Best of 2009

By: Carolin​e Grinham

My favorite films of 2009, in no particular order.

Those I have yet to see that could make this list: Summer Hours, Hunger, A Serious Man, Sin Nombre, The Beaches of Agnes, Bright Star, A Single Man, The Limits of Control, Police Adjective, The Messenger, Thirst, The Last Station, An Education, Invictus, Two Lovers, Up in the Air, The Young Victoria, and The Road.

• 01
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 02
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 03
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 04
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 05
  Ponyo
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 06
  District 9
  Neill Blomkamp
• 07
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 08
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 09
  Coraline
  Henry Selick
• 10
  Avatar
  James Cameron
• 11
  Coco Before Chanel
  Anne Fontaine
• 12
  The Maid
  Sebastián Silva
• 13
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 14
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 15
  The Informant!
  Steven Soderbergh
• 16
  The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Werner Herzog
• 17
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 18
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 19
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 20
  Mother
  Bong Joon-ho
• 21
  Red Riding: 1974
  Julian Jarrold
• 22
  Red Riding: 1980
  James Marsh
• 23
  Red Riding: 1983
  Anand Tucker
• 24
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 25
  The Damned United
  Tom Hooper