Sean's Top Ten Movies of 2009

I haven't seen most of the acclaimed movies from this year yet, but here's my Top 10 of the year so far:

1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
3. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
4. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)


6. Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
8. Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)
9. Written By (Wai Ka-fai)
10. Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)


More interesting, I think, is this list of the Top 20 movies I saw for the first time in 2009:

1. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)


2. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)


3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)


4. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)


5. Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)


6. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)


7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)


8. Going My Way (Leo McCarey, 1944)


9. Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950)


10. City Girl (FW Murnau, 1930)


11. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947)


12. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)


13. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)


14. Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy, 1940)


15. Age of Consent (Michael Powell, 1969)


16. The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey, 1945)


17. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965)


18. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin, 1956)


19. Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963)


20. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)