Five Favorites:
1. Hugo
2. Beginners
3. Shame
4. Drive
5. Midnight in Paris
Five Most Disappointing:
1. The Artist (27)
2. Like Crazy (28)
3. The Sleeping Beauty (36)
4. Crazy, Stupid, Love. (29)
5. Cars 2 (38)
Five Pleasant Surprises:
1. Hanna (10)
2. Contagion (11)
3. Sleeping Beauty (12)
4. Rango (18)
5. X-Men: First Class (20)
Parentheses show overall ranking.
Favorites:
Warrior
13 Assassins
Attack the Block
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Drive
Surprises:
Warrior
Rango
Captain America: The First Avenger
Hanna
Tyrannosaur
Most Disappointing:
Paul
Thor
Super 8
My Week with Marilyn
Tabloid
Of the films i have seen
Best
Meek’s Cutoff
Melancholia
Hugo
13 Assassins
Tintin
Worst
Tree Of life
Rampart
Take Shelter
Want to see Once Upon a Time In Anatolia, Le Havre, Faust and Arthur Christmas
five best: MELANCHOLIA
THE GUARD
THE WARD
A DANGEROUS METHOD
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
the worst:THE TREE OF LIFE (I couldn’t care to watch till the end;boring,stupid and melodramatic)
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (good directing doesn’t prevent the film from being a total dissapointment:camp instead of cinema fantastique)
It is obvious that many movies might be incuded in the worst five, but I just didn’t go to see them;or I feel pointless including a film like CAPTAIN AMERICA. On the other hand, there are many that could easily make it into the list, were it a longer one.TINTIN, THE IDLES OF MARCH, CONTAGION are some that come to mind.There are also, of course, those I haven’t watched, for a variety of reasons (HUGO, for example hasn’t been released in Greece yet). And was Winterbottom’s THE TRIP included in this year’s films? I wasn’t sure or otherwise it would definitely hit it to the top!
Nasty business out of the way first. No film I saw this year (and indeed few films I’ve seen ever) are as profoundly stupid as Zack Snyder’s insipid “Sucker Punch”. “30 Minutes or Less”, “No Strings Attached”, “Your Highness”, and especially “The Hangover Part 2” all seemed soul suckingly un-funny when viewed through the prism of the current boom of American mainstream comedies.
Although I’m far from caught up on the cinema highlights of the year (I currently have copies of “Certified Copy”, “Melancholia”, “Margin Call” and many others waiting for me and plan on taking in “Hugo” in all its 3D glory as soon as I possibly can) I found the following films particularly satisfying.
Honorable mentions:
Moneyball
Bridesmaids
Rango
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Midnight in Paris
Now, on to the top five…
5. Drive
4. Super 8
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Descendants
1. The Tree of Life
The number one spot was a done deal the minute I finished watching “Tree of Life” for the first time. I cannot foresee anything overtaking it as my favorite of the year and one of the finest cinematic experiences of my life.
A predictable bunch, but my bunch nonetheless.
My Top 5:
Drive, The Tree of Life, Polytechnique, Certified Copy, and Bellflower
And the bottom 5:
Courageous, My Week with Marilyn, Battle: Los Angeles, Abduction, and I Saw the Devil
Updated list.
Best:
1.) The Tree of Life
2.) Take Shelter (interchangeable 1 and 2)
3.) A Separation
4.) Shame
5.) The Interrupters
Runners up: The Artist, 13 Assassins, Putty Hill, Drive, Incendies, Meek’s Cutoff, Margin Call, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Le Havre, Armadillo, Senna, Carnage, Beginners, Like Crazy, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Certified Copy, Midnight in Paris
Worst:
1.) Spy Kids in Smell-O-Vision
2.) Another Happy Day
3.) Red State
4.) Bridesmaids
5.) War Horse
Haven’t yet seen: The Turin Horse, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, Faust, The Kid With A Bike, Samsara, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Miss Bala, Margaret, Mysteries of Lisbon, Poetry, Tabloid, Into The Abyss, Le Quattro Volte, Pina, The Autobioraphy of Nicolae Ceausescu, Tyrannosaur, Kill List, Kinyarwanda, Aurora, The Mill and The Cross, among others.
Best:
1. Drive
2. The Skin I Live In
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
4. Tree of Life
5. Meek’s Cutoff
Worst:
i don’t know. larry crowne, bad teacher, just go with it, the change-up, others like those. not a strong year for comedy.
This Far:
A Separation
The Turin Horse
Once upon a time in Anatolia
The Skin I Live In
The Kid With a Bike
Yet to watch: Faust, Hugo, Almayer’s Folly, Shame, Mysteries of Lisbon.
Best ones:
The Skin I Live In
50/50
Melancholia
Surprises:
Hanna
Another Earth
Pina
Kill List
Turn Me On, Goddammit
Bad shit:
Abduction
The Human Centipede a wasn’t expecting anything good about it
The Tourist
That’s all i can get right now
Top
1. The Turin Horse
2. A Separation
3. Tyrannosaur
4. Carnage
5. The Mill & The Cross
Bottom
1. Hangover 2
2. Warrior
3. Larry Crowne
4. Horrible Bosses
5. Captain America
Pleasant Surprises
1. Another Earth
2. 50/50
3. The Guard
4. Terri
5. Hesher
Biggest Disappointments
1. Martha Marcy May Marlene
2. The Adjustment Bureau
3. Contagion
4. Win Win
5. Kill List
top
1. The Turin Horse
2. Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
3. Drive
4. Aurora
5. Le Quattro Volte
After a further consideration (re-watched a few films, caught up with a few others) and my list has morphed into the following:
Honorable mentions:
Moneyball
Bridesmaids
Rango
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Super 8
Drive
Now, on to the top five…
5. Midnight in Paris
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. The Descendants
2. Hugo
1. The Tree of Life
I really was not expecting to embrace “Hugo” as much as I did, but I think it’s a true masterpiece, engaging and transporting with the best use of 3D I’ve encountered. It’s really competitive for the number one spot. Those who say this year in film was a lackluster one are merely looking in the wrong places.
This will prob be the final ranking for a long while now!
1. The Tree of Life (Malick)
2. The Turin Horse (Tarr)
3. Shame (McQueen)
4. Faust (Sourkov)
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher)
75. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Ritchie)
76. 30 Minutes or Less (Fleischer)
77. One Day (Scherig)
78. The Smurfs (Gosnell)
79. Desi Boyz ( Dhawan)
Interestingly, my list from 6 months ago feature none of the films above!
For biggest suprises, maybe’ The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ (Fincher), ‘Submarine’ (Ayoade) and ‘Hugo’ (Scorsese). Biggest dissapointments ‘The Lady’ (Besson) and ’A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg).
http://mubi.com/lists/films-of-2011—8 for everything inbetween!
Well, 2011 was pretty lackluster for me. A few great films, a lot of mediocre ones and a lot of disappointments (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Tinker Tailor, Shame, Super 8).
That said, my top five would probably just be:
5) Melancholia
4) 50/50
3) Midnight in Paris
2) Drive
1) The Tree of Life
Honorable Mentions – Hugo, Attack the Block, 13 Assassins.
Still need to see We Need to Talk About Kevin, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, Take Shelter, Bellflower, The Turin Horse, Martha Marcy May Marlene, A Separation, Tyrannosaur, The Skin I Live In, and a handful of others that don’t get widely distributed.
My list has changed
Top 5 best
1. A Separation
2. The Artist
3. Moneyball
4. Tree of Life
5. Drive
Worst Film
Hangover Part II
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1. The Day He Arrives
2. House of Tolerance
3. Eternity
4. Outside Satan
5. Meek’s Cutoff, but did I see it last year or this?
Also Liked:
Le Quattro Volte, The Future, Shame
Wished I didn’t fall asleep in:
Once upon a time in Anatolia, This is not a film, Tree of Life
Haven’t seen:
The kid with a bike, A separation, We need to talk about Kevin, The Turin horse, Mysteries of Lisbon