2009 Media Diet (movies only)

First of all, this list began on July 8th.

Secondly, movies seen outside of movie theatres are included (DVDs, televised, etc).

Third, all movies listed are first-time viewings (Movies seen prior to the list were not listed in the instance of a repeated viewing).

1. Vozvrashcheniye/The Return (Zvygintsev, 2003)
2. La Strada/The Road (Fellini, 1954)
3. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)
4. Martyrs (Laugier, 2008)
5. À l'intérieur/Inside (Bustillo/Maury, 2007)
6. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
7. Coraline (Selick, 2009)
8. The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987)
9. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968)
10. Seppuku/Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
11. Il y a longtemps que je t'aime/I’ve loved you so long (Claudel, 2008)
12. Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937)
13. The Good Fairy (Wyler, 1935)
14. Monster A Go-Go (Rebane, 1965)
15. Mar adentro/The Sea Inside (Amenábar, 2004)
16. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
17. The Others (Amenábar, 2001)
18. Le Cercle Rouge/The Red Circle (Melville, 1970)
19. Salem’s Lot (Hooper, 1979)
20. American Movie (Smith, 1999)
21. Okuribito/Departures (Takita, 2008)
22. The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel/Schoedsack, 1932)
23. In The Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)
24. Mamma Roma (Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
25. Cure (Kurosawa, 1997)
26. Chan Is Missing (Want, 1982)
27. Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (Neely, 2001)
28. The World’s Greatest Sinner (Carey, 1962)
29. The Giant Spider Invasion (Rebane, 1975)
30. Sugata Sanshiro (Kurosawa, 1943)
31. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (Briski/Kauffman, 2004)
32. Safety Last (Newmeyer, Taylor, 1923)
33. District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009)
34. Oklahoma! (Zinnemann, 1955)
35. Nóz w wodzie/Knife in the Water (Polanski, 1962)
36. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Conran, 2004)
37. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (Hughes, 1987)
38. Le sang d'un poète/Blood of the Poet (Cocteau,1930)
39. Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)
40. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Richter, 1984)
41. Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz, 1955)
42. Hunger (McQueen, 2009)
43. Blood on the Sun (Lloyd, 1945)
44. Bright Future (Kurosawa, 2003)
45. Ronin-gai (Kuroki, 1990)
46. Gojira (Hashimoto/Kizer, 1984)
47. Offret/The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
48. Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv/For My Father (Zahavi, 2008)
49. Un baiser s'il vous plait/Shall We Kiss? (Mouret, 2007)
50. Bronson (Refn, 2008)
51. House of the Devil (West, 2009)
52. Afghan Star (Marking, 2009)
53. Chugyeogja/The Chaser (Hong-Jin, 2008)
54. Asur et Asamar (Ocelot, 2006)
55. Reporter (Metzgar, 2009)
56. La lengua de las mariposas/Butterfly (Cuerda, 1999)
57. Il Divo (Sorrentino, 2008)
58. No Impact Man (Gabbert, 2009)
59. We Live In Public (Timoner, 2009)
60. Four Boxes (McGill, 2009)
61. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Fuest, 1971)
62. Witchfinder General (Reeves, 1968)
63. Munyurangabo (Isaac Chung, 2007)
64. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
65. Film ist a Girl & a Gun (Deutsch, 2009)
66. Time (Kim Ki-Duk, 2006)
67. The Mouse That Roared (Arnold, 1959)
68. Murder By Death (Moore, 1976)
69. The Proposition (Hillcoat, 2005)
70. Clash of the Titans (Davis, 1981)
71. Zombieland (Fleischer, 2009)
72. Sayonara Jupiter (Hashimoto, 1984)
73. Kárhozat/Damnation (Tarr, 1987)
74. Død snø/Dead Snow (Wirkola, 2009)
75. The Midnight Meat Train (Kitamura, 2008)
76. Orphée/Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)
77. Faces of Death (Schwartz, 1978)
78. Dèmoni/Demons (Bava, 1985)
79. Paura nella città dei morti viventi/City of the Living Dead (Fulci, 1980)
80. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes/Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
81. A Serious Man (Coen, 2009)
82. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Shrader, 1985)
83. Salò (Pasolini, 1975)
84. Purana Mandir/The Old Temple (Ramsay, 1984)
85. La maschera del demonio/Black Sunday (Bava, 1960)
86. Manos: The Hands of Fate (Warren, 1966)
87. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sargent, 1974)
88. Mari iyagi/My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Seong-kang, 2002)
89. James Cagney: Top of the World (Lindahl, 1992)
90. Torrid Zone (Keighley, 1940)
91. From Hell (Hughes/Hughes, 2001)
92. The Men Who Stare At Goats (Heslov, 2009)
93. Cherry 2000 (Jarnatt, 1987)
94. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
95. Food, Inc. (Kenner, 2008)
96. Kairo/Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001)
97. Stellet Lict/Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007)
98. Jigoku no keibîn/The Guard From Underground (Kurosawa, 1992)
99. Modus Operandi (Latina, 2009)
100. Shane (Stevens, 1953)
101. Terrorvision (Nicolaou, 1986)
102. A Christmas Carol (Zemeckis, 2009)
103. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian, 1931)
104. The Changeling (Medak, 1980)
105. The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934)
106. Torn Curtain (Hitchcock, 1966)
107. Pale Rider (Eastwood, 1985)
108. The Picture of Dorian Grey (Lewin, 1945)
109. Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009)
110. Chi bi/Red Cliff (Woo, 2008)
111. Bakjwi/Thirst (Chan-wook Park, 2009)
112. Seom/The Isle (Kim-Ki Duk, 2000)
113. À ma soeur!/Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
114. Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
115. All That Money Can Buy (Dieterle, 1941)
116. Passage to Marseille (Cutiz, 1944)
117. Bogart: The Untold Story (Hunt, 1996)
118. Take the Money and Run (Allen, 1969)
119. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Pollack, 1969)
120. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Werker, 1939)
121. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Wilder, 1970)
122. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Lanfield, 1939)
123. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (Rawlins, 1942)
124. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (William Neill, 1943)
125. Sherlock Holmes in Washington (William Neill, 1943)
126. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (William Neil, 1943)
127. The Sleeping Cardinal (Hiscott, 1931)
128. Meet the Robinsons (Anderson, 2007)
129. Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
130. The New World (Malick, 2005)
131. Day the World Ended (Corman, 1955)
132. One, Two, Three (Wilder, 1961)
133. The Cameraman (Sedgwick, 1928)
134. Mitt liv som hund/My Life As A Dog (Hallström, 1985)
135. The Innocents (Clayton, 1961)
136. Invictus (Eastwood, 2009)
137. The Hangover (Phillips, 2009)
138. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Mueller, 2004)
139. The Man Who Came to Dinner (Keighley, 1942)
140. Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)

This list was made possible by peer-pressure from friends and enemies alike.