My Film Journal – 2009
bold - viewing in a theater
* -
repeat viewing
January
1/1 -
The Incredible Hulk
1/1 -
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
1/4 -
Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs
1/4 -
The Wicker Man (1973)
1/5 -
The World
1/6 - 21 Up
1/9 -
The Ultimate Gift
1/10
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
1/11
- Valkyrie
1/12
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1/15
- The Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
1/16
- * Mystery Men
1/17
- Sleuth (2007)
1/20
- Gran Torino
1/22
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
1/23
- Brideshead Revisited
1/24
- * Cars
1/25
- * Barton Fink
1/26
- Secrets and Lies
1/27
- Vicky Christina Barcelona
1/31
- The Reader
February
2/5 -
UHF
2/7 -
The Lucky Ones
2/8 -
Coraline
2/12
- Defiance
2/15
- * Goldfinger
2/15 -
The Longest Yard (1974)
2/20
- Shotgun Stories
2/21
- From Here to Eternity
2/21 - Waltz
With Bashir
March
3/1 -
Fitzcarraldo
3/9 -
The Hudsucker Proxy
3/10
- RockNRolla
3/14
- Milk
3/16
- Watchmen
3/18
- 28 Up
3/22
- Donovan's Reef
3/22
- Cadillac Records
3/24
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3/28
- Sunshine Cleaning
3/29
- And Justice For All
3/30
- Let the Right One In
April
4/2
- The Great Buck Howard
4/3
- Dune (1984)
4/4
- Cat Ballou
4/12
- Marley and Me
4/12
- * National Treasure
4/13
- Tokyo!
4/14
- The Sons of Katie Elder
4/16
- Sin Nombre
4/19
- American Graffiti
4/21
- Sita Sings the Blues
4/22
- State of Play
4/23
- Duplicity
4/25
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
4/28
- The Tale of Despereaux
4/29
– Moolaade
May
5/3
- Nothing But the Truth
5/4
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
5/9
- Wendy and Lucy
5/10
- * The Gods Must Be Crazy
5/11
- Star Trek
5/12
- Sugar
5/15
- * Galaxy Quest
5/16
- The Soloist
5/21
- Terminator: Salvation
5/22
- * Gattaca
5/22
- Ping Pong
5/23
- Taken
5/24
- Eagle Eye
5/24
- * Best in Show
5/25
- The Limits of Control
5/25
- * The Quiet Man
5/26
- Goodbye Solo
5/28
- Yes Man
5/28
- Summer Hours
5/29-30
- The Ruling Class
5/30
- The Brothers Bloom
5/30
- Gigantic
6/4
- Burden of Dreams
6/5
- Up
6/7
- Caprica
6/9
- Angels and Demons
6/13
- Drag Me to Hell
6/25
- Rudo y Cursi
6/26
- The International
6/27
- Crossing Over
6/28
- O'Horten
6/29
– High Anxiety
6/30
– Howard the Duck
July
7/1
- * Blue
7/1
- The Edge
of Heaven
7/1
- The White
Sheik
7/2
- The Class
7/2
- Ordet
7/2
- JCVD
7/3
- Special
7/4
- * Babette's
Feast
7/5
- * Offside
7/7
- Away We Go
7/10
- My Sister's Keeper
7/12
- Firestarter
7/12
- The King of Comedy
7/16
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
7/17
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7/18
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7/19
- Medea Goes to Jail
7/19
- Moon
7/20
- Inkheart
7/25
- (500) Days of Summer
7/25
- * Golden Door
7/26
- Public Enemies
7/31
- Faith Like Potatoes
August
8/1
- 49 Up
8/1
- The Hurt Locker
8/3
- Wise Blood
8/9
- $9.99
8/9
- Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
8/11
- I Served the King of England
8/12
- In the Loop
8/13
- Funny People
8/16
- L'Iceberg
8/18
- District 9
8/19
- Ponyo
8/22
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
8/23
- For Your Eyes Only
8/24
- Silent Movie
8/26
- * District 9
8/27
- Streetballers
8/29
- The Time Traveler's Wife
8/30
- Moonraker
8/31
- * Cat People (1942)
September
9/4
- Adventureland
9/5
- Lorna's Silence
9/6
- World's Greatest Dad
9/6
- Inglorious Basterds
9/7
- Absurdistan
9/11
- I Can Do Bad All By Myself
9/12
- Silent Light
9/17
- * City Slickers
9/19
- The Man With The Golden Gun
9/20
- I Love You, Man
9/22
- The Taste of Tea
9/23 - The Informant!
9/30 - 9
October
10/1 - Nobel Son
10/3 - More Than
Dreams
10/6 - Zombieland
10/10 - *
Airplane
10/11 - Fallen
10/12 - A View to a
Kill
10/13 - Observe and
Report
10/14 - The Big
Picture
10/15 -
Munyurangabo
10/15 - Being
There
10/16 - * The
Godfather
10/20 - Wallace and
Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
10/27 - The Girlfriend
Experience
10/27 -
Beetlejuice
10/27 - * Dr.
Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
10/28 - Rivers and
Tides
10/29-30 - * The
Godfather, Part II
10/30 - * Wallace
and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
November
11/5 - Where the
Wild Things Are
11/11-12 - * The
Matrix
11/15 - Whatever
Works
11/18 - Jerichow
11/24 - The Godfather,
Part III
11/25 - The Blind
Side
11/27 - Lake
Tahoe
11/27 - Noodles
(short)
11/30 - A
Serious Man
December
12/2 - The
Mission
12/2 - A Christmas
Tale
12/3 - Just Another
Love Story
12/4 - *
Metropolitan
12/6 -
Reconstruction
12/8 - Monsters vs.
Aliens
12/9 - The Maid
12/10 - An
Education
12/12 - Allegro
12/13 - Red Cliff
12/15 - Syndromes and
a Century
12/19 - Gumball 3000:
Six Days in May
12/22 - Avatar
12/23 - Scrooged
12/23 - It Might Get
Loud
12/24 - Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen
12/24 - * A Christmas
Story
12/25 - * Home
Alone
12/25 - Julie and
Julia
12/26 - Shrek the
Third
12/27 - Up in the
Air
12/29 - The Headless
Woman
12/30 - Tokyo
Godfathers