Top 100 Films of 2011 (and other film lists)
Note: Some movies like “Tuesday, After Christmas” and “Certified Copy” aren’t on the list because I saw them last year, where as some 2010 movies like “True Grit” are on here because I saw them this year. I don’t like ranking films that much, so this list was made with very very little thought. Take it all with a grain of salt!
1. Tree of life
2. Warrior
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives
4. Margaret
5. The Kid with a Bike
6. Pina
7. Fast Five
8. Senna
9. The Skin I Live In
10. Contagion
11. Weekend
12. Melancholia
13. Project Nim
14. Post Mortem
15. Kaboom
16. Attack the Block
17. Incendies
18. Moneyball
19. Martha Marcy May Marlene
20. Tabloid
21. Super 8
22. Hanna
23. Ides of March
24. Love Crime
25. Mouth of the Wolf
26. The Guard
27. George Harrison: Living in the Material World
28. Margin Call
29. Win-Win
30. Final Destination 5
31. The Loneliest Planet
32. The Trip
33. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
34. Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
35. Clown
36. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
37. Le Havre
38. The Future
39. Page One: Inside the New York Times
40. True Grit
41. X-Men First Class
42. Terri
43. Limitless
44. Bridesmaids
45. 50-50
46. 13 Assassins
47. Scream 4
48. Young Adult
49. Tyrannosaur
50. Bill Cunningham New York
51. The Debt
52. Midnight in Paris
53. The Rum Diary
54. Your Highness
55. 4:44 Last Day on Earth
56. Rampart
57. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
58. Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
59. Kung Fu Panda 2
60. I Saw the Devil
61. Drive
62. Beginners
63. House of Pleasures
64. The Artist
65. Sleeping Beauty
66. Source Code
67. Horrible Bosses
68. Submarine
69. Lincoln Lawyer
70. Hall Pass
71. Captain America: The First Avenger
72. Fright Night
73. The Beaver
74. The Whistleblower
75. Our Idiot Brother
76. Cedar Rapids
77. Point Blank
78. Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
79. Restless
80. Super
81. 30 minutes or Less
82. Pearl Jam Twenty
83. Crazy, Stupid Love
84. Bellflower
85. Hesher
86. The Hangover 2
87. Unknown
88. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
89. Another Earth
90. Buck
91. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
92. I am # 4
93. The Change-Up
Films made by people I know that I put on here to make my list an even 100, but I would feel weird about ranking:
The Bully Project
The Color Wheel
Fake it So Real
Green
Happy Life
Take Shelter
Uncle Kent
Also, Here are Twenty Films I Didn’t Get Around to Seeing and Therefore Prove This List is Premature:
A Dangerous Method
Adventures of Tintin
Aurora
Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Carnage
Cave of Forgotten Dreams/Into the Abyss
Film Socialisme
Hugo
J. Edgar
Jane Eyre
Meek’s Cutoff
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal
My Week with Marilyn
Mysteries of Lisbon
Road to Nowhere
Shame
The Descendants
The Muppets
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Favorite Repertory Screenings - By Theater:
Paramount Theater: They Live By Night/Modern Romance
Anthology Film Archives: Out of The Blue
MoMA: In a Year with 13 Moons/The Tenant
Lincoln Center: Life Size/A Brighter Summer Day
Film Forum: Possession/Robert Ryan Series
IFC Center: To Live and Die in LA/Error Morris Tabloid Q&A/Kevin Bacon’s Leather Jacket
MoMI: Playtime/Melvin and Howard
Here’s to 2012!
