Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2011.<\/p>\n
In order to understand the color-coding, the purpose, and meaning of this list, please read\u00a0my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Red = Treasures
\n<\/span>Purple = Favorites
\n<\/span>Blue = Achievements
\n<\/span>Gray = Decent\/Noteworthy
\n<\/span>Green = Unseen or Undecided<\/span>
\n* = This film opened elsewhere in the world before its U.S. commercial release in New York and L.A. this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2011:<\/span><\/h6>\n
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)<\/span>
\n 50\/50 (Jonathan Levine)<\/span>
\n A Better Life<\/span>
\n A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Todd Strauss-Schulson)<\/span>
\n Albert Nobbs<\/span>
\n All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)<\/span>
\n Almayer\u2019s Folly (Chantal Akerman)<\/span>
\n Alpis<\/span>
\n Anonymous<\/span>
\n Art History (Joe Swanberg)<\/span>
\n Autoerotic (Joe Swanberg)<\/span>
\n Avalon<\/span>
\n Battle: Los Angeles<\/span>
\n Born to Be Wild<\/span>
\n<\/span> Caitlin Plays Herself (Joe Swanberg)<\/span>
\n Carnage (Roman Polanski)<\/span>
\n Conan O\u2019Brien Can\u2019t Stop<\/span>
\n Corpo Celeste (Alice Rohrwacher)<\/span>
\n Dark Horse<\/span>
\n Dolphin Tale<\/span>
\n Duo Mingjin<\/span>
\n Edwin Parker (Tacita Dean)<\/span>
\n Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)<\/span>
\n Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/span>
\n Fast Five<\/span>
\n Faust (Alexander Sokurov)<\/span>
\n Footnote (Joseph Cedar)<\/span>
\n Good for Nothing<\/span>
\n Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Love)<\/span>
\n Green Lantern<\/span>
\n Hahithalfut<\/span>
\n Hall Pass (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)<\/span>
\n Happy Feet Two<\/span>
\n Hell and Back Again<\/span>
\nHimizu<\/span>
\n Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon)<\/span>
\n Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)<\/span>
\n House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)<\/span>
\n How to Die in Oregon<\/span>
\n I Will Follow<\/span>
\n In Darkness<\/span>
\n In the Land of Blood and Honey<\/span>
\n Innocent Saturday (Alexander Mindadze)<\/span>
\n Into the Abyss<\/span>
\n J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)<\/span>
\n Killer Joe<\/span>
\n Kinyarwanda<\/span>
\n Like Crazy<\/span>
\n Love and Bruises (Lou Ye)<\/span>
\n Low Life (Nicolas Klotz)<\/span>
\n L\u2019ultimo terrestre<\/span>
\n Margin Call<\/span>
\n Mars Needs Moms<\/span>
\n Melancholia (Lars von Trier)<\/span>
\n Mildred Pierce<\/span>
\n Monsieur Lazhar<\/span>
\n On the Shoulders of Giants<\/span>
\n Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)<\/span>
\n Page Eight<\/span>
\n Page One: Inside The New York Times<\/span>
\n Paul (Greg Mottola)<\/span>
\n<\/span> Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides<\/span>
\n Policeman (Nadav Lapid)<\/span>
\n Polisse<\/span>
\n Poulet aux prunes<\/span>
\n Project Nim<\/span>
\n Prom<\/span>
\n Puss in Boots<\/span>
\n Quando la notte<\/span>
\n Real Steel<\/span>
\n Ren Shan Ren Hai<\/span>
\n Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles<\/span>
\n Ricky (Janie Geiser)<\/span>
\n Rio<\/span>
\n River Rites (Ben Russell)<\/span>
\n Saideke Balai<\/span>
\n Septien (Michael Tully)<\/span>
\n Shame (Steve McQueen)<\/span>
\n Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows<\/span>
\n Silver Bullets (Joe Swanberg)<\/span>
\n Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Kohler)<\/span>
\n Slow Action (Ben Rivers)<\/span>
\n Source Code (Duncan Jones)<\/span>
\n Starbuck<\/span>
\n Tao jie<\/span>
\n Target (Alexander Zeldovich)<\/span>
\n Terraferma<\/span>
\n Terri (Azazel Jacobs)<\/span>
\n Texas Killing Fields<\/span>
\n The Beaver<\/span>
\n The Big Year<\/span>
\n The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)<\/span>
\n The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)<\/span>
\n The First Man<\/span>
\n The Flowers of War<\/span>
\n The Future<\/span>
\n The Future (Miranda July)<\/span>