A Weak Year for Cinema, but Here are the Most Memorable of 2009

Top 10 Most Memorable Films of 2009, in no particular order:

- Inglorious Basterds
- Away We Go
- The Hurt Locker
- The Brothers Bloom
- An Education
- Two Lovers
- Summer Hours
- 500 Days of Summer
- This is It

And from the ones I still haven't seen, but my gut feeling tells me they would make the most memorable list (well, the competition is not that stiff in 2009, so it's sufficient to put out a decent, somewhat thought provoking film, to stand out in the pack):

- Where the Wild Things Are: because it brought us all back to childhood, even the Euros and non-Americans who never ever read the book as bedtime reading during childhood
- Antichrist: because it tests your tolerance for the most abstract and head turning self mutilation and violence
- Bright Star: because it marks the return of the glorious Jane Campion and a return to romanticism and poetry
- Broken Embraces: because it is the director-muse definitional movie
- Up in the Air: timely, Clooney and addressing an increasingly pressing issue of the human kind: lack of real connectivity among people
- Up

War is a Drug: Kathryn Bigelow's Raw and Intense "The Hurt Locker" (2009)

WAR IS A DRUG.