Here’s the list of movies I saw in 2009… I saw 147 movies this year, which is just about where I was the year before. I think the number of films I can see in a year given all of my other interests and responsibilities is right in the neighborhood of 150. I haven’t really sat down and thought about my "best of" list yet, as I usually take January to try and catch up on acclaimed movies I missed, but my gut tells me it was a pretty good year for movies.
I think in 2010 I’m going to keep more data about the movies I view, but I also think I may eliminate my distinction between "Theatre" and "Video" in the list I actually publish next year. We’ll see.
The list is mostly in the order I viewed them, and I tried to italicize any films I had already seen.
Theatre:
1) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2) Revolutionary Road
3) Doubt
4) The Wrestler
5) Happy-Go-Lucky
6) The Reader
7) Waltz With Bashir
8) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
9) Coraline (3D)
10) The Class
11) The Dynamite Brothers (Cinematic Titanic Live)
12) Serbis
13) Watchmen
14) Gomorrah
15) Sunshine Cleaning
16) I Love You, Man
17) Adventureland
18) Sin Nombre
19) Crank: High Voltage
20) That Evening Sun
21) The Missing Person
22) Winnebago Man
23) In The Loop
24) Pontypool
25) Crude
26) Automorphosis
27) The Burning Plain
28) The Lost Son of Havana
29) Grace
30) Theo (Short)
31) O.W. Houts & Sons, Inc (Short)
32) The Archive (Short)
33) I Knew It Was You (Short)
34) Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech
35) Food, Inc.
36) The Escapist
37) For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
38) Art & Copy
39) World’s Greatest Dad
40) Anvil! The Story of Anvil
41) Star Trek
42) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
43) Terminator Salvation
44) The Hangover
45) Il Divo
46) Angels & Demons
47) Moon
48) The Long Goodbye
49) The Hurt Locker
50) In The Loop
51) District 9
52) Inglourious Basterds
53) It Might Get Loud
54) Extract
55) The Baader-Meinhof Complex
56) Pandorum
57) Zombieland
58) Capitalism: A Love Story
59) Where The Wild Things Are
60) Pirate Radio
61) The Messenger
62) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
63) Fantastic Mr. Fox
64) Strange Brew
65) Smokey and the Bandit
66) Invictus
67) Avatar
2) Gangs of New York
3) Charlie Wilson’s War
4) The Invasion
5) The Orphanage
6) Sleuth
7) Death Race
8) Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9) Welcome to Macintosh
10) The Trials of Ted Haggard
11) The Darjeeling Limited
12) Slumdog Millionaire
13) Doomsday
14) A Clockwork Orange
15) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
16) Diary of the Dead
17) Poultry in Motion: Truth Is Stranger Than Chicken
18) 1408
19) Right America: Feeling Wronged – Some Voices from the Campaign Trail
20) Summer School
21) The Incredible Shrinking Woman
22) Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox
23) Crank
24) Radiohead: Meeting People is Easy
25) Pineapple Express
26) Bottle Shock
27) His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
28) Shooter
29) RiP: A Remix Manifesto
30) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
31) I Drink Your Blood
32) Female Trouble
33) What We Do Is Secret
34) X-Men
35) Wendy and Lucy
36) Hostel II
37) Role Models
38) American Cannibal
39) Hancock
40) Letting Go of God
41) Devil’s Playground
42) Grizzly Man
43) Sneakers
44) Teddy: In His Own Words
45) Glory
46) Code Rush
47) Greetings from Bertrand Island
48) Modify
49) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
50) The Bourne Supremacy
51) The Bourne Ultimatium
52) Lars and the Real Girl
53) BASEketball
54) The Lives of Others
55) Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
56) The Happening
57) Friday the 13th (2009)
58) Valkyrie
59) God Said, Ha!
60) Eagle Eye
61) Ghostbusters
62) Star Trek
63) A Mighty Wind
64) Gran Torino
65) The Godfather
66) Observe and Report
67) The Ruins
68) Day of the Dead (2008)
69) Rambo (2008)
70) Toy Story 2
71) Brüno
72) The Prophecy
73) Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of "The Dark Side of the Moon"
74) Rescue Dawn
75) The Guru
76) The Hangover
77) Star Trek
78) Inglourious Basterds
79) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
80) Bad Santa
2) Revolutionary Road
3) Doubt
4) The Wrestler
5) Happy-Go-Lucky
6) The Reader
7) Waltz With Bashir
8) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
9) Coraline (3D)
10) The Class
11) The Dynamite Brothers (Cinematic Titanic Live)
12) Serbis
13) Watchmen
14) Gomorrah
15) Sunshine Cleaning
16) I Love You, Man
17) Adventureland
18) Sin Nombre
19) Crank: High Voltage
20) That Evening Sun
21) The Missing Person
22) Winnebago Man
23) In The Loop
24) Pontypool
25) Crude
26) Automorphosis
27) The Burning Plain
28) The Lost Son of Havana
29) Grace
30) Theo (Short)
31) O.W. Houts & Sons, Inc (Short)
32) The Archive (Short)
33) I Knew It Was You (Short)
34) Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech
35) Food, Inc.
36) The Escapist
37) For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
38) Art & Copy
39) World’s Greatest Dad
40) Anvil! The Story of Anvil
41) Star Trek
42) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
43) Terminator Salvation
44) The Hangover
45) Il Divo
46) Angels & Demons
47) Moon
48) The Long Goodbye
49) The Hurt Locker
50) In The Loop
51) District 9
52) Inglourious Basterds
53) It Might Get Loud
54) Extract
55) The Baader-Meinhof Complex
56) Pandorum
57) Zombieland
58) Capitalism: A Love Story
59) Where The Wild Things Are
60) Pirate Radio
61) The Messenger
62) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
63) Fantastic Mr. Fox
64) Strange Brew
65) Smokey and the Bandit
66) Invictus
67) Avatar
Video:
1) The X Files: I Want to Believe2) Gangs of New York
3) Charlie Wilson’s War
4) The Invasion
5) The Orphanage
6) Sleuth
7) Death Race
8) Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9) Welcome to Macintosh
10) The Trials of Ted Haggard
11) The Darjeeling Limited
12) Slumdog Millionaire
13) Doomsday
14) A Clockwork Orange
15) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
16) Diary of the Dead
17) Poultry in Motion: Truth Is Stranger Than Chicken
18) 1408
19) Right America: Feeling Wronged – Some Voices from the Campaign Trail
20) Summer School
21) The Incredible Shrinking Woman
22) Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox
23) Crank
24) Radiohead: Meeting People is Easy
25) Pineapple Express
26) Bottle Shock
27) His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
28) Shooter
29) RiP: A Remix Manifesto
30) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
31) I Drink Your Blood
32) Female Trouble
33) What We Do Is Secret
34) X-Men
35) Wendy and Lucy
36) Hostel II
37) Role Models
38) American Cannibal
39) Hancock
40) Letting Go of God
41) Devil’s Playground
42) Grizzly Man
43) Sneakers
44) Teddy: In His Own Words
45) Glory
46) Code Rush
47) Greetings from Bertrand Island
48) Modify
49) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
50) The Bourne Supremacy
51) The Bourne Ultimatium
52) Lars and the Real Girl
53) BASEketball
54) The Lives of Others
55) Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
56) The Happening
57) Friday the 13th (2009)
58) Valkyrie
59) God Said, Ha!
60) Eagle Eye
61) Ghostbusters
62) Star Trek
63) A Mighty Wind
64) Gran Torino
65) The Godfather
66) Observe and Report
67) The Ruins
68) Day of the Dead (2008)
69) Rambo (2008)
70) Toy Story 2
71) Brüno
72) The Prophecy
73) Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Making of "The Dark Side of the Moon"
74) Rescue Dawn
75) The Guru
76) The Hangover
77) Star Trek
78) Inglourious Basterds
79) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
80) Bad Santa
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