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. 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


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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

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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 Runner

Updated.

[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)

ritch:

[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

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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

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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)
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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

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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 (Álvarez, 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

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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

]