01. ESSENTIAL KILLING
02. FAUST
03. THE TURIN HORSE
04. A SEPARATION (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
05. MELANCHOLIA
06. TYRANNOSAUR
07. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
08. LE QUATTRO VOLTE
09. WOMB
10. RESTLESS
11. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
12. ARCHIPELAGO
First my top 6 so far this year:
1. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
3. Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos)
4. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
6. Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
And I was bored waiting for the coffee shop to open this morning so I can wake up and actually do something today, so I went over the last three pages of this thread (posts from the last month), and made an ‘unofficial mubi top 2011 films list’. I gave 5 points to first place, 4 to second, and so on. For lists that weren’t in order, I gave 15 points in total, so each film in a list of five got 3 points, and if the list was longer, each film got fewer points. Horribly pedantic, I know! :-) I made no effort to weed out 2010 films, and possibly counted someone’s votes twice if he or she posted more than once. Oops! Anyway, in case anyone cares, these are the films with at least 10 points (so at least the equivalent of two first place votes):
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 103 points)
2. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 62.25 points)
3. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 36 points)
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 29.5 points)
5. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 21 points)
6. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 16 points)
7. Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 15 points)
8. The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne Brothers, 14 points)
9. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 10.25 points)
10. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 10 points)
10. The Ides of March (George Clooney, 10 points)
10. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 10 points)
10. Hanna (Joe Wright, 10 points)
10. Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti, 10 points)
10. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 10 points)
1 – Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn
2 – Shame, Steve McQueen
3 – Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek
4 – King of Devil’s Island, Marius Holst
5 – I saw the Devil, Kim Jee-Woon
01. The Tree Of Life
02. Beginners
03. Melancholia
04. Drive
05. Izlet
Have not seen La Piel Que Habito, nor The Turin Horse, Alps or A Separation… really curious about those four though.
1 – Never Let Me Go (Mark Romaanek)
2 – Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
3 – Shame (Steve McQueen)
4 – Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti)
5 – I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-Woon)
In no particular order:
- Drive
- Tyrannosaur
- 13 Assassins
- The Tree of Life
- Jane Eyre
Honorable Mentions to Poetry and Take Shelter.
There are so many good ones listed by others that aren’t released here (Cleveland) until January.
1. Copie Conforme
2. Drive
3. The Illusionist
4. Shame
5. The Tree of Life
Worst:
1. The Eagle
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. Green Lantern
4. Thor
5. Polisse
Currently it looks like this.
Top:
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Tree of Life
Melancholia
Shame
Drive
Bottom:
The Dish and the Spoon
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Rite
The Beaver
Drive Angry 3D
Best 5 in this order:
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Pina
Le Havre
Halt auf freier Strecke
The Tree of Life
Best 5 Films of the year 2011
1- Le gamin au vélo ( The Kid with a Bike) : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
2- Pina: Wim Wenders
3- Melancholia: Lars von Trier
4- Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen
5- La piel que habito ( The Skin i live in) : Pedro Almadovar
@Miasma ,
Wow, with the exception of Tinker Tailor, my list looks exactly like yours. You got good taste! haha
Best 5
1. The Tree Of Life
2. Certified Copy
3. The Descendants
4. Midnight In Paris
5. Melancholia
Worst:
30 Minutes Or Less
There are still some films I’ve been keeping an eye on that I haven’t seen yet – most notably Le Havre, Carnage, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Skin I Live In, Shame, The Artist, Mysteries of Lisbon, Hugo, Tinker Tailor, Take Shelter, A Dangerous Method, but even not counting any of those I think 2011 has been a good year.
My top 5:
1. The Turin Horse
2. A Separation
3. Drive
4. Tyrannosaur
5. Midnight In Paris
Worst:
1. Captain America
2. Thor
3. Martha Marcy Mary May Whatever
4. Rise of The Planet of The Apes
5. Horrible Bosses
TOP TEN – in order
Tree of Life
Shame
Hugo
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Moneyball
The Artist
Take Shelter
Margin Call
The Descendants
Mine are based on Los Angeles public screenings (commercial release or festivals).
BEST
1. Redland
2. The Tree of Life
3. The Turin Horse
4. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
5. Margaret
WORST
1. Horrible Bosses
2. Bad Teacher
3. Restless
4. Another Earth
5. General Orders No. 9
^Redland? Seriously?
That was a weird ass movie.
Best:
1. The Tree of Life
2. The Artist
3. Drive
4. Melancholia
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin
Worst…well, honestly I think there are too many that deserve a spot here.
Best:
1. Hugo
2. The Descendants
3. The Tree of Life
4. Margaret
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
*Tree of Life
*Un Separation
*Midnight in Paris
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
*We Need to Talk about Kevin
*No Strings Attached
*Goodbye First Love
*Your Highness
*Crazy Horse
*The Hangover: Part 2
My Top 5
The Tree of Life
Melancholia
Midnight in Paris
Shame
The Ides of March
My Worst 5
Red State
Bad Teacher
Hall Pass
The Green Hornet
Rubber
@ Flip Trotsky – Thanks for the stats!
It’d be interesting to see these stats in another month or so, after people have had a chance to see everything and make a definitive list. I’d be curious to see Mubi do a poll of their favorite films of 2011 and see what films get the most votes. Have we ever done this before for a end of the year poll?
It seems like the general consensus is that The Tree of Life, Melancholia, and Drive are all overwhelming favorites among a lot of people. A Separation also seems to have a lot of love although a lot of people haven’t had a chance to see it yet since it hasn’t released theatrically in the U.S.
My top 5:
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
Oh mama mia, Tree of Life??? It is absolutely on my worst list for the century so far. I must be part of the wrong thread here. I thought it was no better or worse than a large budget life insurance ad, edited perfectly to hold the attention of distracted and visually illiterate viewers. I’m posting this to you Santino, just to say there is no general consensus here. I thought it was the most pedestrian and the most pretentious film I’d seen in years… and yet, perhaps this is not a contradiction but a wholly consistent summary of its failure, to be both tedious and self-important all at once. The door frames on the beach as thresholds to the next life … eeeeck!!! No humour, no lightness, no subtlety, just a big hard, continual slap in the face, in case the viewer didn’t quite get it with the first platitudinous slap.
Best, in no particular order:
1. A Separation
2. Take Shelter
3. Kung Fu Panda 2 (yes, really)
4. I Saw the Devil
5. The Last Circus
Worst, also in no particular order:
1. The Twlight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
2. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
3. Gnomeo and Juliet
4. Killer Elite
5. Cook County
at this point the bottom 5 looks like
5.13 or Little Deaths (tie)
4.Cars 2
3.Super 8
2.Cowboys & Aliens
1.Bridesmaids
@Jan: “I thought it was no better or worse than a large budget life insurance ad”
You say that like that’s a bad thing. Who doesn’t like a good life insurance ad? :-)
@Santino: “Thanks for the stats! It’d be interesting to see these stats in another month or so,”
No problem! I was going through this thread anyway to figure out which films to see. I haven’t been around mubi long enough to know if or how year-end polls are done, but I’d be happy to tabulate the data for one.
The trick I think is that you don’t call it a poll. I think if people knew they were listing their five favorites and at the end they’d all be tabulated into one survey, people might list different films. In other words, “Even though Tree of Life is my favorite film, I’m not going to list it because it’ll already get a lot of votes. So I’m going to list blah blah blah instead.” I wouldn’t do that but I have to think some might (if anything, I might add Bridesmaids to my list just to irritate Den – haha). I think people are much more honest when they don’t know what their list is being used for.
Best:
1. Drive
2. The Tree of Life
3. Melancholia
4. The Ides of March
5. Another Earth
Worst:
1. Scream 4
2. Thor
3. Unknown
4. Limitless
5. Super 8
20 favorites as of today:
1. The Tree of Life (Terence Malick, 2011)
2. Hadikduk HaPnimi (Intimate Grammar, Nir Bergman, 2010)
3. Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn, 2011)
4. Café de flore (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011)
5. Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)
6. Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, 2011)
7. Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli), 2011)
8. The Help (Tate Taylor), 2011
9. Copy Conforme (Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
10. The Artist
11. Margin Call (J.C. Chandor, 2011)
12. Terri (Azazel Jacobs, 2011)
13. The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011)
14. Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
15. Play (Ruben Ostlund, 2011)
16. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
17. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
18. In Film Nist (This is Not a Film, Mojitaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi, 2010)
19. Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
20. Jane Eyre (Cary Fukanaga, 2011)
Honorable Mention
The Ides of March, In a Better World, Le Quattro Volte, The Conspirator, Winter in Wartime, Life, Above All, Alamar, Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
Most Disappointing:
Martha Marcy May Marlene, Like Crazy, Le Havre, Win Win, Margaret, Beginners, Super 8, Midnight in Paris, Hugo
OnASteamer
Best, in no order:
- The Tree of Life (Malick)
- Point Blank (A Bout Portant) (Fred Cavayé)
- Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine)
- Black Swan (Aronofsky)
- Troll Hunter (André Øvredal)
Worst:
- The Adjustment Bureau (Nolfi)
- Hanna (Wright)
…and I just can’t understand the love for Midnight in Paris at all.