Top 10 - 2009

1. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
2. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
3. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
4. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
5. Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins)
6. An Education (Lone Scherfig)
7. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
9. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
10. Two Lovers (James Gray)

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Runners-up:

Up (Pete Docter)
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine)
Sugar (Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)

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Top 10 - 2008

1. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
2. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
4. Disfigured (Glen Gers)
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
6. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
7. The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
8. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
9. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
10. Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):

August Evening (Chris Eska)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Alex Holdridge)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)

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Movies I've Seen in Theaters - 2010

Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 109 m) - 1/7
Nine (Rob Marshall, 118 m) - 1/16
Avatar (3-D) (James Cameron, 162 m) - 1/18
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, 127 m) - 1/19
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 122 m) - 1/19
Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, 112 m) - 1/29
A Single Man (Tom Ford, 99 m) - 1/29
The Messenger (Oren Moverman, 112 m) - 1/31

Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 90 m) - 2/6
The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 128 m) - 2/11
Invictus (Clint Eastwood, 133 m) - 2/27

The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 128 m) - 3/27
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 107 m) - 3/28

The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, 76 m) - 4/10

FFF Shorts Program #2: Burn - 4/10
-My Mom Smokes Weed (Clay Liford, 17 m)
-Adelaide (Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, 12 m)
-Touch (Jen McGowan, 11 m)
-The Last Cigarette (Brooke Sebold, 7.5 m)
-No Country For Old Yeller (Arbi Pedrossian, 9.5 m)
-Down In Number 5 (Kim Spurlock)
-On The Road To Tel Aviv (Khen Shalem, 15 m)

FFF Shorts Program #4: Extinguish - 4/10
-some boys don't leave (Maggie Kiley, 16 m)
-Laredo, Texas (Topaz Adizes, 11 m)
-Herbert White (James Franco, 14 m)
-Make Up (Scott Tuft, 14 m)
-Quietly (Cole Wiley, 17 m)
-Meth (Michael Maney, 24 m)

FFF Midnight Shorts - 4/10
-My Rabit Hoppy (Anthony Lucas, 3 m)
-Fiddlestixx (David Zellner, 3 m)
-Cosmic Honeymoon (Ondrej Rudavsky, 1.5 m)
-BMZ (Bazillion Mile Zone) (Corky Quakenbush, 1.5 m)
-Tub (Bobby Miller, 12.5 m)
-Shit Chronicles V (Andy London & Zachery Newton, 2 m)
-Feeder (Joseph Ernst, 4 m)
-Rocky: Negative Arne/Swingers (Martin Kellerman, 4 m)
-Lambs (Stephen Huff, 12.5 m)
-Mother's Day (David Lobser, 2 m)
-52 Takes of the Same Thing, Then Boobs (T. Arthur Cottam, 4 m)
-True Confessions (Ian Miller, 1.5 m)
-Beautiful As You Are (Doug Mallette, 7 m)
-Hot Dog (Ondrej Rudavsky, 2 m)
-Renegades (Jim Hosking, 12 m)
-Oral Report (Daniella Urdinlaiz, 3.5 m)
-Treevenge (Jason Eisener, 16 m)

Yamasong (Sam K. Hale, 7 m) - 4/11
The Young Composers Challenge (Lisa Mills, 93 m) - 4/11

FFF Shorts Program #3: Smolder - 4/11
-Ana's Playground (Eric D. Howell, 20 m)
-The One Last Time (Scott Weintrob, 9.5 m)
-Daughters (Chloe Zhao, 9.5 m)
-Cigarette Candy (Lauren Wolkstein, 13 m)
-Waiting Room (Katharine O'Brien, 9 m)
-Love Bug (Kat Candler, 7 m)
-Tired of Being Funny (Rodrigo Garcia, 30 m)

My Life As Cherry (Jennifer Yu, 11.5 m) - 4/12
Lost Sparrow (Chris Billing, 78 m) - 4/12
The S From Hell (Rodney Ascher, 9 m) - 4/12
Best Worst Movie (Michael Paul Stevenson, 93.5 m) - 4/12
Don't Let Me Drown (Cruz Angeles, 99 m) - 4/13
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields (Kerthy Fix & Gail O'Hara, 85 m) - 4/13
Lovely, Still (Nik Fackler, 92 m) - 4/14

FFF Shorts Program #1: Ignite - 4/14
-Winner: Best Short Film (Peter Meech, 4 m)
-Charlie and the Rabbit (Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, 9.5 m)
-The Antagonist (Jessie McCormack, 10.5 m)
-Jitensha (Bicycle) (Dean Yamada, 21 m)
-Me Time (Matt Schuman, 10.5 m)
-La Viuda (The Widow) (David Martin-Porras, 19 m)
-The New Tenants (Joachim Back, 21 m)

FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts - 4/14
-Cartoon Show (Aaron Augenblick, 2 m)
-Pigeon Impossible (Lucas Martell, 6 m)
-Divers (Paris Mavroidis, 3 m)
-The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (Bill Plympton, 6 m)
-#Circlepic (Bryan Brinkman, 1 m)
-The Incident at Tower 37 (Chris Perry, 11 m)
-The Mouse That Soared (Kyle T. Bell, 6 m)
-Lightheaded (Mike Dacko, 5 m)
-The Machine (Rob Shaw, 5 m)
-Tales Of Mere Existence: "God" and "My Darling?" (Lev Yilmaz, 6 m)
-The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! (Jake Armstrong, 6 m)
-Gretel & Hanzel (Gianna Ruggiero, 2.5 m)
-Believe Me (Roland & Kelly Bigelow Becerra, 17 m)
-Down to the Bone (Peter Ahern, 4 m)
-N.A.S.A. A Volta (Alexei Tylevich, 4.5 m)
-Alma (Rodrigo Blaas, 5.5 m)

Homewrecker (Todd & Brad Barnes, 87 m) - 4/14
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 120 m) - 4/15
Obselidia (Diane Bell, 95 m) - 4/16
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch, 98 m) - 4/16
Stoney (Jacob LaMendola, 16 m) - 4/16
A Million in the Morning (Jason Goldwatch, 58 m) - 4/16

FFF Florida Shorts: The Best of Brouhaha - 4/17
-Picture Day (Ken J. Adachi, 17.5 m)
-World On Fire (Chris Greider, Matthew Hutchens, & Matthew Tinley, 3 m)
-Space Town, Last Stop Before the Moon (Ryan Kindel, 8 m)
-Dim Sum (Jin Sop Kum, 2.5 m)
-Oxygen (Christopher Hendryx, 2.5 m)
-Frank-N-Brain (Michael Hollander, 2.5 m)
-Happy Birthday Jesus (Stanley Pomianowski, 4.5 m)
-The Cost (Michael Hamill, 16 m)
-Keep Your Head Up (Michael Patti, 2 m)
-The Exposition Report (Jesse Chapman, 9.5 m)
-Heavenly Appeals (David Lisbe, 2.5 m)
-Nuri (Kendra Vander Vliet, 2 m)
-The Monster (Andreas Theodorou, 2 m)
-Suspensions (Madeline Eberhard & Natasha Narkiewicz, 13.5 m)

New Low (Adam Bowers, 82 m) - 4/17

FFF International Animated Shorts - 4/17
-Codswallop (The Brothers McCleod, 3 m)
-El Empleo (Santiago "Bou" Grasso, 6.5 m)
-Please Say Something (David O'Reilly, 10 m)
-Retouches (Georges Schwizgebel, 6 m)
-Ink (Justine Wallace, 11 m)
-Runaway (Cordell Barker, 9 m)
-Fard (David Alapont & Luis Briceno, 13 m)
-Land of the Heads (Cedric Louis & Claude Barras, 6 m)
-Wings and Oars (Vladimir Leschiov, 5.5 m)
-Variété (Roelof Van Den Bergh, 5 m)
-Oranus (Mari-Liis Bassovskaja & Jelena Girlin, 17 m)

Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 95 m) - 4/17
The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi, 106 m) - 4/24

Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 124 m) - 5/9

Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 104 m) - 6/10
Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 109 m) - 6/10
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener, 90 m) - 6/20
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 127 m) - 6/30

Solitary Man (Brian Koppelman & David Levien, 90 m) - 7/3
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 103 m) - 7/18
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 148 m) - 7/18
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 104 m) - 7/25
Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass, 91 m) - 7/26

Salt (Phillip Noyce, 100 m) - 8/7
Eclipse (David Slade, 124 m) - 8/7
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 100 m) - 8/8
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger, 93 m) - 8/11
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 112 m) - 8/14
Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 103 m) - 8/26

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 112 m) - 9/4
The American (Anton Corbijn, 103 m) - 9/6
Easy A (Will Gluck, 92 m) - 9/23
The Town (Ben Affleck, 123 m) - 9/24
Easy A (Will Gluck, 92 m) - 9/25
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone, 133 m) - 9/26

The Social Network (David Fincher, 121 m) - 10/2
The Social Network (David Fincher, 121 m) - 10/3
Disorder (Olivier Assayas, 91 m) - 10/11
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger (Woody Allen, 98 m) - 10/15
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 101 m) - 10/28
I'm Still Here (Casey Affleck, 108 m) - 10/28

Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim, 111 m) - 11/9
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates, 146 m) - 11/19

Love and Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 112 m) - 12/4
127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 94 m) - 12/18
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 108 m) - 12/24

DVD Journal - 2010

Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, 88 m) - 1/1
Coraline (Henry Selick, 96 m) - 1/5
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 103 m) - 1/11
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 74 m) - 1/12
You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 95 m) - 1/15
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos, 92 m) - 1/18
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 87 m) - 1/23
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 114 m) - 1/25

In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 106 m) - 2/2
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 112 m) - 2/8
Alexander the Last (Joe Swanberg, 72 m) - 2/10
Peter and Vandy (Jay DiPietro, 95 m) - 2/13
Lollilove (Jenna Fischer, 64 m) - 2/14

New Moon (Chris Weitz, 130 m) - 3/20
Revanche (Götz Spielmann, 121 m) - 3/21
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 136 m) - 3/21
Elsewhere (Nathan Hope, 106 m) - 3/21
Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, 101 m) - 3/22
The Rocker (Peter Cattaneo, 102 m) - 3/23
Camp (Todd Graff, 114 m) - 3/24

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon, 43 m) - 4/10
Law Abiding Citizen (F. Gary Gray, 108 m) - 4/26

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 87 m) - 5/30

She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 84 m) - 6/20
Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 119 m) - 6/20
I'm Reed Fish (Zackary Adler, 93 m) - 6/21
Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner, 94 m) - 6/22
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 138 m) - 6/26
Post Grad (Vicky Jenson, 88 m) - 6/28
Stones in Exile (Stephen Kijak, 63 m) - 6/29

It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim, 98 m) - 7/3

Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker, 78 m) - 8/8
Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 80 m) - 8/11
Broken Windows (Tony Hickman, 97 m) - 8/16
Serious Moonlight (Cheryl Hines, 84 m) - 8/29
The September Issue (R.J. Cutler, 90 m) - 8/29
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (Kevin Rafferty, 105 m) - 8/30
The Art of the Steal (Don Argott, 101 m) - 8/31
Tales From the Script (Peter Hanson, 105 m) - 8/31

Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 126 m) - 9/22
The Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray, 79 m) - 9/23

Garden Party (Jason Freeland, 88 m) - 11/20
It's Complicated (Nancy Meyers, 120 m) - 11/26

Confessions of a Shopaholic (P. J. Hogan, 104 m) -12/6
The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson, 100 m) - 12/10
17 Again (Burr Steers, 102 m) - 12/12
Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, 99 m) - 12/20
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 63 m) - 12/20
Holy Rollers (Kevin Asch, 89 m) - 12/25
Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 98 m) - 12/26
Nice Guy Johnny (Edward Burns, 89 m) - 12/30