My favorite narrative films of 2011 (theatrical + festival)

By: Don Simpson - SLSS

Notably missing from MUBI:
- You Hurt My Feelings
- Slacker 2011

• 01
  Meek's Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• 02
  Attenberg
  Athina Rachel Tsangari
• 03
  Green
  Sophia Takal
• 04
  Tomboy
  Céline Sciamma
• 05
  When We Leave
  Feo Aladag
• 06
  Beginners
  Mike Mills
• 07
  She Monkeys
  Lisa Aschan
• 08
  Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Sean Durkin
• 09
  Weekend
  Andrew Haigh
• 10
  Shame
  Steve McQueen
• 11
  The Future
  Miranda July
• 12
  Film socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 13
  Bellflower
  Evan Glodell
• 14
  Take Shelter
  Jeff Nichols
• 15
  Turn Me On, Goddammit
  Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
• 16
  Drive
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 17
  Hesher
  Spencer Susser
• 18
  Wuss
  Clay Liford
• 19
  Carré blanc
  Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
• 20
  Submarine
  Richard Ayoade
• 21
  Bad Fever
  Dustin Guy Defa
• 22
  The Dish & the Spoon
  Alison Bagnall
• 23
  Le Havre
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 24
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  David Fincher
• 25
  Gabi on the Roof in July
  Lawrence Michael Levine
• 26
  The Color Wheel
  Alex Ross Perry
• 27
  Bridesmaids
  Paul Feig
• 28
  Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 29
  Carnage
  Roman Polanski
• 30
  Beyond the Black Rainbow
  Panos Cosmatos
• 31
  The Artist
  Michel Hazanavicius
• 32
  Silver Bullets
  Joe Swanberg
• 33
  Treatment
  Sean Nelson
• 34
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 35
  13 Assassins
  Takashi Miike
• 36
  The Lie
  Joshua Leonard
• 37
  Kaboom
  Gregg Araki
• 38
  The Trip
  Michael Winterbottom
• 39
  Like Crazy
  Drake Doremus
• 40
  Jane Eyre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 41
  My Joy
  Sergei Loznitsa
• 42
  Trigger
  Bruce McDonald
• 43
  My Sucky Teen Romance
  Emily Hagins
• 44
  Sal
  James Franco
• 45
  The Dynamiter
  Matthew Gordon
• 46
  Rabies
  Aharon Keshales
• 47
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  Tomas Alfredson
• 48
  Passenger Pigeons
  Martha Stephens
• 49
  Elektra Luxx
  Sebastian Gutierrez
• 50
  The Salt of Life
  Gianni Di Gregorio
• 51
  Headhunters
  Morten Tyldum
• 52
  Familiar Grounds
  Stéphane Lafleur
• 53
  A Somewhat Gentle Man
  Hans Petter Moland
• 54
  Lotus Eaters
  Alexandra McGuinness
• 55
  My Last Round
  Julio Jorquera Arriagada
• 56
  Uncle Kent
  Joe Swanberg
• 57
  Snowtown
  Justin Kurzel
• 58
  Blackthorn
  Mateo Gil
• 59
  Contagion
  Steven Soderbergh
• 60
  The Muppets
  James Bobin
• 61
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 62
  The Escape of the Monkey Woman
  Felipe Bragança
• 63
  Detachment
  Tony Kaye
• 64
  The Last Screening
  Laurent Achard
• 65
  The Catechism Cataclysm
  Todd Rohal
• 66
  The Colors of the Mountain
  Carlos César Arbeláez
• 67
  Five Time Champion
  Berndt Mader
• 68
  The Innkeepers
  Ti West
• 69
  The Salesman
  Sébastien Pilote
• 70
  Hipsters
  Valeriy Todorovskiy
• 71
  The Adjustment Bureau
  George Nolfi
• 72
  A Screaming Man
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• 73
  Extraterrestrial
  Nacho Vigalondo
• 74
  London River
  Rachid Bouchareb
• 75
  Win Win
  Thomas McCarthy
• 76
  Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
  Annie Howell
• 77
  Sleep Tight
  Jaume Balagueró
• 78
  Incendies
  Denis Villeneuve
• 79
  The Troll Hunter
  André Øvredal
• 80
  Poetry
  Lee Chang-dong
• 81
  If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
  Florin Şerban
• 82
  Sleepless Night
  Frédéric Jardin
• 83
  Tyrannosaur
  Paddy Considine
• 84
  Septien
  Michael Tully
• 85
  I Melt with You
  Mark Pellington
• 86
  Roadie
  Michael Cuesta
• 87
  Silent Souls
  Aleksei Fedorchenko
• 88
  We Need to Talk About Kevin
  Lynne Ramsay
• 89
  Source Code
  Duncan Jones
• 90
  Midnight in Paris
  Woody Allen
• 91
  Rage
  Sebastián Cordero
• 92
  You Instead
  David Mackenzie
• 93
  Flowers of Evil
  David Dusa
• 94
  The Ides of March
  George Clooney
• 95
  Livid
  Julien Maury
• 96
  Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• 97
  Autoerotic
  Joe Swanberg
• 98
  Clown: The Movie
  Mikkel Nørgaard
• 99
  Little Sparrows
  Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen
• 100
  Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• 101
  Mad Bastards
  Brendan Fletcher
• 102
  Neds
  Peter Mullan