Films: 2009

[ninebelow]

I watched 103 films for the first time this year, substantially up on last year's 69. The reason for this is that I took out a subscription with LoveFilm. This meant I saw lots of very bad films but I also saw some very good ones indeed. Full list:

1) Hancock - An astonishing bodge job of an brilliant premise. Half fun, half shit.
2) Quantum Of

Comments

[drasecretcampus]

I wonder if you're unfair to Barton Fink - but then I guess something has to be minor. If i recall, they wrote it whilst having writers' block on Miller's Crossing, and it is a bit of a chamber piece. But it developed the figure of vengeance from Raising Arizona, which is central to No Country For Old Men - except, of course, it's less and less clear what the vengeance is for. In A Serious Man it's almost as if it's the Universe taking revenge.

It strikes me that someone - and not me, because I fear I would be too reductive - needs to get to grips with the Coen's Jewishness as expressed through their films, because I felt I was missing a lot in A Serious Man (at the same tome thinking it also a film that refuses any explanations for anything)

[communicator]

I must watch Synechdoche. I think Get Carter has an elegant structure which makes it deceptively more powerful than it seems. Doubt if that sentence even makes sense.

Yay for Ravenous.

[f4f3]

Wolverine was, indeed, balls.