2011

2011

1. The Tree of Life- Terrence Malick

2. It’s Such a Beautiful Day- Don Hertzfeldt [short]

3. A Separation – Asghar Farhadi

4. Margaret – Kenneth Lonergan

5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy- Tomas Alfredson

6. Terri- Azazel Jacobs

7. Take Shelter- Jeff Nichols

8. Hugo- Martin Scorsese

9. Drive- Nicolas Winding Refn

10. Moneyball- Bennett Miller

11. Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol- Brad Bird

12. House of Tolerance- Bertrand Bonello

13. Rango- Gore Verbinski

14. Le Havre- Aki Kaurismäki

15. [This Is Not a Film- Jafar Panahi and Mojbata Mirtahmasb]

16. We Need to Talk About Kevin- Lynne Ramsay

Ripe for re-appraisal:  Martha Marcy May Marlene (Jeff Durkin)

Need to see:  Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman), Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos), Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman), Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman), The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo), The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies), Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov), Footnote (Joseph Cedar), George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese), Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve), Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti), I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog), Keyhole (Guy Maddin), The Kid With a Bike (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne), The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev), Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo), Outside Satan (Bruno Dumont), Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky), Pina (Wim Wenders), The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar), This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino), The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr), Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola), War Horse (Steven Spielberg), Your Sister’s Sister (Lynn Shelton)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture:  The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film:  The Artist

César Awards, Best Film:  The Artist

Cannes, Palme d’Or:  The Tree of Life

Venice, Golden Lion:  Faust

Berlin, Golden Bear:  A Separation

Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic):  Like Crazy (Drake Doremus)

Toronto, Audience Award:  Where Do We Go Now? (Nadine Labaki)

Skandies, Best Film:  The Tree of Life

Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film:  The Tree of Life

2010

1. Certified Copy- Abbas Kiarostami
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop- Banksy
4. The Social Network- David Fincher
5. Winter’s Bone- Debra Granik
6. Another Year- Mike Leigh
7. Meek’s Cutoff- Kelly Reichardt
8. Inception- Christopher Nolan
9. Somewhere- Sofia Coppola
10. How Do You Know- James L. Brooks
11. The Ghost Writer- Roman Polanski
12. [Wisdom Teeth- Don Hertzfeldt [short]]
13. Carlos- Olivier Assayas
14. True Grit- Joel and Ethan Coen
15. Never Let Me Go- Mark Romanek
16. Cold Weather- Aaron Katz
17. Tabloid- Errol Morris
18. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World- Edgar Wright
19. Toy Story 3- Lee Unkrich
20. Black Swan- Darren Aronofsky

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Arbor (Clio Barnard), Silent Souls (Alexei Fedorchenko), The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)

Need to see: Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica), Black Venus (Abdel Kechiche), Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman), Four Lions (Chris Morris), Guest (Jose Luis Guerin), Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo), I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke), A Letter to Elia (Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones), My Joy (Serge Loznitsa), Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo), The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier), Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo), Unstoppable (Tony Scott), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The King’s Speech
César Awards, Best Film: Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Venice, Golden Lion: Somewhere
Berlin, Golden Bear: Honey (Semih Kaplanoglu)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Winter’s Bone
Toronto, Audience Award: The King’s Speech
Skandies, Best Film: Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: The Social Network