2010 Favorites

Best of 2010

2010 Films

(set at the end of 2010)

1. The New Year
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. The Social Network
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Rubber
7. Never Let Me Go
8. Shutter Island
9. The American
10. True Grit

(including films seen later)

1. The New Year
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. The Social Network
5. Blue Valentine
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Rubber
8. Never Let Me Go
9. Shutter Island
10. The American

All Films See in 2010

Loved

• Le samourai
• In the Mood for Love
• Mean Streets
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Playtime
• The Long Goodbye
• Nashville
• The New Year
• Inception
• Black Swan
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• True Romance
• Woodstock
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller
• 28 Weeks Later
• Lady for a Day
• Never Let Me Go
• Targets
• The Godfather Part II
• Deep Red
• Monsieur Verdoux
• The Social Network
• Shutter Island
• Rubber
• The American
• Memories of Murder
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Julia’s Eyes
• HaHaHa
• Toy Story 3
• Hearbeats
• Yojimbo
• Nanook of the North
• Thirst
• Trafic
• Splice
• Parade
• The Good, the Bad, the Weird
• Redline
• The Fly
• Dog Sweat
• 13 Assassins
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
• A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop
• The Big Trail
• Freeway
• American Madness
• It Might Get Loud
• Tokyo Drifter
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Irma Vep

Really Liked

• Badlands
• Mother
• Revanche
• Blood Simple
• The Myth of the American Sleepover
• Winter’s Bone
• Caged
• Agora
• LiTTLEROCK
• House
• Boy
• The Orphanage
• House of the Devil
• Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
• Coraline
• The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
• Outrage
• Opera
• The Spanish Prisoner
• The Narrow Margin
• Bunny Lake is Missing
• House on Haunted Hill
• Red
• Animal Kingdom
• After Hours
• Ink
• 13 Ghosts
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• La Pointe Courte
• MASH
• Intimate Lighting
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• Le combat dans l’ile
• The Tingler
• Foxy Brown
• The Old Dark House
• Silent Light
• The Ghost Writer
• Ikiru
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Z
• My Night at Maud’s
• The Battle of Algiers
• Bright Star
• Black Snake Moan
• The Secret of Kells
• Junior Bonner
• Jackie Brown
• The Miracle Woman
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Great Directors
• Bibliotheque Pascal
• The Story of Temple Drake
• Nightmare Alley
• Centurion
• The Girl Who Knew Too Much
• F for Fake
• The Time Machine
• The Masque of the Red Death
• Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
• Sunnyside Up
• The Day of the Triffids
• Kick Ass
• The Square
• What’s Up Lovely
• Funny Girl
• Micmacs
• New York Lately
• Wild at Heart
• Homicidal
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• White Zombie
• Play It As It Lays
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Up Series
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
• The Runaways
• Mr. Sardonicus

Liked

• They Live By Night
• Mystery Team
• Strait-Jacket
• A Double Tour
• Cafe Noir
• Free Radicals
• Film Socialisme
• Session 9
• A Woman of Paris
• Cash on Demand
• Kisses
• Cloverfield
• Daisies
• In the Loop
• Tron Legacy
• THX 1138
• Kansas City Confidential
• Resident Evil: Afterlife
• Chico & Rita
• The Hurt Locker
• The Claim
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
• Take Aim at the Police Van
• Cargo
• The Exorcist
• A Fool There Was
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Secret Agent
• Cold Weather
• Pulsar
• A Perfect Getaway
• The End of August at the Hotel Ozone
• Link
• House of Wax
• I Am Comic
• Dune
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
• No Good Deed
• Jubal
• Model Shop
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen
• Night Moves
• The Scenesters
• The Weather Station
• The Matinee Idol
• The Losers
• Platinum Blonde
• Hugo the Hippo
• Black Moon
• The Cardboard Lover

Albums

1. Jenny and Johnny – I’m Having Fun Now
2. Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
3. Stars – The Five Ghosts
4. Warpaint – The Fool
5. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
6. The New Pornographers – Together
7. Seaspin – Reverser (EP)
8. Best Coast – Crazy for You
9. Mates of State – Crushes
10. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
11. Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
12. Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
13. She & Him – Volume Two
14. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
15. Kathryn Calder – Are You My Mother?
16. Admiral Radley – I Heart California
17. Kaki King – Junior
18. Depreciation Guild – Spirit Youth
19. Vampire Weekend – Contra

Live Shows

1. Belle & Sebastian / Jenny and Johnny @Palladium
2. Stars @Troubadour/Glass House
3. Jenny and Johnny @Troubadour
4. Broken Social Scene @Amoeba
5. Kaki King @Glass House
6. Los Campesinos! @Glass House
7. Seaspin @Spaceland
8. Mates of State @Echo
9. The Submarines / Obi Best @Bootleg
10. The Belle Brigade / The Whispertown 2000 (Morgan solo) @Bootleg