It is no secret that in summer cinemas are saturated with tent pole films and that more serious films tend to arrive from September onwards in an attempt to remain fresh in the minds of awards voters. 2011 was a poor year for summer blockbusters with none being at all memorable, yet the top ten list below is primarily made up of films released in the UK during the summer; films that came and went quietly amongst the obnoxious screams of Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon and co. For comprehensive purposes, the third instalment of Transformers takes the accolade for worst film of 2011.
There are some fantastic films that narrowly missed the top ten and deserve mentioning again. David O. Russell’s The Fighter, a film with extraordinary performances and while perhaps not historically accurate, still an incredibly visceral boxing film. Also in February there was the beautiful adaptation of Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, directed by Mark Romanek and the Coen brothers’ True Grit. More recently, Drive, Take Shelter, Tyrannosaur and Moneyball all came close to making the top ten. For 2011, the top ten is as follows;
Hugo (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Incendies (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
A Separation (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
Black Swan (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Senna (dir. Asif Kapadia)
The Tree of Life (dir. Terrence Malick)
13 Assassins (dir. Takashi Miike)
Blue Valentine (dir. Derek Cianfrance)
Submarine (dir. Richard Ayoade)
A varied list, taking in films from all over the world created by directors, producers and writers working from all scales and positions in the film making hierarchy and all telling unique, powerful stories.
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