Top 10 Films First Seen During 2009

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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?

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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)
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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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