The Best Films of 2009

By: Cahiers

For now, in order.

Omitted because The Auteurs has no listing of it: The Beautiful Person (La Belle Personne) directed by Christophe Honore, Observe and Report directed by Jody Hill, Rumba directed by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon.

Update: They’ve added those titles, and my full list is here: http://tinsleyfilm.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-films-of-2009.html

• 01
  Where the Wild Things Are
  Spike Jonze
• 02
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 03
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 04
  La belle personne
  Christophe Honoré
• 05
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 06
  The Girlfriend Experience
  Steven Soderbergh
• 07
  The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Werner Herzog
• 08
  Tetro
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 09
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 10
  The Informant!
  Steven Soderbergh
• 11
  Lorna's Silence
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 12
  Sugar
  Anna Boden
• 13
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 14
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 15
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 16
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 17
  Munyurangabo
  Lee Isaac Chung
• 18
  Public Enemies
  Michael Mann
• 19
  Me and Orson Welles
  Richard Linklater
• 20
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 21
  La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
  Frederick Wiseman
• 22
  Capitalism: A Love Story
  Michael Moore
• 23
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 24
  Away We Go
  Sam Mendes
• 25
  Medicine for Melancholy
  Barry Jenkins
• 26
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 27
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 28
  Observe and Report
  Jody Hill
• 29
  Rumba
  Dominique Abel
• 30
  The Messenger
  Oren Moverman
• 31
  Two Lovers
  James Gray
• 32
  Face
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 33
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 34
  Somers Town
  Shane Meadows
• 35
  Funny People
  Judd Apatow
• 36
  Taking Woodstock
  Ang Lee
• 37
  Duplicity
  Tony Gilroy
• 38
  The International
  Tom Tykwer
• 39
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 40
  Air Doll
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 41
  Brüno
  Larry Charles
• 42
  Frontier of Dawn
  Philippe Garrel
• 43
  Police, Adjective
  Corneliu Porumboiu
• 44
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 45
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 46
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 47
  Goodbye Solo
  Ramin Bahrani
• 48
  Revanche
  Götz Spielmann
• 49
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 50
  The Road
  John Hillcoat
• 51
  Coco Before Chanel
  Anne Fontaine
• 52
  Invictus
  Clint Eastwood
• 53
  The Hangover
  Todd Phillips
• 54
  Big Fan
  Robert D. Siegel
• 55
  Mother
  Bong Joon-ho
• 56
  Sin nombre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 57
  Everlasting Moments
  Jan Troell
• 58
  Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
  Spike Jonze
• 59
  A Christmas Carol
  Robert Zemeckis
• 60
  Drag Me to Hell
  Sam Raimi
• 61
  Adventureland
  Greg Mottola