Favorite films of 2009
Don't know that they're the best, but they were my favorites...
- Up in the Air
- Star Trek
- Up
- Inglourious Basterds
- District 9
- The Hangover
- Ponyo
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Avatar
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Favorite films of the decade
This is a personal favorites list, neither a ranked "top ten" and surely not a "best" list -- there are too many great films I've yet to see. But there are movies I've liked a lot...
- In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai's romantic meditation on love, loyalty, and finding small safe havens. Strongly influential on the better-known Lost in Translation
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - intelligent, challenging science fictional look at memory, love and loss. Jim Carrey's apogee, surrealistic, funny and heartbreaking.
- The Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson's trilogy redefined epic and shattered the limits of what could be put onto the screen. Hugely entertaining and successful realization of its source.
- Inglourious Basterds - WW II fantasy combines suspense and violence with occasional splashes of outrageous humor. Ultimately a movie about movies, Quentin Tarantino firing on all cylinders
- Gosford Park - mystery set against Robert Altman's complex tapestry of lives upstairs and downstairs in an English country home
- Spirited Away - alienated girl trapped in a magical world learns responsibility and values
- No Country for Old Men -clinically cold, powerful story of a remorseless killer -- good, evil, consequences, chance and implacable fate; the Coens in their nasty mode
- Pan's Labyrinth - magic and myth are empowering and terrifying; Franco's fascists are just terrifying in Guillermo Del Toro's fantasy
- Children of Men - bleak, inspiring science fiction, adapted from P.D. James' novel by Alfonso Cuaron
- Talk to Her - story of love and loneliness, perhaps Almodovar's best
- Y Tu Mama Tambien - powerful coming of age Mexican road trip story
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