The year in movies
In early January, I decided I would track every new film I watched in 2009. I ended up watching a lot of movies — maybe more than in any other year, thanks to a Netflix account that I took great advantage of during the first six months of ‘09. Since July, my movie viewing has tapered off, but I’ve still found some time for a film now and then.
With one day left of 2009, I think my list is pretty much complete. I ended up seeing more than 40 movies for the first time this year, and the titles that appear in bold denote the films I particularly loved:
- Frost/Nixon
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Reader
- Waking Life
- The Aviator
- He’s Just Not That Into You
- Waltz With Bashir
- The Insider
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Kicking and Screaming
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Adventureland
- I Dreamed of Africa
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Open Your Eyes
- The Class
- State of Play
- Swingers
- Encounters at the End of the World
- The Rules of Attraction
- Up
- Cinema Paradiso
- As Good As It Gets
- The Godfather
- The Hangover
- Persepolis
- Do the Right Thing
- Funny Ha Ha
- The Hurt Locker
- 500 Days of Summer
- Coraline
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Post Grad
- Chungking Express
- Michael Jackson’s This Is It
- Whip It
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- An Education
- A Serious Man
- Brazil
- The Blind Side
- 24 Hour Party People
- Up in the Air
- It’s Complicated
