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Top films of 2009?

posted 8 years ago by oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx
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These were my excellent rates for that year, what were yours?

Amer (2009 - Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Mavro livadi / Black Field (2009 - Vardis Marinakis)
Redland (2009 - Asiel Norton)
Hadewijch (2009 - Bruno Dumont)
Material (2009 - Thomas Heise)
Into The Unknown (2009 - Deimantas Narkevičius)
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009 - Julian Jarrold)
1 (2009 - Pater Sparrow)
Bakjwi / Thirst (2009 - Chan-wook Park)
Melodiya dlya sharmanki / Melody for a Street Organ (2009 - Kira Muratova)
Bunny and the Bull (2009 - Paul King)
Fish Tank (2009 - Andrea Arnold)
Das Vaterspiel / Kill Daddy Good Night (2009 - Michael Glawogger)
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009 - Peter Liechti)
Io sono l'amore / I Am Love (2009 - Luca Guadagnino)
Darbareye Elly / About Elly (2009 - Asghar Farhadi)
Ketamin - Hinter dem Licht / Ketamine - Behind the Light (2009 - Carsten Aschmann)
A Single Man (2009 - Tom Ford)
I Come with the Rain (2009 - Tran Anh Hung)
Splice (2009 - Vincenzo Natali)
Tatarak / Sweet Rush (2009 - Andrzej Wajda)
General Orders No. 9 (2009 - Robert Persons)
Ruhr (2009 - James Benning)
Louise Michel / The Rebel, Louise Michel (2009 - Sólveig Anspach)
Trash Humpers (2009 - Harmony Korine)
The Limits of Control (2009 - Jim Jarmusch)
Enter The Void (2009 - Gaspar Noé)
Nothing Personal (2009 - Urszula Antoniak)
Bellamy / Inspector Bellamy (2009 - Claude Chabrol)
Sphinx on the Seine (2009 - Paul Clipson)
Visage / Face (2009 - Tsai Ming-Liang)
Corridors of Echoes (2009 - Tatsushi Tahara)
Strella / A Woman's Way (2009 - Panos H. Koutras)
Katalin Varga (2009 - Peter Strickland)
The Exploding Girl (2009 - Bradley Rust Gray)
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009 - Isabel Coixet)

[–] oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx 8 years ago

2009 is for personal reasons, I hurt myself by falling in love with someone who just wanted to be friends. Some part of my psychically is stuck back in 2009.

I will check out Frozen it sounds very interesting.

I actually watched At the First Breath of Wind very recently, highly moving, and rapturously beautiful.

I completely agree with you that we're in a golden age of filmmaking. It stands to reason just looking at the numbers, there's twice as many humans alive now as there was in 1950.

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[–] boredconnoisseur (37) 7 years ago

I've watched over 100 films from this year so far and haven't come away satisfied.

Vincere (Marco Bellocchio) 77
Dare (Adam Salky) 72
Thirst (Park Chan-wook) 70
Big Fan (Robert D. Siegel) 70

Others in the rating range of 7

Solomon Kane (Michael J. Bassett) 69
Armored (Nimrod Antal) 69

Not a good film year imo. I think About Elly, Mother and a few others might help matters once I view them, but right now a year where I can't find at least ten films to rate at minimum 70 is not a good film year to me.

[–] boredconnoisseur (37) 7 years ago

About Elly (Asghar Farhadi) 57

Good intentions, likable cast - Golshifteh Farhani is quite a find - that doesn't mesh too well with Farhadi's approach and struggles to find footing in a home movie type format. Not a bust; kinda disappointed in this one all the same as I know the director is capable of more.

[–] 123all4me (186) 7 years ago

Hello oOgiandujaOo*_and_Eddy_Merckx,
I'd like to mention
Skellig - I love Bill Milner's performance :-)
Kind regards
Andreas (123all4me)
*Gianduja, eh? Tasty stuff, indeed... so you're a fan of chocolate, pralines and sweeties of all sorts, aren't you? Me too :-D