2011
Intro
The following films appeared on year-end lists in Cinema Scope, Film Comment, The New York Times, and Sight & Sound. Selection for the Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, New York, Rotterdam, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice film festivals is noted.
Films
4:44 Last Day on Earth
USA, Switzerland, France
Abel Ferrara
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011) | Film Comment (16 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Venice (In Competition, 2011)
Abracadabra
USA
Ernie Gehr
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Views from the Avant-Garde, 2011)
Alps
Alpeis
Greece
Yorgos Lanthimos
Lists: Film Comment (14 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Toronto (Visions, 2011) | Venice (In Competition, 2011)
The Artist
France
Michel Hazanavicius
Lists: Sight & Sound (5, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Telluride (2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Aurora
Romania
Cristi Puiu
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2010) | Film Comment (5 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu
Romania
Andrei Ujica
Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2010) | Film Comment (13, 2011 / 7 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011) | Sight & Sound (8, 2010)
Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition, 2010) | New York (Special Events, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011) | Toronto (Visions, 2010)
Bridesmaids
USA
Paul Feig
Lists: New York Times (Dargis / Scott, 2011)
Cedar Rapids
USA
Miguel Arteta
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Sundance (Premieres, 2011)
Certified Copy
Copie conforme
France, Italy
Abbas Kiarostami
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2010) | Film Comment (7, 2011 / 9 - Undistributed, 2010)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010)
The Color Wheel
USA
Alex Ross Perry
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011) | Film Comment (12 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Locarno (Filmmakers of the Present, 2011)
Contagion
USA
Steven Soderbergh
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Venice (Out of Competition, 2011)
A Dangerous Method
UK, Canada, Germany
David Cronenberg
Lists: Film Comment (5, 2011) | New York Times (Dargis / Scott, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Gala, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Telluride (2011) | Toronto (Gala Presentations, 2011) | Venice (In Competition, 2011)
The Descendants
USA
Alexander Payne
Lists: Film Comment (15, 2011) | New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Closing Night, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Telluride (2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Dreileben
Germany
Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäusler
Lists: Cinema Scope (4, 2011) | Film Comment (17 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2011) | Locarno (Out of Competition, 2011) | New York (Special Events, 2011) | Toronto (Visions, 2011)
Drive
USA
Nicolas Winding Refn
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Film Socialisme
Switzerland
Jean-Luc Godard
Lists: Cinema Scope (4, 2010) | Film Comment (11, 2011 / 2 - Undistributed, 2010) | Sight & Sound (8, 2010)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011) | Toronto (Masters, 2010)
The Future
Germany, USA
Miranda July
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2011) | Sundance (Premieres, 2011)
The Help
USA
Tate Taylor
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Hors Satan
France
Bruno Dumont
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2011) | Toronto (Masters, 2011)
House of Pleasures
L’Apollonide—Souvenirs de la maison close
France
Bertrand Bonello
Lists: Cinema Scope (3, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Toronto (Visions, 2011)
Hugo
USA
Martin Scorsese
Lists: Film Comment (9, 2011) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Work-In-Progress, 2011) | Rotterdam (Regained, 2012)
Incendies
Canada, France
Denis Villeneuve
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2011) | Telluride (2010) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2010) | Venice (Venice Days, 2010)
Into the Abyss
USA, UK, Germany
Werner Herzog
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Telluride (2011) | Toronto (Real to Reel, 2011)
It’s the Earth Not the Moon
É na Terra não é na Lua
Portugal
Gonçalo Tocha
Lists: Cinema Scope (8, 2011)
Festivals: Locarno (Filmmakers of the Present, 2011)
J. Edgar
USA
Clint Eastwood
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Kill List
UK
Ben Wheatley
Lists: Cinema Scope (7, 2011) | Film Comment (8 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Locarno (Histoire(s) du Cinema, 2012) | Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2012) | Toronto (Midnight Madness, 2011)
Le Havre
Finland, France, Germany
Aki Kaurismäki
Lists: Film Comment (12, 2011) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Telluride (2011) | Toronto (Masters, 2011)
Margaret
USA
Kenneth Lonergan
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011) | Film Comment (20, 2011)
Margin Call
USA
J.C. Chandor
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2011) | Sundance (Premieres, 2011)
Meek's Cutoff
USA
Kelly Reichardt
Lists: Cinema Scope (8, 2010) | Film Comment (8, 2011 / 4 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Return of the Tiger, 2011) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2011) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2010) | Venice (In Competition, 2010)
Melancholia
Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Lars von Trier
Lists: Film Comment (3, 2011) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011) | Sight & Sound (4, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Midnight in Paris
Spain, USA
Woody Allen
Lists: Film Comment (18, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition - Opening Film, 2011)
Miss Bala
Mexico
Gerardo Naranjo
Lists: Film Comment (6 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2011)
Moneyball
USA
Bennett Miller
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Toronto (Gala Presentations, 2011)
My Joy
Schastye moe
Ukraine, Germany, Netherlands
Sergei Loznitsa
Lists: Film Comment (14 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2010)
Mysteries of Lisbon
Mistérios de Lisboa
Portugal, France
Raúl Ruiz
Lists: Cinema Scope (3, 2010) | Film Comment (6, 2011 / 6 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011) | Toronto (Masters, 2010)
Nostalgia for the Light
Nostalgia de la luz
Chile, France, Germany
Patricio Guzmán
Lists: Film Comment (16, 2011 / 15 - Undistributed, 2010) | Sight & Sound (8, 2010)
Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings, 2010) | Toronto (Masters, 2010)
Of Gods and Men
Des hommes et des dieux
France
Xavier Beauvois
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2010) | Film Comment (18 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Telluride (2010) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2010)
Play
Sweden, France, Denmark
Ruben Östlund
Lists: Film Comment (10 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Toronto (Visions, 2011)
Poetry
Shi
South Korea
Lee Chang-dong
Lists: Film Comment (10, 2011 / 3 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011) | Sight & Sound (8, 2010)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011) | Telluride (2010) | Toronto (Masters, 2010)
Policeman
Ha-shoter
Israel, France
Nadav Lapid
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011) | Film Comment (11 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011)
Le quattro volte
Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Michelangelo Frammartino
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2010) | Film Comment (14, 2011 / 8 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Dargis / Scott, 2011) | Sight & Sound (9, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Culinary Cinema, 2011) | Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Telluride (2010) | Toronto (Visions, 2010)
The Return
USA
Nathaniel Dorsky
Lists: Film Comment (18 - Undistributed, 2011) | New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Views from the Avant-Garde, 2011) | Rotterdam (Spectrum Shorts, 2012) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2011)
Seeking the Monkey King
USA
Ken Jacobs
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Views from the Avant-Garde, 2011)
A Separation
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Iran
Asghar Farhadi
Lists: Film Comment (4, 2011) | Sight & Sound (2, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011) | Telluride (2011) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2011)
The Skin I Live In
La piel que habito
Spain
Pedro Almodóvar
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | New York (Main Slate - Gala, 2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Sleeping Sickness
Schlafkrankheit
Germany, France, Netherlands
Ulrich Köhler
Lists: Cinema Scope (9, 2011) | Film Comment (9 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2011) | New York (Main Slate, 2011)
Take Shelter
USA
Jeff Nichols
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011) | Film Comment (19, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Critics' Week, 2011) | Sundance (US Dramatic Competition, 2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Target
Mishen
Russia
Alexander Zeldovich
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2011) | Telluride (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
UK, France, Germany
Tomas Alfredson
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011) | Sight & Sound (10, 2011)
Festivals: Venice (In Competition, 2011)
The Tree of Life
USA
Terrence Malick
Lists: Cinema Scope (6, 2011) | Film Comment (1, 2011) | New York Times (Scott, 2011) | Sight & Sound (1, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011)
Tuesday, After Christmas
Marti, dupã Crãciun
Romania
Radu Muntean
Lists: Film Comment (10 - Undistributed, 2010) | New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2011)
Two Years at Sea
UK
Ben Rivers
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2011) | Film Comment (13 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Views from the Avant-Garde, 2011) | Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2012) | Venice (Horizons, 2011)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Lung Boonmee raluek chat
Thailand, UK, France, Germany
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Lists: Cinema Scope (1, 2010) | Film Comment (2, 2011 / 1 - Undistributed, 2010) | Sight & Sound (2, 2010)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2010) | New York (Main Slate, 2010) | Toronto (Masters, 2010)
Voluptuous Sleep
USA
Betzy Bromberg
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2011)
Festivals: New York (Views from the Avant-Garde, 2011)
War Horse
USA
Steven Spielberg
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Warrior
USA
Gavin O'Connor
Lists: New York Times (Dargis / Scott, 2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin
UK, USA
Lynne Ramsay
Lists: Sight & Sound (8, 2011)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2011) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011)
Weekend
UK
Andrew Haigh
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2012)
Winnie the Pooh
USA
Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Wuthering Heights
UK
Andrea Arnold
Lists: Film Comment (20 - Undistributed, 2011)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2012) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2012) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2011) | Venice (In Competition, 2011)
Young Adult
USA
Jason Reitman
Lists: New York Times (Scott, 2011)
Festivals: Berlin (Berlinale Special, 2012)