Top 10 Favorite Films of 2011

By: Cinebea​ts

Slowly compiling a list of the best new films I saw in 2011 – Films are listed in alphabetical order

Films I want to see (with varying degrees of enthusiasm) that may … or may not … appear on my list after I get the opportunity to view them (Bold titles are HIGH on my ‘must see’ list):
13 ASSASSINS
THE ARTIST
BEGINNERS
CARNAGE
A DANGEROUS METHOD
FILM SOCIALISME
GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE
THE LAST CIRCUS
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
NORWEGIAN WOOD
OUTSIDE SATAN
POETRY
THE RAID
SHAME
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
SNOWTOWN
TAKE SHELTER
TREE OF LIFE
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

*Some films were released in 2010 but didn’t get released in the US until 2011

Other films worth mentioning that almost made my list: BLACK DEATH, TABLOID, WAKE WOOD, I SAW THE DEVIL and TROLL HUNTER.

• 01
  Attack the Block
  Joe Cornish
• 02
  The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  Göran Hugo Olsson
• 03
  Brighton Rock
  Rowan Joffe
• 04
  Eames: The Architect and the Painter
  Jason Cohn
• 05
  How I Ended This Summer
  Alexei Popogrebsky
• 06
  Jane Eyre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 07
  Kill List
  Ben Wheatley
• 08
  Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• 09
  Mildred Pierce
  Todd Haynes
• 10
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  Tomas Alfredson