BEST FILMS OF 2009
The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, U.S.
The Headless Woman Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Spain/France/Italy
Summer Hours Olivier Assayas, France
35 Shots of Rum Claire Denis, France/Germany
Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson, U.S.
Police, Adjective Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino, U.S./Germany
A Serious Man Joel & Ethan Coen, U.S./U.K./France
The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda, France
Lorna’s Silence Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy/Germany
BEST UNRELEASED FILMS OF 2009
- Wild Grass Alain Resnais, France/Italy
- 24 City Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong/Japan
- The White Ribbon Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy
- The Limits of Control Jim Jarmusch, U.S./Japan
- The Sun Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia/Italy/Switzerland/France
- Bright Star Jane Campion, U.K./Australia/France
- Two Lovers James Gray, U.S.
- In the Loop Armando Iannucci, U.K.
- Tulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany/Switzerland/ Kazakhstan/Russia/Poland
- Coraline Henry Selick, U.S.
- Antichrist Lars von Trier, Denmark/Germany/ France/Sweden/Italy/Poland
- Public Enemies Michael Mann, U.S.
- Where the Wild Things Are Spike Jonze, U.S.
- Up Peter Docter & Bob Peterson, U.S.
- An Education Lone Scherfig, U.K.
- Night and Day Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
- Still Walking Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
- Liverpool Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/ France/ Netherlands/ Germany/Spain
- Up in the Air Jason Reitman, U.S.
- Of Time and the City Terence Davies, U.K.
- Broken Embraces Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
- Me and Orson Welles Richard Linklater, U.K./U.S.
- Adventureland Greg Mottola, U.S.
- The Maid Sebastián Silva, Chile/Mexico
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Werner Herzog, U.S.
- The Informant! Steven Soderbergh, U.S.
- Duplicity Tony Gilroy, U.S./Germany
- La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet Frederick Wiseman, France/U.S.
- Beeswax Andrew Bujalski, U.S.
- The Messenger Oren Moverman, U.S.
- You, the Living Roy Andersson, Sweden/ Germany/ France/ Denmark/ Norway/Japan
- District 9 Neill Blomkamp, U.S./ New Zealand
- Hunger Steve McQueen, U.K.
- Frontier of Dawn Philippe Garrel, France
- Tokyo Sonata Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan/ Netherlands/ Hong Kong .
- Drag Me to Hell Sam Raimi, U.S.
- Treeless Mountain So Yong Kim, U.S./South Korea
- A Single Man Tom Ford, U.S.
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Lee Daniels, U.S.
- Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
- Goodbye Solo Ramin Bahrani, U.S.
- A Prophet Jacques Audiard, France/Italy
- Everyone Else Maren Ade, Germany
- White Material* Claire Denis, France
- Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl* Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/Spain/France
- Around a Small Mountain Jacques Rivette, France/Italy
- To Die Like a Man* João Pedro Rodrigues, France/Portugal
- Vincere Marco Bellocchio, Italy/France
- Ne Change Rien* Pedro Costa, Portugal
- Trash Humpers* Harmony Korine, U.S./U.K.
- Bluebeard Catherine Breillat, France
- Mother Bong Joon-ho, South Korea
- Like You Know It All* Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
- City of Life and Death Lu Chuan, China/Hong Kong
- Ghost Town* Zhao Dayong, China
- Life During Wartime* Todd Solondz, U.S.
- Sweetgrass Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France/U.K./U.S.
- In Comparison* Harun Farocki, Austria/Germany
- Min Ye* Souleymane Cissé, Mali/France
- Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench* Damien Chazelle, U.S.
- Hadewijch Bruno Dumont, France
- Lebanon Samuel Maoz, Israel/France/Germany
- Le streghe, femmes entre elles* Jean-Marie Straub, France/Italy
- Father of My Children Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany
- Fish Tank Andrea Arnold, U.K.
- Helsinki, Forever* Peter von Bagh, Finland
- Tales from the Golden Age Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu & Ioana Uricaru, Romania/France
- Let Each One Go Where He May* Ben Russell, U.S.
- Prodigal Sons Kimberly Reed, U.S.
- Soul Kitchen* Fatih Akin, Germany Participants: Sam Adams, Thom Andersen, John Anderson, Melissa Anderson, David Ansen, Mark Asch, Michael Atkinson, Miriam Bale, Margaret Barton-Fumo, Marjorie Baumgarten, Livia Bloom, Nick Bradshaw, Richard Brody, John Caps, Michael Chaiken, Andrew Chan, Chris Chang, Tom Charity, Godfrey Cheshire, Matthew Connolly, Travis Crawford, Gary Crowdus, Doug Cummings, Mike D’Angelo, Evan Davis, Nick Davis, Sam Di Iorio, Lisa Dombrowski, Bilge Ebiri, Cheryl Eddy, David Edelstein, David Ehrenstein, David Fear, Paul Fileri, Scott Foundas, Graham Fuller, Roger Garcia, Susan Gerhardt, Gary Giddins, Larry Gross, Haden Guest, Howard Hampton, Molly Haskell, Logan Hill, J. Hoberman, Robert Horton, Matthew Hubbell, Eric Hynes, Harlan Jacobson, J.R. Jones, Kent Jones, Kristin M. Jones, Danny Kasman, Glenn Kenny, Laura Kern, Robert Koehler, Michael Koresky, Nathan Lee, Dennis Lim, Phillip Lopate, Todd McCarthy, Don McMahon, Joe Milutis, Wesley Morris, Rob Nelson, Geoffrey O’Brien, Mark Olsen, Mark Peranson, Andrea Picard, Tony Pipolo, Richard Porton, John Powers, James Quandt, Jed Rapfogel, Nicolas Rapold, Megan Ratner, Bérénice Reynaud, Jim Ridley, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Rothkopf, Michael Rowin, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Gene Seymour, Gavin Smith, Chuck Stephens, Bob Strauss, Chris Stults, Daniel Stuyck, Jim Supanick, Amy Taubin, Jose Teodoro, Kenneth Turan, Keith Uhlich, Brynn White, Genevieve Yue, David Zuckerman