Howard,

Thanks for your comments. I'll respond to them one by one.

Bright Star and A Serious Man are films many are less positive about, seeing the first as a superficial romance, and unable to "get" A Serous Man -- it's widely taken as pointlessly cruel black humor. I see it as an honest portrait of aspects of American Jewish experience and, beyond that, of all human experience. Bright Star is just lovely, and full of pleasures as well as a celebration of English poetry. But I'm not surprised you differ on those two.

Yes Somers Town and Tulpan are 2008 releases, but they had their limited US theatrical releases in 2009.

I've seen Sin Nombre and reviewed it, but it isn't one of my personal favorites. Of the ones you have not seen (some by definite choice I believe) I think The Sun would be a must, though I don't know if you'll like it or not. Lake Tahoe I think you definitely would like.