Artforum: Best Films 2011
John Water‘s choice:
1 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
2 Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)
3 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu)
4 Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
5 Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
6 If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)
7 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
8 I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (Claude and Nathan Miller)
9 We Were Here (David Weissman)
10 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Ed Halter‘s choice:
1 Inkblot films (Luther Price)
2 Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
3 Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler)
4 High-Definition Video Guide (Electronic Arts Intermix)
5 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
6 Quality Control (Kevin Jerome Everson)
7 John Smith (Lux DVD box set)
8 You Are Not I (Sara Driver)
9 Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
10 Ericka Beckman, Manuel DeLanda, and Bette Gordon (Anthology Film Archives, New York)
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