Roger Ebert's Selection of Best Feature Films of 2009
by meuisviocm | created - 23 Aug 2012 | updated - 23 Aug 2012 | PublicRoger Ebert / Best Feature Films of 2009
影評人 羅傑‧艾伯特 / 2009 年最佳劇情片
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‧Includes "The Top 10 Mainstream Films" (in alphabetical order)
‧Includes "Special Jury Prize"
‧Includes "The Top 10 Independent Films" (in alphabetical order)
‧星號 * 表示台灣譯名未定
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http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_2009.html
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1. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer
Votes: 80,892 | Gross: $1.70M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：爆裂警官
2. Crazy Heart (2009)
R | 112 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, James Keane
Votes: 94,650 | Gross: $39.46M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：瘋狂的心
3. An Education (2009)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams
Votes: 138,145 | Gross: $12.57M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：名媛教育
4. The Hurt Locker (2008)
R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Votes: 473,686 | Gross: $17.02M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：危機倒數
5. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,583,438 | Gross: $120.54M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：惡棍特工
6. Knowing (2009)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson
Votes: 247,468 | Gross: $79.96M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：末日預言
7. Precious (II) (2009)
R | 110 min | Drama
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
Votes: 116,223 | Gross: $47.57M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：珍愛人生
8. A Serious Man (2009)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Votes: 149,876 | Gross: $9.19M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：正經好人
9. Up in the Air (I) (2009)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ryan's job is to travel around the country firing off people. When his boss hires Natalie, who proposes firing people via video conference, he tries to convince her that her method is a mistake.
Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
Votes: 349,340 | Gross: $83.82M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：型男飛行日誌
10. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,623 | Gross: $2.22M
The Top 10 Mainstream Films Title(Taiwan)：白色緞帶
11. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,386,130 | Gross: $760.51M
Special Jury Prize Title(Taiwan)：阿凡達
12. Departures (2008)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama
Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Votes: 54,965 | Gross: $1.50M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：送行者~禮儀師的樂章
13. Disgrace (2008)
R | 119 min | Drama
After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
Director: Steve Jacobs | Stars: John Malkovich, Natalie Becker, Jessica Haines, Eriq Ebouaney
Votes: 5,825 | Gross: $0.07M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：屈辱
14. Everlasting Moments (2008)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, History
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall
Votes: 5,956 | Gross: $0.61M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：璀璨瞬間
15. Goodbye Solo (2008)
R | 91 min | Drama
Two men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Lane 'Roc' Williams
Votes: 6,154 | Gross: $0.87M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：再見索羅*
16. Julia (2008)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.
Director: Erick Zonca | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould
Votes: 6,956 | Gross: $0.00M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：茱莉亞
17. Silent Light (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,838 | Gross: $0.05M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：寂靜之光
18. Sin Nombre (2009)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado
Votes: 34,045 | Gross: $2.53M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：罪惡代碼*
19. Skin (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 107 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Director: Anthony Fabian | Stars: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge
Votes: 3,714
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：膚色*
20. Trucker (2008)
R | 90 min | Drama
A trucker, leading a life free of depth and on the way to nowhere, is forced to make a decision about her aggressive loner 11-year-old son whom she openly deserted ten years previously.
Director: James Mottern | Stars: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Joey Lauren Adams
Votes: 3,592 | Gross: $0.05M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：卡車司機*
21. You, the Living (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jan Wikbladh, Björn Englund
Votes: 16,288 | Gross: $0.02M
The Top 10 Independent Films Title(Taiwan)：啊！人生
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