Year-End Lists

Karina Longworth: Best Films of 2011, as published by The Village Voice

NOTE: For the The Village Voice year-end film poll, Longworth submitted a slightly different list that put the Cronenberg film at #8, put the Ferrara film at #9, and omitted the films by July and Miller. She also submitted a slightly reordered list for the indieWIRE survey. For the list above, we’ve favored the personal write-up in The Voice over the submitted ballots.

[see also 2018, 2017, 2014, 2012]

1. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
2. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
3. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
4. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
5. The Arbor — Clio Barnard
6. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
7. Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
8. Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
9. The Future — Miranda July
10. Moneyball — Bennett Miller

Films That Almost Made the Cut, Alphabetically

• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu — Andrei Ujica
• Beginners — Mike Mills
• Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
• City of Life and Death — Lu Chuan
• A Dangerous Method — David Cronenberg
• Dragonslayer — Tristan Patterson
• Fast Five — Justin Lin
• Go Go Tales — Abel Ferrara
• House of Pleasures (aka House of Tolerance) — Bertrand Bonello
• Jane Eyre — Cary Fukunaga
• The Lincoln Lawyer — Brad Furman
• Love Exposure — Sion Sono
• Martha Marcy May Marlene — Sean Durkin
• Mysteries of Lisbon — Raoul Ruiz
• Rubber — Quentin Dupieux
• Silver Bullets — Joe Swanberg
• Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
• The Trip — Michael Winterbottom
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Winnie the Pooh — Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall