30 Personal Favorites Of 2009

1. Roman Holiday (William Wyler) 1953
2. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1964
3. Il Sorpaso / Le Fanfaron (Dino Risi) 1962
4. The Great Ziegfield (Robert Z.Leonard) 1936
5. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) 1964

6. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk) 1952
7. The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 2004
8. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) 1955
9. Never Say Goodbye (James V.Kern) 1946
10. Spendor In The Grass (Elia Kazan) 1961

11. Monika (Ingmar Bergman) 1953
12. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati) 1949
13. Parlons Femmes (Ettore Scola) 1964
14. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen) 1985
15. The Intruder (Roger Corman)1962

16. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi) 1996
17. The Children's Hour (William Wyler) 1961
18. Quand Passent Les Cigognes (Mikhail Kalatozov) 1958
19. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
20. No Highway In The Sky (Henry Koster) 1951

21. The Road To Memphis (Richard Pearce & Robert Kenner) 2003
22. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) 1944
23. The Foutainhead (King Vidor) 1949
24. En Compagnie De Max Linder (Trois films de sa période américaine début 20's)
25. Bonne Chance ! (Sacha Guitry) 1935

26. Le Gout De La Cerise (Abbas Kiaromasti) 1997
27. Le Vase De Sable (Yoshitaro Nomura) 1974
28. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey) 1937
29. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick) 1951
30. Guess Who's Coming For Dinner (Stanley Kramer) 1967



Et pour quelques films de plus : Hatari (Howard Hawks), Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks) 1964, One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch) 1932, Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch) 1932 Magnificient Obsession (Douglas Sirk) 1954, No Room For The Groom (Douglas Sirk) 1952, Boomerang! (Elia Kazan) 1947, Wild River (Elia Kazan) 1960, The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock) 1956, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irving Reis) 1947, Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon) 1933, Atlantic City U.S.A (Louis Malle) 1980, The Big Combo (Joseph H.Lewis) 1955, Kiss Of Death (Henry Hathaway) 1947, Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) 1947, Stormy Weather (Andrew L.Stone) 1943, Deliverance (John Boorman) 1972, Knock (Guy Lefranc) 1951, The Valley Of Decision (Tay Garnett) 1945, A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) 1949, Sciuscià (Vittorio De Sica) 1946, The Brink's Job (William Friedkin), Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks) 1960, The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda) 1947, Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) 1961, The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood) 1942, Young Mr Lincoln (John Ford) 1939, Tin Star (Anthony Mann) 1957, A Nous La Liberté (René Clair) 1931, La Nuit Américaine (Francois Truffaut) 1973, Casino (Martin Scorsese) 1995, The Bad News Bears (Michael Richie) 1976, A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 2006

Top Ten, January 2010

29 films.




1. ex aequo New York, New York (Martin Scorsese) 1977 / To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan) 1962
3. Trust (Hal Hartley) 1990
4. The War Game (Peter Watkins) 1965
5. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin) 1947
6. Boys Don't Cry (Kimberley Peirce) 1999
7. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley) 1989
8. Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura) 1976
9. Le Cimetière De La Morale (Kinji Fukusaku) 1975
10. Annie Hall (Woody Allen) 1977

Top Ten, December 2009

23 films.


1. No Highway In The Sky (Henry Koster) 1951
2. The Brink's Job (William Friedkin) 1978
3. Melinda & Melinda (Woody Allen) 2004
4. The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton) 1974
5. An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey) 1957
6. Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen) 1993
7. This Earth Of Mine (Henry King) 1959
8. Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman) 2008
9. Lo Scopone Scitentifica / L'Argent de la Vieille (Luigi Comencini) 1972
10. Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo) 1998

Top Ten, November 2009

20 films.

1. The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 2004
2. The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda) 1947
3. The Valley Of Decision (Tay Garnett) 1945
4. Days Of Glory (Jacques Tourneur) 1944
5. Angel (Ernst Lubitsch) 1937
6. The War Of The Roses (Danny DeVito) 1988
7. Barton Fink (Coen's brotha) 1991
8. American Gangster (Ridley Scott) 2007
9. La Vie D'un Honnête Homme (Sacha Guitry) 1952
10. The Great Sinner (Robert Siodmak) 1949

FLOP : The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma) 2006, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh) 1951

Top Ten, October 2009

30 films.

1. Never Say Goodbye (James V.Kern) Errol Flynn 1946
2. A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) 1949
3. The Children's Hour (William Wyler) 1961
4. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) 1961
5. Alice (Woody Allen) 1990
6. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) 1989
7. Victor Victoria (Blake Edwards) 1982
8. The Far Country (Anthony Mann) 1954
9. Man's Favorite Sport ? (Howard Hawks) 1964
10. Tin Star (Anthony Mann) 1957

11e ex-aequo : The Panic In Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg) 1971, L'Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (Truffaut) 1977, A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 2006

Bottom : Taken (Pierre Morel) 2008, Du Mouron Pour Les Petits Oiseaux (Marcel Carné) 1963, Witness (Peter Weir) 1985

Top Ten September 2009

31 fillms.

1. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1964
2. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) 1955
3. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick) 1962
4. Zelig (Woody Allen) 1983
5. Parlons Femmes (Ettore Scola) 1964
6. Le Gout De La Cerise (Ari Kiaromasti) 1997
7. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) 1944
8. Hannah & Her Sisters (Woody Allen) 1986
9. Magnificient Obsession (Douglas Sirk) 1954
10. The Squid & The Whale (Noah Baumbach) 2005

Top Ten, August 2009

30 films.

1. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) Peter Sellers 1964
2. Monika (Ingmar Bergman) Hariett Andersson 1953
3. Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch) Lionel Barrymore 1932
4. Sciuscià (Vittorio De Sica) 1946
5. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen) 1982
6. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen) Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels 1985
7. La Main Du Diable (Maurice Tourneur) 1943
8. One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch) Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald 1932
9. La Montée Au Ciel (Luis Bunuel) 1951
10. Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood) 1997