2011 poll

[greennui]

Final list, most likely:

1. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
Small Roads (James Benning)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
Ars colonia (Raya Martin)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
Girl Walk: All Day (Jacob Krupnick)

[Lencho of the Apes]

I don't know if I'll get around to watching it, but I stumbled across this; it looks like a potential Karl movie in particular, and female director, so I wanted to drop a comment about its existence in case it speak to anyone:

Dry Valley , dir: Alexandra Strelyanaya, Russia. It's on youtube.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Pleased to report that I watched a film for this poll and loved it! Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers. Back in 2011, I remember thinking the trailers looked fun, something I wouldn't dare admit to the cool-conscious film folks I then traveled with. Sure enough, it's fun, and now, happily enough, vulgar auteurism is around to make enjoying a W.S. Anderson a palatable critical position. I didn't care for Shopping, the only other Anderson I've yet seen, but I should have started here: airship battles, heaving bosoms, Christoph Waltz, Milla Jovovich traversing booby-traps in slow motion, and a newfound spring in my step. Yes, please!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Final List:
1. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
— The Three Musketeers (Paul W.S. Anderson)
— The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
— My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis)
— Sing for the Cinema (Jodie Mack)
— Captain America: The First Avenger [it's evil, but it's also perfect for my academic interests and i fancy Chris Evans big time in this]
— Thor [ditto, just replace the word Evans with the word Hemsworth]

[dominicano1970]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Guediguian)

Declaration of War (Donzelli)
The Descendants (Payne)
Drive (Winding Refn)
Elena (Zvyagintsev)
Goodbye First Love (Hansen-Love)
The Guard (McDonagh)
The Intouchables (Nakache, Toledano)
The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne brothers)
Le Havre (Kaurismaki)
Margaret (Lonergan)
Midnight in Paris (Allen)
Monsieur Lazhar (Falardeau)
No Rest for the Wicked (Urbizu)
The Salt of Life (Di Gregorio)
A Separation (Farhadi)
Tomboy (Sciamma)
Unforgivable (Techine)
War Horse (Spielberg)
We Have a Pope (Moretti)

[rischka]

i have that snows of kilimanjaro, maybe watch it tonight. trying to get back into this. i can't seem to make myself watch 'a separation,' too many awards

huh i dunno that three musketeers looks interesting too

[rischka]

gonna go with cabin in the woods unless it sucks ass in which case i will turn it off

[kanafani]

The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)

mysteries of Lisbon
Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes, 2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011)
Girl Walk: All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011)
A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel, 2011)
This Is Not a Film (MJafar Panahi, 2011)
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, 2011)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, 2011)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, 2011)
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011)
Bernie (Richard Linklater, 2011)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2011)
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, 2011)
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, 2011)
In the Family (Patrick Wang, 2011)

[rischka]

pabs i'm still not watching a separation

i did watch grandrieux's adachi masao doc. don't know much about grandrieux but adachi is fascinating. didn't realize there's another from the same year:



i'm on to it now! then i may have to watch united red army even if it's from 2007 we'll see!

[rischka]

also, five broken cameras is on youtube, i just discovered... documentary binge! pabs should be proud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_d_L33V2s

[Silga]

I highly recommend 5 Broken Cameras. One of the best docs on the subject.

[rischka]

preferred l'anabase to the grandrieux. what an amazing time

[rischka]

the day he arrives (hong)
la folie almayer (akerman)
don't go breaking my heart (to)
life without principle (to)
margaret (lonergan)
small roads (benning)
two cabins (benning)
anhey ghorhey da daan (singh)
4:44 last day on earth (ferrara)
artificial paradises (olaizola)
killer joe (friedkin)
mysteries of lisbon tv cut (ruiz)
five broken cameras (bernat/davidi)
l'anabase de may et fusako shigenobu, masao adachi and 27 years without images (baudelaire)

maybe watch a couple more. i'm psyched now

[rischka]

five broken cameras was very good. framing it around the family and esp small boy was so effective

[...]

FInal list I think. After the first few choices the rest are all pretty much interchangeable and could have been replaced with some others I left off, so it's mostly whim that determined which made the cut. A lot of solid or mildly interesting films and trends but I didn't manage to see much that I really dug for this year.

A Dangerous Method
Wuthering Heights
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Tatsumi
Fast Five
Rango
The Fairy
The Rabbi's Cat
Haywire
Jane Eyre
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sleeping Beauty
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
The Raid
Take Shelter
Melancholia
Dragon
Bellflower
Urumi
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

[ofrene]

Final (maybe..) list. There are many good movies that missed the cut...

Turin Horse

A Separation
Margaret
The Day He Arrives
Hugo
War Horse
The Deep Blue Sea
Century of Birthing
House of Tolerance
Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
This is Not a Film
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Agnes Varda : From Here to There
The Kid with a Bike
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Moneyball
Le Harve
Tomboy
Goodbye First Love
Melancholia

[pabs]

(Hi!! Thank you bure!! Thank you Lencho!! Thank you rischka!!)

Delighted to be back!

[pabs]

I didn't know there was a 2011 Maddin film! Hooray!

Cheers, hope you like it! It is one of his most ignored, but visually spectacular and as absurd as ever. It was also his very last solo effort (in terms of features).

Thanks for the heads up about it. I'm glad I saw it but, for the first time ever, this Maddin film did nothing for me. I think it was the story itself that didn't interest me, and I was dragged along behind it, getting more and more bored as it went along. That's never happened to me before with a film of his.

[pabs]

pabs should be proud

I was (when I read that), and I still am! Everybody should watch at least 6 documentaries every year! Everybody! Do it guys! You're not getting all your vitamins and nutrients if you don't add a few docos in your film diet from time to time. You'll get rickets. You'll get scurvy. Seriously! Do it!

Having said that, I'm not very keen to watch Herzog's Abyss... But I'm excited to see Five Broken Cameras. Woohoo!! thank you, youtube!

[pabs]

I've watched 13 so far specifically for this poll, and only 6 of those films made it to my list (Bernie, Weekend, 4:44 The Last Day on Earth, Oslo 31st of August, Tomboy, and The Deep Blue Sea).

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. The Turin Horse (Tarr and Hraniztky)

Almayer's Folly (Akerman)
Small Roads (Benning)
House of Tolerance (Bonello)
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (Curtis)
The Kid with a Bike (Dardennes)
The Deep Blue Sea (Davies)
Century of Birthing (Diaz)
Outside Satan (Dumont)
A Separation (Farhadi)
A Burning Hot Summer (Garrel)
Goodbye First Love (Hansen-Love)
Contagion (Soderbergh)
Seeking the Monkey King (Jacobs)
Girl Walk//All Day (Krupnick)
The Loneliest Planet (Loktev)
The Mill and the Cross (Majewski)
The Tree of Life (Malick)
Boro in the Box (Mandico)
Faust (Sokurov)

[brian d]

don't go breaking my heart (to)
southwest (nunes)
madrid, 1987 (trueba)
house of tolerance (bonello)
keyhole (maddin)
two letters for ana (guerin)
journey to portugal (tréfaut)
the mill and the cross (majewski)
a separation (farhadi)
un héritier (straub)*
this side of resurrection (sapinho)
a dangerous method (cronenberg)
a burning hot summer (garrel)
carnage (polanski)
faust (sokurov)
beloved (honoré)
it's the earth, not the moon (tocha)
the skin i live in (almodóvar)
wuthering heights (arnold)
jane eyre (fukunaga)

also watched:
alps (lanthimos)*

no time for:
jackals and arabs (straub)

[ofrene]

like Varda's travelogue so edit my final list..

[pabs]

Despite this poll running for two more days, you're announcing the next year poll today, aren't you, Lencho?

[Silga]

Final list:

1. Hanna (Joe Wright)

Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh)
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
Violet & Daisy (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
Source Code (Duncan Jones)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Paul (Greg Mottola)
Shame (Steve McQueen)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)

[Lencho of the Apes]

My final list:

A Century Of Birthing - Diaz

Las acacias -
Alucardos -
Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan - G. Singh
Artificial Paradises - Yulene Olaizola
Ballet Aquatique - Ruiz
La cebra -
The Dry Valley -
Dyut Meeng Gam/Life Without Principle - To
Et Maintenant, On Va Ou? - Labaki
Exit -
Faust - Sokurov
Guilty Of Romance - Sion Sono
Himizu - Sion Sono
Hostel -
Il Peut Que... Masao Adachi - Grandrieux
Keyhole - maddin
Mai bakku peji "My Back Page" (Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan)
Nightfall - Benning
Violeta Went To Heaven -

[Lencho of the Apes]

Polling ends in about four hours, Earth time.

[john ryan]

1. A Separation (Farhadi)

Hugo (Scorsese)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Bird)
The Turin Horse (Tarr)
Twixt (Coppola)
Century of Birthing (Diaz)
The Cabin in the Woods (Goodard)
Meanwhile (Hartley)
The Loneliest Planet (Loktev)
Rango (Verbinski)
Melancholia (von Trier)
Margaret (Lonnergan)
Goon (Dowse)
Winnie the Pooh (Anderson, Hall)
The Deep Blue Sea (Davies)
Goodbye, First Love (Hansen-Love)
Two Years at Sea (Rivers)
Haywire (Soderbergh)

[Lencho of the Apes]

It's The End Of This Poll As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).

[Lencho of the Apes]

Dramatic upset!!!

The Turin Horse is not number one for the year!

I wasn't able to use DT's ballot because he listed 40 movies. Maybe next time.