Films of 2009

As mentioned in my last post, 2009 was a year of many films. These included:

At 37,000 feet

The Wrestler, WALL-E, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Taken, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Coraline, In the Loop, The Day The Earth Stood Still.

At home

Hulk, Fantastic Four 1 & 2, X-men 3, Transformers, Hellboy, My Winnipeg

At the local multiplex

Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Inglorious Basterds, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Moon

At the NZ International Film Festival

Ponyo, The September Issue, Birdwatchers, Red Cliff, Themis as a lady of loose morals, Theatre of War, Mary and Max, Samson and Delila, Enjoy Poverty, Mother, The Baader-Meinhof Complex

At Wellington Film Society

MAUVAIS SANG (Leos Carax, France, 1986)

DIVA (Jean-Jacques Beineix, France, 1981)

LA SENTINELLE (Arnaud Desplechin, France, 1992)

BERLIN-SCHOENHAUSER CORNER (Gerhard Klein, East Germany, 1957)

I WAS NINETEEN (Konrad Wolf, East Germany, 1968)

HER THIRD (Egon Gunther, East Germany, 1972)

THE ARCHITECTS (Peter Kahane, East Germany, 1990)

CHARLIE CHAPLIN X 3 (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1914-17)

VARDA SHORTS - TRAVEL AND COUNTERCULTURE (Agnes Varda, France, 1957-68) 1

THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergey Parazhjanov, USSR, 1969)

FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong, 1995)

ATTACK THE GAS STATION (Kim Sang-jin, Korea, South, 1999)

UNTOLD SCANDAL (E J-Yong, Korea, South, 2003)

INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau,Alan Mak, Hong Kong, 2002)

BROKEN WINGS (Nir Bergman, Israel, 2002)

MOOLAADE (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France, 2004)

THE NAVIGATORS (Ken Loach, UK/Germany, 2001)

There may be more... and reviews of at least some of the above will follow...