Ireland Cinema Releases: Best of 2009

By: Geoff O'Brien

My Top 40 of those movies released in Ireland in 2009 so far.

• 01
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 02
  The Class
  Laurent Cantet
• 03
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 04
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 05
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 06
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 07
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 08
  The Army of Crime
  Robert Guédiguian
• 09
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 10
  My Only Sunshine
  Reha Erdem
• 11
  Il divo
  Paolo Sorrentino
• 12
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Danny Boyle
• 13
  Is Anybody There?
  John Crowley
• 14
  The Reader
  Stephen Daldry
• 15
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 16
  In the City of Sylvia
  José Luis Guerín
• 17
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 18
  A Christmas Tale
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 19
  Three Monkeys
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 20
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 21
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 22
  Encounters at the End of the World
  Werner Herzog
• 23
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 24
  The Informant!
  Steven Soderbergh
• 25
  Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  Sacha Gervasi
• 26
  Looking for Eric
  Ken Loach
• 27
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 28
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 29
  Everlasting Moments
  Jan Troell
• 30
  Flame & Citron
  Ole Christian Madsen
• 31
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 32
  Helen
  Joe Lawlor
• 33
  The Man from London
  Béla Tarr
• 34
  Kill Daddy Goodnight
  Michael Glawogger
• 35
  Red Cliff
  John Woo
• 36
  Gran Torino
  Clint Eastwood
• 37
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  Terry Gilliam
• 38
  Heaven on Earth
  Deepa Mehta
• 39
  Tales from the Golden Age
  Hanno Höfer
• 40
  Adoration
  Atom Egoyan