Film Diary 2009
by ianbrd | created - 28 Aug 2011 | updated - 05 Sep 2011 | PublicTOTAL 38
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1. Australia (2008)
PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo
Votes: 129,683 | Gross: $49.55M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7-
DATE: 6 January
2. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 259,513 | Gross: $34.19M
CINEMA: Empire 8
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6
DATE: 13 January
3. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Votes: 877,081 | Gross: $141.32M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 8
DATE: 20 January
4. Frost/Nixon (2008)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell
Votes: 112,401 | Gross: $18.59M
CINEMA: Empire 4
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 23 January
5. Revolutionary Road (2008)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie
Votes: 224,809 | Gross: $22.91M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 3 February
6. Doubt (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Mystery
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
Votes: 136,004 | Gross: $33.42M
CINEMA: Empire 2
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6
DATE: 6 February
7. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 51,169 | Gross: $12.80M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7
DATE: 10 February
8. Gun Crazy (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 14,791
CINEMA: NFT 3, South Bank
LOCATION: London
RATING: 6
DATE: 27 February
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Votes: 2,866,217 | Gross: $534.86M
CINEMA: BFI IMAX, Waterloo
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7 [IMAX version]
DATE: 1 March
10. The Class (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 36,379 | Gross: $3.77M
CINEMA: Odeon 3, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7+
DATE: 2 March
11. Gran Torino (2008)
R | 116 min | Drama
After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her
Votes: 814,179 | Gross: $148.10M
CINEMA: Empire 5
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7+
DATE: 13 March
12. The Damned United (2009)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington
Votes: 45,886 | Gross: $0.45M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6
DATE: 31 March
13. Star Trek (2009)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 619,914 | Gross: $257.73M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7-
DATE: 19 May
14. Anything for Her (2008)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Director: Fred Cavayé | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch, Olivier Marchal
Votes: 9,761
CINEMA: Cineworld 3, Haymarket
LOCATION: London
RATING: 6
DATE: 21 June
15. Red Cliff (2008)
R | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
Director: John Woo | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 48,466 | Gross: $0.63M
CINEMA: Odeon 1, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7+
DATE: 22 June
16. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 376,374 | Gross: $5.01M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 5
DATE: 21 July
17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
PG | 153 min | Action, Adventure, Family
As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon
Votes: 594,744 | Gross: $301.96M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7-
DATE: 28 July
18. Coco Before Chanel (2009)
PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain
Votes: 42,079 | Gross: $6.11M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 11 August
19. Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
R | 113 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche
Votes: 35,257 | Gross: $0.55M
CINEMA: Odeon 1, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7
DATE: 23 August
20. 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: 34,034 | Gross: $2.53M
CINEMA: Odeon 3, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 6
DATE: 24 August
21. Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)
R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan
Votes: 31,204 | Gross: $0.28M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7-
DATE: 1 September
22. Broken Embraces (2009)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez
Votes: 42,656 | Gross: $5.01M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7+
DATE: 8 September
23. Julie & Julia (2009)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.
Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 128,746 | Gross: $94.13M
CINEMA: Empire 7
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6
DATE: 11 September
24. District 9 (2009)
R | 112 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood
Votes: 716,117 | Gross: $115.65M
CINEMA: Empire 3
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 4
DATE: 15 September
25. Away We Go (2009)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A couple expecting their first child travels the U.S. seeking the perfect "family home." They have misadventures and find fresh connections with relatives and old friends who help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Carmen Ejogo
Votes: 55,056 | Gross: $9.45M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6
DATE: 22 September
26. Up (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 1,122,937 | Gross: $293.00M
CINEMA: Odeon 11, Metro Centre
LOCATION: Gateshead
RATING: 7+
DATE: 14 October
27. Air Doll (2009)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Bae Doona, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri
Votes: 8,116
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7
DATE: 24 October
28. Samson & Delilah (II) (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton
Votes: 3,762
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7-
DATE: 24 October
29. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
R | 127 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, William Black, Jimmy Carter, Elijah Cummings
Votes: 43,854 | Gross: $14.36M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (Surprise Film)
RATING: 6-
DATE: 25 October
30. Les beaux gosses (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in among a varied cast of characters.
Director: Riad Sattouf | Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolières, Julie Scheibling
Votes: 4,384
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 5
DATE: 25 October
31. Villa Amalia (2009)
94 min | Drama
Villa Amalia is the story of Ann, a musician, whose life is turned upside down by a kiss. When she sees Thomas kissing another woman, Ann makes a clean break, leaving him and everything ... See full summary »
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois, Maya Sansa
Votes: 1,103
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 6
DATE: 25 October
32. A Prophet (2009)
R | 155 min | Crime, Drama
A young Algerian man is sent to a French prison.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb
Votes: 102,124 | Gross: $2.08M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7
DATE: 26 October
33. Taking Woodstock (2009)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton
Votes: 29,998 | Gross: $7.44M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 6
DATE: 27 October
34. Tres dies amb la família (2009)
86 min | Drama
When Léa comes back to her family for the burial of her grandfather, she's get to know the actual nature of their members' relationship.
Director: Mar Coll | Stars: Nausicaa Bonnín, Eduard Fernández, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ramon Fontserè
Votes: 559
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 5
DATE: 27 October
35. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
R | 94 min | Comedy, War
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
Director: Grant Heslov | Stars: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 137,488 | Gross: $32.43M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 5
DATE: 17 November
36. 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: 149,722 | Gross: $9.19M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7
DATE: 1 December
37. 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: 138,105 | Gross: $12.57M
CINEMA: Apollo 2, West End
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7
DATE: 20 December
38. Nine (2009)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori
Votes: 45,231 | Gross: $19.68M
CINEMA: Odeon West End 1
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7
DATE: 21 December
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