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2009 Screening Log

For the sake of year-end convenience, 2009 films seen in 2008 (except those seen at festivals) are stuck at the beginning of the list. Also for my convenience, a movie's year is determined either by original North American release date or, if the film is never released commercially, by the date of its North American premiere, to the best of my knowledge.


"^" after a film indicates a repeat viewing.

"*" after a film indicates a home viewing.

001. (1-Jan) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008)^ B+
002. (3-Jan) Good (Vicente Amorim, 2008) C
003. (7-Jan) Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, 2004)* A-
004. (8-Jan) The Unborn (David S. Goyer, 2009) C-
005. (9-Jan) The Watcher in the Woods (John Hough, 1980) C
006. (10-Jan) The Broken (Sean Ellis, 2009) A-
007. (11-Jan) Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947) C
008. (11-Jan) Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) B-
009. (12-Jan) Bride Wars (Gary Winick, 2009) C
010. (13-Jan) Charly (Ralph Nelson, 1968)* C+
011. (14-Jan) Ballast (Lance Hammer, 2008) B-
012. (16-Jan) Outlander (Howard McCain, 2009) C-
013. (16-Jan) My Bloody Valentine (Patrick Lussier, 2009) B- [3D]
014. (19-Jan) Notorious (George Tillman Jr., 2009) C+
015. (20-Jan) Inkheart (Iain Softley, 2009) C-
016. (23-Jan) Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) B
017. (23-Jan) Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson, 1952) B+
018. (25-Jan) Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) A [director's cut, first viewing] [first viewing on film]
019. (25-Jan) Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) B-
020. (25-Jan) Cry of the Hunted (Joseph H. Lewis, 1953) B
021. (26-Jan) Alias Nick Beal (John Farrow, 1949) B+
022. (26-Jan) Night Editor (Henry Levin, 1946) B
023. (27-Jan) The Uninvited (The Guard Brothers, 2009) C+
024. (28-Jan) While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, 1956) B-
025. (28-Jan) Shakedown (Joseph Pevney, 1950) B
026. (29-Jan) Push (Paul McGuigan, 2009) B-
027. (30-Jan) The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, 1947) B+
028. (30-Jan) Desperate (Anthony Mann, 1947) C+
029. (31-Jan) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) B
030. (31-Jan) Two O'Clock Courage (Anthony Mann, 1945) A
031. (2-Feb) Taken (Pierre Morel, 2009) B+
032. (7-Feb) Donkey Punch (Olly Blackburn, 2009) C+
033. (8-Feb) Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 2008) A-
034. (8-Feb) Fanboys (Kyle Newman, 2009) C
035. (10-Feb) Two Lovers (James Gray, 2009) A
036. (12-Feb) Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway, 1947) C
037. (12-Feb) Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) B-
038. (18-Feb) Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel, 2009) C
039. (19-Feb) Alien Trespass (R.W. Goodwin, 2009) B-
040. (19-Feb) Of Time and the City (Terrence Davies, 2009) C-
041. (23-Feb) The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009) B
042. (25-Feb) Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga, 2009) C+
043. (26-Feb) Fired Up! (Will Gluck, 2009) B
044. (26-Feb) Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Andrzej Bartkowiak, 2009) D+
045. (28-Feb) He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009) C-
046. (28-Feb) Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2008) B
047. (1-Mar) The International (Tom Tykwer, 2009) B-
039. (2-Mar) Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) C
040. (5-Mar) The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008) A
041. (6-Mar) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979) C
042. (6-Mar) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982) B
043. (7-Mar) Phoebe in Wonderland (Daniel Santz, 2009) B
044. (7-Mar) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Leonard Nimoy, 1984) C-
045. (7-Mar) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy, 1986) B+
046. (8-Mar) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (William Shatner, 1989) C
047. (8-Mar) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Nicholas Meyer, 1991) B
048. (10-Mar) Race to Witch Mountain (Andy Fickman, 2009) D
049. (13-Mar) I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009) B
050. (13-Mar) The Snake (Adam Goldstein & Eric Kutner, 2009) C
051. (13-Mar) Ong-Bak 2 (Tony Jaa, 2009) B-
052. (14-Mar) 45365 (Bill Ross & Turner Ross, 2009) C+
053. (14-Mar) Pulling John (Sevan Matossian & Bessie K. Morris, 2009) B
054. (14-Mar) Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009) A-
055. (14-Mar) Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990) No Grade
056. (15-Mar) The Way We Get By (Aron Gaudet, 2009) B
057. (15-Mar) My Suicide (David Lee Miller, 2009) C
058. (15-Mar) Modern Love is Automatic (Zach Clark, 2009) C
059. (15-Mar) Women in Trouble (Sebastian Gutierrez, 2009) C+
060. (15-Mar) Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi, 2009) A-
061. (16-Mar) Best Worst Movie (Michael Stephenson, 2009) B-
062. (16-Mar) The Slammin' Salmon (Kevin Heffernan, 2009) A-
063. (16-Mar) Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009) B
064. (16-Mar) Lesbian Vampire Killers (Phil Claydon, 2009) B-
065. (17-Mar) New World Order (Luke Meyer & Andrew Neel, 2009) B+
066. (17-Mar) Objectified (Gary Hustwit, 2009) C
067. (17-Mar) Four Boxes (Wyatt McDill, 2009) C-
068. (17-Mar) Trust Us, This is All Made Up (Alex Karpovsky, 2009) B+
069. (17-Mar) Grace (Paul Solet, 2009) B
070. (18-Mar) Afterschool (Antonio Campos, 2009) B+
071. (18-Mar) Winnebago Man (Ben Steinbauer, 2009) B
072. (18-Mar) Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2009) B
073. (21-Mar) Monsters vs. Aliens (Rob Letterman & Conrad Vernon, 2009) B-
074. (21-Mar) Knowing (Alex Proyas, 2009) C
075. (22-Mar) Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) B+
076. (22-Mar) His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) B+
077. (23-Mar) Crossing Over (Wayne Kramer, 2009) D+
078. (25-Mar) The Haunting in Connecticut (Peter Cornwell, 2009) B-
079. (28-Mar) Tokyo Sonata (Kyoshi Kurasawa, 2009) B (but more like 2/3 A and 1/3 C-)
080. (29-Mar) The Last House on the Left (Denis Iliadis, 2009) C+
081. (29-Mar) Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 2009) B+
082. (30-Mar) Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs, 2009) C+
083. (31-Mar) Fast & Furious (Justin Lin, 2009) C
084. (4-Apr) Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009) B
085. (5-Apr) The Great Buck Howard (Sean McGinly, 2009) C+
086. (6-Apr) The Answer Man (John Hindman, 2009) C-
087. (7-Apr) The Edge of Love (John Maybury, 2009) C-
088. (9-Apr) A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, 2003)* C+
089. (10-Apr) Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)* A
090. (11-Apr) The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2009) C+
091. (12-Apr) Dragonball Evolution (James Wong, 2009) C
092. (12-Apr) Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2009) A-
093. (13-Apr) 17 Again (Burr Steers, 2009) C-
094. (14-Apr) State of Play (Kevin MacDonald, 2009) B+
095. (15-Apr) Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) B
096. (17-Apr) Mutant Chronicles (Simon Hunter, 2008)* C-
097. (18-Apr) The Black Balloon (Elissa Down, 2009) B-
098. (18-Apr) Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, 2009) B
099. (19-Apr) Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) B+
100. (20-Apr) Earth (Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield, 2009) B-
101. (20-Apr) Crank: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009) B
102. (21-Apr) Battle for Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas, 2009) B-
103. (21-Apr) The Soloist (Joe Wright, 2009) C
104. (24-Apr) Fighting (Dito Montiel, 2009) B-
105. (28-Apr) In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009) B+
106. (29-Apr) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)^ Masterpiece [first viewing on film]
107. (30-Apr) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009) B-
108. (1-May) The Broken (Sean Ellis, 2009)^* A-
109. (2-May) Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009) B+
110. (2-May) Tyson (James Toback, 2009) B
111. (2-May) (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009) B
112. (3-May) The Age of Stupid (Franny Armstrong, 2009) C-
113. (3-May) Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009) B
114. (4-May) Home (Ursula Meier, 2009) C+
115. (5-May) The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (David Russo, 2009) C
116. (7-May) Lymelife (Derick Martini, 2009) C+
117. (8-May) Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 2009)* B
119. (9-May) Little Ashes (Paul Morrison, 2009) D
120. (9-May) Is Anybody There? (John Crowley, 2009) D+
121. (9-May) Session 9 (Brad Anderson, 2001)* B+
122. (10-May) Outrage (Kirby Dick, 2009) B+
123. (11-May) Killshot (John Madden, 2009)* C
124. (12-May) Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969) B+
125. (13-May) Angels & Demons (Ron Howard, 2009) D+
126. (16-May) Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)* B+
127. (16-May) Zero Day (Ben Coccio, 2003)* B
128. (18-May) Terminator Salvation (McG, 2009) C
129. (19-May) Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1966) A
130. (19-May) Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) C- [butchered 80-min American cut]
131. (26-May) Up (Pete Docter, 2009) B+ [3D]
132. (28-May) Management (Stephen Belber, 2008) D+
133. (29-May) Dance Flick (Damien Dante Wayans, 2009) C
134. (29-May) Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuaron, 2009) C+
135. (30-May) The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2009)^ B
136. (30-May) Departures (Yojiro Takita, 2009) C-
137. (31-May) Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi, 2009)^ A- [first viewing of final cut]
138. (31-May) Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954) B-
139. (31-May) New York Confidential (Russell Rouse, 1955) B-
140. (2-Jun) Land of the Lost (Brad Silberling, 2009) B-
141. (3-Jun) The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009) B+
142. (4-Jun) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)^ A [first viewing on film]
143. (9-Jun) The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) B
144. (10-Jun) Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)^ A-
145. (12-Jun) The Dead Outside (Kerry Anne Mullaney, 2009) C
146. (13-Jun) The Proposal (Anne Fletcher, 2009) D
147. (13-Jun) The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott, 2009) C+
148. (16-Jun) Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 2009) D+
149. (22-Jun) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009) F
150. (24-Jun) Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 2009) B-
151. (29-Jun) Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009) B+
152. (7-Jul) Humpday (Lynn Shelton, 2009) B
153. (8-Jul) My Sister's Keeper (Nick Cassavetes, 2009) C
154. (11-Jul) Year One (Harold Ramis, 2009) C-
155. (11-Jul) I Love You, Beth Cooper (Chris Columbus, 2009) C-
156. (11-Jul) The Stoning of Soraya M. (Cyrus Nowrasteh, 2009) C
157. (12-Jul) Julia (Erick Zonca, 2009) B
158. (13-Jul) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009) B+
159. (15-Jul) ChŽri (Stephen Frears, 2009) B+
160. (17-Jul) Wargames (John Badham, 1983) C
161. (17-Jul) Red Dawn (John Milius, 1984) D+ [Seriously?]
162. (18-Jul) BrŸno (Larry Charles, 2009) C+
163. (19-Jul) Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)^* A
164. (21-Jul) Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2009) B
165. (24-Jul) World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2009)* B+ [pan-and-scan]
166. (25-Jul) Up (Pete Docter, 2009)^ Masterpiece [3D] [previously B+; I am an idiot]
167. (26-Jul) Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola, 2009) D+
168. (26-Jul) In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009)^ B+
169. (28-Jul) Funny People (Judd Apatow, 2009) B-
170. (31-Jul) (500) Days of Summer (Mark Webb, 2009)^ B
171. (6-Aug) The Collector (Marcus Dunstan, 2009) D
172. (6-Aug) G.I. Joe (Stephen Sommers, 2009) C+
173. (8-Aug) The Cove (Louie Psihoyas, 2009) B
174. (8-Aug) A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy, 2009) B
175. (13-Aug) District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) B-
176. (14-Aug) Adam (Max Mayer, 2009) C
177. (15-Aug) Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron, 2009) C+
178. (15-Aug) Spread (David Mackenzie, 2009) B+
179. (18-Aug) Last Chance Harvey (Joel Hopkins, 2008)* B
180. (20-Aug) Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan, 2009)* D [pan-and-scanned to 1.65]
181. (21-Aug) Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2009) C+
182. (22-Aug) Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) B+
183. (23-Aug) Thirst (Park Chan-Wook, 2009) C+
184. (25-Aug) The Time Traveler's Wife (Robert Schwentke, 2009) B-
185. (4-Sep) An Education (Lone Scherfig, 2009) B-
186. (4-Sep) The Last Station (Michael Hoffman, 2009) C+
187. (4-Sep) The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009) A
188. (5-Sep) Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jarrold, 2009) A
189. (5-Sep) Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine, 2009) D+
190. (5-Sep) Red Riding: 1980 (James Marsh, 2009) A-
191. (5-Sep) A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009) B
192. (6-Sep) Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) A
193. (6-Sep) Red Riding: 1983 (Anand Tucker, 2009) A
194. (6-Sep) The Road (John Hillcoat, 2009) A
195. (6-Sep) Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) B
196. (7-Sep) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009) C+
197. (7-Sep) Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009) B
198. (7-Sep) Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 2009) B
199. (7-Sep) Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009) B
200. (11-Sep) Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009) C+
201. (12-Sep) The Final Destination (David R. Ellis, 2009) C-
202. (12-Sep) 9 (Shane Acker, 2009) B-
203. (13-Sep) Extract (Mike Judge, 2009) B
204. (13-Sep) My One and Only (Richard Loncraine, 2009) C+
205. (14-Sep) Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009) B
206. (15-Sep) Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee, 2009) C+
207. (19-Sep) Whiteout (Dominic Sena, 2009) D+
208. (20-Sep) The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2009) B
209. (25-Sep) Surrogates (Jonathan Mostow, 2009) B-
210. (27-Sep) Whip It (Drew Barrymore, 2009) C+
211. (3-Oct) The September Issue (R.J. Cutler, 2009) B-
212. (3-Oct) I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Bob Gosse, 2009) C
213. (3-Oct) Pandorum (Christian Alvart, 2009) C-
214. (4-Oct) The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) B+
215. (5-Oct) Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)* B
216. (6-Oct) Couples Retreat (Peter Billingsley, 2009) D
217. (9-Oct) A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009) B+
218. (10-Oct) Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009) B-
219. (10-Oct) The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson, 2009) B
220. (13-Oct) Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009) A-
221. (15-Oct) The Boys are Back (Scott Hicks, 2009) B
222. (17-Oct) Astro Boy (David Bowers, 2009) C
223. (17-Oct) Trucker (James Mottern, 2009) D+
224. (18-Oct) The Stepfather (Nelson McCormick, 2009) C-
225. (19-Oct) Body of Lies (Ridley Scott, 2008)*^ A-
226. (20-Oct) Law Abiding Citizen (F. Gary Gray, 2009) C+
227. (22-Oct) The Fourth Kind (Olatunde Osunsanmi, 2009) C-
228. (23-Oct) Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar, 2009) C
229. (24-Oct) Big Fan (Robert Siegel, 2009) B
230. (24-Oct) Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)*^ A
231. (25-Oct) Saw VI (Kevin Greutert, 2009) B-
232. (25-Oct) New York, I Love You (various, 2009) C+
233. (26-Oct) The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)* A-
234. (28-Oct) The Last Man on Earth (Sidney Salkow, 1964) B
235. (28-Oct) Edgar Allen Poe's The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman, 1964) B-
236. (29-Oct) The Damned United (Tom Hooper, 2009) C+
237. (31-Oct) The Canyon (Richard Harrah, 2009) C
238. (31-Oct) Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, 2009)* D+
239. (31-Oct) Five Minutes of Heaven (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2009)* C-
240. (1-Nov) The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) A
241. (4-Nov) Bellamy (Claude Chabrol, 2009) B-
242. (5-Nov) The Box (Richard Kelly, 2009) A-
243. (6-Nov) Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (Paul Weitz, 2009) B-
244. (7-Nov) Walt Disney's A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis, 2009) C
245. (13-Nov) 2012 (Roland Emmerich, 2009) B-
246. (16-Nov) Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, 2009) B-
247. (18-Nov) Ninja Assassin (James McTeigue, 2009) D+
248. (20-Nov) The Men Who Stare at Goats (Grant Heslov, 2009) C+
249. (20-Nov) The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 2009)* C+
250. (21-Nov) Food Inc. (Robert Kenner, 2009)* B+
251. (22-Nov) The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Chris Carter, 2008)* B+
252. (26-Nov) Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)* B
253. (27-Nov) Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001)* B-
254. (28-Nov) The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)* A
255. (4-Dec) The Messenger (Oren Moverman, 2009)* B
256. (5-Dec) The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2009) B-
257. (5-Dec) New Moon (Chris Weitz, 2009) C
258. (5-Dec) Invictus (Clint Eastwood, 2009) C-
259. (6-Dec) A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009) B
260. (6-Dec) Brothers (Jim Sheridan, 2009) B-
261. (7-Dec) Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1974)* A
262. (8-Dec) The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946) B+
263. (11-Dec) The Young Victoria (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2009)* C+
264. (11-Dec) The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner, 2001)* C
265. (12-Dec) Red Cliff (John Woo, 2009)* B [American cut]
266. (12-Dec) The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, 2009) C
267. (13-Dec) Armored (Nimrod Antal, 2009) B
268. (15-Dec) Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009) B+
269. (17-Dec) Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) B+ [3D]
270. (18-Dec) The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009)* B+
271. (18-Dec) Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)* C+
272. (19-Dec) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)^* Masterpiece
273. (19-Dec) The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)^ A
274. (19-Dec) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) A-
275. (20-Dec) The Maid (Sebastian Silva, 2009) B+
276. (20-Dec) Ricky (Francois Ozon, 2009)* B
277. (23-Dec) Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972) A
278. (24-Dec) Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, 2009) C
279. (25-Dec) Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009) B
280. (30-Dec) The Missing Person (Noah Buschel, 2009) C+