Trevor Morris

Last year I listed my “what to come” movies and seven of them appear in my top list from this year, notably Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler and the alternate look on the vampire mythology in the Swedish movie Let the Right One In. However, I am still waiting to see Charlie Kaufman’s mind-bending directorial debut Synecdoche, New York as well as The Brøken and Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness.

I am most looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Nolan made one of my favourite ever movies, The Prestige, in-between his two successful Batman movies. I sincerely hope he can recreate the magic before he no doubt starts on his sequel to The Dark Knight. Inception, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Josepth Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy and Michael Caine sounds like another mind melting movie which I hope I can be on par with The Prestige or Memento.

Secondly would probably have to be Black Swan. Darren Aronofsky’s next movie after his much acclaimed The Wrester. A thriller involving rivalling ballet dancers staring Natalie Portman and teaming up with Clint Mansell for the score again. I have complete faith that Aronofsky can delight us again, something on the same level as The Fountain or Requiem for a Dream.

Robert Downey Jr. in the Iron Man sequel looks to be high on everyones list for the new year, especially since the first trailer looked very good indeed. I am very interested in seeing more of Michael Haneke’s work, since admiring Funny Games and especially after this years praise for his latest work; The White Ribbon.

Other movies which I am looking forward to see in 2010 are;

Festival Winners

Every year there are many film festivals all over the world, with some of the most famous events such as Cannes or Toronto hosting premiers of the most anticipated movies of the year. Reviews come flooding in by those lucky enough to attend these events. Some of the movies are destined to reach wide release not too soon after their festival premier, such as Quentin Tarantino’s pop-culture war movie Inglourious Basterds. However, there are tens of other movies which receive great reviews but more often than not they only receive a very limited release, at best. Even if they are picked up by a large studio they can take years to actually make it to the cinema or DVD. Non English speaking movies seem to fair even worse often going straight to high-priced DVDs. Below is a list of movies which may not make it in to the cinema, but I am extremely interested in seeing:

• The White Ribbon
• Thirst
• A Prophet
• Mother
• Sin Nombre

This is the fourth and last entry in the series documenting my review of 2009 in movies.