Cinema Scope Top Ten of 2011

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)