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Making up for lost time. As per official U.S. release date:

1. Tree of Life
2. Melancholia
3. Drive
4. My Joy
5. Shame
6. Tyrannosaur
7. Essential Killing
8. Martha Marcy May Marlene
9. Biutiful
10. Margin Call

1. L'Apollonide (House of Tolerance)
2. Turin Horse
3. Skin I Live In
4. Tree of Life
5. Take Shelter
6. Michael
7. Weekend
8. Deep Blue Sea
9. Terri
10. Innkeepers

1. The Turin Horse
2. Life Without Principle
3. Melancholia
4. Hugo
5. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
6. Drive
7. Attack the Block
8. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
9. The Kid with a Bike
10. The Tree of Life

1.) Certified Copy
2.) I Wish
3.) The Strange Case of Angelica
4.) Mysteries of Lisbon
5.) Hugo
6.) The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)
7.) Cold Fish* / Guilty of Romance
8.) Melancholia
9.) United Red Army
10.) Essential Killing

*For the purpose of Consensus list only count Cold Fish

1) Beginners
2) Wuthering Heights
3) Meek’s Cutoff
4) The Future
5) Young Adult
6) Drive
7) Martha Marcy May Marlene
8) A Separation
9) Weekend
10) The Skin I Live In

1. Hugo - 10/10
2. Super 8 - 10/10
3. The Artist - 10/10
4. 50/50 - 9/10
5. Midnight in Paris - 9/10
6. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 9/10
7. Photographic Memory - 9/10
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - 9/10
9. Into the Abyss - 9/10
10. The Tree of Life - 9/10

Other films seen:

The Adjustment Bureau - 4/10
The Adventures of Tintin - 6/10
Attack the Block - 8/10
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey - 8/10
Bernie - 7/10
Bobby Fischer Against the World - 7/10
Captain America: The First Avenger - 8/10
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop - 7/10
The Conspirator - 8/10
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel - 8/10
Cowboys & Aliens - 6/10
Damsels in Distress - 3/10
The Descendants - 8/10
Drive - 7/10
The Green Hornet - 7/10
Green Lantern - 5/10
The Help - 8/10
Hitler's Children - 8/10
Hobo with a Shotgun - 2/10
The Ides of March - 8/10
Immortals - 7/10
The Intouchables - 8/10
The Iron Lady - 6/10
Limitless - 7/10
The Lincoln Lawyer - 5/10
Margin Call - 9/10
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - 8/10
Moneyball - 8/10
The Muppets - 8/10
My Week with Marilyn - 8/10
Paul - 7/10
Pina - 7/10
The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - 7/10
Revenge of the Electric Car - 5/10
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 8/10
Source Code - 6/10
Take Shelter - 7/10
These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America - 8/10
The Thing - 4/10
Thor - 7/10
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 7/10
United - 8/10
War Horse - 6/10
Warrior - 8/10
We Bought a Zoo - 4/10
Winnie the Pooh - 7/10
Woody Allen: A Documentary - 8/10
X-Men: First Class - 8/10

Updated 1/26/17

01 Le Quattro Volte
02 Certified Copy
03 Meek's Cutoff
04 Incendies
05 Impolex ***
06 A Separation
07 The Future
08 Elena
09 Midnight in Paris
10 Drive

11 Hugo
12 Young Adult
13 Melancholia
14 Hanna
15 Take Shelter
16 The Tree of Life
17 Melancholia
18 Pina
19 Elles
20 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

the rest in order

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Bernie
The Descendants
Super 8
Moneyball
Dark Horse
The King's Speech
Your sister's sister
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Atlas Shrugged: Part I

did not like

Chicken with Plums
The Skin I Live In

new ***

11-29-2017

2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008

2011: Solid, unexceptional group of films, with the top ten each deserving but nothing world-shattering...

1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson)
2. Drive (Refn)
3. The Tree of Life (Malick)
4. Take Shelter (Nichols)
5. Melancholia (von Trier)
6. Incendies (Villeneuve)
7. Moneyball (Miller)
8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher)
9. Hugo (Scorsese)
10. Hanna (Wright)

Notables: 13 Assassins, 50/50, Carnage, A Dangerous Method, The Ides of March, Jane Eyre, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Descendants, The Guard, The Skin I Live In, Young Adult

Documentaries: Tabloid

Still missing: Another Earth, The Artist, Attack the Block, Bellflower, Biutiful, Certified Copy, The Future, Le Havre, I Saw the Devil, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Limitless, Margin Call, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Meek's Cutoff, Michael, Midnight in Paris, Red State, A Separation, Shame, Texas Killing Fields, Tyrannosaur, Warrior, We Need to Talk About Kevin

1. Shame
2. The Tree of Life
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Drive
5. We Need To Talk About Kevin
6. Midnight in Paris
7. Moneyball
8. The Skin I Live In
9. Hanna
10. A Separation

Year is determined by the date of the world premiere, i.e. IMDb rules.

Summary: A great year for British and French cinema; Hollywood seemed to be really in the doldrums.

Films Seen: 81

Top Ten:
1) Jodaeiye Nader az Simin // A Separation (Asghar Farhadi - Iran) - ****3/4
2) The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius - France) - ****1/2
3) Oslo, 31. august (Joachim Trier - Norway) - ****1/2
4) We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay - United Kingdom) - ****1/2
5) La piel que habito // The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar - Spain) - ****1/4
6) Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine - United Kingdom) - ****1/4
7) Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen - United States) - ****1/4
8) Tomboy (Céline Sciamma - France) - ****1/4
9) Intouchables // Untouchable (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano - France) - ****
10) The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies - United Kingdom) - ****

On the Cusp:
11) Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn - United States) - ****
12) Hodejegerne // Headhunters (Morten Tyldum - Norway) - ****
13) Io sono Li // Shun Li and the Poet (Andrea Segre - Italy) - ****
14) Project Nim (James Marsh - United Kingdom) - ****
15) Jane Eyre (Cary Joji Fukunaga - United Kingdom) - ****

Watchlist:
A torinói ló // The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky - Hungary)
Shame (Steve McQueen - United Kingdom)
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov - Russia)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese - United States)
Atmen // Breathing (Karl Markovics - Austria)
Play (Ruben Östlund - Sweden)
Un amour de jeunesse // Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve - France)

Bottom Five: bearing in mind that I'm primarily going to watch stuff that I think I'll enjoy...
1) Just Go with It (Dennis Dugan - United States) - *
2) Friends with Benefits (Will Gluck - United States) - *1/2
3) Love (William Eubank - United States) - **
4) Mishen (Aleksandr Zeldovich - Russia) - **
5) Attack the Block (Joe Cornish - United Kingdom) - **1/4

1. Melancholia, Lars von Trier
2. The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
3. Weekend, Andrew Haigh
4. Mildred Pierce [TV], Todd Haynes
5. Shame, Steve McQueen
6. Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
7. Meek's Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt
8. Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols
9. Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan
10. Hugo, Martin Scorsese

I'm sorry for bumping this thread! Just reorganizing, don't mind me.

1. Melancholia
2. Margaret
3. A Separation
4. Midnight in Paris
5. Dark Horse
6. The Turin Horse
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. Another Earth
9. This Is Not a Film
10. Weekend

Out of 82 2011 films seen

1. Hugo
2. Jane Eyre
3. Too Big to Fail
4. Moneyball
5. Midnight in Paris
6. The Artist
7. Hot Coffee
8. From Up on Poppy Hill
9. Hanna
10. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

hm:
Contagion
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Pina
Super 8
Bridesmaids
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Undefeated
50/50
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

I have this running joke with my friends that I'll never finish my 2011 top ten list. Even though I have a few I still need to see I think it would be fun to post here.

1. Turin Horse
2. Tree of Life
3. A Separation
4. Le Havre
5. Faust
6. Drive
7. Shame
8. Two Years At Sea
9. Hors Satan
10. A Dangerous Mind

Also, I see Turin Horse is counted in the dynamic list as 2012. If it is in my 2011 list does it not count/ should I edit this?

Your vote counts whether you list it in 2011, 2012, or any other year. It's currently 2012 on the dynamic list because that's where the most people here have placed it (though nearly as many have placed it in 2011).

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2. Melancholia
3. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
4. Curling
5. Project Nim
6. Hanna
7. Certified Copy
8. Meek's Cutoff
9. Super 8
10. Shame

01. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo)
02. Himizu (Sion Sono)
03. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
04. Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman)
05. The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Bros)
06. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
07. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
08. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
09. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
10. Sunny (Kang Hyeong-Cheol)

01. The Tree of Life
02. The Turin Horse
03. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
04. Almayer's Folly
05. A Dangerous Method
06. Melancholia
07. Damsels in Distress
08. The Color Wheel
09. House of Tolerance
10. The Day He Arrives

11. Detention
12. Mildred Pierce
13. The Kid with a Bike
14. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
15. Bernie
16. The Deep Blue Sea
17. Sleeping Beauty
18. Le Havre
19. Alps
20. Take Shelter

Next Tier: Weekend; Moneyball; Margin Call; Contagion; Faust; Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

Decent: A Separation; Bridesmaids; Midnight in Paris; The Artist; Killer Joe; Hugo; Young Adult; Meanwhile; Margaret; Footnote; Michael; We Have a Pope; Jane Eyre; This Is Not a Film

Not a fan: Elena; Drive; Oslo 31 August; The Descendants; Jeff, Who Lives at Home; The Skin I Live In; This Must Be the Place; Hara-kiri:Death of a Samurai; Hanezu; We Need to Talk about Kevin; Dark Horse

Rubbish: The Help; God Bless America; Shame; Pater; The Source; Polisse; Pariah

1. Hugo (in 3D)
2. Tree of Life
3. Shame
4. A Separation
5. Moneyball
6. The Skin I Live In
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. Elena
9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
10. Certified Copy

Honorable Mentions : Jane Eyre, Drive, Rango, The Ides of March, A Dangerous Method, Young Adult, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Midnight in Paris, Dhobi Ghat, Captain America: The First Avenger, Contagion, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Awakening, The Adjustment Bureau, Wu Xia (Dragon), Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, 50/50, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Hanna, Thor, Haywire, Source Code, The Woman in the Fifth.

Others Seen: Super 8, The Dirty Picture, War of the Arrows, The Adventures of Tintin, Rockstar, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 7 Khoon Maaf, Shaitan, X-Men: First Class, The Guard, The Thing.

1. The Turin Horse
2. A Separation
3. The Tree of Life
4. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
5. Hugo
6. Bridesmaids
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. Killer Joe
9. Midnight in Paris
10. Moneyball

01. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
02. Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
03. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Robert Guediguian)
04. The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
05. Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
06. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsey)
07. The Help (Tate Taylor)
08. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
09. We Were Here (David Weissman & Bill Weber)
10. Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)

1. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
2. Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
3. Hanna (Joe Wright)
4. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
5. Beginners (Mike Mills)
6. The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell)
7. List (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Ceremony (Max Winkler)
9. Another Earth (Mike Cahill)
10. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)

Past lists: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005-2000