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Can't believe I've not posted in here already. Assuming nothing changes before the end of the month:

A Separation (Farhadi)
Drive (Refn)
Melancholia (von Trier)
Heartbeats (Dolan)
Tree of Life (Malick)
Poetry (Lee Chang Dong)
Alps (Lanthimos)
Black Swan (Aranofsky)
Elena (Zvyagintsev)
Margaret (Lonergan)

1. The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
3. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
4. Another Earth (Mike Cahill)
5. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
6. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
8. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
9. Poetry (Chang-dong Lee)
10. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)

HM: Hanna, Le Havre, Hugo, Melancholia, Meek's Cutoff, The Artist

Haven't seen: Lots, including "Martha Marcy May Marlene," "Essential Killing," "Mysteries of Lisbon," "Hors Satan," "Into the Abyss," "Le quattro volte," "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," "Faust," etc.

I'll preface this by saying that I don't care much if I watch stuff in the year it comes out thus my list has relatively few "need to see" movies in it (also, I include my ratings for the sake of context),

1. Rango ****
2. Small Fry ****
3. The Muppets ***½
4. Thor ***½
5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II ***½
6. Hawaiian Vacation ***½
7. Puss In Boots ***
8. Harlan ***
9. Cars 2 ***
10. Red State **
11. Green Lantern **
12. Lemonade Mouth **
13. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides **
14. Gnomeo & Juliet **
15. Spooky Buddies ½*

Sight & Sound has just published its contributors' various Top Fives - this is a much longer version of what appeared in the January issue.

Michael, is the decennial poll out yet?

Next year - probably in about ten months' time if the last three polls are anything to go by.

Ah, that's right, it's on years ending in "2."

In no order.

The Descendants
Hanna
13 Assassins
The Turin Horse
The Interrupters
The Guard
Without
Attack the Block
Tree of Life
Drive

1. Weekend
2. Melancholia
3. The Skin I Live In

1. My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, 2010)
2. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz, 2010)
3. The Border (Harutyun Khachatryan, 2009)
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
5. In the Shadows (Thomas Arslan, 2010)
6. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
7. Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
8. The Forgotten Space (Noel Burch & Allan Sekula, 2010)
9. Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)
10. Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010)

Also great (in no particular order):
The Old School of Capitalism, Slow Action, Orly, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Black Venus, Tournee, Drive, Tree of Life, Hanna, Meek’s Cutoff, Boxing Gym, Contagion, The Future, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Tabloid, Film Socialisme, The Trip

1. Elit Squad: The enemy within
2. Young Adult
3. The Tree of Life
4. Submarine
5. Bridesmaids
6. Beginners
7. L'Apollonide (House of Tolerance)
8. Drive
9. The Muppets
10. We Need to Talk About Kevin

1 - puss in boots

01. Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder)
02. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
03. The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
04. The Woman (Lucky McKee)
05. Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
06. Rango (Gore Verbinski)
07. Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
08. Silver Bullets (Joe Swanberg)
09. Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
10. My Name is A by Anonymous (Shane Ryan)

top ten films I saw that didn't get released (film festivals don't count) here in Canada, till 2011:

1. Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
2. Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
3. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
4. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
7. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
8. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasthakul)
10. Curling (Denis Cote)

Runners-up: Essential Killing, Bal (Honey), Carlos, Of Gods and Men

As one might guess, Turin Horse, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and many other strong potential contenders will be 2012 films for me.

So far...

1. Drive
2. The Artist
3. Another Earth
4. Melancholia
5. Young Adult
6. Take Shelter
7. Midnight in Paris
8. Certified Copy
9. 50/50
10. Contagion

Thought this was a really good year for film, it was hard to narrow it down to just 10 and I haven't managed to see War Horse, Le Havre or Margaret yet.

Hugo (Scorsese)
Drive (Refn)
The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne Brothers)
Another Earth (Cahill)
Melancholia (von Trier)
Super 8 (Abrams)
The Tree of Life (Malick)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson)
The Artist (Hazanavicius)
Hanna (Wright)

Passerby (Eryk Rocha, the son of great Globar Rocha made one of the most interesting films I've ever seen in years. Fans of In The City of Sylvia should dig this out -imho, it's criminally underseen)
Nana (Valérie Massadian)
Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers)
You Hurt My Feelings (Steve Collins)
Rivers and My Father (Luo Li)
Futures Market (Mercedes Álvarez)
Aita (Jose Maria de Orbe)
Gravity was everywhere back then (Brent Green)
Territoire Perdu (Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd)
Low Definition Control Malfunctions #0 (Michael Palm)
The Tiniest Place (Tatiana Huezo)

I confess I have not heard of any of those films - could you post the names of the respective directors?

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1. Fast Five
2. Incendies
3. Hobo With A Shotgun
4. The Ides of March
5. Mission Impossible 4
6. Captain America
7. Limitless
8. Rise of The Planet of The Apes

I have yet to see Carnage, Margaret, EL&IC, etc.

01. Melanchola (Lars Von Trier)
02. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
03. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
04. Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
05. Of Gods And Men (Xavier Beauvois)
06. The Tree Of Life (Terence Malick)
07. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Thomas Alfredson)
08. Uncle Boonmee Recalls His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
09. Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)
10.= Senna (Asif Kapadia)
10.= Pina (Wim Wenders)

1. Melancholia
2. Brownian Movement
3. Führung (Frölke)
4. Le quattro volte
5. Unter dir die Stadt
6. To die like a man
7. Le Havre
8. Meek's Cutoff
9. Margin Call
10. In a better world
11. Im Alter von Ellen
12. Copie Conforme
13. Norwegian Wood
14. Essential Killing
15. Biutiful

Disappointments: Tree of life, Pina, Carnage

Have not yet seen A Separation, Film Socialisme, Mysteries of Lisbon, Turin Horse, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Shame, Drive, The kid with a bike, Midnight in Paris...

1. MELANCHOLIA (von Trier)
2. TREE OF LIFE (Malick)
3. DRIVE (Refn)
4. A DANGEROUS METHOD (Cronenberg)
5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Fincher)
6. LE HAVRE (Kaurismaki)
7. TAKE SHELTER (Nichols)
8. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Durkin)
9. THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Almodovar)
10. TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (Alfredson)

Lars Von Truffaut wrote:1. MELANCHOLIA (von Trier) ...

Haha I am shocked that you would put a von Trier in your top spot