Top 10 or so of 2011: the first year I've actually tried to watch new releases - REVISED

By: tomas.roges

this is an attempt to put together a list of the top 10 films of 2011. It’s a list of top 10 or so because there have been several films that I’ve seen throughout the year that I like equally so there are many ties for a given spot. I could make it a top 20 or so, but that’s not something I want to do. a top 10 seems much more important anyway.

Starting from the bottom up, lets get to it…

10.

Bullhead

Sleeping Beauty

Silver Bullets

Melancholia

The Skin I Live In

5.
tie

Weekend

Martha Marcy May Marlene

4.
tie

The Kid With The Bike

We Need to Talk About Kevin

3.
tie

Bellflower

The Future

Shame

1.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

And of course no one can see every supposed great film of any year so here are several that could have affected my list if I had the chance to check them out.

Hors Satan dir. Bruno Dumont
The Turin Horse dir. Bela Tarr
Archipelago dir. Joanna Hogg
This is Not a Film dir. Jafar Panahi
Two Years at Sea dir. Ben Rivers
Shit Year dir. Cam Archer

01

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Nuri Bilge Ceylan
02

Shame

Steve McQueen
03

Bellflower

Evan Glodell
04

The Future

Miranda July
05

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsay
06

The Kid with a Bike

Jean-Pierre Dardenne
07

Weekend

Andrew Haigh
08

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Sean Durkin
09

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodóvar
10

Melancholia

Lars von Trier
11

Silver Bullets

Joe Swanberg
12

Sleeping Beauty

Julia Leigh
13

Bullhead

Michaël R. Roskam

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Steve Pulaski

20Feb12

Can't agree with you on "Another Earth." I found the film to be beautiful in its art direction, but shallow and dense in everything else. The film is predominately occupied by silence, and everything is murky and annoyingly ambiguous. I'd love to call the Rhonda character great, but she seemed to be reading off a list of what depressed and quiet women should be like. I am glad to see some love for "Midnight in Paris." That was a marvelous and positive film.

tomas.roges

20Feb12

I'm am quite an advocate of ambiquity. I find that it makes the viewer much more involved. It's inclusion was also due to my experience in watching it. I was able to sit down and chat with actor William Mapother about the film which made me enjoy it that much more. He's from Louisville along with cousin Tom Cruise and has had a lot to do with the local film community which I'm grateful to be a part of. I've always been and probably always will be a big Woody fan.
tomas.roges

20Feb12

Also with all the othe films I've gotten to see from the past year, I'm sure this list would t be the same if I were to update it.
Steve Pulaski

20Feb12

I don't mind ambiguity, for I like my movie experiences to be full of life and contemplation, but there is a point where it becomes overkill. Literally everything in "Another Earth" seemed to represent something or another. Talking to an actor would definitely be quite an experience. But if there's one thing that stood out from "Another Earth" it was the enriching photography. Not to mention it was done on such a miniscule budget. When I first saw the trailer I thought it would be a blockbuster, until I read more about it.
tomas.roges

20Feb12

Oh yeah definitely. Cahill knows what he's doing with a camera. Dude used to shoot in ridiculous situations for national geographic. People often don't realise how inexpensive to make films. It also helps when you do a lot of the major work yourself too without having to hire too many people.