{"id":79342,"date":"2012-07-02T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=79342"},"modified":"2014-05-25T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T22:32:47","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet&#8217;s Favorite Films: 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In order to understand the color-coding, the purpose, and meaning of this list, please read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/jeffrey-overstreets-favorite-films-lists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Red = Treasures<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Purple = Favorites<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Blue = Achievements<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Gray = Decent\/Noteworthy<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Green = Unseen or Undecided<\/span><br>\n* = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2009<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2012\/07\/secret-of-kells1.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79358\" title=\"secret of kells1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2012\/07\/secret-of-kells1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2012\/07\/Up-Pixar.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79359\" title=\"Up Pixar\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/226\/2012\/07\/Up-Pixar-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Summer Hours*<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/worth-something\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Munyurangabo*<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/blood-sweat-and-tears-in-munyurangabo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Where the Wild Things Are<\/span>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/iwhyi-the-wild-things-are\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Up (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/learning-to-fly-with-karl-frederickson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Everlasting Moments*<\/li>\n<li>A Serious Man<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/accept-the-mystery\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/li>\n<li>Coraline<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/neil-gaimans-girls-part-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Two Lovers*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lorna\u2019s Silence*<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/what-lies-beneath-lornas-silence\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">35 Shots of Rum*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lake Tahoe*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A Town Called Panic*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Girlfriend Experience<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bright Star<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Gomorrah*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Beaches of Agnes*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Phoebe in Wonderland*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Moon<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Departures*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Me and Orson Welles<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Duplicity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Police, Adjective (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/hell-noun\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">District 9<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Limits of Control (two-part review: <a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/jarmusch-101\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt.1<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/jarmusch-102-the-limits-of-control\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 2<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ponyo*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Secret In Their Eyes*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Song of Sparrows*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Liverpool<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Maid<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In the Loop<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Road<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (two-part review: <a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/stalking-the-maker-of-stalker-part-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/stalking-the-maker-of-stalker-part-2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 2<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inglourious Basterds (two-part review:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/the-inglourious-dilemma-volume-one\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/the-inglourious-dilemma-volume-two\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt.2<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">500 Days of Summer*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sweetgrass<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">nvictus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Get Low<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The White Ribbon*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Alamar*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Red Riding: 1970<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Red Riding: 1984<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Star Trek<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Public Enemies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Away We Go<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Hedgehog*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Between the Folds*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Avatar (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/dumping-out-the-toybox\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">review<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">An Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Up in the Air<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Tetro<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Fish Tank<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Oceans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Informant!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sherlock Holmes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Watchmen<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thirst<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Drag Me to Hell<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Zombieland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Princess and the Frog<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">That Evening Sun<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2009:<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis)**<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A Room and a Half (Andrey Khrzhanovskiy)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A Single Man<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Adam<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Accident (Soi Cheang)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Adventureland (Greg Mottola)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Ajami<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Alexander the Last (Joe Swanberg)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Amer (H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cattet and Bruno Forzani)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Amreeka<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Angels &amp; Demons<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Antichrist (Lars Von Trier)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Art &amp; Copy<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Baar\u00eca<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bakjwi<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bandslam<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Barking Water (Sterlin Harjo)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bellamy (Claude Cabrol)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Between Two Worlds (Vimukthi Jayasundara)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Big Fan<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Blue Beard (Catherine Breillat)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bran Nue Dae<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Bride Wars<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Brothers<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Br\u00fcno<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Butterflies Have No Memories (Lav Diaz)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cafe Noir (Jung Sung-il)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cairo Time<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Canary (Alejandro Adams)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Capitalism: A Love Story<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cell 211<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cheri<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Chloe<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> City Island<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Coco Before Chanel<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Coco Chanel &amp; Igor Stravinsky<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Cold Souls<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Collapse<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine\/Taylor)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Crazy Heart<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Crude<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> David Hockney: A Bigger Picture<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Dogtooth<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Eighteen (Jang Kun-jae)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Enter the Void<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Everybody\u2019s Fine<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Everyone Else (Maren Ade)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Extract (Mike Judge)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Face (Tsai Ming-liang)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Farewell<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Funny People (Judd Apatow)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Halloween II (Rob Zombie)**<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Harry Brown<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> He\u2019s Just Not That Into You<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Huacho (Alejandro Fern\u00e1ndez Almendras)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Humpday (Lynn Shelton)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> I Love You Phillip Morris<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> I Love You, Man<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Il grande sogno<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Imburnal (Sherad Anthony Sanchez)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> In the Electric Mist<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Inspector Bellamy<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Johnny Mercer: The Dream\u2019s On Me<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Julie &amp; Julia<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Karaoke (Chris Chong Chan Fui)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Knowing (Alex Proyas)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> La bocca del lupo (Pietro Marcello)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> La Donation<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> La doppia ora<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> La mission<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Last Train Home<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Le roi de l\u2019\u00e9vasion (Alain Guiraudie)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Lebanon<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Life<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Like You Know it All (Hong Sang-soo)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Lo spazio bianco<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Lola<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Lourdes (Jessica Hausner)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mao\u2019s Last Dancer<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Monsters vs Aliens<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mother (Bong Joon-ho)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mother and Child<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Mr. Nobody<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> My Dear Enemy (Lee Yoon-ki)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> My Dog Tulip<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> My One and Only<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> My Sister\u2019s Keeper<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Nine<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Notorious<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Nowhere Boy<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Nymph (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Orphan<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Passing Strange<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Pers\u00e9cution<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Pirate Radio<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Prince of Tears<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Pulling John<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Queen to Play<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Red Riding: 1983<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> She, a Chinese (Xiaolu Guo)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Sin Nombre<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Solitary Man<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Splice (Vincenzo Natali)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Spring Fever (Lou Ye)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> State of Play<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Still Bill<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Surrogates (Jonathan Mostow)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Tetsuo: The Bullet Man<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><br>\n<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Army of Crime (Robert Gu\u00e9diguian)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Art of the Steal<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Blind Side<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Box (Richard Kelly)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Boys: The Sherman Brothers\u2019 Story<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Concert<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Cove<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Damned United<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Donation (Bernard Emond)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Father of my Children (Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Final Destination (David R. Ellis)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Hangover<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The House of the Devil<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The International (Tom Tykwer)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Invention of Lying<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Last Station<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Man Beyond the Bridge<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Messenger<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Milk of Sorrow<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The National Parks: America\u2019s Best Idea<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Panic Is On: The Great American Depression as Seen by the Common Man<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Portugeuse Nun (Eugene Green)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Promotion (Steve Conrad)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Proposal<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Red Chapel<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Red Machine<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Search (Pema Tseden)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Soloist (Joe Wright)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Traveller<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Winning Season<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The Young Victoria<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> This Is It<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Under the Sea 3D<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Vengeance (Johnny To)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Vincere (Marco Belloccio)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Waking Sleeping Beauty<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas?<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Whatever Works (Woody Allen)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Whip It (Drew Barrymore)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> White Material<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> White Material (Claire Denis)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Women Without Men<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> World\u2019s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Yellowstone: Battle for Life<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Yi ngoi<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Youth in Revolt<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2009. 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