All films voted for in Sight & Sound magazine's critics' poll of the films of 2009
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Not all of the films are described by IMDb as 2009 as many voters were voting for films going by release dates in their own territories, or general release dates as opposed to festival release dates. This IMDb list ignores the mentions of revivals and best dvd releases in the Sight & Sound ballots, excepting Thomas Heise's Material, which seems to have been listed as a revival in order to get another name on the submitter's list (stated reason was "My favourite ‘revival release’ of 2009 is actually a new film, but it took 20 years to become what it is."). The Sight & Sound list also contains En Attendant Godard (William Brown), which according to IMDb wasn't released anywhere in the world until 2010, though we will give Jonathan Rosenbaum the benefit of the doubt and assume he saw it in 2009.
The Ferroni Brigade voted for Contact High and in their description also praised Das Vaterspiel in their blurb about Contact High, "A stoner comedy cum Glawoggerian magnum opus. One of the richest films of the decade, and even more astonishing as the yang to Glawogger’s great yin, Der Vaterspiel (Kill Daddy Good Night)." I have taken the liberty of considering them a pair and given the Ferronis six movies given both were released in 2009.
The Sight & Sound poll for the year 2010 also contained some films listed by IMDb as 2009, and not on this list including:
The Red Riding Trilogy (2009 - Julian Jarrold, James Marsh & Anand Tucker)
1 (2009 - Pater Sparrow)
Amer (2009 - Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Compline (2009 - Nathaniel Dorsky)
La bocca del lupo / The Mouth of the Wolf (2009 - Pietro Marcello)
Man on a Motorcycle (2009 - John Maclean)
Tetro (2009 - Francis Ford Coppola)
Down Terrace (2009 - Ben Wheatley)
Panique au village / A Town Called Panic (2009 - Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar)
Final Flesh (2009 - Ike Sanders)
The Pickers (2009 - Adam Chodzko)
Wei wen / Condolences (2009 - Liang Ying)
La vie au ranch / Chicks (2009 - Sophie Letourneur)
Gentlemen Broncos (2009 - Jared Hess)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009 - Werner Herzog)
Trash Humpers (2009 - Harmony Korine)
Pouta / Walking Too Fast (2009 - Radim Spacek)
Oil City Confidential (2009 - Julien Temple)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009 - Michael Moore)
Agora (2009 - Alejandro Amenábar)
The Secret of Kells (2009 - Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey)
Medeni mesec / Honeymoons (2009 - Goran Paskaljevic)
My Queen Karo (2009 - Dorothée Van Den Berghe)
Ajami (2009 - Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani)
Budrus (2009 - Julia Bacha)
Double Tide (2009 - Sharon Lockhart)
Kawasakiho ruze / Kawasaki's Rose (2009 - Jan Hrebejk)
El secreto de sus ojos / The Secret in Their Eyes (2009 - Juan José Campanella)
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (2009 - Jez Lewis)
Mavro livadi / Black Field (2009 - Vardis Marinakis)
Whatever Works (2009 - Woody Allen)
9:06 (2009 - Igor Sterk)
Voodoo Science Park (2009 - Steve Beard, Victoria Halford)
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009 - Abel Ferrara)
Persécution (2009 - Patrice Chéreau)
Videocracy (2009 - Erik Gandini)
Mother and Child (2009 - Rodrigo García)
Ivul (2009 - Andrew Kotting)
Ruhr (2009 - James Benning)
Alamar (2009 - Pedro González-Rubio)
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