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]
- Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- The Arbor — Clio Barnard
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
- The Future — Miranda July
- Moneyball — Bennett Miller
- 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 — 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