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Happy new year! Hope you spent a merry Kwanzaa eggnogging yourself into oblivion. 2010 marks Screen Machine&#8217;s second year in operation and what better way for a website to celebrate such an occasion than with a list! Here are the Top 20 Films of 2009 as chosen by the Screen Machine staff. Chosen from films that were released in Melbourne cinemas in 2009 or were given a festival screening here, we&#8217;ve tried to create a list that is more intriguing than authoritative. Who wants just another list shuffling around the usual suspects in a slightly different order? Well, unavoidably there&#8217;s a bit of that here, but hopefully there are films here you love already, some that you hate and a few that you haven&#8217;t seen but will want to seek out. This is a list to ignite discussion rather than to canonise. Enjoy! &#8211; The Screen Machine Staff
20. Samson and Delilah &#8211; dir. Warwick Thornton


[Screen Machine's original review]
The opening of Warwick Thornton&#8217;s debut feature film is redolent with atmospheric beauty. The remarkable slo-mo sequence of a boy waking up and sniffing petrol is a dreamy segue into the repetitive and destructive world of the two teenage protagonists. This film presents a vivid insight for those of us who are privy to the usual negative media stereotypes of isolated desert communities. Rarely aided by dialogue, Samson and Delilah – who appear to be chosen for one another – go from worse to ruinous. But the film is alive with incredible attention&#8230;]]></description>
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