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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: Best/Favorite Films of 2009   Last Post   Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 12:59 AM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) 1. A Serious Man (the Coens) 2. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino) 3. Nine (Marshall) 4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (W. Anderson) 5. Bright Star (Campion) 6. Cold Souls (Barthes) 7. Get Low (A. Schneider) 8. Up in the Air (J. Reitman) 9. Moon (D. Jones) 10. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Gilliam) 10. The White Ribbon (Haneke) also good: Star Trek, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl, Micmacs, The Damned United, Sherlock Holmes, Love Happens, OSS 117 - Lost in Rio, Tetro, The Secret of Kells. still need to see: The Answer Man, The Blind Side, The Box, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, Extract, Giallo, The Limits of Control, Multiple Sarcasms, The Road, Surrogates. What else is good from '09?    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 4:18 AM     By:   mastadge   (Member) Glad to see Cold Souls on your list even though it didn't quite work for me. A few that you didn't list (or that I overlooked on your list), in general order of preference: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) Mother (Joon-ho Bong) Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) Red Riding (Julian Jarrold/James Marsh/Anand Tucker) Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee) Fish Story (Yoshihiro Nakamura) Last Train Home (Lixin Fan) District 9 was about half a great movie. Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin) was a good comedy Maybe not great but delightful in that they were so unexpected: A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar) -- a really offbeat, bizarre comedy Universal Soldier: Regeneration (John Hyams) -- Who knew that after two awful movies and two awful TV movies all of a sudden this series would become something interesting? Hyams (with father Peter behind the camera) crafts a surprisingly solid action movie that would only be surpassed a couple years later by the next Universal Soldier, which would be a sort of arthouse existential identity horror movie. Again: who knew?    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 6:46 AM     By:   Angelillo   (Member) My 5 favourite films of 2009, not including the obvious out-of-competition status for Nicolas Saada's ESPION(S), are : (500) DAYS OF SUMMER AN EDUCATION THE BOAT THAT ROCKED BRIGHT STAR IN THE LOOP    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 6:49 AM     By:   Mr. Jack   (Member) 1.) Coraline: A 2.) Ponyo: A 3.) Mary & Max: A 4.) Up: A- 5.) Inglourious Basterds: A- 6.) A Serious Man: A- 7.) Avatar: A- 8.) Fantastic Mr. Fox: A- 9.) Precious: Based On The Novel "Push" By Sapphire: A- 10.) The Hurt Locker: A- 11.) Where The Wild Things Are: A- 12.) Drag Me To Hell: A- 13.) The Secret Of Kells: A- 14.) The House Of The Devil: A- 15.) A Single Man: A- 16.) The Princess & The Frog: B+ 17.) Sherlock Holmes: B+ 18.) Paranormal Activity: B+ 19.) 9: B+ 20.) I Love You, Man: B+ 21.) District 9: B+ 22.) Up In The Air: B+ 23.) Zombieland: B+ 24.) Star Trek: B+ 25.) Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: B+ 26.) Trick 'r Treat: B+ 27.) 500 Days Of Summer: B+ 28.) An Education: B+ 29.) Knowing: B+ 30.) The Informant!: B+ 31.) Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince: B+ 32.) Terminator: Salvation: B 33.) Crazy Heart: B 34.) The Road: B 35.) The Box: B 36.) The Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans: B 37.) Public Enemies: B 38.) Moon: B 39.) Taken: B 40.) Watchmen: B 41.) Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder: B 42.) Monsters vs. Aliens: B 43.) Duplicity: B 44.) The International: B 45.) State Of Play: B 46.) Ninja Assassin: B- 47.) Adam: B- 48.) Captain Abu Raed: B- 49.) Thankskilling: B- 50.) Cheri: B- 51.) Coco Before Chanel: B- 52.) The Brothers Bloom: C+ 53.) Angels & Demons: C+ 54.) Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs: C+ 55.) Dark And Stormy Night: C+ 56.) Spread: C+ 57.) Fast & Furious: C+ 58.) Obsessed: C+ 59.) X-Men Origins: Wolverine: C+ 60.) Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: C 61.) The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3: C 62.) Push: C 63.) The Soloist: C 64.) The Lovely Bones: C- 65.) Valhalla Rising: C- 66.) The Uninvited: C- 67.) Twilight: New Moon: C- 68.) The Hangover: C- 69.) Orphan: D+ 70.) Land Of The Lost: D 71.) G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra: D- 72.) Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: F Maybe the best year for animated features ever?    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 6:59 AM     By:   Angelillo   (Member) Great french thriller directed by former cinema critic Nicolas Saada who, by the way, had happened to host for years a radio broadcast about...soundtracks !    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 7:25 AM     By:   Angelillo   (Member) An outstanding year in animation !    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 8:19 AM     By:   Angelillo   (Member) One of the weirdest (yet achieved) movies I've ever seen !    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 12:52 PM     By:   Michael24   (Member) 1. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2. Wolverine 3. Taken 4. Terminator Salvation 5. Angels & Demons 6. Ninja 7. Zombieland 8. Moon 9. The Taking of Pelham 123 10. The Last House on the Left Also Liked: The Blind Side, Fast & Furious, Knowing, The Proposal, Push. Didn't Like: 12 Rounds, Avatar, Bride Wars, The Dark Knight, District 9, Drag Me To Hell, Friday the 13th, Halloween II, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, Race to Witch Mountain, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Surrogates, Trick 'r Treat.    Posted:   Feb 9, 2014 - 11:11 PM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin) was a good comedy I forgot about this one. It played at the 2009 or '10 Seattle film fest, and I meant to make a mental note of it to see at some point. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER I caught up with this last year and found it quite annoying and not as clever as it wanted to be. Nevertheless, I'm retaining fond memories of the best parts of it so I might give it another chance. 36.) The Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans I'm intrigued with this because of Herzog's involvement. I'm just not sure if it will be my cup of tea.    Posted:   Feb 10, 2014 - 5:26 PM     By:   SBD   (Member) The Brothers Bloom Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox The Informant! Inglourious Basterds The Princess and the Frog Star Trek Taking Woodstock Up Zombieland    Posted:   Apr 10, 2014 - 1:14 AM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) An outstanding year in animation ! Plus The Secret of Kells     Non-Film Score Discussion: Best/Favorite Films of 2009    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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