Sight & Sound's Films of 2010

By: Kenji

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cannes winner)

As voted in the British publication’s annual poll of (63) critics, in edition published at the end of November 2010. The Prophet came top the previous year, ahead of White Ribbon, but still collected late-comer votes this time round

1.The Social Network
2.Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3.Another Year
4.Carlos
5.The Arbor
6= I Am Love
Winter’s Bone
8=The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Film Socialisme
Nostalgia for the Light
Poetry
A Prophet
13= Certified Copy
Meek’s Cutoff
15= Aurora
Dogtooth
Enter the Void
The Illusionist
Mysteries of Lisbon
Of Gods and Men
Toy Story 3
22=Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Four Times
The Ghost Writer
My Joy
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Silent Souls

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4 films by women- The Arbor (Clio Barnard), Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik), Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt) and Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes). Sofia Coppola’s Venice winner Somewhere got short shrift, and Japanese films performed very poorly. 6+ French films, 5 USA, 4+ British, 2+ Italy, 2 Romania, 1 Portugal, 1 South Korea, 1 Greece, 1 Thailand, 1 Russia, 1 Ukraine, 1 from Latin America, 1 by an Iranian, some mixed nationality films. 0 in the top 28 from China, Japan, India, Africa- the 4 teams that made the auteurs world cup semi-finals. The Social Network was the clear winner among US voters. Most participants were British (especially) or American, but there was an international smattering.

Here’s Sight & Sound link

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The Social Network

David Fincher
02

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
03

Another Year

Mike Leigh
04

Carlos

Olivier Assayas
05

The Arbor

Clio Barnard
06

I Am Love

Luca Guadagnino
07

Winter's Bone

Debra Granik
08

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu

Andrei Ujică
09

Film socialisme

Jean-Luc Godard
10

Nostalgia for the Light

Patricio Guzmán
11

Poetry

Lee Chang-dong
12

A Prophet

Jacques Audiard
13

Certified Copy

Abbas Kiarostami
14

Meek's Cutoff

Kelly Reichardt
15

Aurora

Cristi Puiu
16

Dogtooth

Giorgos Lanthimos
17

Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé
18

The Illusionist

Sylvain Chomet
19

Mysteries of Lisbon

Raúl Ruiz
20

Of Gods and Men

Xavier Beauvois
21

Toy Story 3

Lee Unkrich
22

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Werner Herzog
23

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Banksy
24

Le quattro volte

Michelangelo Frammartino
25

The Ghost Writer

Roman Polanski
26

My Joy

Sergei Loznitsa
27

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Sophie Fiennes
28

Silent Souls

Aleksei Fedorchenko

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unreceivedopinion

12Dec10

Oh, the eternal problem with critics' best of the year polls: the critics include films which haven't yet been put on general release. Okay, so you saw them this year, in this instance, probably at the London Film Festival - so did I, mostly, as it happens - but that doesn't make them films of this year. Films they've seen for the first time this year, perhaps, yes. Films 'of' this year. No. (And yes, they do pay attention to dates, because they rarely include re-releases of films which they might only have caught for the first time this year, now, do they?) There's a whiff of the high priest about it. Or the playground boast.

Aflwydd

9Dec10

The obsession of film critics with cultural and social relevance rears its head again.

Dimitris Psachos

9Dec10

"A Ruiz film in a critics' end-of-year "Best of" list!?!?!?!?!? That hasn't happened since "Time Regained" (1999)." which is funny since Time Regained is one of the least intriguing Ruiz films. not disastrous like some of his recent output but completely disoriented, even in the otherworldly enchantment of the novels.

ExperimentoFilm

2Dec11

COFRALANDES (2002) and DIAS DE CAMPO (2004) are two late masterpieces you would love, Dimitris!!

Frank W

2Dec10

Haven't seen the Social Network yet, but Uncle Boonmee has been my favourite film of the year so far. Copie Conforme and Another Year were good, but shouldn't be that high up the list I think.The Ghost Writer was really horrid. Japanese film hasn't been that bad this year. I thought Kakera was quite good, so was Miyoko and and I've yet to see a few of them, like Wakamatsu's Catterpillar. Another great Thai film: Mundane History, should also be up here. The list could also use more documentary film. Still a few films on there I have to check out and helpful as suggestions. Looking forward to Hong's Hahaha as well.