These are the films i am most looking forward to seeing in 2009 - the ones that if i were told i could only see 10 would be the chosen. Sure there are others i want to see (a lot) but for one reason or another these are the top 10 (in no order):1. Avatar - James Cameron is back and he brought Siggy Weaver with him for a sci-fi 3D spectacular. Can. Not. Wait! I spoke to him about this project in June 2006 so it's been a looooooooooong time coming. Come on Christmas!
2. Gran Torino - Clint brings kick-ass Clint and awards-kudos Clint together for the first true time since Unforgiven. The greatest working director in my opinion i'm so looking forward to February for the UK release on this one and am just pissed that it didn't get a UK awards run.
3. Coraline - I am a huge fan of Nightmare Before Christmas and the 
creatures of Life Aquatic, less so James & the Giant Peach, but regardless a new Henry Selick film is cause to celebrate. Hoping it's good.
creatures of Life Aquatic, less so James & the Giant Peach, but regardless a new Henry Selick film is cause to celebrate. Hoping it's good.4. Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea - Miyazaki = brilliance, plain and simple and this looks great. The imagery makes me think Totoro and as that is my favourite of the master's work that can't be a bad thing!
5.The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus - despite a shakey decade or so my love of Terry Gilliam remains undiminished and i am really looking forward to what sounds like another wacky adventure from Gilliam. Great to hear he's back at work on Don Quixote finally but in the meantime we have this to keep us happy. Ledger's last film of course - it's amazing to think that the concept of his character becoming other actors in other worlds (Depp and Farrell, yeah, and Jude Law, oh well can't all be winners!) was forced on the movie, it's just so damn Gilliam!
6. Whatever Works - after the very funny Vicky Cristina Barcelona Woody Allen is back in New York for the first time since Melinda & Melinda in 2004. As if that weren't enough reason to watch it it stars Larry David! David and Allen in New York, sounds like a winning formula to this Allen fanatic! Plus the always reliable Patricia Clarkson, the hilarious Michael McKean and the excellent in The Wrestler Evan Rachel Wood are all along for the ride.
7. Up - A Pixar movie is always good reason to be excited. When the closest things to let downs the studio has ever produced are Cars and A Bug's Life you know you're on safe ground. That said they seem determined to continue to test the limits of commercialism following the brilliant and critically acclaimed but slightly lacking in box office luster WALL-E with a film about a geriatric adventurer! No doubt it'll be amazing but will the public love it?8. The Human Factor - mark my words Best Actor Oscar for 2009 resides here. You heard it here first. Morgan Freeman has been involved in a Nelson Mandela project since 2000 when he was first linked to A Long Walk to Freedom and had numerous meetings with Mandela about playing him. Now finally we are set to see Freeman finally play Mandela. Enough of an Oscar chance in itself, but who has this Mandela/Freeman project bagged as director? Yup, it's living legend Clint "Oscar" Eastwood! Lest we forget Clint got Freeman his first Oscar win with Million Dollar Baby. No one else need compete this year Freeman has surely got this sown up - real-life character, instantly recognisable around the world, Clint "Oscar" Eastwood.
9. Watchmen
- I am so intrigued by this project. I'm not especially attached to the comic book but it was interesting and the film looks very faithful to the comic so sure to look amazing. But will this so-called "unfilmable" comic really work on the big screen? Looking forward to finding out.
- I am so intrigued by this project. I'm not especially attached to the comic book but it was interesting and the film looks very faithful to the comic so sure to look amazing. But will this so-called "unfilmable" comic really work on the big screen? Looking forward to finding out.10. Star Trek - I am also very intrigued by this. Not having a massive attachment to the original Trek stories or actors i am happy to see a massive reboot. Some of the the bits in the trailed annoy me, but others look awesome. Can "good at ideas but not follow-through" director JJ Abrams reinvent Star Trek for a whole new audience? Again, looking forward to finding out.
Runners up: The Box, Shutter Island, State Of Play, Synecdoche New York, Where The Wild Things Are.
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