As the year continues to wind down and everyday brings a new Critics Top Ten List/Awards, there some painful reminders that not all regional critics really know what the best movies are every year. I won't name names, but I think anyone who reads probably has an idea of some lists I'm referring to. I am planning doing a year end list, so I will say that I am studying these lists so that i will avoid comparisons to some of the worthless ones. However, there are still lists that don't compromise to regional, popular, or commercial standards. Case in point: Cahiers du Cinema. Yes, they're still around and they do probably think they're better than you. Yes, some of the films are blockbusters. Thankfully, many of them are not. I have to admit, there are a couple that even I haven't heard of. That just gives me some new titles for the Queue. Here they are (I tried to upload images from every film's poster art, but Blogger won't upload from my computer):
1. Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), Nanni Moretti
2. L’Etrange affaire Angélica (The Strange Case of Angelica), Manoel de Oliveira- The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
4. Hors Satan (Outside Satan), Bruno Dumont
- Essential Killing, Jerzy Skolimowski
6. Melancholia, Lars von Trier
- Un été brûlant (A Burning Hot Summer), Philippe Garrel
8. Super 8, JJ Abrams
- L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (House of Tolerance), Bertrand Bonello
- Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt
For perspective and comparison’s sake, Cahiers’ Top Ten of 2010, after the cut.
- Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
- Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
- A Serious Man (Ethan & Joel Coen)
- Morrer Como Um Homem (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Shuga (Darezhan Omirbaev)
- Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
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