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Films I saw in 2009
I watched a total of 162 films in 2009. I only saw five that actually came out in 2009. Of those (Watchmen, Broken Embraces, Life During Wartime, District 9, Star Trek) none of them were in the top sixty films I saw during the year.
I'm working through the 2003 edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, and I managed to knock off 86 more films in 2009, putting me at a total of 319. At this rate it will take me about eight years to finish the list.
Best Films
This my top ten list, and it only includes films that I had not seen before 2009. In other words it doesn't include films which I saw in 2009 which I already loved (Body Heat, Man Bites Dog, etc.) but only films which were new to me.
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- Red Rock West (1993)
- Out of the Past (1947)
- Shadows (1959)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Wings of Desire (1987)
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- Soldier of Orange (1977)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
Runners up (in order of release):
- The Phantom Carriage (1921)
- The Killers (1946)
- Lady from Shanghai (1947)
- Gun Crazy (1949)
- The Gunfighter (1950)
- Waiting Women (1952)
- Ordet (1955)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
- The Magician (1958)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
- Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
- Das Boot (1982)
- Videodrome (1983)
- To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
- Brazil (1985)
- Say Anything (1989)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
- Funny Ha Ha (2005)
- Zodiac (2007)
Worst Films
The following is a list of the worst films I saw in 2009. I try not to watch bad films so these aren't going to be the worst films ever made. A kinder name for the list might be "Most disappointing films" although a lot of them I did actually hate. The majority of these films are on the 1001 list which is why I watched them, but some had been independently recommended to me.
- Haxan (1922)
- Pandora's Box (1929)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Breathless (1959)
- The Red Desert (1964)
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
- Week End (1967)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
- The Sting (1973)
- Labyrinth (1986)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- The Accidental Tourist (1988)
- My Own Private Idaho (1992)
- Muriel's Wedding (1994)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Infernal Affairs (2002)
It might seem from this list that I hate Jean-Luc Godard, which I do (though I love Truffaut), that I hate Sergio Leone, which I mostly do, or that I hate Paul Newman, which I don't (I loved Hombre). The film I hated most on this list was The Red Desert, though I do like some of Antonioni's other films.