Top 15 film discoveries in 2009

Being able to arrange movies from the past into theme based viewing schedules is the most rewarding thing that one can get out of the ever-broadening film libraries available to us today.

German elections of 2009 for example inspired me to look at some of Robert Altmans contributions to this topic (“Tanner ’88”, “Secret Honor”), to the insightful Alexander Kluge documentary “Der Kandidat” as well as to the filmic version of Wolfgang Koeppens “Das Treibhaus”.
The rather moderate “Watchmen” kicked off a rather extended look at Cold War movies including a...