Top 10 Films First Seen During 2011

[B-side]

Clearly Space Jam was a bit too sophisticated and cerebral for you.

[soitgoes...]

Clearly Space Jam was a bit too sophisticated and cerebral for you.

:lol:

I'm actually shocked that I never saw it. I was too old when it came out, but I was working in a movie theater at the time, and it was a pretty huge film. It's one of my girlfriend's childhood faves, so I'll chalk it up to nostalgia and not judge her too harshly.

[transmogrifier]

1. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - 76
2. Coming Home - 74
3. Seven Days in May - 65
4. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - 53

[soitgoes...]

1. Sweetgrass (Barbash/Castaing-Taylor 09)
2. Whistle Stop (Barnet 63)
3. Real End of the Great War (Kawalerowicz 57)
4. Bitter Victory (Ray 57)

Not as good as the other two Kawalerowicz films I've seen, but strong nonetheless. A couple scenes hold up to his two superior later films.

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang 91)
2. Sweetgrass (Barbash/Castaing-Taylor 09)
3. Whistle Stop (Barnet 63)
4. Real End of the Great War (Kawalerowicz 57)
5. Bitter Victory (Ray 57)

Yeah, it'll be there come December. It's 2011's Dekalog. Seen in the first week of January, and one of the best things I'll see all year.

[B-side]

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang 91)
2. Sweetgrass (Barbash/Castaing-Taylor 09)
3. Whistle Stop (Barnet 63)
4. Real End of the Great War (Kawalerowicz 57)
5. Bitter Victory (Ray 57)

Yeah, it'll be there come December. It's 2011's Dekalog. Seen in the first week of January, and one of the best things I'll see all year.

The film I watched on January 1st last year stayed at #1 the entire year.

[soitgoes...]

The film I watched on January 1st last year stayed at #1 the entire year.

Yeah, Dekalog was watched starting the last week of '09 and into the first week of '10, and it stayed at my number one all year. I never even considered moving it at any point, and I watched a lot of great films last year. I don't feel as strongly about Yang's film, but that more to do with Kieslowski's being a Top 10 of all-time sort of thing.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. A Prophet
2. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

[B-side]

1. Spiral (Zanussi, 1978)
2. Metamorphosis (Nemec, 1975)
3. Barrier (Skolimowski, 1966)
4. True Grit (Coen, 2010)

1. Spiral (Zanussi, 1978)
2. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (VorlÃ*cek, 1966)
3. Metamorphosis (Nemec, 1975)
4. Barrier (Skolimowski, 1966)
5. True Grit (Coen, 2010)

[endingcredits]

1. I Am Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964)
2. Twenty Days Without War (German, 1976)
3. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Herzog, 2009)

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. A Prophet
2. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
3. The Ghost Writer

[Thirdmango]

Netflix and Minecraft, this is why i'm already up to seven.

[Ivan Drago]

:lol:

I'm actually shocked that I never saw it. I was too old when it came out, but I was working in a movie theater at the time, and it was a pretty huge film. It's one of my girlfriend's childhood faves, so I'll chalk it up to nostalgia and not judge her too harshly.

Space Jam > You

It's a childhood favorite of mine. Michael Jordan AND the Looney Tunes AND basketball in one movie = mindgasm at 8 years old.

[soitgoes...]

Space Jam > You

It's a childhood favorite of mine. Michael Jordan AND the Looney Tunes AND basketball in one movie = mindgasm at 8 years old.

Exactly. 8 years old. I was like 20.

[transmogrifier]

1. Seconds - 81
2. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - 76
3. Coming Home - 74
4. Seven Days in May - 65
5. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - 53

Seconds is better than anything that I saw for the first time last year. Awesomely depressing suburban terror. So good start, 2011!

[Boner M]

Seconds is better than anything that I saw for the first time last year. Awesomely depressing suburban terror. So good start, 2011!

Have you seen French Connection II? More Frankenheimer goodness.

[Raiders]

Seconds is better than anything that I saw for the first time last year. Awesomely depressing suburban terror. So good start, 2011!

ritch:

[Stay Puft]

1. Fubar (Dowse '02)

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson '09)
2. Fubar (Dowse '02)

Beyond what seemed like some clumsy / overly expository writing, I thought Anderson's film was wonderful. The combination of his familiar aesthetics and animal puppets were an endless delight. I was constantly grinning or even roaring with laughter at even the simplest of staging techniques (Ash walking in and out of the doorway while brushing his teeth in a master shot, for example). I loved the way jokes repeated with unexpected reversals (give me a signal that something's getting through) and the surprising dramatic payoff for seemingly minor details (the phobias).

Weird that I don't usually pay much attention to Anderson these days, but I still find his films immensely enjoyable when I do finally get around to seeing them.

[transmogrifier]

Have you seen French Connection II? More Frankenheimer goodness.

No, but I'll be looking out for it. The Train is my favourite of his, but Seconds is a close, well, second.

[megladon8]

1.) Black Swan

[StanleyK]

Seconds is better than anything that I saw for the first time last year. Awesomely depressing suburban terror. So good start, 2011!

You haven't seen anything you'd give above an 8/10 to in over a year?

[dreamdead]

1. Alamar - 7.5
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop - 7.5
3. Man on Wire - 7
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - 7
5. Winter's Bone - 7
6. Valhalla Rising - 6.5
7. Wild Grass - 6.5
8. Despicable Me - 6
9. Affinity - 6
10. The Crimson Rivers - 5.5

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Tron: Legacy - 5.5
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 4

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[B-side]

1. Spiral (Zanussi, 1978)
2. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (VorlÃ*cek, 1966)
3. Metamorphosis (Nemec, 1975)
4. Barrier (Skolimowski, 1966)
5. True Grit (Coen, 2010)

1. Spiral (Zanussi, 1978)
2. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (VorlÃ*cek, 1966)
3. Metamorphosis (Nemec, 1975)
4. Hahaha (Sang-soo, 2010)
5. Barrier (Skolimowski, 1966)
6. True Grit (Coen, 2010)

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. A Prophet
2. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
3. Black Swan
4. The Ghost Writer

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Man With a Movie Camera

[Lazlo]

1. Tangled
2. Everyone Else

1. Tangled
2.The Crazies (2010)
3. Everyone Else