{"id":3907,"date":"2009-12-31T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2010-06-03T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:02:42","slug":"brandons-favorite-movies-on-video-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3907","title":{"rendered":"Brandon’s Favorite Movies on Video, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a great movie year here at Casa Brandon. Generally good hit-to-miss ratio, skipping most of the crap (except of course during SHOCKtober). I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of the 42 titles on this here top-30 list.<\/p>\n

1. Sunset Blvd.<\/a><\/em> (1950, Billy Wilder)<\/strong>
\n2. Powell\/Pressburger: I Know Where I’m Going!<\/a><\/em> \/ A Matter of Life and Death<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n3. My Winnipeg<\/a><\/em> (2007, Guy Maddin)<\/strong>
\n4. Agn\u00e8s Varda: Le Bonheur<\/a><\/em> \/ 101 Nights of Simon Cinema<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n5. Orlando<\/a><\/em> (1992, Sally Potter)<\/strong>
\n6. Pontypool<\/a><\/em> (2008, Bruce McDonald)<\/strong>
\n7. John Ford: Judge Priest<\/a><\/em> \/ The Sun Shines Bright<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n8. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America<\/a><\/em> (1992, Craig Baldwin)<\/strong>
\n9. Black Cat, White Cat<\/a><\/em> (1998, Emir Kusturica)<\/strong>
\n10. Rio Bravo<\/a><\/em> (1959, Howard Hawks)<\/strong>
\n11. The Young One<\/a><\/em> (1960, Luis Bunuel)<\/strong>
\n12. The Power of Nightmares<\/a><\/em> (2004, Adam Curtis)<\/strong>
\n13. Frank Borzage: Seventh Heaven<\/a><\/em> \/ Lazybones<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n14. The Naked City<\/a><\/em> (1948, Jules Dassin)<\/strong>
\n15. The Color of Pomegranates<\/a><\/em> (1970, Sergei Parajanov)<\/strong>
\n16. Werner Herzog: Fitzcarraldo<\/a><\/em> \/ Burden of Dreams<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n17. Johnny To: Mad Detective<\/a><\/em> \/ Exiled<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n18. Looney Tunes: Back in Action<\/a><\/em> (2003, Joe Dante)<\/strong>
\n19. Jacques Demy: Donkey Skin<\/a><\/em> \/ Lola<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n20. Black Dynamite<\/a><\/em> (2009, Scott Sanders)<\/strong>
\n21. Time<\/a><\/em> (2006, Kim Ki-duk)<\/strong>
\n22. Frank Tashlin: Hollywood or Bust<\/a><\/em> \/ Susan Slept Here<\/a><\/em> \/ Son of Paleface<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n23. Mon Oncle d’Amerique<\/a><\/em> (1980, Alain Resnais)<\/strong>
\n24. Woman in the Dunes<\/a><\/em> (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)<\/strong>
\n25. Raoul Ruiz: Comedy of Innocence<\/a><\/em> \/ Zig-Zag<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n26. Joan the Maid<\/a><\/em> (1994, Jacques Rivette)<\/strong>
\n27. Takashi Miike: Big Bang Love<\/a><\/em> \/ Bird People in China<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n28. Nashville<\/a><\/em> (1975, Robert Altman)<\/strong>
\n29. Claire Denis: Trouble Every Day<\/a><\/em> \/ Friday Night<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\n30. The Good, the Bad and the Weird<\/a><\/em> (2008, Ji-woon Kim)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some good runners-up: Magnificent Obsession<\/a><\/em>, Dance of the Seven Veils<\/a><\/em>, Suspiria<\/a><\/em> and three<\/a> by<\/a> Oshima<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year’s Edward Burns Memorial Award<\/strong>, given to the movie I saw this year which I have already mostly forgotten, goes to Finye (The Wind)<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which Katy says she remembers just fine.<\/p>\n

The Alien Resurrection Award<\/strong>, given to a movie I liked which nobody else did, is proudly presented to Takeshi Kitano for Achilles and the Tortoise<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, indeed for his entire career-self-destruction trilogy. Back when I saw Kitano’s Fireworks in the late 90’s I’d been hearing about what a great artist he was and I started to agree, but then acclaim mysteriously intensified after his mediocre Zatoichi remake, then it died off completely when he made this daring, exciting trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a great movie year here at Casa Brandon. Generally good hit-to-miss ratio, skipping most of the crap (except of course during SHOCKtober). I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of the 42 titles on this here top-30 list. 1. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder) 2. Powell\/Pressburger: I Know Where I’m Going! \/ A Matter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}