Now for something completely different. We’re nothing if not completionists.
1. Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), Nanni Moretti
2. L’Etrange affaire Angélica (The Strange Case of Angelica), Manoel de Oliveira
- The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
4. Hors Satan (Outside Satan), Bruno Dumont
- Essential Killing, Jerzy Skolimowski
6. Melancholia, Lars von Trier
- Un été brûlant (A Burning Hot Summer), Philippe Garrel
8. Super 8, JJ Abrams
- L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (House of Tolerance), Bertrand Bonello
- Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt
For perspective and comparison’s sake, Cahiers’ Top Ten of 2010, after the cut.
- Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
- Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
- A Serious Man (Ethan & Joel Coen)
- Morrer Como Um Homem (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Shuga (Darezhan Omirbaev)
- Mother (Joon-ho Bong)