ZPB's Top Thirty-Three Seen in 2011

By: Zachary Phillip Brailsf​ord

These are the films that I saw for the first time NOT from 2011 that I enjoyed most. Shout out, too, to Last Train Home, by Lixin Fan, one extraordinary documentary.

Best rewatch of the year goes to Miami Vice, by Michael Mann.

Reasoning/descriptions coming soon:

33. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
32. Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
31. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
30. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
29. The Train Stop (Sergei Loznitsa, 2000)
28. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
27. Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura, 1964)
26. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
25. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
24. The Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage, 1987)
23. Oxhide (Liu Jiayin, 2005)
22. At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
21. The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
20. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
19. Ne Change Rien (Pedro Costa, 2009)
18. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
17. My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
16. Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima, 1968)
15. Northern Light (Sergei Loznitsa, 2008)
14. In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
13. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
12. On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, 1957)
11. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1975)
10. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-luc Godard, 1997)
9. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
8. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)
7. Every-Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse, 1933)
6. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
5. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
4. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
2. Film Socialisme (Jean-luc Godard 2010)
1. Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999)

• 01
  Belfast, Maine
  Frederick Wiseman
• 02
  Film socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 03
  Céline and Julie Go Boating
  Jacques Rivette
• 04
  The Terrorizers
  Edward Yang
• 05
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  Werner Herzog
• 06
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 07
  Every-Night Dreams
  Mikio Naruse
• 08
  Vengeance Is Mine
  Shôhei Imamura
• 09
  Oxhide II
  Liu Jiayin
• 10
  Histoire(s) du cinéma
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 11
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 12
  On the Bowery
  Lionel Rogosin
• 13
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 14
  In Vanda's Room
  Pedro Costa
• 15
  Northern Light
  Sergei Loznitsa
• 16
  Death by Hanging
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 17
  My Neighbors the Yamadas
  Isao Takahata
• 18
  Beau travail
  Claire Denis
• 19
  Ne change rien
  Pedro Costa
• 20
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 21
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 22
  At Land
  Maya Deren
• 23
  Oxhide
  Liu Jiayin
• 24
  The Dante Quartet
  Stan Brakhage
• 25
  Millennium Actress
  Satoshi Kon
• 26
  Fox and His Friends
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 27
  Intentions of Murder
  Shôhei Imamura
• 28
  Le samouraï
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 29
  The Train Stop
  Sergei Loznitsa
• 30
  Man with a movie camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 31
  Topsy-Turvy
  Mike Leigh
• 32
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 33
  New Rose Hotel
  Abel Ferrara