Your Top Ten of 2009

[soitgoes...]

I believe one of these was started around this time last year. So have at it.

[Sycophant]

Oh my god, it's June.

I've seen like 8 2009 films so far, so I'll hold off on this for a bit.

[Watashi]

To be updated of course.

10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
8. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
7. Moon (Duncan Jones)
6. Coraline (Henry Selick)
5. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. Two Lovers (James Gray)
3. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
2. Up (Pete Docter)
1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

[Winston*]

I think the only 2009 film I've seen is Star Trek.

[soitgoes...]

1. You, the Living (Andersson)
2. Coraline (Selick)
3. Lorna's Silence (Dardenne Bros.)
4. Lemon Tree (Riklis)
5. Watchmen (Snyder)
6. Wartime in Winter (Koolhoven)
7. Dead Snow (Wirkola)
8. The Chaser (Na)
9. Up (Docter)
10. Martyrs (Laugier)


I'm not sure if Wartime in Winter will get a US release, but it probably won't be on this list in a month or two anyways. Still waiting for a non-festival US release for You, the Living and Secret Sunshine from '07.

[Ezee E]

I've seen eight or nine, but I'll list the noteworthy ones:

1. Observe and Report
2. Tyson
3. Coraline
4. Taken
5. Watchmen

Eek... Even that's a reach.

[lovejuice]

coraline is the only 2009 film that can stand proudly in my list. haven't watched up though.

[MacGuffin]

1. The Limits of Control
2. Observe and Report
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[Spinal]

1. Tokyo Sonata

2. Other stuff

[Sycophant]

Oh, what the hell.

1. Adventureland
2. Observe and Report
3. Duplicity
4. Corraline
5. Up
6.
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9. Dragonball: Evolution
10. Race to Witch Mountain

I've also seen Crank 2, but I don't have an opinion on it yet. Only the first two really stand a chance of making it to the end of the year, unless I keep not watching movies.

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Coraline
2. The Brothers Bloom
3. Star Trek
4. Watchmen
5. I Love You, Man
6. Adventureland

[Stay Puft]

1. Tokyo Sonata
2. The Limits of Control
3. Goodbye Solo
4. Coraline
5. Birdsong
6. Crank: High Voltage
7. Taken

[trotchky]

1. The Limits of Control
2. Observe and Report
3. The Brothers Bloom
4. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
5. Watchmen
6. The Informers
7. Up

Pretty sure that's all I've seen.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Watchmen
3. Crank 2: High Voltage
4. The Informant!
5. Paranormal Activity
6. Two Lovers
7. Star Trek
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
9. The Hangover
10. I Love You, Man
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11. Whatever Works
12. Up
13. Where The Wild Things Are
14. Gamer
15. Terminator: Salvation
16. Moon
17. A Christmas Carol
18. The Last House on the Left
19. Bruno
20. (500) Days of Summer
21. Taken
22. Zombieland
23. Public Enemies
24. Adventureland
25. Land of the Lost
26. Monsters vs. Aliens
27. He's Just Not That Into You
28. Observe and Report
29. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
30. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
31. Fantastic Mr. Fox

Unrankable: 2012, New Moon

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[Boner M]

Mostly festival titles getting a belated NYC release:

1. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa)
2. Hunger (McQueen)
3. Forbidden Lies (Broinowski)
4. Of Time and the City (Davies)
5. Jerichow (Petzold)
6. Summer Hours (Assayas)
7. Gomorrah (Garrone)
8. You, The Living (Andersson)
9. Star Trek (Abrams)
10. Lorna's Silence (Dardenne)

[baby doll]

US Dates:

1. Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
2. Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain)
3. A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen)
4. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
5. You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
6. Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. La Frontière de l'aube (Philippe Garrel)
8. The Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
9. Moon (Duncan Jones)
10. Bright Star (Jane Campion)

I also liked Antichrist, Brüno, Food, Inc., The Girlfriend Experience, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Inglourious Basterds, The Limits of Control, Liverpool, Lymelife, Revanche, Le Silence de Lorna, Sugar, Three Monkeys, 35 rhums, Two Lovers, Tulpan, Up, and Whatever Works.

[MacGuffin]

I'm confused. Don't we go by IMDb dates around these parts? If these are going to be used by Boner M. at the end of the year, I'll gladly add Hunger and Martyrs as well as some others to my list.

[baby doll]

I'm confused. Don't we go by IMDb dates around these parts? If these are going to be used by Boner M. at the end of the year, I'll gladly add Hunger and Martyrs as well as some others to my list.

Since he has You, the Living on there, I gathered he was going by Australian dates.

[megladon8]

1.) Drag Me To Hell
2.) Coraline
3.) Watchmen
4.) Hunger
5.) ...


Films I really want to see (and I'm sure at least a few will make the list)...

Two Lovers
Gomorrah
Moon
Tokyo Sonata
The Merry Gentleman

And I am so looking forward to Public Enemies it's ridiculous. I nearly wet my pants when the trailer played before Drag Me to Hell. Seeing that on the big screen was incredible. Hell, finally getting to see a Michael Mann film in a theatre will be great.

[Pop Trash]

This early in the year my list is kinda lame. Here's everything I've seen...

8/10
1. Drag Me to Hell
7/10
2. Up
3. Public Enemies
4. I Love You, Man
5. Observe and Report
6. Star Trek
6/10
7. Crips and Bloods: Made in America
8. Away We Go
9. Sunshine Cleaning
10. My Bloody Valentine 3D
11. Wolverine
5/10
12. Friday the 13th
13. Terminator Salvation
14. He's Just Not That Into You

[dreamdead]

As usual, I am horribly behind on viewings. Only seen one, actually.

So by default...

1. Up - 7
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 6.5
3. Watchmen - 4.5
4. Transformers 2 - 2

[Spinal]

I'm confused. Don't we go by IMDb dates around these parts?

Only for yearly consensus purposes. When we're just saying what our favorite films of the year are, there's no reason to be anal.

[baby doll]

Only for yearly consensus purposes. When we're just saying what our favorite films of the year are, there's no reason to be anal.

In that case, going purely by when I saw them, I saw Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino when it opened in Busan. I saw Two Lovers and Billy Wilder's Avanti! in Geneva. In Paris, I saw Adoration a second time. I saw Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris and Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero in London. In Toronto, I saw Steven Soderbergh's Che, Laurent Cantet's Entre les murs, Gomorra, caught up with Stephen Daldry's The Reader (which I missed in Busan), and Tulpan. And in Halifax, I saw Hunger (which I watched once before on my computer).

[Rowland]

1. Up
2. Martyrs
3. Star Trek
4. Donkey Punch
5. Angels and Demons
6. The Broken
7. The Grudge 3

[MacGuffin]

Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris

This one's from 1963.