mirrors [40]
64. S. Darko [37]
65. Surrogates [35]
66. AvP: Requiem [29]
67. Cursed [28]
68. Superman III [25]
69. Ghost Rider [22]
70. The Final Destination 3D[20]
71. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
72. Elektra [15]
73. Bundy [10]

[balmakboor]

1. The Golden Positions and Dreamwood (tie, 2 by James Broughton)
2. L.B.J. and 79 Primaveras (tie, 2 by Santiago Alvarez)
3. Let the Right One In
4. Munyurangabo
5. Ponyo
6. A Grin Without a Cat
7. Whisper of the Heart
8. The Willow Tree
9. Innocence Unprotected
10. Dear Zachary

The Rest (in no particular order)
Mock Up on Mu
Cyclo
Taking Woodstock
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Crazy Love
Treeless Mountain
The Red and the White
The Last Bolshevik
A Hole in My Heart
Tribulation 99
"Zoo"
Religulous
Up
Sonic Outlaws
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Irreversible
Milk
Tokyo Gore Police
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Decasia
Synecdoche, NY
Adventureland
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
My Winnipeg
Taxi to the Dark Side
Man on Wire
War of the Gargantuas
Gran Torino
Trouble the Water
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Earth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spectres of the Spectrum
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Hail, Mary
Brand Upon the Brain
Slumdog Millionaire
Sukiyaki Western Django
Frozen River
Sunshine Cleaning

Added Innocence Unprotected and Cyclo.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
6. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
7. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
10. LBJ (�lvarez, 1968)

[Boner M]

1. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
2. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard, 2002)
4. Blood (Costa, 1989)
5. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
6. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
7. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
8. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
9. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard, 1998)
10. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)

[B-side]

1. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
2. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard, 2002)
4. Blood (Costa, 1989)
5. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
6. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
7. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
8. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
9. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard, 1998)
10. Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945)

Loved Ms. 45. Husbands, as you'll notice if you look above, is my #5. I'm getting a new computer in the next few days, so I'll wait until then, but I think I'll grab Last Chants for a Slow Dance due to it placing so high here. I'm interested in Jost nonetheless, but a ringing endorsement from you is enough for me to seek it out.

[Stay Puft]

Forgot to do a post-TIFF update:

1. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3. Symbol (2009, dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto)
4. Tokyo Fist (1995, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
5. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)
6. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, dir. Mikio Naruse)
7. The Life of Oharu (1952, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
8. Army of Shadows (1969, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
9. Face (2009, dir. Ming-liang Tsai)
10. Dragon Inn (1966, dir. King Hu)

Added Symbol and Face.

[B-side]

1. Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
2. Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
3. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
4. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
5. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
6. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
7. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
8. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
9. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
10. Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Updated for thirteen new movies.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Memories of Murder
08. The Thin Man
09. Watchmen
10. La Dolce Vita

11. Inglourious Basterds
12. The Wrong Man
13. The Third Man
14. Silent Running
15. The Phantom of the Opera
16. Let the Right One In
17. Bug
18. The Hangover
19. Transsiberian
20. Grand Illusion
21. The Host
22. Heat
23. Coraline
24. Up
25. Creature from the Black Lagoon
26. Rec
27. The Seventh Victim
28. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
29. Drag Me to Hell
30. Repulsion
31. Stuck
32. Robocop
33. Séance
34. Uzumaki
35. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
36. Freaked
37. The King of Kong
38. Star Trek (09)
39. Sleeper
40. Eyes Without a Face
41. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
42. Them!
43. Something Wicked This Way Comes
44. Zombieland
45. Trick ‘r Treat
46. Blazing Saddles
47. The Mummy (1959)
48. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
49. Hot Rod
50. Re-Cycle
51. The Brood
52. It's Alive
53. P2
54. Walk Hard
55. Speed Racer
56. A Scanner Darkly
57. Babel
58. Splinter
59. Dementia-13
60. Wolf
61. Blades of Glory
62. Repo! The Genetic Opera
63. Judgment Night
64. Pin
65. Corpse Bride

66. Terminator: Salvation
67. Blood: the Last Vampire
68. The Sentinel
69. Dread
70. Halloween
71. Martyrs
72. Versus
73. Spiral
74. God Told Me To
75. Right at Your Door
76. Trouble Every Day
77. Joshua
78. The Toxic Avenger
79. Alphaville
80. Mystery Team
81. Body Snatchers
82. Species
83. The Hunger
84. Nightbreed
85. Them
86. Beerfest
87. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
88. Frontiers
89. Shocker
90. The Running Man
91. The Alphabet Killer
92. Transformers 2
93. Book of Blood
94. C.H.U.D.
95. My Name is Bruce
96. The Dunwich Horror
97. 2000 Maniacs
98. Fanboys
99. Bio-Zombie
100. 976-Evil
101. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
102. Rabid Grannies
103. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Fezzik]

1. In the Mood For Love (2001, Wong) - 10
2. City Lights (1931, Chaplin) - 10
3. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
4. Up (2009, Docter) - 10
5. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
6. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Jonze) - 9.5
7. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
8. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
9. To Have and Have Not (1941, Hawks) - 9
10. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9


11. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
12. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
13. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
14. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
15. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Hitchcock) - 8
16. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
17. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
18. Zombieland (2009, Fleischer) - 7.5
19. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
20. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
21. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
22. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
23. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
24. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
25. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
26. 9 (2009, Acker) - 6.5
27. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
28. The Informant! (2009, Soderburgh) - 6.0
29. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
30. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
31. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
32. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
33. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Added a bunch :)

[soitgoes...]

1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
3. Fucking Åmål (Moodysson 98)
4. Nayak (Ray 66)
5. The Ascent (Shepitko 77)
6. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
7. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa 08)
8. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
9. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)
10. Intentions of Murder (Imamura 64)

1. The White Ribbon (Haneke 09)
2. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
3. Mind Game (Yuasa 04)
4. Fucking Åmål (Moodysson 98)
5. Nayak (Ray 66)
6. The Ascent (Shepitko 77)
7. Hamlet (Branagh 96)
8. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa 08)
9. Let the Right One In (Alfredson 08)
10. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov 64)

I'm going to watch it again tonight. I can't remember the last time I've wanted to watch the same film on back-to-back nights. I'll try and come up with some thoughts on it too. It might not be until a few days from now as I'm getting ready to drive down to Ashland tomorrow morning for Thanksgiving weekend.

[B-side]

Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)
Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)

[B-side]

Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

Took out Singin' in the Rain. Retrospect has me liking it a bit less, though I still love it.

[Fezzik]

1. In the Mood For Love (2001, Wong) - 10
2. City Lights (1931, Chaplin) - 10
3. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
4. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
5. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Jonze) - 9.5
6. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
7. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
8. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
9. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
10. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5




11. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
12. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
13. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Hitchcock) - 8
14. Up (Docter, 2009) - 8
15. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
16. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
17. The Station Agent (McCarthy, 2003) - 8
18. To Have and Have Not (1941, Hawks) - 7.5
19. Zombieland (2009, Fleischer) - 7.5
20. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
21. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
22. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
23. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
24. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
25. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
26. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
27. 9 (2009, Acker) - 6.5
28. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
29. The Informant! (2009, Soderburgh) - 6.0
30. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
31. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
32. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
33. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
34. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5


Added The Station Agent and did some re-alignment after several rewatches this weekend.

[MadMan]

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. In a Lonely Place(1950)-100
3. Le Samouraï(1967)-100
4. The Wrestler(2008)-98
5. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
6. Sleeper(1973)-97
7. Gone Baby Gone(2007)-97
8. Up(2009)-97
9. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
10. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95

Finally another 100-I've only given out three on the year. I should look at the past couple of previous years where I've kept track and see if this is an all time low or something.

[B-side]

Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovsky, 1961)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Statues Also Die (Marker/Resnais, 1953)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)

[Fezzik]

1. In the Mood For Love (2001, Wong) - 10
2. City Lights (1931, Chaplin) - 10
3. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
4. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
5. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Jonze) - 9.5
6. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
7. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
8. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
9. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5
10. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5





11. The Princess and the Frog (2009, Musker) - 8.5
12. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
13. Star Trek (2009, Abrams)
14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
15. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Hitchcock) - 8
16. Up (Docter, 2009) - 8
17. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
18. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
19. The Station Agent (McCarthy, 2003) - 8
20. To Have and Have Not (1941, Hawks) - 7.5
21. Taken (2009, Morel) - 7.5
22. Zombieland (2009, Fleischer) - 7.5
23. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
24. Galaxy Quest (1999, Pinoter) - 7.5
25. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
26. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
27. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
28. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
29. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
30. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
31. 9 (2009, Acker) - 6.5
32. The Proposal (2009, Fletcher) - 6.5
33. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
34. The Informant! (2009, Soderburgh) - 6.0
35. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
36. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
37. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
38. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
39. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Added The Princess and the Frog, Galaxy Quest, Taken and The Proposal

[Russ]

Updated:

1. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
2. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)
3. F for Fake (Welles, 1976)
4. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
4. El Sur (Erice, 1983)
5. Hellzapoppin' (Potter, 1941))
6. Nothing But a Man (Roemer, 1964)
7. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
8. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
9. Trafic (Tati, 1971)
10. Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)

[Melville]

1. Possession (Zulawski)
2. Serene Velocity (Gehr)
3. Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
4. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
5. The Devil (Zulawski)
6. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
7. Masculin-Feminin (Godard)
8. Two Lovers (Grey)
9. Army of Shadows (Melville)
10. The Goat (Keaton)

[Boner M]

1. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
2. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard, 2002)
4. Blood (Costa, 1989)
5. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
6. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
7. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
8. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
9. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
10. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard, 1998)

Wyler's film has got better upon contemplation.

[B-side]

Boner, sell me on The Tall T. Kinda looks like a standard Hollywood western, yet I know it wouldn't place that high if that were true.

[Raiders]

Boner, sell me on The Tall T. Kinda looks like a standard Hollywood western, yet I know it wouldn't place that high if that were true.
He's delusional a bit. It's a solid, no-frills western (as are all of Boetticher's), but for me it pales next to Boetticher's Ride Lonesome which is even tighter and features a wallop of an ending.

[Boner M]

Raiders is delusional a bit. Ride Lonesome's a solid, no-frills western (as are all of Boetticher's), but for me it pales next to Boetticher's The Tall T which is even tighter and features a wallop of an ending.

SEE WOT I DID THERE, LOL

[soitgoes...]

Raiders is the sane one.

[Boner M]

Let's let Brightside be the judge.

[B-side]

Let's let Brightside be the judge.

Might be a while before I see both films, though.:P

[Boner M]

Might be a while before I see both films, though.:P
They're both in the 70-80 minute mark, as are most of Boetticher's westerns. Doesn't waste any time, that guy.

[B-side]

They're both in the 70-80 minute mark, as are most of Boetticher's westerns. Doesn't waste any time, that guy.

I gotta say, that actually sounds rather appealing as I watch my films on my computer and lengthy running times can be a bit off-putting due to the circumstances.

[B-side]

Oh, I'm downloading The Tall T right meow.

[soitgoes...]

I gotta say, that actually sounds rather appealing as I watch my films on my computer and lengthy running times can be a bit off-putting due to the circumstances.

Do it, and watch Seven Men from Now too. It's almost as good as Ride Lonesome. Almost.

[Boner M]

watch Seven Men from Now too.
I'm down with this.

[B-side]

The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovsky, 1961)
Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Statues Also Die (Marker/Resnais, 1953)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)

Because I feel like it, Steamroller and the Violin is taking over the #1 spot.

[ledfloyd]

1. Paris, Texas
2. My Dinner With Andre
3. Friday Night
4. Brand Upon the Brain!
5. Alan Zweig's Mirror Trilogy
6. In a Lonely Place
7. Decalogue
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
9. Miami Vice
10. The Thin Blue Line

new additions in bold. removed black narcissus and make way for tomorrow.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Avatar [9?]
2. 12 Angry Men [99]
3. Wall-E [98]
4. City of God [9?]
5. There Will Be Blood [9?]
6. No Country for Old Men [9?]
7. Gran Torino [96.5]
8. 500 Days of Summer [9?]
9. Star Trek [96]
10. Drag Me to Hell [95]


Lots new in my top 10. Need to check with my spreadsheet for actual rankings later.



11. The Prestige [95]
12. Children of Men [94]
13. Let the Right One In [92.5]
14. The Wrestler [91]
15. Hot Fuzz [90.5]
16. Martyrs [90.25]
17. Speed Racer [89]
18. Zombieland [89]
19. the Hangover [88]
20. Trick R Treat [87]
21. Orphan [85.5]
22. Red Eye[85]
23. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior [84]
24. Sling Blade [84]
25. The Last House on the Left (09) [87.5]
26. Splinter [83.5]
27. Frost/Nixon [83]
28. Bug [82]
29. Right at Your Door [81.75]
30. Taken [81.5]
31. The Objective [81.25]
32. Eden Lake [81]
33. Secret Window [80]
34. Gamer [79]
35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [79]
36. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome [79]
37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [78]
38. Schindler's List [77]
39. Vacancy [76]
40. Pride and Glory [74]
41. Watchmen [73]
42. The Broken [72.5]
43. The Ruins [72]
44. Sunshine [71]
45. Angels and Demons [70.75]
46. Terminator: Salvation [70.5]
47. Mad Max [70]
48. Quarantine [70]
49. Alpha Dog [69.5]
50. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [69]
51. Zack and Miri Make a Porno[69]
52. Last Man Standing [67]
53. Teeth [67]
54. the Strangers [66]
55. Midnight Meat Train[65.5]
56. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [65]
57. Eagle Eye [65]
58. The Unborn [61]
59. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [60]
60. Babylon A.D. [59]
61. Public Enemies [58]
62. Big Stan [57]
63. Resident Evil: Extinction [56]
64. Donnie Darko [55]
65. Slaughter [55]
66. The Blair Witch Project II - Book of Shadows [54.5]
67. Resident Evil: Degeneration [53]
68. Final Destination 3 [52]
69. Dead Snow [51]
70. the Proposal [51]
71. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [50]
72. the Reaping [49]
73. Shutter [45]
74. Night at the Museum 2[44]
75. Friday the 13th (2009) [41]
76. Mirrors [40]
77. S. Darko [37]
78. Surrogates [35]
79. AvP: Requiem [29]
80. Cursed [28]
81. Superman III [25]
82. Ghost Rider [22]
83. The Final Destination 3D[20]
84. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [18]
85. Elektra [15]
86. Bundy [10]

[Yxklyx]

1. Sherman's March (1986, Ross McElwee)
2. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
3. Southern Comfort (1981, Walter Hill)
4. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
5. Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk)
6. Jeanne Dielman (1975, Chantal Akerman)
7. World's Greatest Dad (2009, Bobcat Goldthwait)
8. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
9. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
10. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)

Bumped: Midnight

[Boner M]

1. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
2. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jost, 1977)
3. Reflections of Evil (Packard, 2002)
4. Blood (Costa, 1989)
5. Sink or Swim (Friedrich, 1990)
6. The Tall T (Boetticher, 1956)
7. Ms. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
8. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
9. Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
10. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)

Thoughts on the latest addition to come later. Stunning autobiographical avant-garde filmmaking; somewhat reminiscent of Jane Campion's A Girl's Own Story retold through Chris Marker's found-footage poetic montage. Anyone familiar with Friedrich's work?

[Fezzik]

1. In the Mood For Love (2001, Wong) - 10
2. City Lights (1931, Chaplin) - 10
3. Inglorious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) - 10
4. District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) - 10
5. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Jonze) - 9.5
6. Adventureland (2009, Mottola) - 9.5
7. Avatar (Cameron, 2009) - 9
8. Coraline (2009, Selick) - 9
9. Watchmen (2009, Snyder) - 9
10. In Bruges (2008, McDonagh) - 8.5





11. Burn After Reading (2008, Coen) - 8.5
12. The Princess and the Frog (2009, Musker) - 8.5
13. The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) - 8.5
14. Star Trek (2009, Abrams)
15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) - 8.5
16. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Hitchcock) - 8
17. Up (Docter, 2009) - 8
18. Up in the Air (Reitman, 2009) - 8
19. The Hangover (2009, Phillips) - 8
20. Dr. Strangelove (1968, Kubrick) - 8
21. The Station Agent (McCarthy, 2003) - 8
22. To Have and Have Not (1941, Hawks) - 7.5
23. Taken (2009, Morel) - 7.5
24. Zombieland (2009, Fleischer) - 7.5
25. I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) - 7.5
26. Galaxy Quest (1999, Pinoter) - 7.5
27. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) - 7.5
28. Bolt (2008, Howard, Williams) - 7.5
29. The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks) - 7
30. Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle) - 7
31. 17 Again (2009, Steers) - 6.5
32. Funny People (2009, Apatow) - 6.5
33. Public Enemies (2009, Mann) - 6.5
34. 9 (2009, Acker) - 6.5
35. The Proposal (2009, Fletcher) - 6.5
36. Eagle Eye (2008, Caruso) - 6.5
37. Nine (2009, Marshall) - 6
38. The Informant! (2009, Soderburgh) - 6.0
39. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, Sommers) - 5.5
40. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) - 5.5
41. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) - 5.5
42. Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - 5.5
43. Hancock (Berg, 2008) - 5

Added 17 Again, Avatar, Nine and Up in the Air

[ContinentalOp]

I've seen some good stuff thanks to Netflix.

1. Gran Torino- ****
2. District 9- ****
3. Che- *** 1/2
4. Little Dieter Needs to Fly- *** 1/2
5. Murder on a Sunday Morning- *** 1/2
6. Half Nelson- *** 1/2
7. Two Lovers- *** 1/2
8. Aliens- *** 1/2
9. El Norte- *** 1/2
10. Star Trek IV- *** 1/2

1. Gran Torino- ****
2. Where the Wild Things Are- ****
3. District 9- ****
4. Che- *** 1/2
5. Avatar- *** 1/2
6. Little Dieter Needs to Fly- *** 1/2
7. Murder on a Sunday Morning- *** 1/2
8. Half Nelson- *** 1/2
9. Two Lovers- *** 1/2
10. Aliens- *** 1/2

[Russ]

Updated:

1. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
2. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)
3. F for Fake (Welles, 1976)
4. Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
4. El Sur (Erice, 1983)
5. Hellzapoppin' (Potter, 1941)
6. Mother (Naruse, 1952)
7. Nothing But a Man (Roemer, 1964)
8. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
9. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
10. Trafic (Tati, 1971)

[Melville]

1. Possession (Zulawski)
2. Serene Velocity (Gehr)
3. Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
4. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
5. The Devil (Zulawski)
6. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
7. Masculin-Feminin (Godard)
8. Two Lovers (Grey)
9. Bright Star (Campion)
10. Army of Shadows (Melville)

Decided to make room for Bright Star. This'll probably be my final list.

All the other films I gave 9/10 or higher:

Bad Boy Bubby, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, La ceremonie, Fata Morgana, The Goat, Hunger, Inglourious Basterds, L'Eclisse, Love Exposure, Love Streams, Mikey and Nicky, Outer Space, Oasis, Oh Dem Watermelons, Report, Waltz with Bashir, What Happened Was..., Whisper of the Heart

[Boner M]

1. Possession (Zulawski)
2. Serene Velocity (Gehr)
3. Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
4. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
10. Army of Shadows (Melville)

9/10 or higher:

Bad Boy Bubby, La ceremonie, L'Eclisse, Love Exposure, Love Streams, Mikey and Nicky, Outer Space, Oasis, Oh Dem Watermelons, What Happened Was..., Whisper of the Heart
I'm flattered, but no, I won't go out with you.

[Melville]

I'm flattered, but no, I won't go out with you.
Well, there goes my plan to cure my heartbreak...


Other than the ones from your top 100 (plus Outer Space and Love Exposure), I didn't realize you were a big fan of those movies. Have you seen The Devil?

[Boner M]

Well, there goes my plan to cure my heartbreak...


Other than the ones from your top 100 (plus Outer Space and Love Exposure), I didn't realize you were a big fan of those movies. Have you seen The Devil?
I'll need to give Possession another go to decide just how impressive it is, but I loved it for Adjani's feral performance, the acrobatic camerawork, and how potently it evokes the turbulent emotions of marital disfunction uses horror movie tropes. I'm pretty sure it'll be a top 100 film on second viewing.

[Melville]

I'll need to give Possession another go to decide just how impressive it is, but I loved it for Adjani's feral performance, the acrobatic camerawork, and how potently it evokes the turbulent emotions of marital disfunction uses horror movie tropes. I'm pretty sure it'll be a top 100 film on second viewing.
I infer from that that you haven't seen The Devil. I highly recommend it. The camerawork is even more acrobatic, and it's got feral performances and turbulent emotions spewing all over the place, though it's more sprawling, lacking the dense personal core of Possession.

Zulawski rated:

Possession - 10
The Devil - 10
Szamanka - 8
The Most Important Thing: Love - 7.5

[Boner M]

Oops, yeah I haven't seen any other Zuwalski. I'll get on it.

[ledfloyd]

man, i love veronique and masculin feminin so much. army of shadows is a real gem as well. i suppose this means i should see the other films.

[B-side]

Bad Boy Bubby, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, La ceremonie, Fata Morgana, The Goat, Hunger, Inglourious Basterds, L'Eclisse, Love Exposure, Love Streams, Mikey and Nicky, Outer Space, Oasis, Oh Dem Watermelons, Report, Waltz with Bashir, What Happened Was..., Whisper of the Heart

:)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Ten more, but none cracked the top. The Orphanage came closest.

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Memories of Murder
08. The Thin Man
09. Watchmen
10. La Dolce Vita

11. Inglourious Basterds
12. The Wrong Man
13. The Third Man
14. Silent Running
15. The Phantom of the Opera
16. Let the Right One In
17. The Orphanage
18. The Host
19. Bug
20. The Hangover
21. Transsiberian
22. Grand Illusion
23. Heat
24. Coraline
25. Up
26. Creature from the Black Lagoon
27. Rec
28. The Seventh Victim
29. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
30. Drag Me to Hell
31. Repulsion
32. Freaked
33. Stuck
34. Robocop
35. Séance
36. Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion
37. Spiral (Uzumaki)
38. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
39. The King of Kong
40. Sleeper
41. Star Trek (2009)
42. Eyes Without a Face
43. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
44. Them!
45. Something Wicked This Way Comes
46. Zombieland
47. Trick ‘r Treat
48. Blazing Saddles
49. The Mummy (1959)
50. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
51. Hot Rod
52. Repo! The Genetic Opera
53. Re-Cycle
54. The Brood
55. It's Alive
56. P2
57. Walk Hard
58. Rogue
59. Speed Racer
60. A Scanner Darkly
61. Grey Gardens
62. Babel
63. Splinter
64. Dark Water
65. Dementia-13
66. Wolf
67. Blades of Glory
68. Judgment Night
69. Shutter
70. Pin
71. Altered
72. Gymkata
73. Corpse Bride

74. Terminator: Salvation
75. Blood: the Last Vampire
76. The Sentinel
77. Dread
78. Halloween
79. Martyrs
80. Versus
81. Spiral
82. God Told Me To
83. Right at Your Door
84. Trouble Every Day
85. Joshua
86. The Toxic Avenger
87. Ju-On: The Grudge
88. Alphaville
89. Mystery Team
90. Body Snatchers
91. Species
92. The Hunger
93. Nightbreed
94. Them
95. Beerfest
96. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
97. Frontiers
98. Shocker
99. The Running Man
100. Wolf Creek
101. The Alphabet Killer
102. Transformers 2
103. Book of Blood
104. C.H.U.D.
105. My Name is Bruce
106. The Dunwich Horror
107. 2000 Maniacs
108. Fanboys
109. Bio-Zombie
110. 976-Evil
111. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
112. Rabid Grannies
113. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[B-side]

Nice to see some love for Baraka. Great film, that one.

[Melville]

man, i love veronique and masculin feminin so much. army of shadows is a real gem as well. i suppose this means i should see the other films.
I should probably warn you that the Zulawski films and Serene Velocity are definitely not for everybody. But still, check them out if you get a chance (unless it's a chance to see the shortened cut of Possession, which apparently should be avoided); we need some more Zulawski fans around here.

[B-side]

The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovsky, 1961)
Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Statues Also Die (Marker/Resnais, 1953)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
Emak-Bakia (M. Ray, 1926)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)

[Torgo]

1. Das Boot
2. Solaris (1972)
3. The Best of Youth
4. Walkabout
5. The Double Life of Veronique
6. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
7. The 39 Steps
8. Vengeance is Mine
9. The End of Evangelion
10. Local Hero

[Mysterious Dude]

I guess my list isn't going to change now. I saw 246 movies in 2009. Not enough of them were good.

1. Ingeborg Holm (1913)
2. Blast of Silence (1961)
3. The Maggie (1954)
4. The Fall (2006)
5. Border Street (1948)
6. Myriad of Lights (1948)
7. The Sacrifice (1986)
8. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
9. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
10. Poil de Carotte (1925)

11. The Cow (1969)
12. Mon oncle Antoine (1971)
13. Bright Star (2009)
14. Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
15. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
16. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
17. Crazed Fruit (1956)
18. Gomorrah (2008)
19. Rotation (1949)
20. The Soul of Youth (1920)

21. In the Loop (2009)
22. Before the Rain (1994)
23. Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
24. Destiny of a Man (1959)
25. My Childhood (1972)
26. Weddings and Babies (1958)
27. The Italian (1915)
28. Nothing But a Man (1964)
29. Women of the Night (1948)
30. Tricks (2007)

31. Goto, Island of Love (1968)
32. Moon (2009)
33. Wanderers of the Desert (1986)
34. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
35. After Life (1998)
36. A Serious Man (2009)
37. Le testament d’Orphée (1960)
38. Hangover Square (1945)
39. The Seventh Victim (1943)
40. The Hurt Locker (2009)

[Russ]

The last film I saw in 2009 was Mark Region's After Last Season. What a way to go out.

[Weeping_Guitar]

Out of 350 films, a top 30:

01. East of Eden (Kazan, 1955)
02. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
03. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
04. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson, 2009)
05. Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Berri, 1986)
06. Hud (Ritt, 1963)
07. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
08. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
09. Late August, Early September (Assayas, 1998)
10. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)

11. Leon Morin, Priest (Melville, 1961)
12. I've Loved You So Long (Claudel, 2008)
13. The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952)
14. Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
15. Repast [Meshi] (Naruse, 1951)
16. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Ozu, 1952)
17. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2008)
18. Up (Docter & Peterson, 2009)
19. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
20. Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955) / Aparajito (Ray, 1956)

21. The Class (Cantet, 2008)
22. Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953)
23. The Last Metro (Truffaut, 1980)
24. On the Beach (Kramer, 1959)
25. In the City of Sylvia (GuerÃ*n, 2007)
26. The Lower Depths (Renoir, 1936)
27. Last Holiday (Cass, 1950)
28. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956)
29. Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)
30. 25th Hour (Lee, 2002)

[Boner M]

Top ten repeat viewings of 2009 (of films I'd last seen at least 5 years ago)

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. Stroszek
3. Faces
4. Eureka (Aoyama)
5. Martin
6. The Shining
7. The Godfather
8. Down By Law
9. Fanny & Alexander
10. Bad Lieutenant

[Stay Puft]

My final list for 2009:

1. A Touch of Zen (1969, dir. King Hu)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3. Symbol (2009, dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto)
4. Tokyo Fist (1995, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)
5. Excalibur (1981, dir. John Boorman)
6. The Thin Man (1934, dir. W.S. Van Dyke)
7. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, dir. Mikio Naruse)
8. The Life of Oharu (1952, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. Army of Shadows (1969, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
10. Face (2009, dir. Ming-liang Tsai)

After consideration, put The Thin Man back on the list. It has resonated well, and sits in my mind as one of the most surprising and enjoyable viewings of the year. A mistake to bump it off.

[Dead & Messed Up]

OLIVE denotes greatness.
GREEN denotes very goodness.
BLUE denotes goodness.
PURPLE denotes badness.
RED denotes very badness.
ORANGE denotes awfulness.

My Personal Top Ten:

01. Peeping Tom
02. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
03. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
04. Baraka
05. Vampyr
06. Rashomon
07. Memories of Murder
08. The Thin Man
09. Watchmen
10. La Dolce Vita

11. Inglourious Basterds
12. The Wrong Man
13. The Third Man
14. Silent Running
15. The Phantom of the Opera
16. Let the Right One In
17. The Orphanage
18. The Host
19. Bug
20. The Hangover
21. Transsiberian
22. Grand Illusion
23. Heat
24. Coraline
25. Up
26. Creature from the Black Lagoon
27. Rec
28. The Seventh Victim
29. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
30. Drag Me to Hell
31. Repulsion
32. Freaked
33. Stuck
34. Robocop
35. Séance
36. Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion
37. Spiral (Uzumaki)
38. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
39. The King of Kong
40. Sleeper
41. Star Trek (2009)
42. Eyes Without a Face
43. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
44. Them!
45. Something Wicked This Way Comes
46. Zombieland
47. Trick ‘r Treat
48. After The Thin Man
49. Blazing Saddles
50. The Mummy (1959)
51. Val Lewton: The Man Behind the Shadows
52. Hot Rod
53. Repo! The Genetic Opera
54. Re-Cycle
55. The Brood
56. It's Alive
57. P2
58. Walk Hard
59. Rogue
60. Speed Racer
61. A Scanner Darkly
62. Grey Gardens
63. Babel
64. Splinter
65. Dark Water
66. Dementia-13
67. Wolf
68. Blades of Glory
69. Judgment Night
70. Shutter
71. Pin
72. Altered
73. Gymkata
74. Corpse Bride
75. Terminator: Salvation
76. Blood: the Last Vampire
77. The Sentinel
78. Dread
79. Halloween
80. Martyrs
81. Versus
82. Spiral
83. God Told Me To
84. Right at Your Door
85. Trouble Every Day
86. Joshua
87. The Toxic Avenger
88. Ju-On: The Grudge
89. Alphaville
90. Mystery Team
91. Body Snatchers
92. Species
93. The Hunger
94. Nightbreed
95. Them
96. Beerfest
97. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
98. Frontiers
99. Shocker
100. The Running Man
101. Wolf Creek
102. The Alphabet Killer
103. Transformers 2
104. Book of Blood
105. C.H.U.D.
106. My Name is Bruce
107. The Dunwich Horror
108. 2000 Maniacs
109. Fanboys
110. Bio-Zombie
111. 976-Evil
112. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
113. Rabid Grannies
114. Resident Evil: Degeneration

[Mysterious Dude]

In 2009, I made a point of seeing one movie for each decade, and after finishing one round, I'd go back and do it again. In the end, I saw 20 (or more) movies from every decade.

I'm not sure I want to continue this project into 2010. There are hardly any movies from the 30's left on my Netflix queue, I don't want to add more movies just to fill out the decade. You will note that although I saw 20 movies from the 30's in 2009, not one of them made my top 40 list that I posted above. I want to give a fair chance to all time periods, but it seems like the 30's just don't speak to me.

I think I'm going to re-watch some old favorites in 2010. There are some great ones I haven't seen in ages.

[B-side]

My final list:

The Steamroller and the Violin (Tarkovsky, 1961)
Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Statues Also Die (Marker/Resnais, 1953)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976)
Emak-Bakia (M. Ray, 1926)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)

[Melville]

Dream Work (Tscherkassky, 2002)
How does this compare to Outer Space?

[B-side]

How does this compare to Outer Space?

Better, I think. I do love Outer Space, too, so it should be noted I generally like Tscherkassky.

[MadMan]

1. All That Jazz(1979)-100
2. In a Lonely Place(1950)-100
3. Le Samouraï(1967)-100
4. The Wrestler(2008)-98
5. Bob Roberts(1992)-97
6. Sleeper(1973)-97
7. Gone Baby Gone(2007)-97
8. Up(2009)-97
9. Chimes at Midnight(1965)-95
10. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)-95

Finally another 100-I've only given out three on the year. I should look at the past couple of previous years where I've kept track and see if this is an all time low or something.Looking over this list, I noted that once again it features too many 60s and 70s movies, plus a bit heavy on the 2000s side. For next year, I may aim to explore more directors, but also focus a bit more on the Golden Age of Hollywood (1920s-1950s), plus viewing more from the 80s and the silent era. Still, a damn good list overall.

[Bosco B Thug]

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. The Piano
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Serpent's Path
6. Nouvelle Vague
7. Stuck
8. Contempt
9. Vivre se vie
10. Trouble Every Day

OUT: Tokyo Sonata, License to Live
IN: Inglourious Basterds, Trouble Every Day

The Vivre se vie drop I don't quite understand myself. It's not that I think of the film any less, but a lot of it has just left my memory and I'm sure if I re-watch it, it'll jump back up again. The boisterous and impertinently cerebral, in color pleasures of Contempt and Nouvelle Vague are just sticking with me longer.

1. Culloden
2. Marnie
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Fool for Love
5. The Piano
6. Two Lovers
7. W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism
8. Nouvelle Vague
9. Blow Out
10. Trouble Every Day

Way to go 2009, a good haul.

[Ivan Drago]

My final list: (1-15 were great, 16-35 were really good, 36-53 were enjoyable, 54-65 were OK, 66-74 sucked, and the unrankable movies are just that).

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
3. Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006)
4. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
6. Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
7. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
8. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
9. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
10. Braindead/Dead Alive (Peter Jackson, 1994)
11. Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
12. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
13. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)
14. After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
15. The Box (Richard Kelly, 2009)
16. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
17. The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
18. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
19. Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009)
20. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2009)
21. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008)
22. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)
23. The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)
24. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
25. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
26. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
27. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe, 1998)
28. I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009)
29. Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 2009)
30. The Princess and the Frog (Musker/Clements, 2009)
31. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
32. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
33. Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
34. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
35. Interstella 5555 (Kazuhisa Takenochi, 2003)
36. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970)
37. Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009)
38. Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
39. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
40. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
41. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
42. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
43. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, 1996)
44. Terminator: Salvation (McG, 2009)
45. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001)
46. The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
47. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009)
48. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
49. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
50. Tales of the Black Freighter (Delpurgatorio/Smith, 2009)
51. A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis, 2009)
52. Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009)
53. Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, 1989)
54. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
55. Aaltra (Kervern/Delepine, 2004)
56. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979)
57. Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon, 1959)
58. Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
59. The Rage in Placid Lake (Tony McNamara, 2003)
60. The Onion Movie (Kuntz/Maguire, 2008)
61. Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009)
62. Land of the Lost (Silberling, 2009)
63. Monsters vs. Aliens (Letterman/Vernon, 2009)
64. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
65. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
66. He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009)
67. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
68. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009)
69. Pretty In Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
70. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009)
71. The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
72. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009)
73. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
74. The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy, 2000)

Unrankable:

The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)
2012 (Roland Emmerich, 2009)
New Moon (Chris Weitz, 2009)

Who would've thought that The Room would be the last movie I would see for the first time in 2009?

[BuffaloWilder]

I love that somebody else found Observe and Report to be as terrible as I did - but, I'm a little weirded out by your ranking of Public Enemies and Moon. Just a little.

[Pathétique]

1. Edvard Munch
2. Mouchette
3. The Tales of Hoffmann
4. La Roue
5. Carrie
6. Buffalo '66
7. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
8. The Red and the White
9. The Earrings of Madame de...
10. Mikey and Nicky

11. Still Life
12. The Last Days of Disco
13. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
14. Johnny Got His Gun
15. Overlord
16. The Doors
17. Coffee and Cigarettes
18. Synecdoche, New York
19. This is England
20. The Legend of the Surami Fortress

Funny thing is I've already seen two films in 2010 that would have made the top five of 2009.