2009 Poll 2.0

[Holdrüholoheuho]

2009 poll watchlist:

J. (Alexandre Larose, Solomon Nagler, 2009)

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one another.

https://vimeo.com/40793084

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1507 ... aWIj3QceLg

i liked this one better! it might be on my list. nice cityscapes and music

[dominicano1970]

Aching Hearts (Malmros)
Adventureland (Mottola)
The Army of Crime (Guediguian)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog)
Bright Star (Campion)
Cell 211 (Monzon)
City of Life and Death (Lu)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (De Oliveira)
Father of My Children (Hansen-Love)
Fish Tank (Arnold)
The Girl on the Train (Techine)
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
My Sister's Keeper (Cassavetes)
Ondine (Jordan)
A Prophet (Audiard)
Rapt (Belvaux)
Star Trek (Abrams)
Vincere (Bellocchio)
Whatever Works (Allen)
Yuki & Nina (Suwa, Girardot)

[oOgiandujaOo]

Hi all, this is my first time post on this forum. I looked into the last poll you did for 2009, to boost my watchlist this year, which is special to me, and a friend mentioned you were going again. I know you sometimes screen out new user ballots, to credentialize myself I have seen 269 movies from this year, as well as 37/38 of the films that made it to the results stage here last time. I plan to contribute to future polls, where I feel I've seen enough movies to not be an error term. If you do accept my ballot, and in case Red Riding is not accepted as a complete work (note it won best miniseries at BAFTA) please substitute in Red Riding: In The Year of our Lord 1974 (the first of the triptych). Two tiers of 10 films for the points system, although they do also happen to be ordered from 1-20.

Panique au village / A Town Called Panic (2009 - Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar)
The Secret of Kells (2009 - Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey)
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版: 破 / Evangerion shin gekijôban: Ha / Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009 - Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno)
Полторы комнаты, или Сентиментальное путешествие на родину / Poltory komnaty ili Sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na Rodinu / Room and a Half (2009 - Andrey Khrzhanovskiy)
De helaasheid der dingen / The Misfortunates / The Shittiness of Things (2009 - Felix van Groeningen)
Amer (2009 - Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Into The Unknown (2009 - Deimantas Narkevičius)
ابن بابل‎ / Syn Babilonu / Son of Babylon (2009 - Mohamed Al Daradji)
Mavro livadi / Black Field (2009 - Vardis Marinakis)
Le streghe, femmes entre elles (2009 - Jean-Marie Straub)

Red Riding (2009 - Julian Jarrold, James Marsh & Anand Tucker)
Io sono l'amore / I Am Love (2009 - Luca Guadagnino)
เจ้านกกระจอก / Jao nok krajok / Mundane History (2009 - Anocha Suwichakornpong)
Lourdes (2009 - Jessica Hausner)
Man tänker sitt / Burrowing (2009 - Henrik Hellström & Fredrik Wenzel)
春風沉醉的夜晚 / Chun feng chen zui de ye wan / Spring Fever (2009 - Ye Lou)
박쥐 / Bakjwi / Thirst (2009 - Chan-wook Park)
Bunny and the Bull (2009 - Paul King)
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (2009 - Daïchi Saïto)
#37 (2009 - Joost Rekveld)

[flip]

welcome to scfz, oOgiandujaOo! and you're certainly welcome to participate in any of the polls i organize (the best of 2021 poll, and the directors polls).

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Happy to have your ballot, oOgiandujaOo, for this and any other year!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I think I'll remove the disclaimer at the top for future years and just have it as an unwritten rule instead, because I don't want it to discourage ballots from new members.

It's quite unlikely that I'll ever discount a ballot. If you've found our forum and think it's neat and want to participate, you're almost certainly a cinephile with eclectic taste and will fit right in.

The reserved right-to-discount-a-ballot, as I understand it, is just to make sure that there's an out if the results would otherwise get majorly skewed away from reflecting the forum's spirit by counting ballots that feel more spammy than sincere. But that's hardly likely.

[rischka]

i watched kinatay (mendoza) a horror movie! did not sleep well after this

i liked the style, mostly shot in the streets from moving vehicles but the content was difficult

[sally]

(facs of life - silvia maglioni, graeme thomson)
(aya seyahat - kutluğ ataman)




nearly there! one film left to watch!

[sally]

i watched kinatay (mendoza) a horror movie! did not sleep well after this

i liked the style, mostly shot in the streets from moving vehicles but the content was difficult

i saw that at the cinema! was quite a ride. thinking about it & some of the others that have cropped up throughout march, i think 2009 was the last year i went to the cinema in any mass fashion to watch films. doesn't feel that long ago....

[Silga]

Since I can't edit my ballot, my provisional list on the 1st page is also my Final list.

[sally]

you could always post a new ballot silga, i'm sure evelyn could figure it out that's what i'm gonna do and i can edit my first one if i wanted to (but i won't go back there, because in this one month space i have progressed to !HERE!)

i was going to do an entirely documentary ballot, but there's some films i'm sad no one else has loved & they must go in. so here is my dubious final nod (trying to dislodge all the unvoted ones otherwise stuck in my throat, it's a nice year) unranked:


craneway event - tacita dean
the sounds of insects: record of a mummy - peter liechti
the invisible collection / a colecção invisível - rita azevedo gomes
city of signs / la ciudad de los signos - samuel alarcón
correspondances - eugène green
eccentricities of a blonde-haired girl / singularidades de uma rapariga loura - manoel de oliveira
ruínas - manual mozos
police, adjective / polițist, adjectiv - corneliu porumboiu
the mouth of the wolf / la bocca del lupo - pietro marcello
terrorism considered as one of the fine arts - peter whitehead
goodbye, how are you? / довиђења, како сте? - boris mitić
the old school of capitalism / stara škola kapitalizma - želimir žilnik
bluebeard / barbe bleue - catherine breillat
journey to the moon / aya seyahat - kutluğ ataman
land of madness / la terre de la folie - luc moullet
like you know it all / 잘 알지도 못하면서 - hong sang-soo
lowlands - peter thompson
the time that remains / الزمن الباقي - elia suleiman
i love my boring life / mám ráda nudný život - jan gogola jr
podwórka - sharon lockhart

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Yes, feel free to post new ballots, I can always figure it out. That's true in general, not just when editing isn't an option.

[rischka]

oxhide II
petition
visage
a town called panic
envy
police adjective
everyone else
bluebeard
the mouth of the wolf
like you know it all
the invisible collection
white material
the limits of control
my tehran for sale
kinatay
ruhr
podworka
la danse
correspondences
sweetgrass

i didn't watch as much as i planned

[Silga]

Thanks, but there's no need for me to post a new ballot since I have nothing to change. March being a month of my local film festival, it kept me from watching pretty much anything else.

[pabs]

Un prophète (Audiard)
Police, Adjective (Porumboiu)
The Secret of Kells (Moore, Twomey)
Bright Star (Campion)
The White Ribbon (Haneke)

White Material (Denis)
A Serious Man (Coen)
About Elly (Farhadi)
Sweetgrass (Barbash, Castaing-Taylor)
Fish Tank (Arnold)

[karl]

Sorry, no space for the excruciatingly dull dumpling documentary.

room and a half (khrzhanovsky)
vincere (bellocchio)
freedom (gatlif)
the city of your final destination (ivory)

melody for street organ (muratova)
envy (demirkubuz)
the portuguese nun (green)
a brand new life (lecomte)

when we are all asleep (beizai)
songs from the southern seas (sarulu)
in the electric mist (tavernier)
like you know it all (hong)

villa amalia (jacquot)
the last station (hoffman)
about elly (farhadi)
triage (tanović)

a prophet (audiard)
bad lieutenant (herzog)

[ofrene]

Change Nothing
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds
Mother
Wild Grass

About Elly
Bright Star
Like You Know It All
Up
Yuki & Nina

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
A Serious Man
Fish Tank
La Danse
Paju

Daddy Longlegs
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Father of My Children
Independencia
The Mouth of the Wolf

[rischka]

(excruciatingly dull dumpling documentary)

i put that in just for you karl xD

[sally]

bollocks. marcel łoziński's adorable little 'poste restante' is 2009....i'm not faffing about editing my ballot now but if i'd known, it would definitely be on there

[Lencho of the Apes]

If I had made wiser viewing choices, this list would look a lot different, especially toward the bottom. Oh well...

Antichrist - Von Trier
En La Mitad Del Mundo
Enter The Void - Gaspar Noe
Los Viajes Del Viento - Ciro Guerra
Visage - Tsai Ming Liang

Bala Mordida
Barbe Bleue - Breillat
Blind Revenge - Ruiz
Passing Strange - Spike Lee
Watchmen (Zack Snyder)

Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans - Herzog
The Hole - Joe Dante
Inglorious Basterds - Tarantino
Maghadeera (S.S. Rajamouli)
Zanan-e bedun-e mardan/Women Without Men

Adoration - Egoyan
Les Herbes Folles - Resnais
The Invisible Collection (Rita Azevedo Gomez)
My Teheran For Sale -
Strella

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Poll is closed.

[...]

Ah, forgot about this. No big deal, I don't mind being skipped for dawdling. But these are the movies I would have voted on, just for reference sake.

Oxhide II
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Beeswax
I Am Love
A Town Called Panic

Police, Adjective
Of Love and Other Demons
Lourdes
Nothing Personal
Like You Know It All

Vincere
Splice
Everyone Else
Envy
Bright Star

Agora
Crank: High Voltage
Castaway on the Moon
Cold Souls
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

RESULTS

Films voted for: 238. Ballots: 22

1 Police, Adjective 26.5
2 Bright Star 24
3 About Elly 22
4 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 20
5 Inglorious Basterds 19.5
6 Like You Know It All 19
7 A Town Called Panic 18.5
8 Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl 16
9 A Prophet 15.5
— Fish Tank 15.5
— Lourdes 15.5
— The White Ribbon 15.5
13 A Serious Man 14
14 Fantastic Mr. Fox 13
15 Everyone Else 12.5
— Wild Grass 12.5
17 The Invisible Collection 12
18 Dogtooth 11.5
19 The Secret of the Kells 11
— The Time That Remains 11
21 Public Enemies 10.5
— The Mouth of the Wolf 10.5
23 Bluebeard 9.5
— Watchmen 9.5
25 Broken Embraces 9
— In the Loop 9
— The Limits of Control 9
— White Material 9
29 Envy 8.5
— Vincere 8.5
— Visage 8.5
32 Away We Go 8
— The White Meadows 8
34 Enter the Void 7.5
— Father of My Children 7.5
— Lebanon 7.5
— Oxhide II 7.5
— The Hurt Locker 7.5
— Whatever Works 7.5
40 A Letter to Uncle Boonmee 7
— Amer 7
— Antichrist 7
— Hadewijch 7
— I Love My Boring Life 7
— Moon  7
— Room and a Half 7
— Terrorism Considered as One of Fine Arts 7
48 District 9 6.5
— I Am Love 6.5
— Trash Humpers 6.5
— Up 6.5
— Vengeance 6.5
— Yuki and Nina 6.5
54 Adventureland 6
— Bad Day to Go Fishing 6
— Celda 211 6
— Correspondences 6
— My Sister's Keeper 6
— Ondine 6
— Podworka 6
— Polytechnique 6
— Rapt 6
— The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 6
— The Secret in Their Eyes 6
— Thirst 6

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Apologies for delay in tallying. This may happen every March and April, because it's my busy season when work eats into the evenings I normally devote to hobbies.

[sally]

no problem evelyn and thanks ♥

this is a very scfz-y list....

[rischka]

yes no worries evelyn. i'll make a letterboxd list too ♥

[Angel]

Wow, 1st and 2nd were on my ballot! Something went wrong, ha ha.

[rischka]

https://letterboxd.com/rischka/list/2009-20/