My Top 10 Films of 2009

By: Kenji Fujishi​ma

As ever with me, this is subject to change once I catch up with my many blind spots, but this is what I got for now. For a more expansive and annotated list, check out my blog post: http://mylife24fps.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-and-earlier-in-review-my-10.html. (And, of course, please check out my blog proper!)

UPDATE (3/12/10): As I noted in this blog post—http://mylife24fps.blogspot.com/2010/03/welcome-to-first-annual-fuji-oscars.html—I think I would be more inclined now to replace my previous No. 1 film of 2009, “Summer Hours,” with “35 Shots of Rum” instead. So I’ve done accordingly here. The rest of my list would remain the same.

• 01
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 02
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 03
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 04
  The Limits of Control
  Jim Jarmusch
• 05
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 06
  The Sun
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 07
  Birdsong
  Albert Serra
• 08
  Frontier of Dawn
  Philippe Garrel
• 09
  Police, Adjective
  Corneliu Porumboiu
• 10
  Import/Export
  Ulrich Seidl