{"id":82759,"date":"2012-05-29T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/?p=79179"},"modified":"2012-05-29T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T01:27:11","slug":"2009-overstreets-favorite-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2012\/05\/2009-overstreets-favorite-films\/","title":{"rendered":"2009: Overstreet&#039;s Favorite Films"},"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 purpose and meaning of this list, please read <a href=\"http:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/2012\/05\/2000-2010-overstreets-favorite-film-lists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<h2>2009<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">The Secret of Kells* (two-part review:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/revealing-the-secret-of-kells-part-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/revealing-the-secret-of-kells-part-2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 2<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\"><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><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\">Where the Wild Things Are<\/span> (<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: #800080\">A Serious Man (<a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/accept-the-mystery\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Coraline (<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\">Lourdes*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">A Town Called Panic*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Girlfriend Experience<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Bright Star<br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Moon<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Maid<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Mary and Max<\/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\">The Exploding Girl<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Secret In Their Eyes*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">In the Loop<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Dogtooth<\/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\">I Am Love<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Micmacs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">500 Days of Summer*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Invictus<\/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\">Inglourious Basterds (two-part review: <a href=\"http:\/\/imagejournal.org\/page\/blog\/the-inglourious-dilemma-volume-one\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pt. 1<\/a>, <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<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\">Invictus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Sweetgrass<br>\n<\/span><\/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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