nobody cares about your goddamn top ten list

1. 35 Shots of Rum (dir. Claire Denis)
2. The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
3. Up (dir. Pete Docter)
4. Burma VJ (dir. Anders Østergaard)
5. Rachel Getting Married (dir. Jonathan Demme)
6. A Serious Man (dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen)
7. Fantastic Mr Fox (dir. Wes Anderson)
8. Bronson (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
9. Love Aaj Kal (dir. Imtiaz Ali)
10. Sin Nombre (dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Close but no cigar: JCVD (dir. Mabrouk El Mechri); White Lightnin' (dir. Dominic Murphy); In The Loop (dir. Armando Ianucci); Duplicity (dir. Tony Gilroy); Slumdog Millionaire (dirs. Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan), Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)

...I didn't listen to many albums in '09, but I saw films.

not the rhythm of the...

I sat down and watched Claire Denis' Beau Travail last night and, yeah, it's gorgeous and like not much I've seen before. I'm not going to say that I absolutely fell head-over-heels in love with it like I did to her recent 35 Shots of Rum (why haven't you seen it, reader? do you want to admit you've not seen the best film of the year?) but it's really good and I eagerly anticipate the next time I cross paths with it.

I tried to find a clip of the musically-charged final scene but due to not being able to (and also not wanting to spoil the delightful surprise of it actually happening), I've embedded Cat Power's video for the song "He War", which includes some of the gorgeous gorgeous imagery from Denis' film. Take my word for it: let the HQ version load.