By Jay Kuehner There’s a certain poetic justice to the unxpected trajectory—provided by the 14th Buenos Aires Festival of Independent More →
1. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
2. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
3. L’Apollonide—Souvenirs de la maison close (Bertrand Bonello)
4. Dreileben (Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäusler)
5. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
6. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
7. Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
8. It’s the Earth Not the Moon (Gonçalo Tocha)
9. Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler)
10. Le gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Special Mentions:
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
Target (Alexander Zeldovich)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)















I am so glad It’s the Earth Not the Moon was chosen for this list. What a film! Hopefully there will be a way for more people to see it. Definitely on the top of my 2011 list.