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Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs: 20 Best Films of 2011

30 December 2011

Aurora - Cristi Puiu

Ben Sachs: 20 Best Films of 2011, as published by The Chicago Reader [more commentary]

[see also 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

  1. Aurora
    Cristi Puiu
  2. Secret Sunshine
    Lee Chang-dong
  3. Film Socialisme
    Jean-Luc Godard
  4. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  5. Poetry
    Lee Chang-dong
  6. The Strange Case of Angelica
    Manoel de Oliveira
  7. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
    Tsui Hark
  8. Target
    Alexander Zeldovich
  9. 13 Assassins
    Takashi Miike
  10. And Everything is Going Fine
    Steven Soderbergh
  11. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
    Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai
  12. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  13. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  14. Mysteries of Lisbon
    Raoul Ruiz
  15. The Skin I Live In
    Pedro Almodóvar
  16. Restoration
    Joseph Madmony
  17. Another Year
    Mike Leigh
  18. Ne Change Rien
    Pedro Costa
  19. Miss Bala
    Gerardo Naranjo
  20. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky

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