20 BEST OF 2009

By: Francis​co

(I take liberty with the release dates since a lot of the small films don’t get distributed at least half a year after its festival run, e.g. Hunger.)

Movies I still hope to see before I finalize my list:

Police, Adjective
Summer Hours
Fish Tank
Looking For Eric
Tokyo Sonata
Tulpan

Honorable mention: Everlasting Moment.

• 01
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 02
  Goodbye Solo
  Ramin Bahrani
• 03
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 04
  Lake Tahoe
  Fernando Eimbcke
• 05
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 06
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 07
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 08
  The Maid
  Sebastián Silva
• 09
  La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
  Frederick Wiseman
• 10
  The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Werner Herzog
• 11
  Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
  Damien Chazelle
• 12
  Revanche
  Götz Spielmann
• 13
  Ponyo
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 14
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson
• 15
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 16
  24 City
  Jia Zhangke
• 17
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 18
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 19
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 20
  Up
  Pete Docter