Film for the Aughts

By: Kyle Burns

For my friends and anyone else. A note: these aren’t ranked per se, but probably go in order of most memorable to me.

Films of ’09 that I loved, not sure where they would fall yet:
Police, Adjective
Summer Hours
Humpday
35 Shots of Rum
A Prophet

• 01
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 02
  Yi yi
  Edward Yang
• 03
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 04
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 05
  Ballast
  Lance Hammer
• 06
  Caché
  Michael Haneke
• 07
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 08
  The Edge of Heaven
  Fatih Akin
• 09
  Japón
  Carlos Reygadas
• 10
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 11
  The Piano Teacher
  Michael Haneke
• 12
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 13
  Happy-Go-Lucky
  Mike Leigh
• 14
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 15
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 16
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 17
  Under the Sand
  François Ozon
• 18
  Y tu mamá también
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 19
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 20
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 21
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 22
  Import/Export
  Ulrich Seidl
• 23
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 24
  Gerry
  Gus Van Sant
• 25
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar