Top Films of 2009 - so far
Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl!!
From the ca. 50 new films I’ve seen this year, here’s my current (and as of now incomplete) Top 10 for 2009:
1. The Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii / Japan)
2. Two Lovers (James Gray / USA)
3. Love Exposure (Sion Sono / Japan)
4. The Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray / USA)
5. Pink (Rudolf Thome / Germany)
6. Thirst (Park Chan-Wook / South Korea)
possible candidates:
Jerichow (Christian Petzold / Germany)
Can Go Through Skin (Esther Rots / Netherlands)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann / Austria)
Please consider that release dates may vary in my country (Argentina)
ADVENTURELAND (greg mottola)
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (quentin tarantino)
CORALINE (henry selick)
CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE (neveldine/taylor)
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (thomas alfredson)
SON OF RAMBOW (garth jennings) (directo a video)
THE WRESTLER (darren aronofsky)
UN CONTE DE NOEL (arnaud desplechin)
LE SILENCE DE LORNA (jean-pierre & luc dardenne)
ENTRE LES MURS (laurent cantet)
GOMORRA (matteo garrone)
GRAN TORINO (clint eastwood)
I LOVE YOU, MAN (john hamburg)
JULIA (erick zonca)
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (mike leigh)
LAND OF THE LOST (brad silberling)
LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (pedro almodovar)
TWO LOVERS (james gray)
STATE OF PLAY (kevin macdonald)
MAD DETECTIVE (johnny to)
ROLE MODELS (david wain)
THE HANGOVER (todd phillips)
RUMBA (dominique abel / fiona gordon)
DISTRICT 9 (neill blomkamp)
SPARROW (johnny to)
SUICIDE CLUB (sono sion)
THE HURT LOCKER (kathryn bigelow)
THE READER (stephen daldry)
THE SOLOIST (joe wright)
NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST (peter sollet)
WENDY & LUCY (kelly reichardt)
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Bright Star
4. Drag Me Too Hell
5. Moon
6. In the Loop
7. (500) Days of Summer
8. Coraline
9. Capitalism: A Love Story
10. The Informant!
District 9, Up, Adventureland, and Sin Nombre are good, but some people are extremely over rating them. Public Enemies, The Soloist, Funny People, and The Brothers Bloom were the films that most disappointed me this year. They weren’t bad, and they had good parts in them, but they were not good as a whole. I loved Inglourious Basterds. Even though it has some flaws, I think it’s QT’s 2nd best film to date. I also liked Sate of Play, Star Trek, The Hangover, I Love You Man, and Zombieland.
Predicted top 10 of 2009
1. A Serious Man
2. Up In the Air
3. Where The Wild Things Are
4. Invicitus
5. Inglourious Basterds
6. Nine
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Bright Star
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. An Education
I’m not sure if Tree of Life is coming out this year, but if it is, that is the film I am most anticipating. Anti-Christ, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Avatar are the two films I am most curious about.
1 Das Weisse Band Haneke
2 Un prophete Audiard
3 Inglourious Basterds Tarantino
4 The Hurt Locker Bigelow
5 Coraline Selick
1. Antichrist
2. Coraline
3. Up
excited about: tree of life, shutter island, 500 days of summer
Ddongpari (Breathless, Korea, 2008)
Wendy & Lucy (USA, 2008)
Not seen it yet, but Fishtank is meant to be very good.
And Millennium: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is fantastic!
Antichrist, Fish Tank, Up, Moon.
So far.
I must add THE BROTHERS BLOOM (rian johnson)
1. Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
2.
3.
4.
5.
I’m not sure if it counts (was released in Japan in 2008, US & Australia in 2009) but if so, what about Ponyo on a cliff by the sea?
Favorite Movie from 2009: You, the Living *A mind-blowing film. Easily my favorite from the decade/millennium.
Other Favorites (so far):
Marketa Lazarova **A repertory film but this is really hard to find.
Away We Go
Che, Part One: The Argentine
Inglorious Basterds
The Girlfriend Experience
I’m Gonna Explode
Summer Hours
The Baader-Meinhoff Complex
Most Disappointing: Antichrist ***A movie that’s definitely worth thinking about twice but, in the end, it’s wretched and tasteless.
Top Ten Films of 2009
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. Julia
3. The Baader Meinhof Complex
4. Still Walking
5. Tetro
6. Three Monkeys
7. Disgrace
8. (500) Days of Summer
9. 35 Shots of Rum
10. The House of the Devil
Honorable Mentions
12
Lymelife
Taxidermia
Adventureland
Rudo y Cursi
In the Loop
Duplicity
The Cove
It Might Get Loud
Moon
The Hurt Locker
Somers Town
this is weird,some films around here are 2007 and 2008 productions,why do some of you people count them as 2009 just because the U.S. of A. is delaying to release them????
anyways,from what i’ve seen thus far (and they’re not many),these are my picks….
1. City of life and Death/The White Ribbon (same rating)
2. In the Loop
Update/bump time!
Top Ten Films of 2009
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. Antichrist
3. The Baader Meinhof Complex
4. City of Life and Death
5. Julia
6. Still Walking
7. Tetro
8. Three Monkeys
9. Disgrace
10. 35 Shots of Rum
Honorable Mentions
12
Lymelife
Taxidermia
Adventureland
Rudo y Cursi
In the Loop
It Might Get Loud
Moon
The Hurt Locker
The House of the Devil
Somers Town
- Days of Summer*
The White Ribbon
1. Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
2. Go Get Some Rosemary (Ben & Josh Safdie)
3. Zum Vergleich (Harun Farocki)
4. The Invisible Frame (Cynthia Beatt)
5. Domaine (Patric Chiha) 
Jerichow (Petzold) *
Goodbye Solo (Bahrani) *
Antichrist (Trier)
In The Loop (Iannucci)
The Girlfriend Experience (Soderbergh)
THE WHITE RIBBON – MICHAEL HANEKE
THE LIMITS OF CONTROL – JIM JARMUSCH
LEBANON – SCHMUEL MAOZ
REGRETS – CEDRIC KAHN
AN EDUCATION – LONE SCHERFIG
I would love to see Go Get Some Rosemary.
So far:
1) Inglorious Basterds
2) Watchmen
3) (500) Days of Summer
4) Where the Wild Things Are
5) A Serious Man
Wow – Yeah, I second Spence: Go Get Some Rosemary looks amazing.
revanche
(500) days of summer
inglourious basterds
12
i couldn’t wait to see terrence malick’s new film ‘the tree of life’, i bet it must be beautiful
I’ve only seen ten films from 2009, and I rank them…..
1. Tetro
2. (500) Days of Summer
3. Moon
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Up
6. Whatever Works
7. Funny People
8. The Hangover
9. Adventureland
10. I Love You Man
Some of those are really close, like 2 and 3 or 4 and 5, however Tetro is definitely my favorite film of 2009. However as you can see I have not seen much.
Do you like all of those films, Drew? Or is I Love You Man terrible?
No non-American films? ):
Here are really crude rankings (crude because they will be inaccurate if I start thinking about it more):
5 Stars:
-Tetro
4.5 Stars:
-(500) Days of Summer
-Moon
4 Stars:
-Inglourious Basterds
-Up
3.5 Stars:
-Whatever Works
-Funny People
3 Stars:
-The Hangover
2 Stars:
-Adventureland
1.5 Stars:
-I Love You Man
Law, I am not able to see non-American films due to the fact that they only play far away and I don’t have a license
Drew—hm…I’d give UP a 4.5, but that’s the only one of those films I saw this year…
Roman Petrov
I’ve seen 20 this year so far, and will probably get around to about 10 more.
Top 5
1. District 9
2. (500) Days of Summer
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Rudo Y Cursi
5. Bruno
Potential Films that could get into the top 5:
Where the Wild Things Are
The Road
The Lovely Bones
Avatar (MAYBE)
The Tree of Life