Friday, January 01, 2010

96 Films of 2009 Seen in 2009

Now that the year is in the bag it's time to reveal my winners (& losers) of the year. But first: the films I saw a.k.a. the pool I will choose from... as of this moment, I viewed approximately* 95 films released in 2009 during 2009 (make sense). *I say "approximately" b/c films get limited screenings or overseas releases before 2009 or don't make it out to DVD despite being made years earlier (but never released theatrically). Here's the list (alphabetically) with a few notations:

(500) Days of Summer
[rec] (orig. released '07 in Spain; came to US in '09)
17 Again
9
A Perfect Getaway
Adventureland
Avatar
Away We Go
Bad Lt: Port of Call New Orleans
Bandslam
Battle for Terra (Toronto Film Fest '07; US in '09)
Black Dynamite
Blood The Last Vampire
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
Bruno
Carriers
Chandni Chowk to China
Cirque du Freak Vampire's Assistant
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Collapse
Command Performance
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Coraline
Crank 2 High Voltage
Dead Snow
District 9
Drag Me To Hell
Dragon Hunters (Europe in '08; hit US festival in '09)
Duplicity
Extract
Fanboys (Comicon '08; wide US in '09)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Food, Inc.
Friday the 13th
G.I.Joe: Rise of Cobra
Grace
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Humpday
I Love You, Man
Inglourious Basterds
Ink
Inkheart
Jennifer's Body
Killshot
Knowing
Laid to Rest
Land of the Lost
Last House on the Left
Law Abiding Citizen
Martyrs (Fantastic Fest in '08; US release in '09)
Megashark vs. Giant Octopus
Monsters vs Aliens
Moon
My Bloody Valentine 3D
Ninja Assassin
Observe & Report
Orphan
Outlander
Pandorum
Paper Heart
Paranormal Activity
Ponyo (Japan '08; US '09)
Prometheus Triumphant: A Fugue in the Key of Flesh
Push
Samurai Princess
Sauna (Fantastic Fest '08; DVD avail. '09)
Sherlock Holmes
Shorts
Sin Nombre
Star Trek
State of Play
Sunshine Cleaning
Taken
Tales of the Black Freighter (I don't count this but Flickchart does)
Terminator Salvation
The Brothers Bloom
The Girlfriend Experience
The Hangover
The Hurt Locker
The International
The Road
The Tournament
The Unborn
The Uninvited
Thirst
Tokyo! (Fantastic Fest '08; ltd release '09)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Tyson
Underworld Rise of Lycans
Up
Up in the Air
Watchmen
Where the Wild Things Are
World's Greatest Dad
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Zombieland

So those are the 96 2009 films I watched in 2009. May have missed an obscure title or two but that's the bulk of them. Missed seeing several films that I really wanted to see, some (Antichrist) more than others (New Moon). I'll note those in my "Best of 2009" list coming tomorrow!

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