2009's Best Movies: 10 Years Later

I liked Ebert’s conclusion that maybe “Haneke's point is that we grow so disturbed by danger that we will surrender freedom” and that if we are to prevent evil, the people most concerned with enforcing order will end up in charge, and the interests of the state will become more important than the interests of the people

it’s the adults with their small-mindedness and scapegoating who are scary, not the children

haven't seen anything by Porumboiu, looking forward to 12:08 East of Bucharest and Police, Adjective

Come on everyone, clearly it's Police Adjective by a wide margin.

A Serious Man, which is at least as enigmatic as White Ribbon.

5/5
Dogtooth
A Serious Man

4/5
Mother
Up
The White Ribbon (although I suspect it'd lose a star on rewatch)

3/5
Moon
Up In The Air (probably a 2/5 actually, doubtful I'll ever see it again to find out)
Coraline (just about)
Fantastic Mr Fox
District 9

2/5
Avatar
which I always think should be written with an exclamation point a la Airplane!, so:
Avatar!

I'm surprised The Hurt Locker isn't here.

It's technically from 08. Premiered at Venice.

Yup, ranks #51 on the 21st century list.

Generally unmoved by Haeneke but remember being really impressed by White Ribbon, have been meaning to rewatch it ever since but never got around to it, maybe this is finally the weekend.

Recently saw Police, Adjective and while I love 12:08 East of Bucharest I found Police to be a bit of a letdown in comparison.

For me this probably comes down to Dogtooth/Serious/Prophet.

Why does Avatar feel a lot more recent than the rest of these films? I saw it at the cinema, so it can't be a matter of having seen it more recently.

Anyway, Dogtooth

Coraline is fantastic though

A Serious Man over Fantastic Mr. Fox and Dogtooth.

as you know, I only recognize NYC release dates in the era of my adulthood, so here are the lists I submitted for publication for '09 and '10.

2009

1. Hunger
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. A Serious Man
4. 35 Shots of Rum
5. The Headless Woman
6. Cargo 200
7. Sex Positive
8. Where the Wild Things Are
9. The Hurt Locker
10. American Casino

2010

1. Wild Grass
2. Dogtooth
3. Mother
4. Carlos
5. DDR/DDR
6. Have You Heard from Johannesburg
7. The Illusionist
8. Everyone Else
9. Ne Change Rien
10. Vincere

The further into the distance all these years fade, the less I care about what year I actually saw them in theaters.

I’ve seen Fantastic Mr. Fox like 100 times at this point and am pretty proud that it’s my kid’s favorite movie, so that

would love to be able to see DDR/DDR

after Toni Erdmann I went back and watched Forest for the Trees, thought it was really interesting. still haven’t seen Everyone Else

liked all of these, to varying degrees:

coraline
antichrist
dogtooth
fantastic mr fox
fish tank
moon
the white ribbon
a serious man

couldn't really pick an absolute favorite from this bunch, but voted coraline just cause that seems like the one i'd be most likely to watch again at this point

my main memory of A Serious Man was after liking the story so much being disappointed by the abrupt ending and the feeling that it was unfinished. only saw it once though and realize this is a distorted perspective

along with Llewyn Davis it’s the film of theirs I most want to see again

likely I have Wild Grass nosing out Fox and Dogtooth

only saw The Headless Woman a couple of years ago, was mesmerized by it

really couldn't relate to Hunger, felt like I wasn't in the same constellation when I saw it, would watch it again though

In the end, went A Serious Man.

really torn between FMF and IB

oh shit and A Serious Man too?! shit

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lmao at Avatar still being that highly rated

this rating is equally unfathomable to me:

UP IN THE AIR (Jason Reitman, USA) [#471]

I didn’t notice at first that the ranking is only for 21st C films.

it's kind of surprising that Avatar would be one of only two films from 2009 that have so far made it onto the all-time list

My favorite films:

Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Bright Star (Jane Campion)
The Headless Woman (Lucretia Martel)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
Julia (Erick Zonca)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Mine:

Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola, USA/Argentina/Spain)
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, USA)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece)
Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, Int’l)
Halloween II (Rob Zombie, USA) [director’s cut]
Enter the Void's opening credits (Gaspar Noé, France)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
I Love You, Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, USA)

Two Lovers would be in the top 3, but I go with IMDB date.

I Love You, Phillip Morris didn't open here until fall 2010 (I should say "was dumped here").

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lol gonna assume the 2 avatar votes are trolling

better choice than IB

jeezus, it's better than MOON

At least Moon is over an hour shorter

still haven't seen Tetro

I worked at a movie theater in Buffalo that was playing Tetro, and Vincent Gallo's mom called one afternoon and wanted to know if there was any foul language in it. I told her I knew it was rated R but I hadn't seen it, and she got really mad at me and hung up.

I still ahvent seen it, I'm curious but I kind of want to hold out, to spite her

lol

I'm sure she watched The Brown Bunny.