What I watched in 2009

I put a lot of hours into film watching last year. Although I only went to the theatre four times (and regretted it twice), I bought a number of films for my personal library, caught a few with groups of friends and watched a surprising amount on streaming internet video.

Although I'm mostly interested in classic film, I did watch a bit of schlock in 2009; heck, some of the older films I watched weren't that hot either. It just goes to show that "classic" was invented by ad agencies, not critics.

Below I've listed every film I watched for the first time in 2009:

• Across the Pacific (1942)
• Aeon Flux (2005)
• Alien Resurrection (1997)
• American Madness (1932)
• And Then There Were None (1945)
• Battle of Britain (1969)
• Bedlam (1946)
• Being There (1979)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
• Body of Lies (2008)
• Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1937)
• Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
• A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
• The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
• The Cat and the Canary (1939)
• The Changeling (1980)
• Collateral (2004)
• The Dam Busters (1955)
• Dark City (1998)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• Doctor X (1932)
• Fast and Furious (2009)
• Fighter Pilot - Operation Red Flag (2004)
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• The Game (1997)
• Gamer (2009)
• The Grand Illusion (1937)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• Halloween II (1981)
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
• Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001)
• A History of Violence (2005)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
• I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
• The Illusionist (2006)
• The Insider (1999)
• The Iron Giant (1999)
• Journey Into Fear (1943)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
• The Lives of Others (2006)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Mad Love (1935)
• The Magic of Flight (1996)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Mulan (1998)
• Murder! (1930)
• My Cousin Vinny (1992)
• The Old Dark House (1932)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• Our Man in Havana (1959)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
• Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
• The Public Enemy (1931)
• Ran (1985)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
• Reefer Madness (1936)
• Robin and Marian (1976)
• Rocky (1976)
• Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• The Seventh Victim (1943)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green (1945)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• The Spiral Staircase (1946)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Stand by Me (1986)
• Syriana (2005)
• Targets (1968)
• Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003)
• This Gun for Hire (1942)
• Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
• Twins of Evil (1971)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Unknown Chaplin (1983)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• The Vampire Lovers (1970)
• The Verdict (1982)
• The Walking Dead (1936)
• WALL-E (2008)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Watchmen (2009)
• Wild Women of Wongo (1958)
• X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)

Some of these films I now count among my personal favorites; Dark City completely blew me away and I watched it about four times in 2009. I also strongly recommend Being There, Full Metal Jacket, Gunga Din, Hoop Dreams, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Judgment at Nuremberg, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Letters From Iwo Jima, the Lives of Others, the Lost Weekend, My Cousin Vinny, Our Man in Havana, the Ox-Bow Incident, the Prisoner of Zenda, Ratatouille, Rocky, the Spiral Staircase, Targets, Unforgiven and WALL-E to anyone who hasn't seen them.