MC Yearly Consensus - 2010

[Spinal]

Shall we?

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. You may edit your post freely up until the time that I start tallying votes. I'll let you know when that is.

You may begin now.

[Spinal]

1. Inception
2. The Illusionist
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Tangled
5. The Names of Love

[Watashi]

1. The Social Network
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. The Illusionist
4. Greenberg
5. Tangled

[B-side]

1. Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. The Strange Case of Angelica (Oliveira)
4. The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat)
5. Oki's Movie (Hong)
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6. Act Da Fool (Korine)
7. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
9. Unstoppable (Scott)
10. The Illusionist (Chomet)

[Spinal]

2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. The Illusionist

5. Tangled

:pritch:

[Watashi]

:pritch:
Have you seen Greenberg?

[elixir]

1. Certified Copy
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3. Another Year
4. The Four Times
5. Meek's Cutoff

[ledfloyd]

hmm, most of my favorites from my list last year had 2009 imdb dates.

1. Mysteries of Lisbon
2. The Illusionist
3. Le Quattro Volte
4. Somewhere
5. Hahaha

[elixir]

The Four Times = Le Quattro Volte btw.

[MadMan]

I'll stop wondering why we're doing this again cause I like lists.

1. The Social Network
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. The Fighter
5. Winter's Bone

Rest of the List:

6. The Illusionist
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
8. Kick-Ass
9. Shutter Island
10. How To Train Your Dragon

HM: True Grit, Tron: Legacy

Looking at Criticker/IMDB.com, Hesher is listed as 2010 release but since its been counted as a 2011 one I won't list it here. Right now it would crack both Top 10s for both 2010 and 2011, but that could also be due to me not having seen enough movies the last two years, although I think its still a great film.

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Social Network
02. Inception
03. Exit Through the Gift Shop
04. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
05. Shutter Island
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06. Tangled
07. Black Swan
08. MacGruber
09. Monsters
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I
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97. Alice in Wonderland

[Spinal]

I'll stop wondering why we're doing this again cause I like lists.



We have never done this year.

[Spinal]

Have you seen Greenberg?

Nope.

[MadMan]

We have never done this year.I thought we had, although I'll admit these consensuses start bleeding into one big gigantic one after a while. Which is funny considering we did indeed have a "Top 10 of All Time" one.

Oh and this thread actually makes me realize that 2010 isn't as bad as I thought it was.

[Boner M]

1. Certified Copy
2. Le Quattro Volte
3. Compline
4. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceasescu
5. Another Year

HM's: Promises Written on Water, Leap Year, Meek's Cutoff, The Other Guys

[B-side]

HM's: Promises Written on Water

I hate you so much for getting to see this.

[Ezee E]

1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. Shutter Island
4. Black Swan
5. Exit Through the Gift SHop

[Pop Trash]

Have you seen Greenberg?
I have.

:pritch:

1. Greenberg
2. Blue Valentine
3. Black Swan
4. Meek's Cutoff
5. Let Me In

6. Inception
7. Exit Through the Gift Shop
8. The Social Network
9. Winter's Bone
10. The Ghost Writer

[Yxklyx]

1. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2. The Kids are Alright (Lisa Cholodenko)
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
4. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
5. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)

[TGM]

1. Tangled
2. Inception
3. Tron: Legacy
4. Let Me In
5. The Ghost Writer

[baby doll]

Those with asterixes:

Les Amours imaginaires (Xavier Dolan)
Arrietty the Borrower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
*Copie conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
*Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
*The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
*Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
Des Hommes et des dieux (Xavier Beauvois)
Post Mortem (Pablo Larrain)
*Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

(I was tempted to include Carlos, but I've only seen the 150 minute version.)

[Spinal]

Whichever five of these get the most votes:


I'll just take the first five.

[baby doll]

I'll just take the first five.In that case, sub Greenberg and Uncle Boonmee for Les Amours imaginaires and Arrietty the Borrower, since nobody else is going to vote for those.

[StanleyK]

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Somewhere (Coppola)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
5. The Social Network (Fincher)

I don't know if my ballot should even count, though. Outside of Scott Pilgrim I've only seen these movies once like a year ago.

[Gizmo]

1. Black Swan
2. The King's Speech
3. Inception
4. Let Me In
5. Toy Story 3

Still need to see The Social Network.

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. Beginners
02. Submarine
03. Black Swan
04. Toy Story 3
05. Inception

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06. The Social Network
07. Carlos
08. The Ghost Writer
09. Another Year
10. The American

[Russ]

1. Confessions
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3. Catfish
4. The Social Network
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop

[TripZone]

Guest
The Strange Case of Angelica
Hahaha
Mysteries of Lisbon
Certified Copy

[Stay Puft]

1. Le Quattro Volte / The Four Times
2. Certified Copy
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
4. Norwegian Wood
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Black Swan
2. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
3. Beginners
4. Blue Valentine
5. Never Let Me Go

[Raiders]

1. Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
2. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
4. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright)

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6. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates)
8. True Grit (Coen Brothers)
9. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul WS Anderson)
10. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

I desperately need to see Uncle Boonmee and Another Year. I think both are still on Instant Watch too.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Meek's Cutoff
2. Black Swan
3. Winter's Bone
4. Blue Valentine
5. Inception

[Dukefrukem]

1. Inception Nolan
2. Black Swan Aronofsky
3. 127 Hours Boyle
4. The King's Speech Hooper
5. Uncle Boonmee



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6. The Fighter Russell
7. How to Train Your Dragon DeBlois
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Wright
9. Let Me In Reeves
10. True Grit Coen Brothers

[Dukefrukem]

Wait... Uncle Boonmee isn't this year?

[elixir]

Wait... Uncle Boonmee isn't this year?

It's 2010.

[transmogrifier]

Pretty crappy year based on most of these lists - and my own (Shutter Island on top with just 73)

[NickGlass]

1. Certified Copy
2. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
3. Leap Year (Rowe)
4. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaucescu
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop

[Lazlo]

1. Black Swan
2. The Social Network
3. Inception
4. Toy Story 3
5. Blue Valentine

[Ezee E]

It's 2010.
Sorta. Its in contention for awards this year and only had festival releases in 2010.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Black Swan
2. Exit Through The Gift Shop
3. Inception
4. Blue Valentine
5. The Social Network

[elixir]

Sorta. Its in contention for awards this year and only had festival releases in 2010.

It's 2010 by IMDB dates, which is what we are using.

[elixir]

2. Enter The Void


2009.

[Spinal]

2009.

Indeed. (http://www.match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=355762&postcount=59)

[Ezee E]

It's 2010 by IMDB dates, which is what we are using.
Right. Hence why I said sorta to Duke's question.

[Beau]

1. Mysteries of Lisbon
2. Le Quattro Volte
3. Aurora
4. Certified Copy
5. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaucescu

6. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
7. Black Swan
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives
9. Inception
10. The Strange Case of Angelica

Joe should have nabbed the top spot, since I dearly love everything he made prior to it, but I think I prefer the short A Letter to Uncle Boonmee than its longer sister feature, which underwhelmed me a bit. Maybe when I revisit it I will be kinder to it.

[Beau]

Oh, the first five are the ones that should count for this, obviously.

[ledfloyd]

1. Mysteries of Lisbon
2. Le Quattro Volte
yay. and that reminds me i need to see aurora.

[dreamdead]

Planning to get to The Four Times in the next week. Until then:

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2. Poetry
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Hahaha
5. Another Year

[eternity]

1. The Social Network
2. Fair Game
3. Blue Valentine
4. Toy Story 3
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
...
6. Somewhere
7. Catfish
8. Tron: Legacy
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
10. Winter's Bone

[B-side]

10. Dogtooth

2009.

[eternity]

2009.
Not included in the scoring, but I'll change it.

[right_for_the_moment]

1. Certified Copy
2. Somewhere
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Meek's Cutoff
5. Le quattro volte

6. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
7. Inception
8. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
9. Hahaha
10. Made in Dagenham

[Rowland]

1. Certified Copy
2. Nostalgia for the Light
3. The Four Times
4. Mysteries of Lisbon
5. Black Swan
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6. The Oath
7. Attenberg
8. The Social Network
9. Beginners
10. 13 Assassins


Alphabetized Runner-ups: Animal Kingdom, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Into Eternity, Kaboom, Last Train Home, Leap Year, The Robber, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat), True Grit, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Also, going back to my 2010 list, I was amazed by how superior 2011 is in terms of US commercial release dates.

[Lucky]

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. The Social Network
5. Blue Valentine

EDIT: I Am Love is not eligible.

[Rowland]

4. I Am LoveGood choice, but that's 2009.

[Ivan Drago]

2009.

Edited for The Social Network.

[Lucky]

Good choice, but that's 2009.

Ah, I was wondering why it hadn't appeared on anyone's list.

[Spinal]

Gonna count this up soon. Any more?

[dmk]

1. Meek's Cutoff
2. Leap Year
3. Certified Copy
4. The Ghost Writer
5. I'm Still Here

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The City Below, Road to Nowhere, Nénette, A Useful Life, Tuesday, After Christmas, Oki's Movie, Aurora

[B-side]

I knew I could count on dmk to give proper due to Oki's Movie.

[Spinal]

List is taking shape, but I've still got a couple of ties. Gonna give it another day or so to see if we can sort that out.

[MadMan]

Another reason I like these threads is that they gave me good rec's, although I believe I have seen a good deal of the 2009 list.

[Spinal]

Last call. Results later today.

[Spinal]

#10

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Director: Edgar Wright

Country: USA

Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

Edgar Wright obtained permission to use the famous theme song from the SNES game, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, by writing a letter to Nintendo, saying that it is considered to be "the nursery rhyme of this generation". The name of Scott Pilgrim's band, Sex Bob-Omb, is a reference to Super Mario Bros. 2. The game features an enemy character named Bob-omb that looks like a small, round bomb with a lit fuse, legs, and eyes.

"If indie-culture cuteness is a transmissible disease, you might want to attend Scott Pilgrim vs. the World wearing a latex bodysuit ... This film adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s manga-influenced, teen-oriented series of graphic novels takes place in an odd and charming fantasy world that isn’t quite either the present or the past. This can partly be explained by the fact that it’s set in Canada." -- Andrew O'Hehir

[Spinal]

#9

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Meek's Cutoff

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Country: USA

Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Won the SIGNIS Award at the Venice Film Festival. Won the Producer's Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. The Meek Cutoff was a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon. The road is named for frontiersman Stephen Meek, who was hired to lead the first wagon train along it. The journey was a particularly hard one, and many of the pioneers lost their lives.

"Meek's Cutoff is more an experience than a story. It has personality conflicts, but isn't about them. The suspicions and angers of the group are essentially irrelevant to their overwhelming reality. Reichardt has the courage to establish that. She doesn't make it easy for us with simplistic character conflict. She's genuinely curious about the hardly-educated pioneers who were brave, curious or hopeful enough to set out on such a dangerous journey." -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#8

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Le quattro volte

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino

Country: Italy

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

Won the Label Europa Cinemas award at Cannes. The film is split into three parts: the first part is about an old goatherd, the second part is a study of a young goat, the third part is a study of a fir tree. There is virtually no dialogue in the film.

"Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest nature documentaries—or almost-documentaries—ever made . . . at once casually mystical and doggedly materialist, visually sophisticated and knowingly archaic." -- J. Hoberman

[Spinal]

#6 (tie)

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Country: Thailand

Together with his loved ones – including the ghost of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned in a non-human form – Boonmee explores his past lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness

Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award (Best Foreign Film). Apichatpong Weerasethakul says that a man named Boonmee approached the abbot of a Buddhist temple in his home town, claiming he could clearly remember his own previous lives while meditating. The abbot was so impressed that he published a book called A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives in 1983. By the time Apichatpong read the book, Boonmee had died. The original idea was to adapt the book into a biographical film about Boonmee. However, that was soon abandoned to make room for a more personal film, while still using the book's structure and content as inspiration.

"At its most haunting, as when Boonmee dreams of 'past people' like his son being tortured in a future that stands obviously for the present, Apichatpong briefly, and with tongue firmly planted in cheek, gets provocative, slyly addressing the oppressive forces that not only control the lives of his fellow Thai countrymen but also keep a close eye over his work. It's at this jarring point that one realizes that Apichatpong's voice is not one that wishes to filter out—which is to say, deny—the political reality of his characters' lives, but one that understands that it must speak softly in order to be heard at all." -- Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#6 (tie)

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Blue Valentine

Director: Derek Cianfrance

Country: USA

Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie. Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out together and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage.

Nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Actress (Michelle Williams). Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category of Best Female Lead. The screenplay won the 2006 Chrysler Film Project contest. The prize was $1 million of funding, courtesy of the Chrysler Brand and production company Silverwood Films. Cindy's car has the Pennsylvania license plate CHT 8635. This is the same license plate on the car driven by Jim Halpert on The Office.

"The acting is exemplary. Gosling brings a preternatural understanding of people to his performance, and Williams is amazing in the way she keeps trying to deny emotion and conceal emotion, even as she's showing us . . . Incidentally, both actors went the extra mile and gained 15 pounds for the contemporary scenes. This was not enough to make them fat, but enough to make them lose their youthful glow, which was important. The loss of that glow is so much of what Blue Valentine is about." -- Mick LaSalle

[Rowland]

#8

Le quattro volteHell yeah. #8 is too low, but the fact that it still managed to appear on our final list despite so relatively few posters having seen it is a testament to its awesomeness. Too bad more of us haven't seen Nostalgia for the Light or Mysteries of Lisbon yet...

[Spinal]

#5

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Exit Through the Gift Shop

Director: Banksy

Country: USA/UK

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

Nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Filmmakers Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris King denied that it was a hoax, and expressed their growing frustration with the speculation that it was: "For a while we all thought that was quite funny, but it went on for so long. It was a bit disappointing when it became basically accepted as fact, that it was all just a silly hoax ... I felt it was a shame that the whole thing was going to be dismissed like that really - because we knew it was true."

"Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here ... Suffice to say that Banksy’s movie grapples with the responsibility he feels for inspiring people like [Thierry] Guetta, and also grapples with the question of whether the enduring value of a piece of art derives from the image it captures, or the person who captures it." -- Noel Murray

[Spinal]

#4

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The Social Network

Director: David Fincher

Country: USA

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication ... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Won three Academy Awards (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Original Score). Nominated for five other Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg). When Mark Zuckerberg opens a Facebook page under an alias to complete a school project, his computer screen is briefly showed to reveal the name he chose as Tyler Durden - the protagonist in director David Fincher's earlier film, Fight Club.

"[Fincher] can direct the holy hell out of a movie, yet in this case he refuses to indulge in vertiginous tracking shots and look-at-me CG tomfoolery, placing the focus less on overt aesthetic showmanship than on an atmosphere of impending doom born from Zuckerberg's warring urges to erect and destroy—though cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth's sleek, shadowy-brown high-def cinematography is to swoon over ..." -- Nick Schager

[Spinal]

#2 (tie)

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Inception

Director: Christopher Nolan

Country: USA

In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

Won four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. Nominated in four other categories including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. A direct translation of the lyrics for the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" as performed by Édith Piaf is: "I regret nothing/no, I have no regrets/I regret neither the good things that were done to me nor the bad things/They are all the same to me ..." In the original French, "I regret neither the good things I've done nor the bad things" is "Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ni le mal," and since Cobb's wife is named Mal, that gives the line a double meaning.

"Inception works for the viewer, in a way, like the world itself worked for Leonard, the hero of Memento. We are always in the Now. We have made some notes while getting Here, but we are not quite sure where Here is ... The movies often seem to come from the recycling bin these days: Sequels, remakes, franchises. Inception does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does." -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#2 (tie)

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Black Swan

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Country: USA

A ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

Won an Academy Award in the category of Best Actress (Natalie Portman). Nominated for four other Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Won four Independent Spirit Awards (Best Feature, Best Director, Best Female Lead and Best Cinematography). Aronofsky first approached Portman about making a film set in the dance world in 2001 when Portman was 20 years old. Aronofsky envisioned it as a film loosely based on The Double: A Petersburg Poem by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

"Aronofsky and cinematographer Matthew Libatique give Black Swan the look of a degraded nightmare and the intensity of a shared hallucination. Dealing in the same grand gestures and overstated themes as its balletic inspiration—while adding touches of The Red Shoes and Repulsion, plus its own atmosphere of unshakable dread—Black Swan is a florid, often lurid, completely enthralling film held in place by a disarming Portman, who rarely leaves the frame." -- Keith Phipps

[B-side]

A deserving #1.

[Spinal]

#1

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Certified Copy

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Country: France

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.

Won Best Actress at Cannes (Juliette Binoche). Kiarostami is normally known for making films with amateur actors and almost no budget, but said he had no difficulties in making the transition to European cinema: "This was the simplest film for me to work on—even more simple than the work I’ve done on my shorts, because I was working with a professional team both in front of and behind the camera." He also noted how he for once felt free to express whatever he wanted in the film.

"Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist’s first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema. A romantic, sun-dappled Voyage to Italy with a Before Sunset structure and Marienbad backbeat, not to mention a suave acting exercise that would have been pure hell in the hands of David Mamet, Certified Copy is a rumination on authenticity using William Shimell (an opera singer by trade) as a foil for festival diva Juliette Binoche." -- J. Hoberman

[Spinal]

1. Certified Copy 55
2t. Inception 51.5
2t. Black Swan 51.5
4. The Social Network 39
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop 38
6t. Blue Valentine 26.5
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 26.5
8. Le Quattro Volte 25.5
9. Meek’s Cutoff 22
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World 20

Mysteries of Lisbon 16

[Spinal]

Before dmk cast the final vote, there was a three-way tie for first.

[Rowland]

1. Certified Copy 55 (****)
2t. Inception 51.5 (**)
2t. Black Swan 51.5 (***½)
4. The Social Network 39 (***½)
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop 38 (***½)
6t. Blue Valentine 26.5 (**½)
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 26.5 (***½)
8. Le Quattro Volte 25.5 (***½)
9. Meek’s Cutoff 22 (***)
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World 20 (***)

Mysteries of Lisbon 16 (***½)That's a very solid list, only a few I could do without, but of the three that were allegedly tied for first, the correct one prevailed. :cool:

[B-side]

1. Certified Copy 8
2t. Inception 7
2t. Black Swan 6.5
4. The Social Network 7
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop 7
6t. Blue Valentine 8.5
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 7.5
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World 7

Mysteries of Lisbon 6

Really need to see The Four Times and Meek's Cutoff. Was so excited to see them, but they came out after I'd already dove into 2011.

[Melville]

I didn't see enough movies to vote. I'm guessing Blue Valentine would be my favorite of the bunch.

1. Certified Copy - 4.5
2t. Inception - 7
2t. Black Swan - 7
4. The Social Network - 5
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop - 4
6t. Blue Valentine - n/a
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - n/a
8. Le Quattro Volte - n/a
9. Meek’s Cutoff - n/a
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World - n/a

[transmogrifier]

This is my list to date - I didn't want to list it before because I've only seen 54 films from the year and thus not worth including in a meaningful consensus (I haven't seen six of the consensus Top 10, for example):

1. Winter's Bone (73)
2. Shutter Island (73)
3. 13 Assassins (72)
4. Toy Story 3 (71)
5. Rabbit Hole (71)
6. Despicable Me (70)
7. The Yellow Sea (68)
8. The Social Network (68)
9. How Do You Know (68)
10. Hot Tub Time Machine (68)

And considering 70 is about the mark above which I would actively defend a film against detractors, this points to a pretty meh year.

[StanleyK]

1. Certified Copy - A-
2t. Inception - prolly like a D+
2t. Black Swan - D+
4. The Social Network - B-
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop - B-
6t. Blue Valentine - N/A
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - A-
8. Le Quattro Volte - N/A
9. Meek’s Cutoff - N/A
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World - B-

Mysteries of Lisbon - N/A



Inception and Black Swan are predictable but still disappointing. Solid list otherwise; surprised about The Four Times, which I didn't even know about before. Want to watch Meek's Cutoff.

[Dukefrukem]

Certified Copy is 2011.

edit: nevermind. need to be more specific when you say "imdb dates"

Imdb has every date... the year it was developed, the year it was released the year the DVD comes out... WTF.

[Raiders]

Certified Copy is 2011.

edit: nevermind. need to be more specific when you say "imdb dates"

Imdb has every date... the year it was developed, the year it was released the year the DVD comes out... WTF.

Pretty sure everyone knows when we say "imdb dates" we are referring to the date right next to the film's name on the main page. This is also the date imdb uses to do its primary filtering for power searches.

[Dukefrukem]

I gots confused.

[Rowland]

For all those who haven't seen Le Quattro volte (as everyone insists on calling it for some reason), it's available on Netflix Instant, it clocks in at less than 90 minutes, and it qualifies for the 2011 Match-Cut Awards, so watch it! Mysteries of Lisbon I can understand, because it's still difficult for many to access, and clocks in at over four hours.

[Ezee E]

This should help Certified Copy tremendously in this year's awards. I'm certainly going to see it ASAP now.

[Spinal]

IMDb date confusion: one of Match Cut's oldest traditions.

[eternity]

1. Certified Copy ***
2t. Inception * 1/2
2t. Black Swan ** 1/2
4. The Social Network ****
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop ****
6t. Blue Valentine ****
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ***
8. Le Quattro Volte n/a
9. Meek’s Cutoff ***
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World 20 *** 1/2

[baby doll]

For all those who haven't seen Le Quattro volte (as everyone insists on calling it for some reason)...Well, that is the name of the movie.

[Rowland]

Well, that is the name of the movie.Yes, but we usually refer to movies by their translated titles. For instance, we aren't all calling Kiarostami's film Copie conforme, nor did you call To Die Like a Man by its original title, Morrer Como Um Homem, in your signature.

[transmogrifier]

I think we at Match Cut should retitle every movie ever made and only use those made-up titles in discussion so to discourage outsiders from interrupting our debates about ratings and IMDB dates.

[baby doll]

Yes, but we usually refer to movies by their translated titles. For instance, we aren't all calling Kiarostami's film Copie conforme, nor did you call To Die Like a Man by its original title, Morrer Como Um Homem, in your signature.I've been calling Kiarostami's film Copie conforme, because as a rule I always refer to French movies by their original title, but the Portuguese can suck it. (That said, I wouldn't find it weird if people did call it by its original title.)

[elixir]

Well, I generally go by what's listed on IMDB, and it's still called Le Quattro Volte there whereas Kiarostami's film is Certified Copy and Rodrigues's film is To Die Like a Man. Maybe it'll just be one of those foreign titles that sticks (e.g. La Dolce Vita). It does sound better anyways.

[Rowland]

It does sound better anyways.That I can wholeheartedly agree with.

[MadMan]

2t. Inception-95
2t. Black Swan-95
4. The Social Network-100
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World-92

I'll have to check out the rest of the list at some point.

[Dukefrukem]

Before dmk cast the final vote, there was a three-way tie for first.

So I have him to blame on why Inception isn't #1.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Certified Copy N/A
2t. Inception 100*
2t. Black Swan 95
4. The Social Network 85
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop N/A
6t. Blue Valentine 82
6t. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 90
8. Le Quattro Volte N/A
9. Meek’s Cutoff N/A
10. Scott Pilgrim vs The World 20 88

[Mysterious Dude]

So if I haven't liked any Kiarostami film I've seen (Close-Up, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us), is there still a chance I'd like Certified Copy?

[Melville]

So if I haven't liked any Kiarostami film I've seen (Close-Up, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us), is there still a chance I'd like Certified Copy?
I loved Close-Up and Taste of Cherry but didn't care for Certified Copy. So there's a chance. It depends what you disliked about his other movies. Certified Copy shares the same kind of distinctly structured exploration of an idea and similar metafictional elements.

[Derek]

Yes, but we usually refer to movies by their translated titles. For instance, we aren't all calling Kiarostami's film Copie conforme, nor did you call To Die Like a Man by its original title, Morrer Como Um Homem, in your signature.

I agree with you in general, but most critics have been referring to it as Le Quattro Volte and it's even the primary title on Netflix and the American DVD (http://www.amazon.com/Quattro-Volte-Blu-ray-Giuseppe-Fuda/dp/B0056HTEEA/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1324924204&sr=1-2). I'm not sure why the original title stuck with this one when the translation is literal, but most of us besides baby doll just stick with the most commonly used title.

[Rowland]

I agree with you in general, but most critics have been referring to it as Le Quattro Volte and it's even the primary title on Netflix and the American DVD (http://www.amazon.com/Quattro-Volte-Blu-ray-Giuseppe-Fuda/dp/B0056HTEEA/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1324924204&sr=1-2). I'm not sure why the original title stuck with this one when the translation is literal, but most of us besides baby doll just stick with the most commonly used title.Yeah that's true. When I was expressing my confusion over "everyone" referring to the film as Le Quattro Volte, it was directed as much at the film community in general as anything.