MC Yearly Consensus - (Revision of 2009)

[Spinal]

I have reason to believe that a new poll would result in significant changes.

And so ...

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. If you want to edit, make a new post and tell me what you've changed.

You may begin now.

[Spinal]

1. A Serious Man
2. Antichrist
3. Enter the Void
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Everyone Else

[Russ]

1. The Secret of Kells
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Duburys
4. Enter the Void
5. A Serious Man

[soitgoes...]

No change to my Top 5.

1. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
2. Be Sure to Share (Shion Sono)
3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
4. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
5. A Serious Man (Joel Coen)
-------------------------------------------
6. Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
7. The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)
8. Moon (Duncan Jones)
9. Mary and Max (Adam Elliot)
10. Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio)

11. Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
12. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
13. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
14. Coraline (Henry Selick)
15. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
16. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
17. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
18. Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto)
19. Accident (Pou-Soi Cheang)
20. Whatever Works (Woody Allen)

[elixir]

1. A Serious Man
2. Mother
3. Alamar
4. Dogtooth
5. Last Train Home

[Pop Trash]

1. Adventureland
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Dogtooth
4. Where the Wild Things Are
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

6. Mother
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
8. Drag Me to Hell
9. The House of the Devil
10. Star Trek

Something like that...still a bunch I need to see. And A Serious Man might be better than I give it credit for. My opinion of that is still up in the air.

[eternity]

1. Adventureland
2. A Single Man
3. Moon
4. The Box
5. A Serious Man
H.M. Mystery Team

[Watashi]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Up
3. A Serious Man
4. A Single Man
5. Where the Wild Things Are

[StanleyK]

1. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
2. A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
3. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
4. Dogtooth (Giorgios Lanthimos)
5. Bright Star (Jane Campion)

I need to rewatch Inglourious Basterds and The Bad Lieutenant. I guess I need to rewatch Bright Star, too, but oh well.

Wanna see Mother and The Headless Woman.

Overrated:
Avatar, Moon, A Single Man, The Secret in Their Eyes, Up in the Air, Watchmen, Zombieland

[Bosco B Thug]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Everyone Else
3. The White Ribbon
4. Wild Grass
5. I Am Love

[Ezee E]

Without seeing my list at home:

1. Inglorious Basterds
2. A Serious Man
3. Bad Lieutenant
4. Mother
5. Public Enemies

Two Lovers... Need to check on if that's 2008 or 2009

[Pop Trash]

Two Lovers... Need to check on if that's 2008 or 2009

IMDB 2008. Otherwise it would make my top five too.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The White Ribbon
2. Bright Star
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Enter the Void
5. Mother

It was a stunningly good year. Every movie in my top ten is a four-star movie. It hurts me to leave some of these off the top five.

6. A Serious Man
7. In the Loop
8. Moon
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. The Exploding Girl

[transmogrifier]

1. The Informant!
2. Thirst

That's it for films I felt really strongly about in 2009. I know there is a minimum of three films, so feel free not to count this.

[Winston*]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. The White Ribbon
3. Bright Star
4. A Serious Man
5. Mary and Max

[Lazlo]

1. Up
2. Bright Star
3. Fish Tank
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Where the Wild Things Are

HM: A Single Man

[Ivan Drago]

1. Enter The Void
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Antichrist
4. Watchmen
5. Dogtooth
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6. Crank 2: High Voltage
7. The Box
8. Star Trek
9. The Informant!
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[Stay Puft]

1. Symbol
2. Visage
3. Nymph
4. Alamar
5. A Serious Man

[Ezee E]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Antichrist
3. Watchmen
4. Dogtooth
5. The Hurt Locker
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6. Crank 2: High Voltage
7. The Box
8. Star Trek
9. The Informant!
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Hurt Locker is 2008.

Crank breaks your top five!

[Ivan Drago]

Hurt Locker is 2008.

Crank breaks your top five!

Fixed. And it does for a good reason. . .because it's AWSUM!

[Boner M]

1. Alamar
2. Dogtooth
3. A Serious Man
4. Beeswax
5. Everyone Else

6. Accident
7. The Limits of Control
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. The White Meadows
10. Adventureland

[Melville]

1. Bright Star
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
4. Dogtooth
5. Public Enemies

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Bright Star
3. Up
4. A Serious Man
5. In the Loop

[baby doll]

1. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
2. A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen)
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
4. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
5. The White Ribbon: A German Children's Story (Michael Haneke)
6. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
7a. Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7b. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. Night Mayor (Guy Maddin)
9. The Bad Lieutenant--Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
10. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

[Ivan Drago]

Wait Enter The Void is 2009, too?

[baby doll]

Wait Enter The Void is 2009, too?It was in competition at Cannes in 2009. Personally, I think the middle section is brilliant, but the last hour of the film mainly drifts. Also, the characters are all stupid and predictable.

[dmk]

But that would be cheating.

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. Inglourious Basterds
02. A Serious Man
03. The House of the Devil
04. Moon
05. Watchmen

[Yxklyx]

1. Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
2. Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
3. El secreto de sus ojos (Juan José Campanella)
4. World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)
5. The Hangover (Todd Phillips)

[kopello]

1. Enter the Void
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
4. The White Ribbon
5. Tetro

6. Dogtooth
7. The Bad Lieutenant
8. Public Enemies
9. District 9
10. Adventureland

Pretty good year, and I still have a lot I want to see.

[Pop Trash]

4. Beeswax
5. Everyone Else


I noticed both of these are on Mubi. I should get on that.

[Yxklyx]

More people need to see Soul Kitchen - I don't know why but for some reason it brings back memories of Annie Hall.

[Pop Trash]

More people need to see Soul Kitchen - I don't know why but for some reason it brings back memories of Annie Hall.

Wanna see that too. I'm a big Head-On fan.

[Stay Puft]

More people need to see Soul Kitchen - I don't know why but for some reason it brings back memories of Annie Hall.

I loved it, and it would be top five for me if this was by US release dates (in fact I think I had it at the top of my list when I submitted for the year end top 20 list, tho A Serious Man has grown quite a bit in my esteem and would replace it now).

[TGM]

1. Watchmen
2. Avatar
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Star Trek
5. Brothers

[Irish]

1. An Education
2. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
3. Fantastic Mr Fox
4. The Road
5. Moon

HM: The Blind Side

[Boner M]

1. An Education
Dude, c'mon.

[Pop Trash]

Dude, c'mon.
Maybe Irish is an Oscar voter?

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Dogtooth
3. Bright Star
4. Thirst
5. Antichrist

[Raiders]

1. Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
2. A Serious Man (Coens)
3. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
4. Coraline (Selick)
5. Everyone Else (Ade)

[Ivan Drago]

It was in competition at Cannes in 2009. Personally, I think the middle section is brilliant, but the last hour of the film mainly drifts. Also, the characters are all stupid and predictable.

Upon knowing this, I edited my list again.

[Rowland]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Antichrist
3. A Serious Man
4. Amer
5. Dogtooth

6-30:
The Limits of Control
Halloween II: Director's Cut
Everyone Else
Wild Grass
I Am Love
Lourdes
October Country
Last Train Home
Public Enemies
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Sweetgrass
Hadewijch
Good Hair
Adventureland
The Secret of Kells
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
District 9
Observe and Report
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Crank: High Voltage
Coraline
A Prophet
Vengeance
The House of the Devil
The Hurt Locker
Mother
The Milk of Sorrow
Blue Beard
Up
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

All strong recommendations. So yeah, a pretty amazing year.

[Grouchy]

1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The White Ribbon
4. A Prophet
5. A Serious Man

6. Coraline
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
8. Moon
9. Antichrist
10. The Informant!

[Bosco B Thug]

F&*$%# Wild Grass! I'm changing my list, sowwy.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Up
2. Moon
3. Enter the Void
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. District 9

The rest.



6. Star Trek
7. 500 Days of Summer
8. Drag Me to Hell
9. House of the Devil
10. Coraline
11. The Men Who Stare At Goats
12. Valhalla Rising
13. Thirst
14. Avatar
15. Taken
16. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
17. Capitalism: A Love Story
18. Gamer
19. Watchmen
20. Angels and Demons
21. Pandorum
22. Gone Baby Gone
23. G. I. Joe
24. Sherlock Holmes
25. Carriers
26. Crank 2: High Voltage
27. The Fourth Kind
29. 2012
29. Observe and Report
30. 9
31. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
32. The Horde
33. Gone Baby Gone
34. the Hangover
35. Terminator Salvation
36. The Descent: Part 2
37. The Unborn
38. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
39. He's Just Not That Into You
40. Law Abiding Citizen
41. The Proposal
42. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
43. X-men: Orgins Wolverine
44. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
45. Public Enemies
46. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
47. Friday the 13th
48. Mirrors
49. Blood: The Last Vampire
50. Monsters vs Aliens
51. Laid to Rest
52. S. Darko
53. Surrogates
54. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
55. The Final Destination 3D
56. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

[B-side]

1. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
2. Antichrist (Trier)
3. Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
4. A Serious Man (Coen)
5. The White Ribbon (Haneke)

Just as an aside: Up in the Air is a piece of shit.

[Pop Trash]

Just as an aside: Up in the Air is a piece of shit.

It would make my top 15.

[B-side]

It would make my top 15.

We'll always have... um, those one guys we both really like.

[Pop Trash]

We'll always have... um, those one guys we both really like.

Kenneth Anger? Stan Brakhage? Maya Deren?

[B-side]

Kenneth Anger? Stan Brakhage? Maya Deren?

:pritch:

[dreamdead]

1. I am Love
2. Everyone Else
3. Bright Star
4. Alamar
5. Dogtooth

[MadMan]

1. A Serious Man
2. In The Loop
3. Antichrist
4. Up
5. Inglourious Basterds

The rest of the list:

6. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
7. The Hurt Locker
8. District 9
9. Up In The Air
10. Moon

2009 was a great year for movies, and there are actually a bunch more that would be worthy of making my Top 10 for that year.

[Spinal]

All done here?

[Spinal]

I'll start counting this down sometime soon. If you want to jump in with a last minute vote, do it now.

[Spinal]

#10

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Everyone Else

Director: Maren Ade

Country: Germany

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.

Won Best Actress (Birgit Minichmayr) at the Berlin Internation Film Festival, as well as the Jury Grand Prix. In preparation for shooting, director Maren Ade had the cast watch Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage together.

"Ade's exploration of intimacy and its discontents recalls the European relationship epics of 35 years ago—Rivette's L'amour fou, Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore—but it's purposefully down-sized and set in a lower key. Ade has an acute sense of gesture. " - J. Hoberman

[Spinal]

#9

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Where the Wild Things Are

Director: Spike Jonze

Country: USA

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

Carter Burwell and Karen O were nominated for a Golden Globe Award (Best Original Score). The studio decided not to position the film as a kids movie and spent 70% of the media for it on broad based and adult driven buys.

"If your kids get all wide-eyed at the prospect of listening to grown-ups' self-absorbed reflections on the fears, anxieties and frustrations of childhood, or if they've ever clambered onto your lap and begged for a civics lesson on the dangers of totalitarianism, then by all means run, don't walk, to Fandango and get your tickets for Where the Wild Things Are." - Stephanie Zacharek

[Spinal]

#8

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Up

Director: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

Country: USA

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America.

Won Oscars for Best Animated Film and Best Original Score (Michael Giacchino). Very first animated film, as well as the first 3D film, ever to open the Cannes Film Festival.

"Up is a wonderful film, with characters who are as believable as any characters can be who spend much of their time floating above the rain forests of Venezuela ... Two of the three central characters are cranky old men, which is a wonder in this youth-obsessed era ... This is another masterwork from Pixar, which is leading the charge in modern animation." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#7

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Antichrist

Director: Lars von Trier

Country: Denmark

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival (Charlotte Gainsbourg). This movie received a special anti-award from the ecumenical jury at Cannes. The jury, which typically awards a film that promotes spiritual and humanist values, decided to award this film an anti-award for its 'misogynistic views'.

"For 70 minutes, Antichrist is a rare exploration of pain, featuring two actors collaborating with each other in agonizing and intimate ways. It also contains some of the best work Gainsbourg has ever done on screen. And then - if I put it more gently I wouldn't really be saying it - director Lars von Trier loses his mind." -- Mick LaSalle

[Spinal]

#6

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Enter the Void

Director: Gaspar Noé

Country: France

A drug-dealing teen is killed in Japan, after which he reappears to watch over his sister.

Shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Gaspar Noé was around 23 years old, when he saw Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake on drugs. The film is shot in subjective camera, entirely from the point of view of the main character. For Enter the Void, Noé uses a subjective camera in the same manner.

"It takes some adjustment, but Enter The Void is a trance-like experience, feeding the shimmering neon of Tokyo at night into a spectacular hallucinogenic head-trip." -- Scott Tobias

[Spinal]

#5

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The White Ribbon

Director: Michael Haneke

Country: Germany

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Oscars in the categories of Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography. All scenes were originally shot in color and then altered to black and white in post-production.

"It's on the faces of the children that Haneke tells his story of corruption and the grip of fascism. This haunting film never pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that lies beneath the veneer of innocence." -- Peter Travers

[Spinal]

#4

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Bright Star

Director: Jane Campion

Country: UK

A drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.

Nominated for an Oscar in the category of Costume Design. Shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The Hyde House and Estate in Hyde, Bedfordshire substituted for the Keats House in Hampstead. Jane Campion decided that the Keats House was too small.

"What Campion does is seek visual beauty to match Keats' verbal beauty. There is a shot here of Fanny in a meadow of blue flowers that is so enthralling it beggars description." -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#3

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Dogtooth

Director: Giorgos Lanthimos

Country: Greece

A husband and wife keep their children imprisoned on their property into adulthood. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Finally, Christina disturbs the domestic balance.

Nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. Won the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes. It was the first Greek film since Ifigeneia (1977) to be nominated for an Oscar and only the fifth ever.

"There's a method to Lanthimos's portrait of madness, as it serves as a surreal portrait of corrupting power, of the malleability of the young and the authoritarianism of their elders ... Discussing the film too heavily in those terms, however, wrongly places it in didactic Michael Haneke territory ... and saddles it with overt sociological implications best left to simmer, ambiguously, in the nooks and crannies of the disturbed action." -- Nick Schager

[Spinal]

#2

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A Serious Man

Director: Joel and Ethan Coen

Country: USA

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled.

Nominated for Oscars in the category of Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins). The tornado bearing down on the town at the climax is a factual event. There was a tornado outbreak in Southern Minnesota, 1967.

"A Serious Man is wholly a Coen brothers movie, in that it’s full of exaggerated characters and comic cruelty, anchored to a way of looking at the world that seems to posit a fundamental absence of meaning. And yet there’s something sweet and even a little heartening about the movie, too." -- Noel Murray

[Spinal]

#1

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Inglourious Basterds

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Country: USA

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

Won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz). Nominated for 7 other Oscars including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. When asked about the misspelled title, Tarantino gave the following answer: "Here's the thing. I'm never going to explain that. You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place."

"The dialogue is more than just witty; it also exudes feeling, dread, and risk. How and why people speak to each other, or how and why they chose not to, becomes a panic far more chilling than any violence in the film." -- Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

1. Inglourious Basterds 86
2. A Serious Man 67
3. Dogtooth 36.5
4. Bright Star 30
5. The White Ribbon 29
6. Enter the Void 27
7. Antichrist 26.5
8. Up 20.5
9. Where the Wild Things Are 16.5
10. Everyone Else 15.5

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox 14.5
Alamar 14.5
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 14
Moon 13

Previous poll:
1. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
2. A Serious Man (Coens)
3. The White Ribbon (Haneke)
4. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
5t. Bright Star (Campion)
5t. Up (Docter/Peterson)
7. Antichrist (Trier)
8. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog)
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox (W. Anderson)
10. Moon (D. Jones)

Honorable Mention:
Coraline (Selick)

[Rowland]

1. Inglourious Basterds (****)
2. A Serious Man (***½)
3. Dogtooth (***½)
4. Bright Star (**)
5. The White Ribbon (--)
6. Enter the Void (*½)
7. Antichrist (****)
8. Up (***)
9. Where the Wild Things Are (**½)
10. Everyone Else (***½)

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (**½)
Alamar (**½)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (***½)
Moon (***)

The inclusion of Everyone Else and Dogtooth makes up for Enter the Void.

[Spinal]

Yes, the main reason for the revision was that Dogtooth has become a highly popular Match Cut film since our last poll. The strong showing for Enter the Void was kind of suprising, but welcome to me, at least.

[dreamdead]

Likely a better group of films overall, so I can't complain. I should get around to Moon sometime this summer...

[Bosco B Thug]

1. Inglourious Basterds - 9
2. A Serious Man - 7.5
3. Dogtooth - 7
4. Bright Star - 6
5. The White Ribbon - 8
6. Enter the Void - 5
7. Antichrist - 7
8. Up - 6.5
9. Where the Wild Things Are - 7
10. Everyone Else - 8.5

Fantastic Mr. Fox - 7.5
Alamar - 6.5
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - 7
Moon - 6.5

I'm particularly looking forward to giving Bad Lieutenant and Antichrist 2nd chances to wow me, being the wacky movies they are. I was appreciative of them more than I was impressed by them...

[Pop Trash]

1. Inglourious Basterds -9
2. A Serious Man -7
3. Dogtooth -9
4. Bright Star -7
5. The White Ribbon -kept falling asleep
6. Enter the Void -n/s
7. Antichrist -n/s
8. Up -7
9. Where the Wild Things Are -8
10. Everyone Else -7

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox -8
Alamar -n/s
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans -7
Moon -n/s

[Henry Gale]

Yeah, I guess I waited too long with this. I still wanted to finally sit down and watch Bright Star, Everyone Else and Enter The Void before redo-ing my list, but oh well. Considering four out of my Top 5 made this final ten (Moon being the only holdout), I'm still pretty happy with how it looks.

[Raiders]

1. Inglourious Basterds [***½]
2. A Serious Man [****]
3. Dogtooth [****]
4. Bright Star [N/A]
5. The White Ribbon [**]
6. Enter the Void [*½]
7. Antichrist

8. Up [**½]
9. Where the Wild Things Are [***]
10. Everyone Else [***½]

[B-side]

5. The White Ribbon [**]
7. Antichrist

This is why you and I can never be.

[Melville]

Good list.

1. Inglourious Basterds - 9
2. A Serious Man - 7
3. Dogtooth - 8.5
4. Bright Star - 9
5. The White Ribbon - 8
6. Enter the Void - 6.5
7. Antichrist - 7.5
8. Up - NA
9. Where the Wild Things Are - 4
10. Everyone Else - NA

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 6.5
Alamar - NA
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - 8.5
Moon - 6

[Boner M]

1. Inglourious Basterds - 8.5
2. A Serious Man - 9
3. Dogtooth - 9.5
4. Bright Star - 7
5. The White Ribbon - 8
6. Enter the Void - 4
7. Antichrist - 5
8. Up - 6.5
9. Where the Wild Things Are - 5
10. Everyone Else - 8.5

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 8
Alamar - 9.5
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - 7.5
Moon - 6

[StanleyK]

1. Inglourious Basterds - Need to rewatch.
2. A Serious Man - 8
3. Dogtooth - 8
4. Bright Star - 8 (But probably need to rewatch)
5. The White Ribbon - N2R
6. Enter the Void - N/A
7. Antichrist - 9
8. Up - 7 (I guess; I struggle with this one)
9. Where the Wild Things Are - N2R
10. Everyone Else - N/A

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox - N/A
Alamar - N/A
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - N2R
Moon - 5

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Inglourious Basterds ****
2. A Serious Man ****
3. Dogtooth ***½
4. Bright Star ****
5. The White Ribbon ****
6. Enter the Void ****
7. Antichrist OHGODMYFUCKINGBALLSWHYWHYWHY ... I mean, **½
8. Up **½
9. Where the Wild Things Are ****
10. Everyone Else ***

Alamar ***
Moon ****

I don't think I usually agree with the consensus this much. I currently have only three four-star movies for 2010.

[Yxklyx]

1. Inglourious Basterds - 7
2. A Serious Man - 4
3. Dogtooth - 7
4. Bright Star - not seen
5. The White Ribbon - 8
6. Enter the Void - 9
7. Antichrist - 8
8. Up - 8
9. Where the Wild Things Are - 5
10. Everyone Else - 8

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 8
Alamar - not seen
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - 7
Moon - 7

[dmk]

1. Inglourious Basterds 86
2. A Serious Man 67
3. Dogtooth 36.5
4. Bright Star 30
5. The White Ribbon 29
6. Enter the Void 27
7. Antichrist 26.5
8. Up 20.5
9. Where the Wild Things Are 16.5
10. Everyone Else 15.5
I didn't vote, but if I had, Bad Lieutenant would have kicked out (perhaps) Everyone Else from the Top 10, and Where the Wild Things Are would have tied with Up at 20.5 (a pairing which I'd find morally offensive). Limits of Control was my #1, which received a total of ZERO nominations, therefore leaving me indifferent to procedures.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Inglourious Basterds / A+
2. A Serious Man / haven't seen
3. Dogtooth / A
4. Bright Star / A
5. The White Ribbon / B
6. Enter the Void / haven't seen
7. Antichrist / A
8. Up / A
9. Where the Wild Things Are / C-
10. Everyone Else / C+

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox / A-
Alamar / haven't seen
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans / C
Moon / A-

[Dukefrukem]

1. Inglourious Basterds 90
2. A Serious Man --
3. Dogtooth --
4. Bright Star --
5. The White Ribbon --
6. Enter the Void 92
7. Antichrist 89
8. Up 95
9. Where the Wild Things Are --
10. Everyone Else --

I've got a lot to see.

[Stay Puft]

1. Inglourious Basterds - n/a
2. A Serious Man - 9
3. Dogtooth - 7
4. Bright Star - 8
5. The White Ribbon - 8
6. Enter the Void - n/a
7. Antichrist - n/a
8. Up - n/a
9. Where the Wild Things Are - n/a
10. Everyone Else - n/a

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 7
Alamar - 9
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - 7
Moon - 7

Quite good from what I've seen, though all the films in spots 6-10 have somehow escaped me.

[baby doll]

I have pretty mixed feelings about Inglourious Basterds, but I can't say that I've forgotten it. I voted for A Serious Man and The White Ribbon, and Dogtooth was in my top ten. Antichrist didn't quite make my top ten, but it would defintely be in the top twenty. Bright Star is probably Jane Campion's best movie since The Piano, though it's still a long way from Sweetie. Only the middle section of Enter the Void really works; the last hour is horribly repeatitive and meandering, and the characters are all stupid and predictable. Up was cute but forgettable, like every Pixar movie I've seen, and I haven't seen Where the Wild Things Are. I suppose I'll have to take another look at Everyone Else one of these days, but the Bergmanesque hyper-concentration of the narrative seemed to me more of a limitation than a strength.

[MadMan]

1. Inglourious Basterds-95
2. A Serious Man-100
3. Dogtooth-N/A
4. Bright Star-N/A
5. The White Ribbon-N/A
6. Enter the Void-Should watch this on Instant Viewing.
7. Antichrist-97
8. Up-97
9. Where the Wild Things Are-94
10. Everyone Else-N/A

Not quite:
Fantastic Mr. Fox-85
Alamar-N/A
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans-95
Moon-94

Good list. I hope to get to the rest of it fairly soon. The only one I haven't heard of is Alamar. Its tougher for me to view foreign movies-one of these days I'll give in and torrent movies.