Saturday, December 31, 2011

Updated Top 10 of 2010

2:49 PM / Cinema / Comments1 Comment

Cinema

It's a little early for me to reveal my Top 10 films of 2011, primarily because I still have some catching up to do in my viewing, but also because I want to save the reveal for the first Movie Matters episode of 2012, in which myself and Lee will both be going through our Top 10 lists. For the time being, though, here's my updated Top 10 list for the previous year:

  1. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (USA, David Fincher)
  2. TOY STORY 3 (USA, Lee Unkrich)
  3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Norway, Niels Arden Oplev)
  4. MONSTERS (UK, Gareth Edwards)
  5. THE GHOST (France/Germany/UK, Roman Polanski)
  6. SPLICE (Canada/France/USA, Vincenzo Natali)
  7. PONYO (Japan, Hayao Miyazaki)
  8. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (USA, John Musker and Ron Clements)
  9. WHIP IT (USA, Drew Barrymore)
  10. VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE (UK, Jake West)

...plus honourable mentions to AMER (France/Belgium, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani), FROZEN (USA, Adam Green) and THE DOWNFALL OF BERLIN: ANONYMA (Germany/Poland: Max Färberböck).

Note that my criteria for a film qualifying as a 2010 title is for it to have had a UK theatrical release between January 1 and December 31 2010 (or have gone straight to video during that period).

The list hasn't changed a great deal since this time last year, but in case you're curious, here's how it looked when we did our previous Top 10 podcast:

  1. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (USA, David Fincher)
  2. TOY STORY 3 (USA, Lee Unkrich)
  3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Norway, Niels Arden Oplev)
  4. THE GHOST (France/Germany/UK, Roman Polanski)
  5. SPLICE (Canada/France/USA, Vincenzo Natali)
  6. PONYO (Japan, Hayao Miyazaki)
  7. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (USA, John Musker and Ron Clements)
  8. WHIP IT (USA, Drew Barrymore)
  9. AMER (France/Belgium, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
  10. VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE (UK, Jake West)
 
1 Comment

1. Daniel Sardella said:

Shucks, Amer got bumped?!

I'm going to try and send you & Lee an MP3 of my Top 10 Films for the Podcast. I'm watching my last 2 films for consideration today - The Last Circus and Outrage. Watched Rise Of The...Apes yesterday and was entertained and satisfied. Watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last night and was pretty let down. I'll at least send a list either way.

I'm also going to post my Top 10 Films and Top 20 Albums on my blog, probably on the 1 year anniversary - 1/7/12, likely with a recap of all my previous Top 10s, Albums dating back to 2001 and Films back to 2005!

(Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 4:33 PM)

 
To combat spam, commenting is automatically disabled on entries older than 30 days.

Did a comment you tried to post accidentally get eaten by the spam filter? It happens from time to time. I get upwards of 200 spam comments every day and unfortunately don't have the time to weed through all of them in case something genuine ended up there by mistake. If one of your posts gets incorrectly flagged as spam, email me at m.r.mackenzie[at]gmail[dot]com and I'll do my best to retrieve it.

 
Archives
Categories
Recent posts