Usually I scramble to put together an annual Top Ten, but for the first time in over a decade there is an overabundance of quality movies, enough to warrant a Top Twenty! There is one qualification for a film to appear on this list. It must have screened in a San Diego theater for at least one night. If next year\u2019s crop of films is half as good as this year\u2019s, I\u2019ll be a happy critic!<\/p>\n
Abbie Cornish in Jane Campion\u2019s \u201cBright Star.\u201d
\n1. Jane Campions\u2019 BRIGHT STAR (KPBS-Radio Review)
\nJane Campion once again entertaining a pet uncertainty: Is it possible for art and romantic love to peacefully coexist? Based on the last three years of the life of English romantic poet John Keats and set in a galaxy far, far away before humankind was safely ensconced in their abodes pretending that they are actually reaching out and touching someone via a computer screen. A stunning recreation of how people used to communicate and this year\u2019s most unabashed romantic melodrama.
\n2. Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s IL DIVO (KPBS-Radio Review)
\nA brilliantly structured 105 minute epic based on the life of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti (Tony Servillo), a nondescript hunchbacked dwarf who quietly ran roughshod over his country\u2019s politics for almost fifty years. Not what most American viewers expect from an epic. The film\u2019s high energy visual style seldom jibes with Servillo\u2019s frozen performance or the action that\u2019s going on around him. Needless to say, it died at the box office, but don\u2019t let that stop you from tracking down the DVD.
\n3. Bong Joon-Ho\u2019s MOTHER
\nA mother will go to great lengths to free her mentally challenged son from a murder rap. Bong Joon-Ho\u2019s (\u201cThe Host\u201d) complex psychological horror film that played one night at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Hopefully Landmark or Reading will pick this up for a theatrical run.
\n4. Atom Egoyan\u2019s ADORATION
\nA teenager named Simon tells both his class and an internet chat group that his father was involved in a terrorist plot. A terrific film about a catastrophe that never happened. Atom Egoyan once again uses a lie to get at the truth in the year\u2019s most non judgmental picture.
\n5. Majid Majidi\u2019s THE SONG OF SPARROWS
\nA simple story complexly told and a masterpiece of technological miscommunication. An ostrich farmer loses his job and while in the city to get his daughter a new hearing aid, discovers a new career as a motorcycle cabbie. A life-affirming character study told in moments of quiet dignity.
\n6. Martin Provost\u2019s SERAPHINE
\nFrench painter S\u00e9raphine de Senlis was a hopelessly unworldly 40-year old devout Catholic cleaning woman who was discovered by tenant and art collecter Wilhelm Uhde. Filmed in a constant state of overcast, this slow descent into madness is the finest film of its kind since David Cronenberg\u2019s \u201cSpider.\u201d
\n7. Hirokazu Koreeda\u2019s STILL WALKING
\nBasically the same subject matter in \u201cEverybody\u2019s Fine\u201d done right. This drama about a family getting together to commemorate the anniversary of a child\u2019s death is the closest contemporary movies have come to capturing the beauty and heartbreak of the films of Yasujiro Ozu.
\n8. Quentin Tarantino\u2019s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
\nThe single greatest Jewish revenge fantasy ever filmed and the year\u2019s funniest movie.
\n9. Pablo Larrain\u2019s TONY MANERO
\nA John Travolta impersonator\/serial killer quietly wreaks havoc over an impoverished section of Santiago in 1978, four years into Augusto Pinochet\u2019s military dictatorship. No film this year appealed more to my dark side than \u201cTony Manero.\u201d Who among us has never wanted to bash in the skulls of a theater owner and her projectionist for changing pictures before you\u2019ve had enough chances to study it? Kudos to the Latino Film Festival\u2019s Ethan Van Thillo for bringing this to town as part of the Cinema en tu Idioma series.
\nFrank Langella, Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in Richard Kelly\u2019s \u201cThe Box.\u201d
\n10. Richard Kelly\u2019s THE BOX
\nLet the record show that \u201cThe Box\u201d has officially been classified one of the five worst reviewed films of the decade. To be quite honest, I\u2019ve seen it four times and I still don\u2019t know what the hell it\u2019s about. On the surface it\u2019s a futuristic sci-fi drama set in the not so distant past about a couple given the chance to anonymously play God in exchange for $1 million. If I always complain about Hollywood films barely having one original thought to play off of, \u201cThe Box\u201d has enough ideas to spawn dozens of features. Hopefully Richard Kelly\u2019s eventual DVD audio commentary will help plaster a few black holes and if not, I\u2019ll still be in love with this movie.
\n11. Jim Jarmusch\u2019s THE LIMITS OF CONTROL
\nThere\u2019s one too many exchanges of match books and star cameos and when you start addressing the molecular structure of the universe, I need a ticket to get back in. But if Jarmusch\u2019s goal was to spark dialog and make people think, this is 2009\u2019s most successful film. I haven\u2019t thought or talked more about a movie this year.
\n12. John Woo\u2019s RED CLIFF PART 1 (John Woo Interview)
\nJohn Woo\u2019s return to China turns out to be the best film he\u2019s made since he came to America in 1993. The three major battle sequences are brilliantly staged and unlike anything you\u2019ve seen come out of Hollywood in ages. WARNING: This is not the so-called International Cut which takes the five hour Parts I & II and condenses them into a 150 minute version.
\n13. Erick Zonca\u2019s JULIA
\nTilda Swinton, in another head turning performance, plays a career alcoholic who buys into a neighbor\u2019s plan to kidnap her ten-year old son and extort money from the boy\u2019s drug trafficking grandfather. Needless to say everything goes wrong in this dark comedic reworking of John Cassavetes\u2019 \u201cGloria.\u201d
\n14. Christophe Van Rompaey\u2019s MOSCOW, BELGIUM
\nIt starts with a meet cute – After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, an ornery housewife reluctantly begins an affair with a younger truck driver she accidentally backs into \u2013 and proceeds to go in every direction other than where you\u2019d expect it. The best romantic comedy of the year never found an audience here due to a lack of Sandra Bullock and an overabundance of subtitles.
\n15. Avi Nescher\u2019s THE SECRETS
\nBetween this movie and \u201cA Simple Man,\u201d every horrific memory from my Hebrew school upbringing went flashing before my eyes. A young orthodox Jewish woman dreams of entering into one of the world\u2019s oldest boy\u2019s club and becoming a rabbi. This bold, sensual, fact-based film takes great delight in telling tales out of Hebrew school.
\n16. Oren Moverman\u2019s THE MESSENGER (Woody Harrelson Interview)
\nGive the filmmakers an \u2018A\u2019 for originality. There have been thousands of war films produced since the dawn of cinema, but none ever told the story of the Army\u2019s Casualty Notification service. Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton figure in the best ensemble cast of the year.
\n17. Tom Ford\u2019s A SINGLE MAN
\nThe bleakest of all this year\u2019s holiday releases tells the tale of an English professor (Colin Firth) who spends his day working up the nerve to commit suicide after his lover is killed in a car crash. Impeccable 60s period recreation, stylish direction, a solid script based on Christopher Isherwood\u2019s novel and one of the year\u2019s best performances more than compensate for all the gloom.
\n18. Beno\u00eet Pilon\u2019s THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE
\nA sick Inuit who can\u2019t speak French leaves his igloo and family in order to recuperate at a Canadian sanitarium where he strikes up a friendship with a young orphan who acts as his translator. Here is concrete evidence that there is a great film to be made out of any story, even one concerning a tubercular Eskimo and a sick kid. Never maudlin or content to follow any televised \u201cdisease of the week\u201d format, \u201cThe Necessities of Life\u201d tells its story with grace, style and an exceptional use of expressionistic color. With all that going for it you\u2019d hardly expect this to open wide on 3,500 screens. It played one night at the Cinema Society of San Diego where I was fortunate enough to have seen it.
\n19. Eran Riklis\u2019 LEMON TREE
\nA field of lemon trees representing a battleground between Israel and Palestine sounds a bit facile, but Eran Riklis\u2019 allegorical tale is anything but. As with most events between Palestinians and Israelis, nobody actually comes out a winner and the film concludes with the most devastating curtain shot of the year.
\n20. Robert Siegel\u2019s BIG FAN
\nStill my favorite premise of the year: A sports ubergeek runs into \u201chis\u201d team\u2019s quarterback in a strip club. After an innocent exchange of words, the coked-out hurler beats the guy within an inch of his life, yet the big fan refuses to press charges in fear that the star QB will be sidelined. Who can ask for better entertainment than this?
\nRunners Up: Sebasti\u00e1n Silva\u2019s \u201cThe Maid,\u201d G\u00f6tz Spielmann\u2019s \u201cRevanche,\u201d The Coen Brothers\u2019 \u201cA Serious Man,\u201d So Yong Kim\u2019s \u201cTreeless Mountain,\u201d Ramin Bahrani\u2019s \u201cGoodbye Solo,\u201d Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cFantastic Mr. Fox,\u201d Steven Soderbergh\u2019s \u201cThe Girlfriend Experience,\u201d Bent Hamer\u2019s \u201cO\u2019Horten,\u201d Park Chan Wook\u2019s \u201cThirst,\u201d Scott McGehee & David Siegel\u2019s \u201cUncertainty,\u201d John Woo\u2019s \u201cRed Cliff Part 2,\u201d The Dardienne Brothers\u2019 \u201cLorna\u2019s Silence,\u201d Pierre Morel\u2019s \u201cTaken,\u201d Matt Aselton\u2019s \u201cGigantic,\u201d James Mottern\u2019s \u201cTrucker,\u201d Kevin Macdonald\u2019s \u201cState of Play,\u201d Bruce McDonald\u2019s \u201cPontypool,\u201d and Marc Webb\u2019s \u201c(500) Days of Summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony Servillo in Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s \u201cIl Divo.\u201d
\nNot Cattle: Tony Servillo in \u201cIl Divo,\u201d Yolande Moreau in \u201cSeraphine,\u201d Colin Firth in \u201cThe Single Man,\u201d Christoph Waltz in \u201cInglourious Basterds,\u201d Michelle Monaghan in \u201cTrucker,\u201d Kirin Kiki in \u201cStill Walking,\u201d Tilda Swinton in \u201cJulia,\u201d Evan Rachel Wood in \u201cWhatever Works,\u201d Ben Foster, Samantha Morton & Woody Harrelson in \u201cThe Messenger,\u201d Christian McKay in \u201cMe and Orson Welles,\u201d Nicolas Cage in \u201cBad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,\u201d Jeff Bridges in \u201cCrazy Heart,\u201d Bill Murray in \u201cThe Limits of Control,\u201d Barbara Sarafian in \u201cMoscow, Belgium,\u201d Baard Owe in \u201cO\u2019Horten,\u201d John Goodman in \u201cGigantic,\u201d Abbie Cornish in \u201cBright Star,\u201d Hiam Abbas in \u201cLemon Tree,\u201d Charlotte Gainsbourgh in \u201cAntichrist,\u201d Sam Rockwell in \u201cMoon,\u201d Melanie Laurent in \u201cInglourious Basterds,\u201d Alfredo Castro is \u201cTony Manero,\u201d Arsineee Khanjian in \u201cAdoration,\u201d Zooey Deschanel in \u201c(500) Days of Summer,\u201d Juliette Lewis & Alia Shawkat in \u201cWhip It,\u201d John Malkovich in \u201cThe Great Buck Howard,\u201d Anna Kendrick in \u201cUp in the Air,\u201d Patton Oswalt in \u201cBig Fan,\u201d Mary Steenburgen in \u201cDid You Hear About the Morgans?,\u201d Seth Rogen in \u201cObserve and Report,\u201d Verne Troyer in \u201cThe Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus\u201d and Harrison Ford in \u201cBruno.\u201d
\nFavorite Documentaries: Louie Psihoyos\u2019 \u201cThe Cove,\u201d Robert Stone\u2019s \u201cEarth Days,\u201d Sacha Gervasi\u2019s \u201cAnvil: The Story of Anvil,\u201d Aviva Kempner\u2019s \u201cYoo Hoo! Mrs. Goldberg,\u201d Matt Tyrnauer\u2019s \u201cValentino: The Last Emperor,\u201d and Kenny Ortega\u2019s \u201cThis is It.\u201d
\nBest Animated Features: Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cThe Fantastic Mr. Fox\u201d and Aristomenis Tsirbas\u2019 \u201cBattle for Terra.\u201d Sorry, \u201cUp\u201d started well and quickly drifted off into Spielbergia.
\n5 Guilty Pleasures: \u201cI Hope they Serve Beer in Hell,\u201d \u201cDead Snow,\u201d \u201cFired Up,\u201d \u201cLast House on the Left\u201d and \u201cAntichrist.\u201d
\nFilms I\u2019ve yet to see that could potentially alter this list: \u201cThe Last Station,\u201d The White Ribbon,\u201d \u201cThe Day the Clown Cried.\u201d
\nBest Action Thrill Ride: \u201cTaken.\u201d
\n2009\u2019s Two Walk-Outs: \u201cTransformers II\u201d and \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d (They sent me a screener of \u201cThe Blind Side,\u201d so I did eventually see how it ended. Hmm. What a surprise.)
\n5 Films That Are So Bad They\u2019re Hilarious: \u201cEmlio,\u201d \u201cPrecious,\u201d \u201cFree Style,\u201d \u201cAdam\u201d and \u201cTwo Lovers\u201d
\nYEAHBUTHOWLONGDOIGOTTAWAIT?: Scorsese\u2019s \u201cShutter Island,\u201d originally scheduled to open on Oct. 2, was pushed back to Feb. 19 because Paramount claimed they didn\u2019t have enough money to properly market it. Look how they make Him look. Like a bum. Like a Mama Luke!
\nNazis left the White House and returned to the big screen where they belong: \u201cInglourious Basterds,\u201d \u201cDead Snow,\u201d \u201cA Woman in Berlin,\u201d \u201cAdoration,\u201d \u201cFlame and Citron,\u201d \u201cParis 36,\u201d \u201c9\u201d and \u201cCoco Before Chanel.\u201d
\n5 Major Disappointments: \u201cBruno, \u201cInvictus,\u201d \u201cTetro,\u201d \u201cWhatever Works\u201d and \u201cDrag Me to Hell.\u201d
\nWorst Musical Score: Marvin Hamlisch\u2019s \u201cBananas\u201d retread for \u201cThe Informant.\u201d
\nBest Nude Scenes: Amber Heard in \u201cThe Informers,\u201d Ania Bukstein and Michal Shtamler in \u201cThe Secrets,\u201d Paz de la Huerta in \u201cThe Limits of Control\u201d and Little Abdul putting on the feedbag in \u201cPrecious.\u201d
\nThe Longest 100 minutes of the Year: \u201cWhere the Wild Things Are.\u201d
\nWorst Screening of the Year: I\u2019m not going to narc anybody, but there was a certain screening of \u201cA Single Man\u201d that took the young projectionist ten minutes (and two critics walking out to complain) to figure out that the movie was in \u2018Scope. First clue: If you can\u2019t fit the name of the distribution company and their logo in the same frame something is wrong. They at least were able to re-start the film from the beginning.
\nFunny Curtain Shot: \u201cThe Girlfriend Experience.\u201d
\nDevastating Curtain Shot: \u201cLemon Tree.\u201d
\nRemind Me When The DVDs Come Out: To splice \u201cChaos Reigns!\u201d somewhere into \u201cFantastic Mr. Fox.\u201d
\nNew Year\u2019s Resolutions: Lay off the comic book adaptations and after this year\u2019s most pestiferous hat trick, unless she signs on to do Marty\u2019s next picture, avoid Sandra Bullock like the plague.
\nThe 10 Worst Films of 2009:
\n\u201cGentlemen Broncos\u201d
\n\u201cPrecious: Based on the Novel \u2018Push\u2019 by Sapphire\u201d
\n\u201cWhere the Wild Things Are\u201d
\n\u201cOutlander\u201d
\n\u201cEmilio\u201d
\n\u201cEasy Virtue\u201d
\n\u201cFree Style\u201d
\n\u201cThe Stoning of Soraya M\u201d
\n\u201cLittle Ashes\u201d
\n\u201cGamer\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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